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We regret to inform you that the January Open has been postponed from the 13th of January to the 26th of January. We had to make the change as the venue where it was supposed be held is being fumigated for pest control. Please take note. The quiz will take place at the Seminar Hall II on 26th January.

                                                             After a hiatus of a couple of months, the BCQC monthly open quiz is back with the Literature Quiz. 'Book' your place for this one. Quizmasters : Ranajeet Soman & Avaneendra Bhargav Flavour : Literature Venue : Academic Complex, Room 101 (nothing like the one in '1984') COEP. Timing : 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm The new year resolution by the BCQC is to start all quizzes on time. We hope the resolution lasts for at least one quiz. See you there. 

MindSweep 2012 results in Pune (unofficial). 1st: Amit Garde - 52 points 2nd: Aditya Gadre -  51 points 3rd: Saikat Sarkar and Aniketh Rallabandhi - 24 points 4th: Rohan Danait - 18 points 5th: Ranajeet Soman - 16 points The final official results for both quizzes will be uploaded on the KQA's website soon.

The  T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal is conducting its  B-School Fest, Atharva, between 18th and 20th Jan, 2013 As a part of this fest, they will be hosting a business quiz, Quiz on the Beach. For the first time, a preliminary QOTB round will be held in Mumbai as well this year, to give participants the   chance to win cash prizes and also a wildcard entry to the Grand Finale to be hosted by Mr. Giri Balasubramanium, at Kaup Beach. Details: Team size: Teams of exactly two members Eligibility: Only students are allowed. Graduate and Post-Graduate Date: 21st November, 2012 Time: 5:30 pm Venue: Karnataka Sangha Hall, Matunga  Prizes: Cash prizes for the top three teams totaling to INR 15000 For more details, visit http://www.tapmi-atharva.com/site/qotb.php

Date: 21st Oct 2012 Conducted by: Aditya Gadre Attended by ~10 teams Format: 17 questions written elims; 2 written rounds; 60 questions on Infinite Rebounds with round reversal half-way; 5-question pounce. Results: 1st: Team E: Avaneendra Bhargav and Aditya Chandorkar + (Vikram Keskar and Gaurav Keskar): 165 pts 2nd: Team D: Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman + (Omkar Dhakephalkar and Mustafa Abbas): 140 pts 3rd: Team B: Salil Bijur and Bharat Marathe + (Chinmay Tadwalkar and Shreyas Jaju): 115 pts 4th: Team A: Anand Viswanathan and Varun Singh + (Vibhav Bhave and Rohan Danait): 110 pts 5th: Team C: Vaibhav Bajpai and Anshuman Sharma + (Aniket Deshpande and Mihir Talnikar): 30 pts There was a low turnout for the quiz so all 10 teams were merged into 5 teams for the finals. Probably due to a late start and paucity of time and also the small number of teams, the QM chose to have only 17 questions for the prelims. This left scope for a lot more consumption of questions pe...

Set and conducted by : Vikram Keskar Format : 40 question written quiz (20 questions with a Calvin & Hobbes theme, 20 gen questions) Results: 1st : Aditya Gadre and Avaneendra Bhargav : 30.5 points 2nd : Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman : 24 points Newbie team : 17.5 points (names not available) The quiz turned out to be only half C&H as the QM had difficulty finding enough questions. The questions were not C&H trivia but the many many pop-culture/philosophical references Watterson uses in the comic. There were quite a few philosophy related questions earlier on but with the QM's 'usual shtick' as he likes to call it, the cryptic clues were helpful in confirming guesses. The other 20 questions were good old general quiz type. The quality of the questions was good and they were well framed. There were numerous typos in the questions and one or two errors (Kunal had a field day pointing them out). The projector refused to be turned on (no pun here) ...

Date : 19-10-2012 Theme : General Set and Conducted by : Avaneendra Bhargav Format : 30 question elims.  Finals - 10 question written round, 18+18 IR Results:  1st place : Meghashyam Shirodkar, Niranjan Pedanekar, Amit Garde  132 points 2nd place : Ranajeet Soman, Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain  65 points 3rd place : Sachin Ravi, Suraj Prabhu, Abhinav Pathak   28 points 4th place : Bharat Marathe, Omkar Dhakhephalkar, Debopriyo Moulik  22 points 5th place: Finehas Pinto + 2     21 points 6th place : CVR Shastry + 2     0 points The quiz started late by almost an hour and a half (nobody complained though).  There was a lot of bureaucratic decision making going on with teams made to sit in order of their registration numbers for no practical reason and time was wasted on petty issues. The elims were good with an even spread of topics. The lack of a projector was a hindrance as the teams sitting...