The BQC - IIT Bombay Quizzes - Recaps, Reviews and Recognition

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:

• 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.

And our sponsors:

• 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.

Suchintan Chatterjee

We return to our regular quiz meetings after a successful BQC Open. Suchintan Chatterjee will be QM for the afternoon. There's no meaningful cricket match on Sunday so I'm expecting a full house :)

Quizmaster: Suchintan Chatterjee
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 13th March, 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: 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 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.

Open Quiz Poster

Sarat Rao

Sarat Rao returns to the BQC to host the last quiz before the BQC Open next week.

The Details:

Quizmaster: Sarat Rao

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 27th February, 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: 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 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.

2011 BQC Open

The inaugural Bombay Open series of quizzes is being brought to you by the Bombay Quiz Club and IIT Bombay. The event is happening on Sunday, March 6th at IIT Powai (Lecture Hall Complex, opposite KReSIT) and comprises 4 quizzes:

Gen Quiz for Colleges (mixed college teams allowed, school teams are also welcome)

Timings: 10 am to 12:30 pm

Quiz Masters: Vikram Joshi and Pradeep Ramarathnam supported by the IIT research team of Rushabh Shah & Eeshan Malhotra

Cash prizes: 1st prize - Rs. 6K, 2nd prize - Rs. 4K, 3rd prize Rs. 2.5K, 4th, 5th, 6th places - Rs. 1K each, 7th and 8th places Rs 750 each.

College Sci-Tech Quiz (mixed college teams allowed, school teams are also welcome)

Timings: 12:30 pm onwards

Quiz Masters: Mukund Madhav, Eeshan Malhotra

Prizes: worth Rs 5K+

Open Sports Quiz

Timings: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Quiz Masters: Anand Sivashankar, Anannya Deb and Atul Mathew supported by the IIT research team of Rahul Gaur & Ishan Shrivastava

Cash Prizes: 1st prize - Rs 9K, 2nd prize - Rs 4.5K, 3rd prize - Rs 2.5K, 4th - 8th places - Rs 1000 each.

Open General Quiz

Timings: 4:15 pm to 7:45 pm

Quiz Masters: Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari and Rajiv Rai supported by the IIT research team of Ashwin Krishnan, Antariksh Bothale, Nidhi Shanbhag.

Cash Prizes: 1st prize - Rs 12K, 2nd prize - Rs 8K, 3rd prize - Rs 4K, 4th - 8th places - Rs 1000 each.

Prize for the best college team based on prelims scores.

Audience prizes through the day (worth Rs 5K).

Please note the following rules and regulations:

1) All participants are required to get a valid photo ID. In case of college students this should be a valid college ID card.

2) All quizzes for teams of 3.

3) Entry fee for open quizzes - Rs 150 per team. There is no registration fee payable by students. Spot registration.

4) No accommodation arrangement in IIT. The quiz timings do allow participants to come in by the first flight and leave by the last flight to most major cities in India.

You can contact Mukund Madhav (9930735131) from IITB for any clarifications.

Top flight quiz masters, top notch prize money (over Rs 70K in cash) and the scenic IIT Powai for setting. Can we ask for more? Yes, we need your enthusiastic participation to complement the event and make it an annual fixture.

Kala Ghoda Literature Quiz

Quizmaster(s): Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari,Anannya Deb

When: Sunday, February 13 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Where: BNHS auditorium,Kala Ghoda,Bombay, India

Teams of 2

More details on the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144319408963213&index=1

2011 CEAT Open

The freshly minted Landmark Pune champion Rajiv Rai will ask questions from the 2011 CEAT Open. Rajiv has already conducted two great quizzes for us this year ( Kurukshetra and the Round Table Quiz) and this promises to be no different.

The details:

Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai

When: 2:55 PM, Sunday, 30th January, 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W)

Directions: here

Bala

Bala kicks off the New Year with his first BQC quiz this Sunday. We have quite a few quizzes lined up over the next few weeks - Landmark Pune,The CEAT Open,Kala Ghoda Lit Fest, The BQC Open and The BQC Sports Quiz.

League standings here

The details for this Sunday's Quiz:

Quizmaster: Bala

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 16th January, 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)

Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions: here