Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Ke Baap Hai?

Tho phir Shah Rukh ko maariye goli, aur aa jaayiye BQC ke quiz mein, R-R-R-R-Rajiv Rrrai ke saath. The second quiz of the 2008 season takes place tomorrow. Details:

When: 3:00 PM, Sunday, April 27, 2008. (Be there by 2.45 please.)

Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai.

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.

The results of the previous quiz are here. Newcomers are welcome to our quizzes. Teams are formed at the venue by drawing lots, so don't worry about turning up alone.

Rishi Iyengar zooms off the blocks

League champion Rajiv Rai was absent for the first BQC quiz of the 2008 season, held on April 13, but there was no dearth of quality quizzing. Samrat Sengupta, the quizmaster for the day, ran us through a largely workable quiz , and Rishi Iyengar, last year's overall runner-up, zoomed to first place. Vibhendu Tiwari and S Balakrishnan's team took an early lead, after which my team, with Sumant Srivathsan in it, led till about the halfway point, when the special topics round gave Rishi and gang the momentum to streak ahead. Good fun to begin the season.

The results:

1st with 56 points
Rishi Iyengar
Govind Grewal
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Mitul Kodoli

2nd with 50 points
Amit Varma
Sumant Srivathsan
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Ajay Ravindran

3rd with 48 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
S Balakrishnan
Sireesh Talluri Rao
Brian D'Souza

4th with 45 points
Anand Sivasankar
Srinath TB
Vidya Kumar
Anand Satyan

Joint 5th-6th with 42 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Amit Pandeya
Devang Ghia
Saurabh Garg

Arvind Krishnaswamy
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Abilin Mukherjee
Francis Rodrigues

7 with 41 points
Sarat Rao
Avinash Mudaliar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Abad Eh*

8th with 26 points
Sriram Krishnan
Sritanu Chakrabarti
Aditya Agarwal
Neelabh
Kedar Sastry

(*Not sure about one name, wasn't legible in the team list I received. Do correct me...)

The people coming first get 10 points each in the league table, while the second-placed quizzers get 7 each and the third placed guys get 4 each. So those are the league standings. The next quiz is conducted this Sunday, April 27, by Rajiv Rai. More details will follow here.

Back to Square One

The phrase comes from radio commentary on football matches, as the old chestnut tells us (and which we hopefully eliminate from our quizzes by using it in blog posts).

Samrat Sengupta will kick us off on a brand new season with a quiz that he conducted at the BCQC in Pune (and coincided with our own season-ender). Much fun can be anticipated, given past experiences.

As always, details and directions below:

When: 3:00 PM, Sunday, April 13, 2008

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.