On 6 March, 2011, the BQC and IIT Bombay hosted the inaugural Bombay Open quizzes, a day-long event with up to four quizzes. We'd like to thank IIT-B and its students for support with:
In the absence of formal corporate sponsorship, it's wonderful that these guys can open up their wallets to host an event of this nature. Particularly when they're giving up a significant amount of time to go with their financial contributions. Many thanks, gentlemen, and here's hoping we can set a trend with benefactors growing in strength.
- the venue - a new, large and comfortable lecture hall;
- printing posters and directions;
- audio-visual equipment, including the buzzers which were used in all quizzes;
- research for the Open Sports and General quizzes; and
- a generous number of student participants in all quizzes.
- Anand Sivashankar, Anannya Deb and Atul Mathew, for contributing Rs. 5,000 each towards prizes, particularly for the Sports Quiz;
- Rajiv Rai, for contributing Rs. 12,000 towards prizes and a dozen other expenses; and
- Vibhendu Tewari, for not asking for Rs. 7,000 back from the BQC for earlier expenses.
In the absence of formal corporate sponsorship, it's wonderful that these guys can open up their wallets to host an event of this nature. Particularly when they're giving up a significant amount of time to go with their financial contributions. Many thanks, gentlemen, and here's hoping we can set a trend with benefactors growing in strength.
