Udatta Duarah Asks The Questions...

... you answer. The 12th BQC quiz of this season will be conducted tomorrow by Udatta Duarah, to great acclaim. (Yes, I forecast the current bull run in the markets as well.) The details:

Who QM: Udatta Duarah

When quiz: 3:00 pm, Sunday, September 21, 2008 (Please be there by 2:40 pm)

Where, bugger: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions:

From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for a meeting.

From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.

Newcomers are welcome at BQC quizzes, and do not need to form teams before coming. Teams are normally formed by a draw of lots at the venue itself, and everybody gets to take part. The questions are generally not the boring "you-know-it-or-you-don't" types, but accessible and workoutable ones.

Souvik Basu Starts His Rampage

As I write this post, there are rumours that Souvik Basu might be cast as an evil android in the next Terminator movie. I cannot confirm the scurrilous gossip, but Mr Basu has always been a man of great substance, as he showed over the last two BQC quizzes, winning both as if his name was Rajiv Rai. (Rajiv himself came third in both, as if his name was Amit Varma or suchlike.) Apologies for the late reports, times have been harsh, and Hank Paulson just refused to bail out the BQC blogging committee. We shall manage on our own for now -- and so, the results:

The results:

BQC Quiz 10 (QM -- Francis Rodrigues):

1st Aadisht Khanna, Ajith Prabhakar, Souvik Basu, Bikash Mohapatra +1

2nd Rishi Iyengar, Atul Mathew, Rohit Ajitkumar, Vijay Shankar +1

3rd Rajiv Rai, Sandip Sen, Manish Mishra, Sumit Roy, Udatta Duarah

4th Sumant Srivathsan, Sarat Rao, Aditya Kandath, Ghevarghese Daniel, Avinash Mudaliar

5th-6th Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Mohit Grover, Ninad Parab +1

5th-6th Anannya Deb, Kaustuv Gupta, Ameya Samant, Sambit Mishra, Ravi Venkatesh

7th Kedar Sastry, Devang Ghia, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Atulya Bharadwaj, Mukund Sridhar

8th Amit Varma, Amit Pandeya, Arun Ganesh, Akanksha Mohan, Arup Banerjee

BQC Quiz 11 (QM -- Anannya Deb)

1st Srini Rajagopal, Souvik Basu, Kashyap Pandeya

2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Atulya Bharadwaj, Avinash Umapathy

3rd Rajiv Rai, Mitul Kodali, Rajendra Parmar

4th Prasann Potdar, Sumit Roy, Gautam Acharya

5th Amit Pandeya, Vijay Shankar, Santosh Janakiram

6th Govind Grewal, Ajith Prabhakar, Brian DeSouza

7th Amit Varma, Devang Ghia, Bhavin Gandhi

8th Rohit Ajitkumar, Francis Rodrigues, Atul Mathew

And now for the BQC League standings:

BQC Season three Standings (from eleven quizzes, as of September 20, 2008)

52 points
Rajiv Rai (from 9 quizzes)

42.5 points
Amit Varma (11)
Rishi Iyengar (7)

39 points
Sumant Srivathsan (10)

36.5 points
Aadisht Khanna (6)

31 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (9)

27 points
Rohit Ajitkumar (4)

26 points
Souvik Basu (?)

25.5 points
Anannya Deb (7)

25 points
Udatta Duarah (8)

24 points
Ajith Prabhakar (10)
Kedar Sastry (10)

23 points
Sumit Roy (7)

22 points
Amit Pandeya (11)

21 points
Ameya Samant (7)

20 points
Govind Grewal (10)
Shrikant Narasimhan (2)

19.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (9)

17 points
Avinash Mudaliar (5)
Mahesh Murthy (2)

15.5 points
Akash Bansal (2)

14 points
Atulya B (?)
Kaustuv Gupta (3)
Mitul Kodali (3)
Sandip Sen (3)
Vijay Shankar (?)

10 points
Bikash Mohapatra (?)
Dhananjay Shettigar (?)
Kashyap Pandeya (?)
Rushi Bhavsar (2)
Sandeep Rajpurohit (4)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (3)
Srini Rajagopal (?)

9 points
Mukund Krishnan (4)

8 Points
Akanksha Mohan (3)
Anand Sivasankar (5)
Brian D'Souza (6)
S Balakrishnan (3)

7.5 points
Sarat Rao (6)

7 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Atul Mathew (?)
Avinash Umapathy (?)
Kaustubh Chakravarti (1)
Mukund Sridhar (5)
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan (2)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
V Sreeharsha (1)

5.5 points
Francis Rodrigues (9)
Janardhan R (1)
Leo Mirani (1)
Nrupal Chaudhari (3)
Prasann Potdar (3)
Rasik Tirodkar (1)
Vikram Joshi (2)

4 points
Ravi Venkatesh (?)
Neelabh (?)
Manish Mishra (?)
Rajendra Parmar (?)

The next quiz will be held on Sunday, September 21. Details follow on this blog.

Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

... is upon us again. Anannya Deb conducts the 11th BQC quiz of season 3 tomorrow, a much-awaited event that has led to the collapse in the prices of airline tickets out of Bombay. No one's leaving town; they're all staying to watch the carnage; blood, shattered bone, mangled flesh; the desolate wailing of those unfortunate enough to survive.

Apropos of nothing, I wonder why more girls don't come to BQC quizzes.

Anyway, here are the details:

Who QM: Anannya Deb

When quiz: 3:00 pm, Sunday, September 7, 2008 (Please be there by 2:40 pm)

Where, bugger: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions:

From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for a meeting.

From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.

Newcomers are welcome at BQC quizzes, and do not need to form teams before coming. Teams are normally formed by a draw of lots at the venue itself, and everybody gets to take part. The questions are generally not the boring "you-know-it-or-you-don't" types, but accessible and workoutable ones.

Okay, cut-paste of details-template over, let us return to the present time. The report of our last quiz isn't yet up -- mea culpa. I shall now put up reports of both the last quiz and tomorrow's massacre in the same report, hopefully on Monday, perhaps on Tuesday, no later.

If I survive. When Anannya Deb asks questions, the earth shakes...