Here We Go Again

This time, it's Arvind Krishnaswamy's turn to play Grand Inquisitor, with a little bit of Govind Grewal thrown in. You should come, mostly because we need hands to hold Rishi back from considering young Govind an infant, also known as meat.

The quiz will be great fun, too.

Location:

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 a meeting.

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.

Two To Remember

It was a good afternoon at the BQC. In fact, it was bloody awesome. Udatta Duarah and Ajith Prabhakar, each in their turn, set a bar for BQC sessions that will be very, very hard to beat. It is a huge task to set questions that would challenge quizzers without turning tedious, and these guys did a fabulous job of it. Rajiv Rai's off day, and a surprise new addition to the crew, meant that the lesser mortals (with special guest Alagarsamy, last year's champ) would battle it out for podium finishes, and when the dust settled, this is what happened:

First Place (67 points)
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Kedar Sastry
Prasann Potdar

Second Place (59 points)
Anand Sivashankar
Souvik Basu
Sumant Srivathsan

Third Place (57 points)
Ramesh (where has this guy been all along?)
Rishi Iyengar
Shambhu Shankar

Fourth Place (54 points)
AP Alagarsamy
S Balakrishnan
Brian
Sarat Rao

Fifth Place (32 points)
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao
Vibhendu Tewari

Sixth Place (31 points)
Ajith Prabhakar/Udatta Duarah
Devang Ghia
Samrat Sengupta

Seventh Place (27 points)
Parag
Rajiv Rai
Sriram

Eighth Place
Anand Babu
Govind Grewal
Sushil Menon

Apologies for not getting everybody's last names. League table updates coming soon.

The Return of Udatta

Ajith Prabhakar and Udatta Duarah come together today at the BQC. Udatta's return is joyously anticipated as there are many new candidates in the BQC just waiting to be ushered into shrieking insanity.

Location: Pinstorm office, 3:00 PM.

Directions

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

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 a meeting.

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 Quizzes Sweep Past

The BQC hasn't quite been inactive of late, but it's certainly been out of the public eye, mainly due to the results of our quizzes not being updated here -- entirely the fault of this blogger. There are two quizzes that took place recently that went unreported. Here are the brief reports:

On January 19, when our designated quizmaster for the day failed to turn up, Rajiv Rai and Amit Pandeya conducted half a quiz each. They were also in the winning team. How's that, you ask? Well, each took part in the half of the quiz that he did not conduct, instead of the other. Amit excelled in the second half of the quiz, which Rajiv conducted.

Sadly, the scoresheet mysteriously went missing, but here are the results as we can reproduce them:

1st Rajiv Rai, Amit Pandeya, Souvik Basu and X, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Ajith Prabhakar and Mukund Krishnan, 3rd Sumant Srivathsan, Ameya Samant and Kishalaya Bhattacharjee

On February 3, Pradeep Ramarathnam and Arun Srinivas conducted half a quiz each -- and took part in the half they didn't conduct. The results:

1st with 25 points
AP Alagarsamy
Ajith Prabhakar
Devang Ghia

2nd with 24 points
Govind Grewal
Souvik Basu
Kedar Sastry

3rd with 22 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sarat Rao
Brian D'Souza
Pradeep Ramarathnam

4th with 18 points
Amit Varma
Dhananjay Shettigar
Francis Rodrigues

5th with 14 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Anand Sivasankar
Ameya Samant
Sriram Krishnan

6th with 5 points
Prasann Potdar
Kartik R
Sushil Menon

Our league table functions thus: The members of the team coming first get 10 points, the runners up get 7, and the team coming third gets 4. The standings:

BQC Season Two Standings (from 21 quizzes, as of February 3, 2007)

116.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 15 quizzes)

78 points
Rishi Iyengar (17)

69 points
Amit Varma (18)

64 points
Sumant Srivathsan (17)

62 points
Prasann Potdar (15)

59 points
Ajith Prabhakar (16)

58.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (18)

52 points
Kedar Sastry (14)

48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)

47.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (15)

47 points
Govind Grewal (16)

40 points
Ameya Samant (17)

38 points
Amit Pandeya (11)

37.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (10)

35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)

34.5 points
Devang Ghia (19)
Souvik Basu (?)

33 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (13)

28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Anand Sivasankar (16)

24 points
Kartik Srivatsa (5)

22 points
Sarat Rao (?)

20 points
Shambhu Shankar (?)

18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)

17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)

16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (11)

14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)

11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Atulya Bharadwaj (2)

10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (3)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Sameer Nair (2)
Movin Miranda (1)

8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (10)

7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
Devangshu Datta (1)

4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (7)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (3)
Kishalaya Bhattacharjee (1)
Brian D'Souza (1)

The next quiz will be conducted on February 17 by Ajith Prabhakar and Udatta Duarah.

We're quizzing again!

There's a quiz tomorrow at 3pm. Details:

Time: 3pm, Sunday, February 3 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmasters: Pradeep Ramarathnam and Arun Srinivas
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)

The report of the last quiz, conducted by Amit Pandeya and Rajiv Rai after a no-show by the QM, hasn't yet gone up because, um, some particulars have been lost. We'll compile those details again tomorrow and both reports will appear together. Apologies if anyone has suffered material losses because of this.