Mindsweep + Megawhats 2012

MindSweep is KQA’s international open solo quizzing championship while Mega-Whats is their annual national open quizzing championship for teams of four members. The Mumbai round takes place this Sunday at the usual venue at Pinstorm.

More details on the events here:
http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep-2-0-mega-whats-2012/

Registrations may be allowed at the venue if there is enough space and extra question papers.

Details:
The date: Sunday 9 December 2012
Schedule
MindSweep: 1000hrs-1300hrs
Mega-Whats: 1500hrs-1830hrs
Venue:
Pinstorm office,
Ground Floor, Swati House,
Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road
North Avenue
Santa Cruz(W)

  Kumar Abhishek will be our proctor for both events.

Quiz Dubai invades the BQC

This Sunday's quizzes  at the BQC are brought to you by Quiz Dubai. We start off with a 90 Question written quiz set by Dr. Chandrashekar Rao followed by a  short quiz by BQC alum Prasann Potdar. We'll start at 15:00 sharp.

Please register at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDI5dnBBOXpPUW0yV3JLY25nNExNOHc6MQ&ifq

We have limited seating at the venue so please register in advance. There is no entry fee for the quiz.

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 2nd December, 2012 (Please be on time because we'll be starting at 1500 sharp)
Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Srinath Vol.I

After a nuptial-imposed hiatus from quizzing, Srinath has realised that there are places where he can still be the master, at least once a year. To compensate for his absence, he has set a quiz long enough to last two weekends. Part 1 will play this Sunday.

Please Note - We will be beginning an hour earlier than our usual time, at 2 pm, to accommodate a Business quiz by Amit Pandeya at NMIMS later in the day.


Quizmaster: Srinath Bhashyam  

When: 2 PM, Sunday, 25th November, 2012 (Please be there by 1.45 PM for team assignments)

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

Sunday Triple Bill

In a break from tradition, we have 3 different QMs lined up this Sunday.

Anannya starts things off with a #KolStylz Quiz, followed by a Visual Quiz by Aditya Gadre and Shubhankar Gokhale. Pradeep Ramarathnam will round off proceedings with a short 10 question quiz.


Quizmaster: Anannya Deb,Aditya Gadre,Shubhankar and  Pradeep Ramarathnam
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 28 October, 2012 (Please be there on time so that we can finish early)
 Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Samrat Sengupta

Samrat Sengupta returns to the BQC this Sunday after a five year hiatus. He's done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past and he's promised us a similar treat this weekend with his pet topics -Sport,Geography and History getting a fair bit of coverage. Hope to see a good turnout!

Quizmaster: Samrat Sengupta
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 14th October, 2012 (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). 

SEQC Big Q + Ideas Quiz

With the Tata Crucible Finals happening next weekend, we've brought our session forward by a week

The schedule for Sunday the 30th of September:

14:00 - The Big Q (SEQC's written quiz). Anannya will proctor. Please register here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFJDdkxPYk9Zd3dWY0hXNDBkc3pETWc6MQ (50 Rs. Entry Fee which will go into a pool for prize money. No entry fee for school/college students). 90 minutes. 120 Questions.

16:00 - Anannya will conduct his "Ideas Quiz".

Please be on time for the Big Q as it will start at 14:00 sharp.

Double Bill Sunday

Two quizzes happen this Sunday. At 2pm, we begin with a OASIS lone wolf written quiz, consisting of 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes. We expect to be done with the quiz and corrections in 2 hours.

Following that will be the regular session, which is a Europe themed quiz set by Aniket Khasgiwale, who has given six months of his life, and a plump amount of money, to wander around Europe in order to have the perfect quiz for us.

Quizmaster: BITS Pilani Quiz Club and Aniket Khasgiwale

   When: 2 PM, Sunday, 23 September, 2012 (the written quiz will start at 2 pm sharp)

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

Bala

Veteran Quizzer Bala plays host this Sunday.  We can expect a good mix of History,Geography and Justin Bieber questions. Ok. I made the last bit up. Hope to see a good turnout.

Quizmaster: Bala
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 9 September, 2012 (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).
  

Vibhendu Tewari

Resident India Quiz God Vibhendu Tewari hosts his annual India Quiz this weekend. This year's syllabus has been expanded to included the rest of the Indian Subcontinent. He's done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past and this promises to be no different.

Quizmaster: Vibhendu Tewari
Theme: The Indian Subcontinent
 When: 3 PM, Sunday, 26 August, 2012 (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).

League: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar8fkIHYmT2NdHRQc0NOU28wV2ZJNmtJYlNiUHhta2c

A Historical Sunday

A lunar month ago, the Alexandrian Vikram Joshi and the Selucus Nicatorian Abhinav Dasgupta travelled east to Hyderabad. With them, they carried a quiz so powerful, that if fallen in the wrong hands, it could have caused a war.

The moment the news of their travel had reached Hyderabad, furious preparations began. An exponential rise in the number of people pulling in all nighters to mug for the quiz, caused power outages in a few north Indian states. A need for solidarity for tackling this mega quiz saw people cross all political and religious boundaries to unite and prepare as a team.

On the Quiz day, a crowd of 250000 people gathered at the YMCA stadium to witness this grandiose event. People were seen camping outside the gate for hours to get a front row seat. The Quizmasters entered in chariots, with their Chandragupta Mauryan scorekeeper in tow, and were welcomed with a lavish feast and trucks full of gold ornaments. An ambulance was kept ready for those who could not handle the ensuing overwhelming. The quiz began when all the royals had made their fashionably late entrance. Eight teams fought a gruelling battle which was eventually won by the team led by King Jaykay of Kesarkal, but the fight took so much out of him, that his eyesight became blurred for life.

The fabled 'examiner' from the Guinness Book, endorsed the Quiz as the largest audience ever recorded at an event. Quiz weekly gave it a rating of 10/10 on the Rai scale.

The Quizmasters have decided to put the Quiz on tour and the next stop is Bombay on this Sunday. The volumes of people coming in have already caused day long traffic jams and derailing of trains due to overcrowding. Analysts have predicted a crowd of nearly 500000 to turn up at the event. Since the Pinstorm Arena and Convention Center cannot handle this deluge, we will grant admission strictly on a first come first serve basis. Admission is free. Explosives and sharp objects will not be permitted. Cardiac patients and Expectant mothers should stay away as we do not have medical attention available at the venue. But it definitely will be a quiz to die for.

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi and Abhinav Dasgupta

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 12th August 2012 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments. Admission will not be granted once the seating area is full. No requests will be entertained. Bribes might be.)

Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W). Parking is free, but limited.

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Sunday Double bill

Defending Grenko chamo Souvik Basu conducts the first half of the BQC double header this Sunday. Rajiv will then run through the Anna Univ Quiz he conducted last year as part of Team Quizician.


Quizmaster: Souvik Basu + Rajiv Rai
  When: 3 PM, Sunday, 22 July 2012 (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).
  

Avaneendra Bhargav

The venerable Pune Quizzer, Avaneendra, will be debuting as the guest Quizmaster at BQC this Sunday. His broad-spectrum quizzes - highly regarded in Pune circles - are probably the best thing to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon on.


Quizmaster:Avaneendra Bhargav

 When: 3 PM, Sunday, 8th July 2012 (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).  

Bubbles

Defending Greenko and Kala Ghoda Champ Govind is our QM this weekend. He's conducted some wonderful quizzes for us in the past so this quiz promises to be a lot of fun.


Quizmaster: Govind 'Bubbles' Grewal
  When: 3 PM, Sunday, 23 June, 2012 (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).

Ankit Soni

Ankit Soni from Delhi is our Quizmaster this weekend.  Please be there for what promises to be a great session.


Quizmaster: Ankit Soni
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 17th June, 2012 (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).

World Quizzing Championship 2012

For those who've gotten cuckoo about written quizzes after Mahaquizzer last Sunday, here's another one. We will be conducting the Mumbai leg of the World quizzing championship 2012 (homepage) on 2nd June, parallely with 84 other cities in 34 countries.

The quiz will consist of 2 sections of 120 questions each. 60 minutes will be available for attempting each section.

The Quiz is open to anyone who wants to give it a shot, but extrapolating from the attendance in the previous years, we have arranged for 35 question papers, which will be handed out on a first-come-first-serve basis. Its a fairly long quiz so we aim at starting on time. So all you need to be is alert, on time and with a pen.


Quizmaster: International Quizzing league

 When: 3 PM, Saturday, 2nd June, 2012

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

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MahaQuizzer 2012

MahaQuizzer 2012, the eighth edition will be held in Bangalore and several other cities on Sunday 27th May 2012.
As usual, the quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes.
Prizes in each city for best School, College, Lady and Open entrant.
Online registrations for Mahaquizzer 2012 are now closed.
You can register and take part in the quiz at any venue if seating space is available.


Mumbai venue -
Landmark Store,
Infiniti Mall, New Link Road
Oshiwara, Lokhandwala
Andheri West, Mumbai – 400 053
http://tinyurl.com/bpkdz4r

Co-ordinator: Rajiv Rai
KQA Proctor: Abhishek Kumar

MahaQuizzer is a written quiz.  Please bring a pen and a writing pad along.

Pravin Varma

There were very few who didnt suffer from Post-quiz depression after the extended weekend of Quizzing, which began with the majorly successful BQC open quiz and ended with the Mumbai leg of the Landmark National Quiz. For those who are still missing the action, the good news is that we begin our regular pow-wows from this Sunday.

Providing more than adequate consolation will be old hand Pravin Varma, who has set a prolific and an amply long quiz, to keep keep everybody interested.

For those who had their first insight into the BQC at the BQC open, we strongly recommend that you come over to one of our regular sessions to have a comprehensive notion about the club, and about quizzing in general.

Quizmaster: Pravin Varma


When: 3 PM, Sunday, 13th May 2012. (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).

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JR

We have our first live quiz of the season with a quiz by BCQC's Ramanand Janardhan. This is a re-run of a Nihilanth Quiz he conducted at IIM Calcutta a few years back. Shubhankar will be bringing his new buzzer to the quiz so we should have fun experimenting with the pounce format.

Vikram will be asking the questions since JR can't make it to Mumbai.

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi (Questions set by Ramanand J)

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 15 April 2012 (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).

BQC Open Quizzes 2012

The second edition of the Bombay Open series of quizzes is being brought to you by the Bombay Quiz Club. The event is happening over 2 days - on Saturday, April 28th and Sunday April 29th - at the Bengal Club, Shivaji Park, Mumbai comprising 6 quizzes over 2 days: DAY 1 - SATURDAY APRIL 28th 1. Gen Quiz for Colleges (mixed college teams allowed, school teams are also welcome) Timings: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Quiz Masters: Abhinav Dasgupta, Aditya Gadre and Atul Mathew 2. Open Sports Quiz Timings: 1:15 pm to 4:00 pm Quiz Masters: Shubhankar Gokhale and Srinath TB 3. Open Entertainment Quiz Timings: 4:15 pm to 7:45 pm Quiz Master: Anannya Deb DAY 2 - SUNDAY APRIL 29th 1. Open India Quiz Timings: 10 am to 12:30 pm Quiz Masters: Rajiv Rai and Dhananjay Shettigar 2. Written "Gossip" Quiz Timings: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm Quiz Master: Vibhendu Tewari 3. Open General Quiz Timings: 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm Quiz Master: Vikram Joshi Please note the following rules and regulations: 1) For the College Quiz (or for college students wanting a waiver on registration fee for Open events), participants are required to get a valid college ID card. 2) All quizzes for teams of 3. 3) Entry fee for open quizzes - Rs 100 per team. There is no registration fee payable by students. Spot registration. 4) No accommodation arrangement will be arranged by the BQC. The quiz timings do allow participants to come in by the first flight and leave by the last flight to most major cities in India. Top flight quiz masters, top notch prize money (over Rs 50K in cash and likely to increase as we tie up with sponsors) and happening right in the heart of Mumbai. We would love your enthusiastic participation to complement the event and make it a success.

2012 The Norwegian Open

We kickstart our 2012-13 Season with the Norwegian Open championship. We didn't have much of a turnout last year because of the World Cup final but hope to see more people at this year's event.

The Rules:

Solo Quiz

3PM, March 31 - it's a Saturday.

All-written quiz - bring a pen.
Six 40-question sections in two halves.
55 minutes per half - we will take a short break after the first half.

Venue: Pinstorm, off Linking Road, Santacruz (W).

For more details regarding the quiz,please visit: http://www.norgesquizforbund.no/index.php (you'll have to translate the page)

Aditya Gadre

The BQC's swansong for the 2011-12 season will be a Music Quiz hosted by BCQC import Aditya Gadre, .

As the season, which witnessed the inaugural BQC open, draws to a close, we begin the countdown for the second edition of the Open which will be held in the last week of April.

Rajiv Rai finishes a hat-trick of League championships. The quiz will be followed by a glorification ceremony for Rajiv.

Quizmaster: Aditya Gadre

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 25th March, 2012(Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

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

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Presenting Mr.Quizzing

Rajiv Rai Rajiv Raied the landmark quiz last weekend. Rajiv Rai has already Rajiv Raied the BQC championship this year. With his Schumacheresque championship victory tightly secure, he's decided to take the QM's chair and smugly savour the scrimmage for the leftover points. And given how extraordinary his quizzes are, nobody's complaining.

Quizmaster: Freshly minted Landmark champion (couldn't resist) Rajiv Rai

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 11th March, 2009 (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)

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A P Alagarsamy

Our quizmaster for this Sunday comes from the imperial land of Hyderabad. Still, it would be unfair to call Alagar a “guest” quizmaster, as he carries the privilege of being a former BQC champion. While his old rivals at BQC will be itching to lock horns him once again, the newbies will be curious to experience being quizzed by this very respected quizzer (who also has a quizzing term named after him).

After Vikram Joshi hosting a Quiz at Hyderabad last month, such reciprocity is very healthy for the sport.

Quizmaster: AP Alagarsamy

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 26th February, 2012 (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).


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Presenting Fib Onachi

The second part of our double header this week features an anonymous QM -Fib Onachi,who is quite active on the Quizzers group on Facebook. Vibhendu has had a peek at the questions and can vouch for their quality.

For those who want to check our Fib Onachi's earlier questions:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/quiiz/search/?query=Fib%20Onachi

Quizmaster: Vibhendu (research by Fib Onachi)

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 12th February, 2012 (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).

The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Literature Quiz 2012

Anannya Deb, Sumant Srivathsan and Vibhendu Tewari, on behalf of the Bombay Quiz Club, cordially request your presence at the Literature Quiz conducted annually as part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival's Literature calendar. This year's edition is the fourth of its kind, and therefore, it will not have a name, and we will refer to ourselves by obscure symbols that Robert Langdon will spend his next novel appearance deciphering. Yes, Govind Grewal, this is a Led Zeppelin reference. And a Dan Brown reference too, but you won't hold that against us, I hope.

When: Saturday, 11 February 2012. We start at 5 PM, so please be there at least 15 minutes earlier.

Where: Bombay Natural History Society Auditorium, Hornbill House, Kala Ghoda. Here's the Google Maps listing, where you can find directions, bus routes and a strangely named location called Lion Gate.

The Rules:

• Teams of two. If you're flying solo, we'll play QuizSaathi.com. Stags will not be turned away. In fact, nobody will be turned away. Not even Salman Rushdie.
• Bring a pen and something to support a sheet of paper. There will be a written elimination round.
• The top six teams will qualify for the finals, wherein there will be blood. We don't mean the film based on Upton Sinclair's short story Oil!.
• We need help hiding the bodies once the winners have been identified, so please do stick around and watch the finals. Don't make us lock the doors.
• We're serious about the door-locking.

The Prizes:

• They exist. In cash. Just don't plan to finance your vacation. It will suffice, however, to buy the drinks when you win.
• There is also a second and a third prize. You can sponsor the soft drinks that people put into their drinks.
• If you're underage, ask your parents what to do with your loot. Ask them for books.

CEAT Open

The annually held CEAT open in Chennai lived up to its five-star standards this year too. So good was the show, that the organisers had to put the quiz on tour. Thus, for the benefit of those of us who were too lazy to make the trip to Chennai, the quiz will be making a trip to Mumbai. The master himself, Rajiv Rai, who was also one of the Quiz setters, will be the QM.

And if a great quiz is not enough, the QM will be giving out an MP3 player to the best quizzer on display.

Please note that we will slightly digress from our usual course, in order to accomodate another quiz being held in Mumbai on Sunday. The CEAT open will be held at our usual venue on Saturday, 4th February, at 10 am.



Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai (Quiz set by the team or Rajiv Rai, Gopal Kidao and Diwakar Pingle)

When: 10am, Saturday, 4th February, 2012

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

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We’ve put the quizzes back !

After the longish break around New Year’s Eve, the quizzers will be back to their usual Sunday pastime. And one of the best of them kicks off the year.

Sumant Srivathsan is many things for the BQC; Factotum, promoter, representative and quite the disciplinarian. For those of you who haven’t been lucky enough to see him as a quizmaster, your chance is this Sunday. He has hinted at a lot of audio/visuals, to go with his masterly questions. Get your best answering skills along, for if it’s a BQC session, Sumant almost always has the last word.

Quizmaster: Sumant Srivathsan
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 22nd January, 2011 (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).

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