Rajiv Rai topped the league table after the final BQC quiz of its third season, winning by a whopping margin of 47 points over his open-quiz team-mate, Sumant Srivathsan. Their third man, Vibhendu Tiwari, finished the season with a strong win to take third place in the league standings. After that we were all bunched up like college kids in a moshpit, headbanging furiously as these three strummed their mojo.
No, well, really, this season, more than the last two, the competition was severe. BQC's quizzing depth can now safely be compared to any other major city, and on a given day there are 10 to 15 people capable of kicking serious ass and winning a quiz on their own. There was much action in the second half of this season, especially, when some new and some improved quizzers put in a seriously strong show. That means Season 4 will be tight. We'll all be in the moshpit.
The 25th and final quiz of the season was a grand affair conducted by Anannya Deb. There were more than 100 questions, and many local Bombay fundas. A good time was had by all , and it was a fitting way to end the season.
And so, the results of this last quiz:
1st place Vibhendu Tiwari, Goving Grewal, Srikant Narasimhan.
2nd place Rajiv Rai, Sidharth Vij + 1
3rd place (tied) Sumant Srivathsan, Anand Sivasankar, Vijay Shankar
3rd place (tied) Ajith Prabhakar, Kaustuv Gupta, Devang Ghia
And now, will a roll of trumpets and a tray of turnips, the results of season 3!
BQC Season three Standings (from 25 quizzes, as of March 31, 2009)
131 points
Rajiv Rai
84 points
Sumant Srivathsan
71 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
58 points
Udatta Duarah
54.5 points
Amit Varma
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Atul Mathew
47 points
Ajith Prabhakar
46 points
Kaustuv Gupta
45 points
Sumit Roy
44 points
Govind Grewal
42.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
41.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
40 points
Ameya Samant
Sajith Pai
39 points
Atulya Bharadwaj
37 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shrikant Narasimhan
36 points
Souvik Basu
35 points
Sandip Sen
34 points
Bikash Mohapatra
33.5 points
Anannya Deb
32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
32 points
Brian D'Souza
S Balakrishnan
31 points
Anand Sivasankar
27 points
Mahesh Murthy
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
26 points
Vijay Shankar
24 points
Kedar Sastry
22 points
Amit Pandeya
21.5 points
Sarat Rao
18 points
Shiv Anant Tayal
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Devang Ghia
Mukund Sridhar
Rahul Gaur
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
14 points
Akanksha Mathur
Mitul Kodali
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11 points
Ravi Venkatesh
10 points
Amit Sharma
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Meher Sridhar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Roshith
Shreya
Sidharth Vij
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Barun Chakrabarti
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu
2 points
Shambhu Shankar
More updates on Season 4 will follow on this blog. Watch this space.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
A Grand Ending to a Great Season
On March 22, 2009, the third season of the Bombay Quiz Club draws to a close. Anannya Deb will conduct. The league standings are here, but there isn't really much at stake -- unless you're speaking of abstract notions like pride, and honour, and the respect of your beer-sozzled peers. Come and partake. The details:
QM: Anannya Deb
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).
QM: Anannya Deb
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: 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 the quiz.
Five-in-one quiz report
Right, after immense and inexcusable tardiness, this post combines five quiz reports in one. Four of them are regular BQC quizzes, and one is a lit quiz conducted for the Kala Ghoda fest. In BQC quizzes, members of the top three teams get 10, 7 and 4 points respectively. In open quizzes with elims and finals, the non-placing finalists get two points each.
In the delay in posting these results, some records were damaged (or maliciously done away with; who can tell?). As a result, some results are incomplete, and we shall fill them in later as news filters in. Until then, here's what we have:
BQC Jan 25 -- conducted by Souvik Basu
1st Amit Varma, Sajith Pai, Udatta Duarah + 1, 2nd Unknown as of now, 3rd Sumit Roy, Kaustuv Gupta + 2
BQC Feb 8 -- conducted by Mukund Sridhar and Atulya Bharadwaj
1st Pradeep Ramarathnam, Souvik Basu, Sarat Rao, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Shiv Anant Tayal, Bikash Mohapatra, 3rd Sumit Roy, Govind Grewal, Arvind Krishnaswamy
Kala Ghoda Lit quiz -- conducted by Sumant Srivathsan
1st Mahesh Murthy and S Balakrishnan, 2nd Anand Sivasankar and Ajith Prabhakar, 3rd Girish Shahane + 1, Other finalists Govind Grewal and Shambhu Shankar, Amit Varma and Arvind Krishnaswamy.
BQC Feb 22 -- conducted by Pradeep Ramarathnam and Atul Mathew
1st Rajiv Rai, Atulya Bharadwaj, Rohit Ajitkumar, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Brian D'Souza, Roshith, 3rd (tied) Sumant Srivathsan, Vijay Shankar + 1, 3rd (tied) Ajith Prabhakar, Devang Ghia, Kaustuv Gupta
BQC March 8 -- conducted by Amit Varma
1st Sumant Srivathsan, Kaustuv Gupta, Bikash Mohapatra, 2nd Rajiv Rai, Shiv Anant Tayal, Meher Sridhar, Rahul Gaur, 3rd Anannya Deb, Atulya Bharadwaj, Barun Chakravarti.
And now for the league standings:
BQC Season three Standings (from 24 quizzes, as of March 8, 2009)
124 points
Rajiv Rai
82 points
Sumant Srivathsan
61 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
58 points
Udatta Duarah
54.5 points
Amit Varma
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Atul Mathew
45 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Sumit Roy
44 points
Kaustuv Gupta
42.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
41.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
40 points
Ameya Samant
Sajith Pai
39 points
Atulya Bharadwaj
37 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
36 points
Souvik Basu
35 points
Sandip Sen
34 points
Bikash Mohapatra
Govind Grewal
33.5 points
Anannya Deb
32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
32 points
Brian D'Souza
S Balakrishnan
29 points
Anand Sivasankar
27 points
Mahesh Murthy
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
24 points
Kedar Sastry
Vijay Shankar
22 points
Amit Pandeya
21.5 points
Sarat Rao
18 points
Shiv Anant Tayal
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Mukund Sridhar
Rahul Gaur
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
15 points
Devang Ghia
14 points
Akanksha Mathur
Mitul Kodali
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11 points
Ravi Venkatesh
10 points
Amit Sharma
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Meher Sridhar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Roshith
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Barun Chakrabarti
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu
2 points
Shambhu Shankar
The last quiz of this BQC season will be conducted by Anannya Deb on Sunday, March 22. More details on this blog in a few minutes.
In the delay in posting these results, some records were damaged (or maliciously done away with; who can tell?). As a result, some results are incomplete, and we shall fill them in later as news filters in. Until then, here's what we have:
BQC Jan 25 -- conducted by Souvik Basu
1st Amit Varma, Sajith Pai, Udatta Duarah + 1, 2nd Unknown as of now, 3rd Sumit Roy, Kaustuv Gupta + 2
BQC Feb 8 -- conducted by Mukund Sridhar and Atulya Bharadwaj
1st Pradeep Ramarathnam, Souvik Basu, Sarat Rao, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Shiv Anant Tayal, Bikash Mohapatra, 3rd Sumit Roy, Govind Grewal, Arvind Krishnaswamy
Kala Ghoda Lit quiz -- conducted by Sumant Srivathsan
1st Mahesh Murthy and S Balakrishnan, 2nd Anand Sivasankar and Ajith Prabhakar, 3rd Girish Shahane + 1, Other finalists Govind Grewal and Shambhu Shankar, Amit Varma and Arvind Krishnaswamy.
BQC Feb 22 -- conducted by Pradeep Ramarathnam and Atul Mathew
1st Rajiv Rai, Atulya Bharadwaj, Rohit Ajitkumar, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Brian D'Souza, Roshith, 3rd (tied) Sumant Srivathsan, Vijay Shankar + 1, 3rd (tied) Ajith Prabhakar, Devang Ghia, Kaustuv Gupta
BQC March 8 -- conducted by Amit Varma
1st Sumant Srivathsan, Kaustuv Gupta, Bikash Mohapatra, 2nd Rajiv Rai, Shiv Anant Tayal, Meher Sridhar, Rahul Gaur, 3rd Anannya Deb, Atulya Bharadwaj, Barun Chakravarti.
And now for the league standings:
BQC Season three Standings (from 24 quizzes, as of March 8, 2009)
124 points
Rajiv Rai
82 points
Sumant Srivathsan
61 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
58 points
Udatta Duarah
54.5 points
Amit Varma
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Atul Mathew
45 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Sumit Roy
44 points
Kaustuv Gupta
42.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
41.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
40 points
Ameya Samant
Sajith Pai
39 points
Atulya Bharadwaj
37 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
36 points
Souvik Basu
35 points
Sandip Sen
34 points
Bikash Mohapatra
Govind Grewal
33.5 points
Anannya Deb
32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
32 points
Brian D'Souza
S Balakrishnan
29 points
Anand Sivasankar
27 points
Mahesh Murthy
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
24 points
Kedar Sastry
Vijay Shankar
22 points
Amit Pandeya
21.5 points
Sarat Rao
18 points
Shiv Anant Tayal
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Mukund Sridhar
Rahul Gaur
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
15 points
Devang Ghia
14 points
Akanksha Mathur
Mitul Kodali
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11 points
Ravi Venkatesh
10 points
Amit Sharma
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Meher Sridhar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Roshith
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Barun Chakrabarti
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu
2 points
Shambhu Shankar
The last quiz of this BQC season will be conducted by Anannya Deb on Sunday, March 22. More details on this blog in a few minutes.
Friday, March 06, 2009
The March Quiz
There are two more quizzes to go in the BQC's third season, and the penultimate one takes place this Sunday. Details:
QM: Amit Varma
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 8, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).
Yes, I know -- the results of the last four quizzes haven't been published here yet, and I am solely to blame for that. I shall wait till this one is over now and publish the results of all five together. Many apologies for the delay. As for the standings, very briefly, Rajiv Rai has now sealed first place, Sumant Srivathsan has sealed second place, and Vibhendu Tiwari is, I think, half a point ahead of me (Amit Varma) for third. And as I'm not taking part in this next quiz, by virtue of being QM, you can consider that place settled as well. The war is over -- two fun battles remain!
QM: Amit Varma
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 8, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: 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 the quiz.
Yes, I know -- the results of the last four quizzes haven't been published here yet, and I am solely to blame for that. I shall wait till this one is over now and publish the results of all five together. Many apologies for the delay. As for the standings, very briefly, Rajiv Rai has now sealed first place, Sumant Srivathsan has sealed second place, and Vibhendu Tiwari is, I think, half a point ahead of me (Amit Varma) for third. And as I'm not taking part in this next quiz, by virtue of being QM, you can consider that place settled as well. The war is over -- two fun battles remain!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Other S Basu Conducts A Quiz
The 20th quiz of the third BQC season will be conducted this Sunday by Souvik Basu, with a little help from questions by J Ramanand. Given that it's the Republic Day weekend, some of you might have considered leaving the city, taking a break with the family, suchlike.
Ha.
The details are below; keep yourself away if you can.
QM: Souvik Basu
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, January 25, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).
From the West: If you... ah, never mind.
Ha.
The details are below; keep yourself away if you can.
QM: Souvik Basu
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, January 25, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: 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 the quiz.
From the West: If you... ah, never mind.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
David Thrashes Goliaths
The first quiz of 2009 was in jeopardy when the scheduled quizmasters backed out, but Pradeep Ramarathnam saved the day by conducting an old quiz that he had once attended. BQC's third season has entered its last leg, with Rajiv Rai far ahead of everyone else in the league table, and only Sumant Srivathsan even remotely close to him. Would there be a mighty battle between these two in this quiz? There was -- for second place.
Atul Mathew, Sajith Pai and Phani Prasad put together a fantastic show, leading almost from start to finish, to win by a hefty margin. Sumant's team ended up second; Rajiv's team finished third; and while the top places in the league table remain unchanged, we just got yet another demonstration of the immense depth of the BQC.
Here are the results:
1st with 402.5 points
Atul Mathew
Sajith Pai
Phani Prasad
2nd with 375 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Ravi Venkatesh
Francis Rodrigues
3rd with 325 points
Rajiv Rai
Shiv Anant Tayal
Vikas Sahu
Supriyo Saha
4th with 237.5 points
Amit Varma
Atulya Bharadwaj
Vishvesh R
5th with 227 points
Anannya Deb
Sarat Rao
Srikant Narasimhan
Puneet Raj
6th with 175 points
Ameya Samant
Devang Ghia
Srinath Narayan
Amalesh Mishra
7th with 142.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Rahul Gaur
Roshit Mohan
Mukund Krishnan
8th with 135 points
Udatta Duarah
Prasann Potdar
Akanksha Mathur
The league standings, after 19 quizzes of Season 3, stand thus:
BQC Season three Standings (from 19 quizzes, as of January 11, 2009)
107 points
Rajiv Rai
70 points
Sumant Srivathsan
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Atul Mathew
Udatta Duarah
47 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
42.5 points
Amit Varma
Rishi Iyengar
40 points
Ameya Samant
38 points
Ajith Prabhakar
37 points
Sumit Roy
35 points
Sandip Sen
32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
31.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
30 points
Sajith Pai
29.5 points
Anannya Deb
28 points
Govind Grewal
Kaustuv Gupta
27 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
26 points
Souvik Basu
25 points
Atulya B
Brian D'Souza
24 points
Kedar Sastry
22 points
Amit Pandeya
Anand Sivasankar
S Balakrishnan
Vijay Shankar
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Bikash Mohapatra
Mahesh Murthy
Mukund Sridhar
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
14 points
Akanksha Mohan
Mitul Kodali
13 points
Devang Ghia
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11.5 points
Sarat Rao
11 points
Ravi Venkatesh
10 points
Amit Sharma
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rahul Gaur
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Shiv Anant Tayal
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu
The next quiz will be conducted on Sunday, January 25. More details will follow on this blog.
Atul Mathew, Sajith Pai and Phani Prasad put together a fantastic show, leading almost from start to finish, to win by a hefty margin. Sumant's team ended up second; Rajiv's team finished third; and while the top places in the league table remain unchanged, we just got yet another demonstration of the immense depth of the BQC.
Here are the results:
1st with 402.5 points
Atul Mathew
Sajith Pai
Phani Prasad
2nd with 375 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Ravi Venkatesh
Francis Rodrigues
3rd with 325 points
Rajiv Rai
Shiv Anant Tayal
Vikas Sahu
Supriyo Saha
4th with 237.5 points
Amit Varma
Atulya Bharadwaj
Vishvesh R
5th with 227 points
Anannya Deb
Sarat Rao
Srikant Narasimhan
Puneet Raj
6th with 175 points
Ameya Samant
Devang Ghia
Srinath Narayan
Amalesh Mishra
7th with 142.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Rahul Gaur
Roshit Mohan
Mukund Krishnan
8th with 135 points
Udatta Duarah
Prasann Potdar
Akanksha Mathur
The league standings, after 19 quizzes of Season 3, stand thus:
BQC Season three Standings (from 19 quizzes, as of January 11, 2009)
107 points
Rajiv Rai
70 points
Sumant Srivathsan
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Atul Mathew
Udatta Duarah
47 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
42.5 points
Amit Varma
Rishi Iyengar
40 points
Ameya Samant
38 points
Ajith Prabhakar
37 points
Sumit Roy
35 points
Sandip Sen
32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
31.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
30 points
Sajith Pai
29.5 points
Anannya Deb
28 points
Govind Grewal
Kaustuv Gupta
27 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
26 points
Souvik Basu
25 points
Atulya B
Brian D'Souza
24 points
Kedar Sastry
22 points
Amit Pandeya
Anand Sivasankar
S Balakrishnan
Vijay Shankar
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Bikash Mohapatra
Mahesh Murthy
Mukund Sridhar
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
14 points
Akanksha Mohan
Mitul Kodali
13 points
Devang Ghia
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11.5 points
Sarat Rao
11 points
Ravi Venkatesh
10 points
Amit Sharma
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rahul Gaur
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Shiv Anant Tayal
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu
The next quiz will be conducted on Sunday, January 25. More details will follow on this blog.
Friday, January 09, 2009
The First BQC Quiz Of 2009...
... will be conducted by Pradeep Ramarathnam this Sunday, January 11. Our scheduled quizmasters backed out, and Pradeep has kindly stepped into the breach to provide half a quiz. We still need another half, but shall have that sorted out before the quiz begins. The details:
QM: Pradeep Ramarathnam + 1
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, January 11, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).
Newcomers are welcome at BQC quizzes, and do not need to form teams before coming. Teams are normally formed by a draw of lots at the venue itself, and everybody gets to take part. The questions are generally not the boring "you-know-it-or-you-don't" types, but accessible and workoutable ones.
QM: Pradeep Ramarathnam + 1
Time: 3 pm, Sunday, January 11, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)
Venue: 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 the quiz.
Newcomers are welcome at BQC quizzes, and do not need to form teams before coming. Teams are normally formed by a draw of lots at the venue itself, and everybody gets to take part. The questions are generally not the boring "you-know-it-or-you-don't" types, but accessible and workoutable ones.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Jacques Lacan and the sexual act
Arvind Krishnaswamy conducted a quiz for the BQC yesterday, and much activity happened. Jacques Lacan described an orgasm with an equation, Veerappan proposed to Phoolan Devi, Robbie Williams became Peter Gabriel and a pretty female terrorist almost killed Chou En-Lai. Amid all this action, Sumant Srivathsan resumed his winning ways, romping to victory with able team-mates Sandip Sen and Brian D'Souza. Rajiv Rai and his team ended up second. Aadisht Khanna, Pradeep Ramarathnam and Sireesh Rao split third place with Ameya Samant, Devang Ghia and Akanksha Mohan; and Jason Kresja conceded many, many runs.
This was the last BQC quiz of 2008, and scenes of immense mourning followed the quiz, as well as some hedonism. But that must remain confidential.
The results:
1st with 138 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sandip Sen
Brian D'Souza
2nd with 96 points
Rajiv Rai
Atulya Bharadwaj
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Tied 3rd-4th with 68 points
Aadisht Khanna
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao
Ameya Samant
Devang Ghia
Akanksha Mohan
5th with 64 points
Amit Varma
Anil Kothuri
Srikant Narasimhan
6th with 46 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Janardhan R
Bikash Mohapatra
7th with 42 points
Udatta Duarah
Rahul Bhaskar
8th with 26 points
Atul Mathew
Swapnil Patil
And now for the league standings:
BQC Season three Standings (from 18 quizzes, as of December 21, 2008)
103 points
Rajiv Rai
63 points
Sumant Srivathsan
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Udatta Duarah
47 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
42.5 points
Amit Varma
Rishi Iyengar
40 points
Ameya Samant
38 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Atul Mathew
37 points
Sumit Roy
35 points
Sandip Sen
31.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
29.5 points
Anannya Deb
28 points
Govind Grewal
Kaustuv Gupta
27 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
26 points
Souvik Basu
25.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
25 points
Atulya B
Brian D'Souza
24 points
Kedar Sastry
22 points
Amit Pandeya
Anand Sivasankar
S Balakrishnan
Vijay Shankar
20 points
Sajith Pai
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Bikash Mohapatra
Mahesh Murthy
Mukund Sridhar
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
14 points
Akanksha Mohan
Mitul Kodali
13 points
Devang Ghia
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11.5 points
Sarat Rao
10 points
Amit Sharma
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Rahul Gaur
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Ravi Venkatesh
Vijay Chittoor
The next quiz will probably be on January 4, 2009. Watch this space for further updates.
This was the last BQC quiz of 2008, and scenes of immense mourning followed the quiz, as well as some hedonism. But that must remain confidential.
The results:
1st with 138 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sandip Sen
Brian D'Souza
2nd with 96 points
Rajiv Rai
Atulya Bharadwaj
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Tied 3rd-4th with 68 points
Aadisht Khanna
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao
Ameya Samant
Devang Ghia
Akanksha Mohan
5th with 64 points
Amit Varma
Anil Kothuri
Srikant Narasimhan
6th with 46 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Janardhan R
Bikash Mohapatra
7th with 42 points
Udatta Duarah
Rahul Bhaskar
8th with 26 points
Atul Mathew
Swapnil Patil
And now for the league standings:
BQC Season three Standings (from 18 quizzes, as of December 21, 2008)
103 points
Rajiv Rai
63 points
Sumant Srivathsan
53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna
48 points
Udatta Duarah
47 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
42.5 points
Amit Varma
Rishi Iyengar
40 points
Ameya Samant
38 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Atul Mathew
37 points
Sumit Roy
35 points
Sandip Sen
31.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam
29.5 points
Anannya Deb
28 points
Govind Grewal
Kaustuv Gupta
27 points
Rohit Ajitkumar
Shrikant Narasimhan
26.5 points
Prasann Potdar
26 points
Souvik Basu
25.5 points
Francis Rodrigues
25 points
Atulya B
Brian D'Souza
24 points
Kedar Sastry
22 points
Amit Pandeya
Anand Sivasankar
S Balakrishnan
Vijay Shankar
20 points
Sajith Pai
17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Bikash Mohapatra
Mahesh Murthy
Mukund Sridhar
15.5 points
Akash Bansal
14 points
Akanksha Mohan
Mitul Kodali
13 points
Devang Ghia
12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao
11.5 points
Sarat Rao
10 points
Amit Sharma
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Rahul Gaur
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal
9 points
Mukund Krishnan
8 Points
Manish Mishra
7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Shreya
V Sreeharsha
5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi
4 points
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Ravi Venkatesh
Vijay Chittoor
The next quiz will probably be on January 4, 2009. Watch this space for further updates.
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