Mega-Whats 2010

The second edition of Mega-Whats, the KQA's National Open Quizzing Championship, takes place this Sunday in nine cities across the country. The BQC had a strong showing at last year's event,with 3 of our teams in the top ten.

The Mumbai round will take place at the IES Management College in Bandra. There are prizes for the Best School,College and Open Teams. There is no entry fee.

More details on the event here

Quizmasters: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar
Team Size: Teams of FOUR members (or less)
Centre coordinator: Ashwan Lewis
When: Sunday, 12th December 2010
Reporting Time:1430
Quiz starts at 15:00
Where:Seminar Hall, 6th floor, Management College, IES MCRC “Vishwakarma” M.D. Lotlikar Vidya Sankul, 791, S. K. Marg, Bandra Reclamation (Opp Lilavati hospital), Mumbai – 400 050 Board Line : 91-22- 61378484

Francis Rodrigues

Francis Rodrigues hosts the final BQC quiz of the calendar year this Sunday. If his last quiz in 2008 was any indication, we should be in for an interesting afternoon at Pinstorm (Phallic Museum in Iceland #youremember).

League Standings here

Quizmaster: Francis Rodrigues
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 28th November, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

The Round Table Quiz (Mumbai edition)

The long awaited Round Table Quiz finally takes place in Chennai this Saturday (details: here). Since quite a few of us can't make the trip to Chennai, the QM has decided to let us have a shot at the quiz. Vibhendu will be QM for the afternoon as Rajiv as away for the weekend. Like Rajiv's season opener,we'll be starting the quiz at 3 sharp (I'm expecting a big turnout so please turn up on time)

Quizmaster: Vibhendu Tewari

Research: Team Quizician (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta,Gopal Kidao and the BQC's 3 time defending champion Rajiv Rai)

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 14th November, 2010 (Please be there by 2:30 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.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.

The Roti,Kapda aur Makaan Quiz

Vik Joshi conducts his second themed quiz of the season this week on 3 of his favorite topics - Food,Fashion and Architecture. We'll be starting an hour later so that people have time to return from Dhananjay's quiz at JBIMS.

The details:

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi

Theme:Food,Fashion and Architecture

When: 4 PM, Sunday, 31st October, 2010 (Please be there by 3:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Quiz this weekend

Sorry for the late update, but we will be having a quiz this weekend. Srinath TB will be QM and if his last is anything to go by, we should be in for a treat.

The details:

Quizmaster: Srinath TB

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 26 September, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Shubhankar Gokhale

Shubhankar Gokhale has made a Tiger Woodsian debut at the BQC this season and currently lies second in the standings,just behind Vikram Joshi. Vik won't be caught by Shubhankar this weekend as the latter hosts his first BQC quiz at Pinstorm.

Speaking of the League Table,here's the top 8 at this stage.

1.Vikram Joshi 42
2.Shubhankar G 38
Rajiv Rai 38
4.Abhinav Dasgupta 31
5.Srinath TB 31
6.Mukund Sridhar 30
7.Pradeep Ramrathnam 28
8. Pravin Varma 27

The Details:
Quizmaster: Shubhankar Gokhale
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 12 September, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

s05e13

This Sunday's quiz, the 13th of BQC's fifth season, will be conducted by the reigning MMI champ J Ramanand. The details:

Quizmaster: J Ramanand
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 5th September, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Govind Buble

Young Bubbles hosts the BQC session at Pinstorm this week. The details:

Quizmaster: Govind Grewal
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 22 August, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

The India Quiz

The BQC's resident India Quiz expert Vibhendu Tewari steps in to conduct a very special quiz this week. We're expecting a big turnout so please turn up early to avoid any disappointments.

The Details
Quizmaster:Vibhendu Tewari
Theme: India
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 8th September, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Directions

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 the quiz.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.

Vikram Joshi Part Deux

Vikram Joshi conducts his second BQC quiz in as many weeks with a quiz on his favorite subject from high school - The Social Sciences.

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi
Theme: The Social Sciences (With special emphasis on History&Geography)
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 27th June, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Vikram Joshi Haazir Ho

Vikram Joshi hosts his long awaited quiz this Sunday at Pinstorm. There's also the small issue of a treat after his recent exploits at the Landmark Quiz and the WQC.

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi/ Pradeep Ramarathnam
Theme: General
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 13th June, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

Mahaquizzer/ World Quiz Championship Results - Mumbai

Mahaquizzer results from Mumbai

1. Mukund Sridhar - 84
2. Rajiv Rai - 83
3. Sumant - 72
4. Vikram Joshi - 67
5. Vinoo Sanjay - 65 (6 stars)
6. Anannya Deb - 65 (5 stars)
7. Vibhendu - 62
8. S Balakrisnan - 58
9. Prasann Potdar - 49
10. Govind Grewal - 47

WQC Results
Total includes the best seven sections
1.Vikram Joshi 94
2.S Balakrishnan 86
3.Vinoo Sanjay 83
4.Govind Grewal 76
5.Anannya Deb 69
6.SP Rajen 65
7.Vibhendu Tewari 63
8.Arnab Bhattacharya 61
9.Mithun Kidambi 59
10.Atul Mathew 59

Sectional winners (30 points for each section)
Entertainment- Govind Grewal,Vikram J (10)
Sport - Atul Mathew (14)
History- Vikram Joshi (19)
Science - Arnab Bhattacharya,Vinoo Sanjay (14)
Culture - S Balakrishnan (16)
Lifestyle - Vikram Joshi (23)
Media- Govind Grewal (17)
World - Arnab Bhattacharya, Vinoo Sanjay (11)

The Kartik Bose Open

Anannya Deb will host this week's BQC session at Pinstorm. Since we're a week away from the FIFA World Cup,Anannya has decided to throw in a special World Cup round as well. He's also promised us that there will be no #kartikbose references in the quiz.

The details:

Quizmaster: Anannya Deb
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 6th June, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz.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.

World Quiz Championship 2010 Mumbai

The International Quizzing Association will be conducting the World Quizzing Championships across various countries next Saturday. Bombay is among the eleven venues in India.

Format:Solo Written Quiz
8 sections( 'Culture', 'Lifestyle', 'Media', 'World','Entertainment', 'History', 'Sciences', 'Sport & Games') of 30 questions each to be answered in 2 hours.

Entry Fee: None
When: 4 PM, Saturday, 5th June 2010 (Please get there early as seating is on a first come-first-sit-basis)
Where: 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 the quiz. 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.

Vikram Joshi Haazir Ho

This week's BQC session will be hosted by freshly-minted Landmark Mumbai champ Vikram Joshi. The quiz should be fun, of course, but this is an ideal opportunity to fleece Vik for an all-you-can-consume booze-up afterward. Provided he can be captured for the duration of footing the bill.



Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 16 May, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 the quiz. 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.

The Urban Legend Lit Quiz

Once upon a time, there were rumblings of a literature quiz in Pune. Originally expected to take place in 2009, it had been postponed due to several unforeseen circumstances, including H1N1, the Landmark Quiz, Pune, and general inertia. Imagine our surprise, then, that it actually happened, with eyewitnesses testifying to its existence.

So, in an effort to independently verify these rumours, we have asked Anand Sivashankar to present it at the Bombay Quiz Club. Come on over, in the true scientific spirit, we shall explore the legend of the Lit Quiz. After that, we can safely move on to UFOs, the Chupacabra and the Abonimable Snowman.


Quizmaster: Anand Sivashankar

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 25 April, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz. 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.

New Season Kicks Off

We'll be kicking off the new BQC 2010-11 season with an old-but-mostly-unseen quiz. Rajiv Rai will play quizmaster, with questions from the excellent Kurukshetra Open 2010 held in January. Some of us were there for that quiz, and we'll be sitting this one out. The rest of you, this is going to be awesome.

This is also a good time to make two announcements:

• If you hosted a quiz for us last season and have not shared your questions with me, please do so ASAP. There are plenty of online storage services which you can use to send out large files. Our subscriptions are incentivized through this sharing, so we absolutely must have them sent out.
• Speaking of subscriptions, it's that time of the year again, and I'll start passing the hat around on Sunday. Please to be contributing generously. :)

Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai


When: 3 PM, Sunday, 11 April, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.

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.

The No Enthu Da Open

Aadisht Khanna first talked about doing a 3-way No Enthu Da Open in three cities - Bombay, Bangalore and Madras - sometime last year, but in an appropriate nod to the team name, NED was put, and it didn't quite work out. This year, considerably less NED has been put by Karthik, Aadisht and Aswath, and we will have an NED Open in all three cities on Sunday. Of course, we said "considerably less" NED. Since our QM is going to be in Madras this weekend, a Monkee will jump into the breach and host the quiz here.

Though we're calling it an Open, this is a regular BQC session. Seeding and randomisation of teams will be done before the quiz.

Quizmaster:Atulya 'Monkee' Bharadwaj


When: 3 PM, Sunday, 28 March, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.

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.

Double-Barrelled BQC

We'll have a half-and-half session this Sunday, courtesy Amit Varma and Mahesh Murthy (who's already done one quiz for us this season). It's IPL time, so please try to be there on time, so that we won't hold back all the eager T20 fans from their frenzy. :)

Quizmaster: Amit Varma, Mahesh Murthy

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 14 March 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.

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.

Back In Blog - But It's Just Business As Usual

We haven't been too regular about updating the blog announcements and results for quite a while now. But that doesn't mean we haven't been quizzing - so we'll try and catch up on the results and league standings as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, it's quizzing as usual on Sunday, and Abhinav Dasgupta, who filled in on short notice in December (thanks, mate!) will do a proper quiz this weekend. The short quiz was good fun, so we should certainly expect more of the same this time around. Details and directions below.

Quizmaster: Abhinav Dasgupta

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 28 February, 2010 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 the quiz.

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.