Quiz No. 5 of the season took place on Sunday, June 8, and was conducted by Abhishek Nagaraj. Aadisht Khanna and Ajith Prabhakar stormed to a narrow win over Kaustubh Chakravarty, Pradeep Ramarathnam and Mukund Krishnan. The quiz was entertaining in various ways, but a last question mix-up caused much confusion. It was a multi-part question with many +15s and -10s and -5s and so on, but after much activity, the question was scrapped. The positions of the teams had changed because of the question, but its scrapping enabled Aadisht to end up in first and Rajiv's team to take third place.
Quiz no. 6 took place on Sunday, June 22, and was conducted by Ameya Samant, with Amit Pandeya shooting 18 questions at the end as Ameya took his place as a participant. Both parts of the quiz had plenty of excellent fundas on India, a feature sometimes missing from BQC quizzes. The quiz was won handily by a team consisting of me (Amit Varma), Vibhendu Tiwari, Ananya Deb and Kedar Sastry. Mukund Sridhar, Udatta Duarah and the toggling combo of Ameya and Amit Pandeya pipped Rajiv's team to second place by half a point.
Now, very quickly, the results, followed by the BQC Season Three standings.
BQC Quiz 5
First: Aadisht Khanna and Ajith Prabhakar.
Second: Kaustubh Chakravarty, Pradeep Ramarathnam and Mukund Krishnan.
Third: Rajiv Rai, Anand Sivasankar.
Fourth: Ananya Deb, Kedar Sastry and Nrupal Chaudhari
Fifth: Mukund Sridhar, Sarat Rao and Naveen Unni
Sixth: Amit Varma, Amit Pandeya and Dhananjay Shettigar
Seventh: Udatta Duarah, Ameya Samant and Francis Rodrigues
Eighth: Sumant Srivathsan, Devang Ghia and Sumit Roy
And now for our latest quiz:
BQC Quiz 6
First: Amit Varma, Vibhendu Tiwari, Ananya Deb and Kedar Sastry
Second: Mukund Sridhar, Udatta Duarah and Amit Pandeya/Ameya Samant
Third: Rajiv Rai, Brian D'Souza and Akanksha Mohan
Fourth: Arun Srikumar, Nrupal Chaudhari and Francis Rodrigues
Fifth: Govind Grewal, Mukund Krishnan and Rahul Bhaskar
Sixth: Pradeep Ramarathnam, Devang Ghia, Ajay Ravindran and Sumit Roy
Seventh: Sumant Srivathsan, Souvik Basu and Shiv Anant Tayal
Eighth: Aadisht Khanna, Dhananjay Shettigar and Gautam Bastian
Points for the league table are given as follows: Each member of the winning team gets 10 points, each runner up gets 7, and members of the team coming third get 4 each. If second and third are tied, then 5.5. Here are the standings:
BQC Season three Standings (from six quizzes, as of June 22, 2008)
27 points
Amit Varma (from 6 quizzes)
Sumant Srivathsan (6)
25.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (4)
25 points
Rajiv Rai (4)
24 points
Kedar Sastry (6)
20 points
Govind Grewal (5)
19.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (5)
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar (3)
Mahesh Murthy (2)
16.5 points
Amit Pandeya (6)
15.5 points
Ananya Deb (4)
14 points
Ajith Prabhakar (5)
Udatta Duarah (5)
Vibhendu Tiwari (4)
11 points
Ameya Samant (4)
10 points
Aadisht Khanna (2)
Mitul Kodali (2)
Sandeep Rajpurohit (4)
Sandip Sen (1)
Shrikant Narasimhan (1)
8 Points
Anand Sivasankar (4)
Brian D'Souza (4)
S Balakrishnan (3)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (2)
7 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Kaushtubh Chakravarti (1)
Mukund Krishnan (2)
Mukund Sridhar (3)
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan (2)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
V Sreeharsha (1)
5.5 points
Janardhan R (1)
Leo Mirani (1)
Nrupal Chaudhari (3)
Prasann Potdar (1)
4 points
Akanksha Mohan (1)
The next quiz will be conducted by Devang Ghia on Sunday, July 6. That will also be the day of the Wimbledon final. Will Roger Federer storm back to the top?