In a shocking violation of human rights, Samrat Sengupta pitilessly interrogated the members of the BQC on October 21, 2007. The UN condemned the incident and deputed a resentful Thor to head the peacekeeping taskforce once the UN Security Council and the Norse Gods stop squabbling and get Ragnarok over with. The UN Human Rights Committee expressed "grave concern" over questions linking a torch, a dynamo, red-bearded king and a marine mammal. "He just kept smiling", a survivor said through pain-bleared eyes. "He kept smiling, but he didn't stop, he just didn't stop. He even threatened us with a History of the American People. All five volumes of it!"
Amit Varma, a well- known user of candlesticks and quiz survivor, recalls, "Sumant, the BQC....treasurer succumbed quickly and told on his comrades, cheerfully betraying them and leading throughout the quiz."
Other eyewitness accounts speak of S. Balakrishnan. "Bala just took everything Samrat had to offer and then some", said Prasann Potdar, "He skillfully avoided the traps set for him by Sengupta."
The incident provoked an immediate response from administrations across the globe, with Gordon Brown, High Chancellor of Britain, countering rumours that the state-sponsored NHS had anything to do with the state of Samrat's teeth. "We firmly condemn all such instances of unauthorized human rights violations. There is also absolutely no substance to the rumour that the NHS actually works and was responsible in any way for Samrat Sengupta's teeth."
The list of survivors is published below.
1st with 51 points
Sumanth Srivathsan
Udatta Duarah
Kedar Shastry
Hansraj Singh
2nd with 44.5 points
Amit Varma
Prasann Potdar
S Balakrishnan
Nrupal Choudhari
3rd with 44 points
AP Alagarsamy
Govind Grewal
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Tied 4th with 37 points
Rishi Iyengar
Meghashyam Shirodkar
Praveen Mohan
Ajith Prabhakar
Souvik Basu
A Subba Reddy
Suchintan Chatterjee
6th with 31 points
Ashwan Lewis
Vibhendu Tiwari
Dhananjay Shettigar
Francis Rodrigues
7th with 26 points
Ameya Samant
Mukund Krishnan
Devang Ghia
8th with 25.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Avinash Mudaliar
Shambhu Shankar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
And the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 13 quizzes, as of October 21, 2007)
79.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 10 quizzes)
55 points
Prasann Potdar (9)
52 points
Amit Varma (10)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (10)
37 points
Sumant Srivathsan (9)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (9)
32 points
AP Alagarsamy (10)
30 points
Govind Grewal (10)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (9)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (9)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (6)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (10)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (11)
Vibhendu Tiwari (11)
20.5 points
Ameya Samant (11)
18 points
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
15 points
Devang Ghia (11)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (4)
Udatta Duarah (4)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Avinash Mudaliar (7)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (1)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (8)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (4)
1 point
Souvik Basu (?)
Friday, November 02, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Thor and the Young Indian Lad
There is a famous legend about how Thor was once resting on a mountaintop when a Young Indian Lad came up to him.
"Young Indian Lad," yelled Thor. "You are disturbing my repose! Leave before I unleash a storm upon you."
Young Indian Lad smiled. "I am not scared of your thunder, Crippled Thor," he said, "for I have thunder of my own that you cannot counter."
Thor was taking aback. "What the fug, Young Indian Lad?" he said. "Nobody speaks to me like that. What thunder can you possibly possess that can counter mine?"
Young Indian Lad smiled again. (Young Indian Lad smiles a lot.) "Come to the Pinstorm office on Sunday, October 21," he said, "and you will find out."
Centuries have passed, and that day has almost arrived. This Sunday, Young Indian Lad, now a Young MBA Man, Samrat Sengupta will unleash his thunder upon a select few brave warriors -- and perhaps an old God watching from a corner. Will you be there?
Time: 3pm, Sunday, October 21 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Samrat Sengupta
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The current league standings are here.
"Young Indian Lad," yelled Thor. "You are disturbing my repose! Leave before I unleash a storm upon you."
Young Indian Lad smiled. "I am not scared of your thunder, Crippled Thor," he said, "for I have thunder of my own that you cannot counter."
Thor was taking aback. "What the fug, Young Indian Lad?" he said. "Nobody speaks to me like that. What thunder can you possibly possess that can counter mine?"
Young Indian Lad smiled again. (Young Indian Lad smiles a lot.) "Come to the Pinstorm office on Sunday, October 21," he said, "and you will find out."
Centuries have passed, and that day has almost arrived. This Sunday, Young Indian Lad, now a Young MBA Man, Samrat Sengupta will unleash his thunder upon a select few brave warriors -- and perhaps an old God watching from a corner. Will you be there?
Time: 3pm, Sunday, October 21 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Samrat Sengupta
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The current league standings are here.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Who can stop Mr Rai?
No one. Rajiv Rai stormed to yet another win in the latest BQC quiz, conducted yesterday by AP Alagarsamy. This time, he was a tease. His team was behind throughout the quiz, and just when the result seemed a foregone conclusion, he cracked the last three questions to take home maximum points. It was almost like he said to the others, "You can dream, you can dream. But in the end, I'll wake you up." Drat.
The team I was in, with Prasann Potdar, Vibhendu Tiwari and Sarat Rao, was the one jostled awake. We took an early lead, extended it, dreamed of victory speeches, and then had the champagne gently taken away from us. This was my fifth second place of the season. Pah.
Sumant Srivathsan's team ended up third, a position which was within everyone's reach in a well-contested quiz. The questions were mostly workoutable. A Spanish instrument named after an almond because of its shape? Mandolin. A kind of gem whose name is today used as meaning a model of excellence? Paragon. And so on.
The results:
1st with 30 points
Rajiv Rai
Sritanu Chakravarty
Sowmya Ramaswamy
2nd with 27.5 points
Amit Varma
Prasann Potdar
Vibhendu Tiwari
Sarat Rao
3rd with 20 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Mukund Krishnan
Chitra Raghunath
Kartik R
4th with 19.5 points
S Balakrishnan
Ameya Samant
Arnab Bhattacharya
Dhritiman Borkakoti
5th with 19 points
Kartik Srivatsa
Rahul Bhaskar
Suchintan Chatterjee
Kedar Shastry
6th with 17 points
Anand Sivasankar
Samrat Sengupta
Devang Ghia
Abilil Mukherjee
7th with 16 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Ravi Venkatesh
Francis Rodrigues
8th with 14.5 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Udatta Duarah
Prateek Chaturvedi
Sarayu Natarajan
And now, the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 12 quizzes, as of October 14, 2007)
79.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 10 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
Prasann Potdar (8)
47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (9)
45 points
Amit Varma (9)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (9)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
AP Alagarsamy (9)
S Balakrishnan (8)
27 points
Sumant Srivathsan (8)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (5)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (10)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (10)
Vibhendu Tiwari (10)
20.5 points
Ameya Samant (10)
18 points
Kedar Shastry (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (9)
15 points
Devang Ghia (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (4)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
Avinash Mudaliar (6)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (1)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (7)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (3)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
1 point
Souvik Basu (?)
The next quiz will be conducted by Samrat Sengupta on October 21. Watch this space for more details.
The team I was in, with Prasann Potdar, Vibhendu Tiwari and Sarat Rao, was the one jostled awake. We took an early lead, extended it, dreamed of victory speeches, and then had the champagne gently taken away from us. This was my fifth second place of the season. Pah.
Sumant Srivathsan's team ended up third, a position which was within everyone's reach in a well-contested quiz. The questions were mostly workoutable. A Spanish instrument named after an almond because of its shape? Mandolin. A kind of gem whose name is today used as meaning a model of excellence? Paragon. And so on.
The results:
1st with 30 points
Rajiv Rai
Sritanu Chakravarty
Sowmya Ramaswamy
2nd with 27.5 points
Amit Varma
Prasann Potdar
Vibhendu Tiwari
Sarat Rao
3rd with 20 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Mukund Krishnan
Chitra Raghunath
Kartik R
4th with 19.5 points
S Balakrishnan
Ameya Samant
Arnab Bhattacharya
Dhritiman Borkakoti
5th with 19 points
Kartik Srivatsa
Rahul Bhaskar
Suchintan Chatterjee
Kedar Shastry
6th with 17 points
Anand Sivasankar
Samrat Sengupta
Devang Ghia
Abilil Mukherjee
7th with 16 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Ravi Venkatesh
Francis Rodrigues
8th with 14.5 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Udatta Duarah
Prateek Chaturvedi
Sarayu Natarajan
And now, the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 12 quizzes, as of October 14, 2007)
79.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 10 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
Prasann Potdar (8)
47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (9)
45 points
Amit Varma (9)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (9)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
AP Alagarsamy (9)
S Balakrishnan (8)
27 points
Sumant Srivathsan (8)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (5)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (10)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (10)
Vibhendu Tiwari (10)
20.5 points
Ameya Samant (10)
18 points
Kedar Shastry (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (9)
15 points
Devang Ghia (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (4)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
Avinash Mudaliar (6)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (1)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (7)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (3)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
1 point
Souvik Basu (?)
The next quiz will be conducted by Samrat Sengupta on October 21. Watch this space for more details.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Nobody messes with AP Alagarsamy
Alagar hosts the next BQC quiz, and anyone who gets a question wrong will be beheaded. Are you up to the challenge? Come on, then!
Time: 3pm, Sunday, October 14 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: AP Alagarsamy
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The latest league standings, and a report of the last quiz, are here. See, we have so much fun!
Time: 3pm, Sunday, October 14 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: AP Alagarsamy
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The latest league standings, and a report of the last quiz, are here. See, we have so much fun!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A Social(ist) Experiment
That was merely one of several descriptions that Anand Sivashankar's (and absentee QM Vibhendu Tewari's) quiz drew from the small group of participants that did show up on a rainy Sunday afternoon. A late notification email to the group could have been the main culprit (and we'll do our best to be more timely about such matters).
As Anand explained in his intro, his rather original direct-and-passing system was designed to ensure that all teams had an equal opportunity to answer questions. Whether this intention was met, we shall see, but it did result in a very tight quiz indeed, with the lead changing hands amongst at least four of the eight teams.
Teams answered questions in increasing order of their points tally after each question, with tied teams taking turns in clockwise or anti-clockwise patterns. With this system in place, Anand proceeded to ask a number of excellent questions, something which could easily have been missed amidst the novel system which contained them.
New system or old, some things never change, and Rajiv Rai, with Ravi Venkatesh in tow (and solo for the last few questions), won the day. Again. Prasann Potdar, Saurav and Kartik Ramadass fended off four other teams for second place, leaving them tied for third place.
The Results:
First Place - 14 Points
Rajiv Rai
Ravi Venkatesh
Second Place - 13 Points
Prasann Potdar
Kartik Ramadass
Saurav
Third Place (tied) - 12 Points
Ameya Samant
Avinash Mudaliar
Sarat Rao
Rishi Iyengar
Sumant Srivathsan
Souvik Basu
S Balakrishnan
Amit Pandeya
Francis Rodrigues
Mukund Krishnan
Seventh Place (tied) - 11 Points
Ajith Prabhakar
Dhananjay Shettigar
AP Alagarsamy
Devang Ghia
Kedar Sastry
BQC Season Two Standings (from 11 quizzes, as of September 23, 2007)
69.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 9 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (9)
41 points
Prasann Potdar (7)
38 points
Amit Varma (8)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (8)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
AP Alagarsamy (9)
S Balakrishnan (7)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (9)
Kartik Srivatsa (4)
23 points
Sumant Srivathsan (7)
22.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (4)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (9)
20.5 points
Ameya Samant (9)
18 points
Kedar Shastry (7)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (5)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (9)
15 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (9)
Devang Ghia (9)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (3)
Kartik R (?)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
Avinash Mudaliar (6)
Sarat Rao (?)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (2)
Saurav (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (6)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (2)
1 point
Souvik Basu
As Anand explained in his intro, his rather original direct-and-passing system was designed to ensure that all teams had an equal opportunity to answer questions. Whether this intention was met, we shall see, but it did result in a very tight quiz indeed, with the lead changing hands amongst at least four of the eight teams.
Teams answered questions in increasing order of their points tally after each question, with tied teams taking turns in clockwise or anti-clockwise patterns. With this system in place, Anand proceeded to ask a number of excellent questions, something which could easily have been missed amidst the novel system which contained them.
New system or old, some things never change, and Rajiv Rai, with Ravi Venkatesh in tow (and solo for the last few questions), won the day. Again. Prasann Potdar, Saurav and Kartik Ramadass fended off four other teams for second place, leaving them tied for third place.
The Results:
First Place - 14 Points
Rajiv Rai
Ravi Venkatesh
Second Place - 13 Points
Prasann Potdar
Kartik Ramadass
Saurav
Third Place (tied) - 12 Points
Ameya Samant
Avinash Mudaliar
Sarat Rao
Rishi Iyengar
Sumant Srivathsan
Souvik Basu
S Balakrishnan
Amit Pandeya
Francis Rodrigues
Mukund Krishnan
Seventh Place (tied) - 11 Points
Ajith Prabhakar
Dhananjay Shettigar
AP Alagarsamy
Devang Ghia
Kedar Sastry
BQC Season Two Standings (from 11 quizzes, as of September 23, 2007)
69.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 9 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
47.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (9)
41 points
Prasann Potdar (7)
38 points
Amit Varma (8)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (8)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
AP Alagarsamy (9)
S Balakrishnan (7)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (9)
Kartik Srivatsa (4)
23 points
Sumant Srivathsan (7)
22.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (4)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (9)
20.5 points
Ameya Samant (9)
18 points
Kedar Shastry (7)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (5)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (9)
15 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (9)
Devang Ghia (9)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (3)
Kartik R (?)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
Avinash Mudaliar (6)
Sarat Rao (?)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (2)
Saurav (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (6)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (2)
1 point
Souvik Basu
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Barbecue Nation
Come prepared for a grilling.
Time: 3pm, Sunday, September 2 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Anand Sivashankar (with questions from Vibhendu Tewari)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
Time: 3pm, Sunday, September 2 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Anand Sivashankar (with questions from Vibhendu Tewari)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
Sunday, September 02, 2007
The dark horse uses fairness cream
Just when the leaderboard seemed to be a one-horse race, Ashwan Lewis galloped into the frame of the Bombay Quiz Club. Ashwan, together with Mukund Krishnan, Sarat Rao and Raghu, romped to an emphatic win in the 10th BQC quiz of the season to storm back up to second place in the standings. Rishi Iyengar, the man he displaced, put in a strong showing to come second and slip to third. (Read slowly; this isn't easy.) And Rajiv Rai, shock horror calumny, finished fourth, thus remaining stationary in the BQC League points tally, albeit still the leader by a fair (but diminishing) margin.
Dhananjay Shettigar was the quizmaster, and asked around 70 questions in a superbly balanced quiz. There were two questions involving sado-masochism, two involving rape, but do not go by that, for in tabloid mode I report only the sensational. The quiz was enjoyed by all, and would have passed as family entertainment had a family cared to show up. Ha!
The results:
1st with 36 points
Ashwan Lewis
Mukund Krishnan
Sarat Rao
Raghu
2nd with 32.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
Prasann Potdar
Govind Grewal
Kartik R
3rd with 27 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Meghashyam Shirodkar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
4th with 25.5 points
Rajiv Rai
Avinash Mudaliar
Sireesh Rao
5th with 22.5 points
Anand Sivasankar
Udatta Duarah
Ajith Prabhakar
6th with 19.5 points
Mahesh Murthy
Ameya Samant
Kedar Shastry
7th with 18.5 points
Amit Varma
Vibhendu Tiwari
Shambhu Shankar
Devang Ghia
8th with 17 points
AP Alagarsamy
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Francis Rodrigues
And now for the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 10 quizzes, as of September 2, 2007)
59.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 8 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
46.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (8)
38 points
Amit Varma (8)
34 points
Prasann Potdar (6)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (8)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
27 points
AP Alagarsamy (8)
S Balakrishnan (6)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (8)
Anand Sivasankar (9)
Kartik Srivatsa (4)
22.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (3)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (8)
Sumant Srivathsan (6)
19.5 points
Ameya Samant (8)
17 points
Kedar Shastry (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (8)
15 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (9)
14 points
Devang Ghia (8)
Samrat Sengupta (3)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Avinash Mudaliar (5)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Sarat Rao (?)
Raghu (?)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Ravi Venkatesh (4)
Rahul Bhaskar (2)
Kartik R (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (5)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (2)
The next quiz will be conducted on September 23. Watch this blog for more details.
Dhananjay Shettigar was the quizmaster, and asked around 70 questions in a superbly balanced quiz. There were two questions involving sado-masochism, two involving rape, but do not go by that, for in tabloid mode I report only the sensational. The quiz was enjoyed by all, and would have passed as family entertainment had a family cared to show up. Ha!
The results:
1st with 36 points
Ashwan Lewis
Mukund Krishnan
Sarat Rao
Raghu
2nd with 32.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
Prasann Potdar
Govind Grewal
Kartik R
3rd with 27 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Meghashyam Shirodkar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
4th with 25.5 points
Rajiv Rai
Avinash Mudaliar
Sireesh Rao
5th with 22.5 points
Anand Sivasankar
Udatta Duarah
Ajith Prabhakar
6th with 19.5 points
Mahesh Murthy
Ameya Samant
Kedar Shastry
7th with 18.5 points
Amit Varma
Vibhendu Tiwari
Shambhu Shankar
Devang Ghia
8th with 17 points
AP Alagarsamy
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Francis Rodrigues
And now for the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 10 quizzes, as of September 2, 2007)
59.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 8 quizzes)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (7)
46.5 points
Rishi Iyengar (8)
38 points
Amit Varma (8)
34 points
Prasann Potdar (6)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (8)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
27 points
AP Alagarsamy (8)
S Balakrishnan (6)
26 points
Govind Grewal (9)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (8)
Anand Sivasankar (9)
Kartik Srivatsa (4)
22.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (3)
22 points
Ajith Prabhakar (8)
Sumant Srivathsan (6)
19.5 points
Ameya Samant (8)
17 points
Kedar Shastry (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (8)
15 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (9)
14 points
Devang Ghia (8)
Samrat Sengupta (3)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (3)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (2)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (5)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Avinash Mudaliar (5)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Sarat Rao (?)
Raghu (?)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Ravi Venkatesh (4)
Rahul Bhaskar (2)
Kartik R (?)
4 points
Francis Rodrigues (5)
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (5)
Sushant Raut (5)
Udatta Duarah (2)
The next quiz will be conducted on September 23. Watch this blog for more details.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Dhananjay Shettigar will ask...
... You will answer! There's a BQC quiz tomorrow -- do you have the cojones to take part? Huh? Huh?
Time: 3pm, Sunday, September 2 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Dhananjay Shettigar
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The latest league standings, and a report for the last quiz, are here. Are you missing all the fun?
Time: 3pm, Sunday, September 2 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Dhananjay Shettigar
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
The latest league standings, and a report for the last quiz, are here. Are you missing all the fun?
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