... this Sunday. Atulya Bharadwaj conducts. Details:
Time: 3pm, Sunday, January 20 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Atulya Bharadwaj
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
You can read a report of the last quiz, and see the latest league standings, here.
Newcomers are welcome, and do not need to come in a team -- teams are randomly formed by drawing lots at the venue. The questions are generally unintimidating and quite workoutable, so if you're in town and have a free afternoon, come!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Vibhendu Tiwari steals the show
Superbly aided by Kedar Sastry and Ajith Prabhakar, Vibhendu Tiwari stormed to an exciting win at the last BQC quiz held on Sunday, January 6. The team of veterans Rajiv Rai (two-time Brand Equity winner) and Devangshu Datta (two-time North Star winner) tied with them for first place, but Vibhendu and gang won a close tie-break to take a full ten points. Rishi Iyengar's team ended third.
The quiz was ably conducted by Suchintan Chatterjee and Sritanu Chakrabarti. The two of them also took part, joining AP Alagarsamy and Devang Ghia for the part of the quiz conducted by the other. Immense enjoyment resulted, as did the results below:
1st with 25 points (on tiebreak)
Vibhendu Tiwari
Kedar Sastry
Ajith Prabhakar
2nd with 25 points
Rajiv Rai
Devangshu Datta
3rd with 20 points
Rishi Iyengar
Anand Sivasankar
Mukund Krishnan
4th with 16 points (tied)
Amit Varma
Sandeep Sen
Shambhu Shankar
AP Alagarsamy
Devang Ghia
Suchintan Chatterjee/Sritanu Chakrabarti
6th with 12 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Souvik Basu
7th with 8 points (tied)
Ameya Samant
Abilin Mukherjee
Prasann Potdar
Sriram Krishnan
Our league table functions thus: The members of the team coming first get 10 points, the runners up get 7, and the team coming third gets 4. The standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 19 quizzes, as of January 6, 2007)
106.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 14 quizzes)
78 points
Rishi Iyengar (16)
69 points
Amit Varma (16)
62 points
Prasann Potdar (13)
56 points
Sumant Srivathsan (15)
51.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (16)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
45 points
Kedar Sastry (12)
42 points
Ajith Prabhakar (14)
40 points
Govind Grewal (14)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (13)
36 points
Ameya Samant (15)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)
30.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (9)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (12)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Amit Pandeya (10)
Anand Sivasankar (14)
24.5 points
Devang Ghia (17)
24 points
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 (3)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Sameer Nair (2)
Movin Miranda (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
Devangshu Datta (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 (3)
The next quiz will be held on Sunday, January 20. More details will follow on this blog.
The quiz was ably conducted by Suchintan Chatterjee and Sritanu Chakrabarti. The two of them also took part, joining AP Alagarsamy and Devang Ghia for the part of the quiz conducted by the other. Immense enjoyment resulted, as did the results below:
1st with 25 points (on tiebreak)
Vibhendu Tiwari
Kedar Sastry
Ajith Prabhakar
2nd with 25 points
Rajiv Rai
Devangshu Datta
3rd with 20 points
Rishi Iyengar
Anand Sivasankar
Mukund Krishnan
4th with 16 points (tied)
Amit Varma
Sandeep Sen
Shambhu Shankar
AP Alagarsamy
Devang Ghia
Suchintan Chatterjee/Sritanu Chakrabarti
6th with 12 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Souvik Basu
7th with 8 points (tied)
Ameya Samant
Abilin Mukherjee
Prasann Potdar
Sriram Krishnan
Our league table functions thus: The members of the team coming first get 10 points, the runners up get 7, and the team coming third gets 4. The standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 19 quizzes, as of January 6, 2007)
106.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 14 quizzes)
78 points
Rishi Iyengar (16)
69 points
Amit Varma (16)
62 points
Prasann Potdar (13)
56 points
Sumant Srivathsan (15)
51.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (16)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
45 points
Kedar Sastry (12)
42 points
Ajith Prabhakar (14)
40 points
Govind Grewal (14)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (13)
36 points
Ameya Samant (15)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)
30.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (9)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (12)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Amit Pandeya (10)
Anand Sivasankar (14)
24.5 points
Devang Ghia (17)
24 points
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 (3)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Sameer Nair (2)
Movin Miranda (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
Devangshu Datta (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 (3)
The next quiz will be held on Sunday, January 20. More details will follow on this blog.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Who in the world...
. . . will host this weekend's quiz?
Will it be intrepid duo Sritanu and Suchintan, or itinerant Amit Pandeya? Or (oh, the unspeakable horror!) both?
Come over to Pinstorm on Sunday to find out.
The details:
Time: 10:30 am, Sunday, January 6 (reporting time: 10:00 am)
Quizmaster: The Million Dollar Question
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
You can read a report of the last quiz, and see the latest league standings, here.
Will it be intrepid duo Sritanu and Suchintan, or itinerant Amit Pandeya? Or (oh, the unspeakable horror!) both?
Come over to Pinstorm on Sunday to find out.
The details:
Time: 10:30 am, Sunday, January 6 (reporting time: 10:00 am)
Quizmaster: The Million Dollar Question
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
You can read a report of the last quiz, and see the latest league standings, here.
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