Monday, April 27, 2015

May fever

After a very successful Mumbai Quiz Festival in February and with the Mumbai edition of the Landmark Quiz happening on May 1, a Friday, the Bombay Quiz Club will be hosting May Fever - the Quiz Fest on Saturday and Sunday May 2 and 3.

The venue is the General Auditorium at the SIES College of Arts and Sciences in Sion, Mumbai.

There will be 4 full length open quizzes over the 2 days - The Printer's Devil (Literature and Books) Quiz, an AV quiz, A General Quiz and a Movies Quiz .

Entry fee is Rs. 150 per quiz per team. Entry is free for school/college teams (College teams are teams enrolled in a +2/4 year degree program and not professional courses)

QMs are as follows:

1. The Printer's Devil quiz - Sumant Srivathsan and Rajiv Rai

2. The AV quiz - Suvajit Chakraborty, Vinoo Sanjay, Vikram Joshi

3. The Movies quiz - Omkar Nana Yaw Kamalapur, Rohit Rao, Debasish Misra and Sandeep Matthias

4. The General quiz - Shamika M. , Karthik Ganesh and Sachin Deshpande

All quizzes are for teams of three, have a prelims and a finals and are open to all.

There is also a Sharaab, Shabaab Aur Kabaab quiz by Vibhendu Tewari, Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman, Shubhankar Gokhale and Anannya Deb.
May 2nd, 2015. 7 pm onwards, Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar, Bandra East following the regular 2 quizzes for the day.
We have over Rs.45,000 in prize money on offer!

Quizmaster: Bombay Quiz Club  
When: May 2 and 3, 2015
Where: General Auditorium at the SIES College of Arts and Sciences in Sion, Mumbai.
 

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Soliloquiz

Put a sticky note on 10/5 on your calendar.
Here comes Soliloquiz ( "Sololikhoquiz" for those who don't dig classical languages! ).
May 10th at 3 pm in India.
Solo quiz. No question papers. All questions on screen. Short questions. Lots of visuals.
63 questions. 2 hours with a 20 minute break in between.
Quizmasters from quiz clubs all over India.
Jayashree Mohanka
Aniruddha Sengupta
Kiran Vijayakumar
Thejaswi Udupa
Balakrishnan Satyam
G Krishnamurthi
Navin Rajaram
Priyambad Pattanayak
J Krishnamurthi
Remember to read the sticky note on 9/5 !


Quizmaster: Various Artists   When: 3 PM, Sunday, 10th May 2015 (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.

Prez for emergency

As we get set for the Landmark and May Fever quizzes on the first weekend of May, BQC President Anannya Deb brings us some push-up material from his quizzing cornucopia. On Dada's menu this time is the quiz he conducted in Pune on behalf of the Boat Club Quiz Club, which he has agreed to re-run for those of us across the Expressway. For those of you who are yet to attend a Dada quiz, the range of subjects he straddles effortlessly is bound to leave you awestruck, and you will surely leave the quiz much enriched.

Quizmaster: Anannya Deb   When: 3 PM, Sunday, 26th april 2015 (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). 

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

MQF 2015 lineup.

All the Quizzes at MQF 2015.

A total prize money of INR 1,10,000 is on offer. here are the details -

Mumbai Local - The MQF General Knowledge Quiz (8th Feb, Sunday, 3 pm
(Full length quiz for teams of 3)
1st Prize - Rs. 9,000
2nd Prize - Rs. 7,500
3rd Prize - Rs. 6,000
4th & 5th Prize - Rs. 1,500
6th, 7th & 8th Prize - Rs. 1,200
(Total: Rs 29,100)
Shivaji Park - The MQF Sports Quiz (7th Feb, Saturday, 9:30 a.m)
The Rangbhavan Experience  - The MQF Entertainment Quiz (7th Feb, Saturday, 3:30 p.m.)
Linking Road to Carter Road - The MQF Travel Quiz (8th Feb, Sunday, 9:00 a.m)
(Full Length quizzes for teams of 3)
1st Prize - Rs. 6,000
2nd Prize - Rs. 4,500
3rd Prize - Rs. 3,000
4th & 5th Prize - Rs. 900
6th, 7th & 8th Prize - Rs. 600
(Total: Rs 60,300)
College Katta - The MQF POP Quiz (7th Feb, Saturday, 2 pm)
Kalina Campus - The MQF Social Sciences Quiz (8th Feb, Sunday, 1:30 pm)
Short length Written quizzes for teams of 2
1st Prize: Rs. 3,600
2nd Prize: Rs. 2.400
3rd Prize: Rs. 1,200
(Total: Rs. 14,400)
What this means:
If you win all the quizzes (unlikely but suppose you do) and you split the money equitably with your team mates, you can get Rs 12,600 over two days of quizzing.
Or take the other extreme. You make it to the final of all the four quizzes but you finish 4th. You get Rs 1,200. That will cover your Uber cab fare to and fro. Or a 30 ml shot of Johnny Walker at The Jewel of India across the corridor. Or 3 khambas of Old Monk from the nearest wine shop at Worli Naka. That's how awesome our quizzes are. Like the finest single malt or dark rum around.

Directions to the venue - 

The location of the Mumbai Quiz Festival is the auditorium in Hall of Harmony at the Nehru Science Center on Annie Besant Road in Worli, Mumbai.
-- If you're coming from Santacruz domestic airport directly, take a taxi to the venue in Worli. The Bandra-Worli sea link will cut your journey of about 35 mins by half (however, you will have to pay a toll of Rs 55)
-- From the outstation railway stations at Dadar, Bandra, Kurla or CST, take a taxi to the venue in Worli, Mumbai.
-- If you're taking the city trains, the closest station is Mahalaxmi on the Western Railway line. Take a cab from there to the venue in Worli, Mumbai.
In all cases, ONLY pay by meter - Bombaywallahs will not pay one buck more than needed. (Please note: Auto-rickshaws DO NOT operate in South Mumbai where the venue is)

We hope to see you there on Saturday.




Friday, January 09, 2015

MQF 2015

The annual Mumbai Quiz Festival is back on the 7th and 8th of February 2015 - with the venue remaining the same as last year; The Hall of Harmony at the Nehru Centre in Worli, Mumbai.

We have an awesome line-up of 6 quizzes over the 2 days with more than 1 lakh Rs. cash prizes (not "worth", no "vouchers) - actual cash.

The main 4 quizzes are:
Sports Quiz (Prelims + Final)
Entertainment Quiz (Prelims + Final)
Travel and Lifestyle Quiz (Prelims + Final)
General Quiz (Prelims + Final)

There are also 2 smaller written quizzes. More details on them will be shared in a week.

All quizzes are open to everyone. Team size is upto 3 members per team. Don't worry if you don't have a full team - do come, we'll find you people to partner with.
More details coming up. This is primarily to allow you and your quizzer friends to take advantage of any airline sales for that period..