Rishi Iyengar makes his move

Rajiv Rai was absent. Rishi Iyengar looked around furtively. And leaped.

A snappy quiz by Mukund Krishnan was won this Sunday by Rishi Iyengar, Ameya Samant and Shambhu Shankar. The second place was snapped up by my humble self, in partnership with Vibhendu Tiwari and Souvik Basu. (My seventh second place this season -- pah!) Sumant Srivathsan, Devang Ghia and Atulya Bharadwaj trotted in at third place.

The quiz was short and sweet, and contained much more Indian content than most of our quizzes, which was a welcome change. The turnout was low this week, perhaps because India was playing Pakistan in a Test match in Bangalore, a battle nowhere near as well-contested as ours.

The result took Rishi zooming up to second place in the league standings. Infants in Bandra, beware.

The results:

1st with 16.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
Ameya Samant
Shambhu Shankar

2nd with 14 points
Amit Varma
Vibhendu Tiwari
Souvik Basu

3rd with 12.5 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Atulya Bharadwaj
Devang Ghia

4th with 8.5 points
Prasann Potdar
Govind Grewal
Sarat Rao

5th with 7.5 points
AP Alagarsamy
Sandip Sen

6th with 4.5 points
S Balakrishnan
John Mascarenhas


And now, the standings:

BQC Season Two Standings (from 17 quizzes, as of December 9, 2007)

89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)

70 points
Rishi Iyengar (14)

69 points
Amit Varma (14)

62 points
Prasann Potdar (12)

49 points
Sumant Srivathsan (13)

48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)

41.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (15)

40 points
Govind Grewal (14)

37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (12)

36 points
Ameya Samant (13)

35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)

32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)

29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)

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

26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)

24.5 points
Devang Ghia (15)

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

20 points
Shambhu Shankar (?)

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

17.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)

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)
Atulya Bharadwaj (2)

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 (3)
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 (?)
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 (2)

The next quiz will be held on Sunday, December 16. More details will follow on this blog.