This Sunday's BQC Session

Janardhan R. will host his first quiz for the BQC this Sunday. It should be fun - and hopefully we'll see a lot more first-time QMs at the BQC in subsequent sessions.

QM: Janardhan R.

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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 Talented Mr. Deb

The monsoon might have been a bit of a damp squib this year, but the BQC has been quite a bit of fun so far. More fun and games this Sunday, courtesy of Anannya Deb, who puts his leaderboard position on the line and becomes QM for the afternoon. If his last quiz was any indication, this one should be a doozy. Be there, it's not like you'd rather be doing something else.

QM: Anannya Deb

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, August 9, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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 Prodigal Returns

Ajith Prabhakar sent us all a nice email saying goodbye to the BQC, apparently for something better in Trivandrum. Clearly he left something behind, because he's in town this weekend, and asking questions. We'll call it the Ajith Prabhakar Farewell Special, and buy him beer afterwards.

You should join us - for both quiz and beer.

QM: Ajith Prabhakar

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, July 26, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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.

Any Given Sunday

That's usually when quizzers are free to do what they do best. This weekend being one such, the Bombay Quiz Club gets its motor running. Vibhendu Tewari and Sarat Rao will be our driver and tour guide respectively. I'm sure Sarat would like to drive, but given his vision, Stevie Wonder is probably going to be his navigator. It should be a fun ride. You should come along.

QM: Vibhendu Tewari and Sarat Rao

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, July 12, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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.

This Sunday, At Pinstorm...

The BQC Season Four rolls right along, with Vijay Shankar at the helm. He promises a fun quiz for one and all, and the winners might be able to gain enough experience points to buy the Armour of Invulnerability. No wait, wrong game. This one's a quiz, folks. I promise.

The details are below.

QM: Vijay Shankar

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, June 14, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)

Venue: 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.

A Long Weekend Of Quizzing

A fantastic weekend of quizzing lies ahead for Mumbai quizzers, as the Landmark Quiz this Friday is followed by a BQC quiz on Sunday. Details:

The Landmark Quiz, Mumbai

QM: Navin Jayakumar

Time: 2.30 pm, Friday, May 1, 2009 (Please register in advance at Landmark Bookstore.)

Venue: St Andrew's Auditorium, Bandra.

Prizes: Hazaar Landmark coupons.

BQC Quiz 3, Season 4

QM: Mahesh Murthy

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, May 3, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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.

Do note that the Landmark Quiz will also count for points on the BQC's League Table.

It's All Happening Here

If Tony Greig was doing commentary on the BQC, he would not find it necessary to manufacture excitement: it really has all been happening here at the BQC. The first two quizzes of Season 4 were action packed events, though we will not report the bloodshed here, and there will be no pictures of the carnage. This is a family blog.

The results:

Quiz 1, April 12, conducted by Rajiv Rai

1st (163 points) Vibhendu Tiwari, Anannya Deb, Ameya Samant, Janardhan R, Akshat Trivedi

Tied 2nd-3rd (141) Atul Mathew, Sumit Roy, Govind Grewal, Bikash Mohapatra

Tied 2nd-3rd (141) Rohit Ajitkumar, Shiv Anant Tayal, Hanisha Vaswani, Jitaditya Narzari, Nandan Krishnaswamy

4th (139.5) Sumant Srivathsan, Devang Ghia, Souvik Basu, Siddharth Sinha Ray

5th (137) Amit Varma, Sai Ganesh, Dhananjay Shettigar, Srikant Narasimhan, Nrupal Chowdhary

6th (117.5) Diwakar Pingle, Sandip Sen, Ajith Prabhakar, Arvind Krishnaswamy, Amlesh Mishra

7th (116.5) Pradeep Ramarathnam, Amit Pandeya, Francis Rodrigues, Dipankar Goswami, Ram Shankar

8th (81) Anand Sivasankar, Chinmay Kamath, Rasik Tirodkar, Vishwesh Ramnath

As the scores indicate, this was a close quiz, with four teams separated by half a question fighting for second place, which was decided on the last question.

Quiz 2, April 19, conducted by Dhoomketu

1st (with 90 points) Sumant Srivathsan, Govind Grewal, Souvik Basu, Chinmay Kamath

2nd (71) Rajiv Rai, Atul Mathew, Anand Sivasankar, Dipankar Goswami

3rd (48) Amit Varma, Atulya Bharadwaj, Sarat Rao, Roshith

4th (45) Amit Pandeya, Jonas John, Sriram R, Vikas Sahu

5th (43) Rishi Iyengar, Mukund Sridhar, Rohit Ajitkumar, Hanisha Vaswani

6th (42) Ajith Prabhakar, Sandip Sen, Srikant Narasimhan, Francis Rodrigues

7th (41) Anannya Deb, Jitaditya Narzari, Supriyo Saha, Mina Anthony

8th (39) Vibhendu Tiwari, Sumit Roy, Janardhan R, Vamsi Krishna

All the teams had a chance to finish in the top three in this quiz, a battle decided, once again, right at the end. In BQC quizzes, members of the winning team get 10 points each for the BQC League Table, followed by 7 and 4 for second and third, and splits if there are ties. In open quizzes with elims and finals, like the forthcoming Landmark Quiz, finalists get two points each. Here, then, are the league standings right at the start of Season 4.

BQC Season 4 (from 2 quizzes, as of April 19, 2009)

15.5 points
Govind Grewal

12.5 points
Atul Mathew

10 points
Akshat Trivedi
Ameya Samant
Anannya Deb
Chinmay Kamath
Janardhan R
Souvik Basu
Sumant Srivathsan
Vibhendu Tiwari

7 points
Anand Sivasankar
Dipankar Goswami
Rajiv Rai

5.5 points
Bikash Mohapatra
Hanisha Vaswani
Jitaditya Narzari
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shiv Anant Tayal
Sumit Roy

4 points
Amit Varma
Atulya Bharadwaj
Roshith
Sarat Rao

These are early days, and no doubt there will be much movement on this league table. Watch this blog for announcements of future quizzes.

The Return of Dhoomketu

In 1949, The Fearless Nadia starred alongside Ram Singh, John Cawas, Boman Shroff and the magnificent Sona Chatterji in a film called Dhoomketu.

In 2009, 60 years later, on a full moon afternoon in April, Dhoomketu returns. Here are the details of our next BQC quiz:

QM: Dhoomketu.

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, April 19, 2009 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.)

Venue: 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 results of last Sunday's quiz will be uploaded along with this one once this is over. If we survive. Dhoomketu is coming!