The Boss is Back

For a few weeks, Rajiv Rai was silent. Like Krakatoa in the first half of August 1883. Then...

J Ramanand conducted an enthralling BQC quiz last Sunday, won by a massive margin by Rajiv Rai's team. Rishi Iyengar and Avinash Mudaliar steered their team to second place, winning a tiebreaker against Sumant Srivathsan's team. Others scrambled for lesser places.

Ramanand's questions were a connoisseur's delight, though some of the younger lads looked a little flustered, and one of them remarked to me during the break, with immense sarcasm, "Very easy quiz, isn't it?"

"Have you sacrificed any infants this week?" I asked him sternly.

"Er, no," he replied.

"Then?" I thundered. "Then?"

Anyway, Ramanand's questions are here, get a taste of them for yourself.

And now for the results:

1st with (gulp) 130 points
Rajiv Rai
Vaibhav Devanathan
Samir Nair

2nd with 80 points (on tiebreak)
Rishi Iyengar
Avinash Mudaliar
Atulya Bharadwaj
Harshil Shah

3rd with 80 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sandeep Randery
Sandip Sen
Sauvik Basu

4th-5th with 65 points
S Balakrishnan
Shambhu Shankar
John Mascarenhas

Prasann Potdar
Sritanu Chakrabarti
Mukund Krishnan
Kedar Shastry

6th with 50 points
Amit Varma
Udatta Duarah
Devang Ghia

7th-8th with 30 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Anand Sivasankar
Amit Grover
Sarat Rao

Govind Grewal
Karthik R
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao

As for the BQC standings, guess who's on top. Guess, guess. Guess, no!

BQC Season Two Standings (from 16 quizzes, as of December 2, 2007)

89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)

62 points
Amit Varma (13)
Prasann Potdar (11)

60 points
Rishi Iyengar (13)

48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)

45 points
Sumant Srivathsan (12)

40 points
Govind Grewal (13)

37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (11)

35 points
S Balakrishnan (11)

34.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (14)

32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)

29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)

28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (10)

26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)

26 points
Ameya Samant (12)

24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)

20.5 points
Devang Ghia (14)

18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)

17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)

16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)

14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)

11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)

10.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)

10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (2)
Shambhu Shankar (?)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Samir Nair (1)

8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)

7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Atulya Bharadwaj (1)
Harshil Shah (1)

4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (1)

The next two BQC quizzes are on the next two Sundays. Mukund Krishnan conducts a quiz on December 9, and Harshil Shah conducts one on December 16. This is to avoid a quiz on the New Year, as would otherwise be scheduled. More details will follow on this blog.