Thursday is now Samedi

In a shocking violation of human rights, Samrat Sengupta pitilessly interrogated the members of the BQC on October 21, 2007. The UN condemned the incident and deputed a resentful Thor to head the peacekeeping taskforce once the UN Security Council and the Norse Gods stop squabbling and get Ragnarok over with. The UN Human Rights Committee expressed "grave concern" over questions linking a torch, a dynamo, red-bearded king and a marine mammal. "He just kept smiling", a survivor said through pain-bleared eyes. "He kept smiling, but he didn't stop, he just didn't stop. He even threatened us with a History of the American People. All five volumes of it!"
Amit Varma, a well- known user of candlesticks and quiz survivor, recalls, "Sumant, the BQC....treasurer succumbed quickly and told on his comrades, cheerfully betraying them and leading throughout the quiz."
Other eyewitness accounts speak of S. Balakrishnan. "Bala just took everything Samrat had to offer and then some", said Prasann Potdar, "He skillfully avoided the traps set for him by Sengupta."

The incident provoked an immediate response from administrations across the globe, with Gordon Brown, High Chancellor of Britain, countering rumours that the state-sponsored NHS had anything to do with the state of Samrat's teeth. "We firmly condemn all such instances of unauthorized human rights violations. There is also absolutely no substance to the rumour that the NHS actually works and was responsible in any way for Samrat Sengupta's teeth."

The list of survivors is published below.

1st with 51 points
Sumanth Srivathsan
Udatta Duarah
Kedar Shastry
Hansraj Singh

2nd with 44.5 points
Amit Varma
Prasann Potdar
S Balakrishnan
Nrupal Choudhari

3rd with 44 points
AP Alagarsamy
Govind Grewal
Arvind Krishnaswamy

Tied 4th with 37 points
Rishi Iyengar
Meghashyam Shirodkar
Praveen Mohan

Ajith Prabhakar
Souvik Basu
A Subba Reddy
Suchintan Chatterjee

6th with 31 points
Ashwan Lewis
Vibhendu Tiwari
Dhananjay Shettigar
Francis Rodrigues

7th with 26 points
Ameya Samant
Mukund Krishnan
Devang Ghia

8th with 25.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Avinash Mudaliar
Shambhu Shankar
Nandan Krishnaswamy

And the standings:

BQC Season Two Standings (from 13 quizzes, as of October 21, 2007)

79.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 10 quizzes)

55 points
Prasann Potdar (9)

52 points
Amit Varma (10)

48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)

47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (10)

37 points
Sumant Srivathsan (9)

35 points
S Balakrishnan (9)

32 points
AP Alagarsamy (10)

30 points
Govind Grewal (10)

29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (9)

28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (9)

26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (6)

24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (10)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)

22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (11)
Vibhendu Tiwari (11)

20.5 points
Ameya Samant (11)

18 points
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)

17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)

16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)

15 points
Devang Ghia (11)

14 points
Samrat Sengupta (4)
Udatta Duarah (4)

11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Avinash Mudaliar (7)

10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (1)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)

8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)

7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)

4 points
Francis Rodrigues (8)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (4)

1 point
Souvik Basu (?)