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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