Mahaquizzer 2011

MAHAQUIZZER 2011

MahaQuizzer 2011, the seventh edition will be held in Bangalore and several other cities on Sunday 29th May 2011.

Bombay Venue:

Landmark Bookstore

Infiniti Mall, No.619, New Link Road

Oshiwara, Lokhandwala

Andheri West

Coordinator: Rajiv Rai (98192-18415)

KQA Proctor: V V Krishnan (99206-90605)

As usual, the quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes.

We have a new bunch of setters this year: Mitesh Agarwal heads a team comprising Urmila Lakshmanan, Vivek Kartikeyan, Rajagopal P.S., Rahul Suhas Kottalgi and Gautam Shenoy.

Prizes in each city for best School, College, Lady and Open entrant.

Registrations for Mahaquizzer are now closed. Centre Coordinators may accept on-the-spot-entries if adequate seating, and enough surplus question-papers are available.

View a list of all registered participants here: http://kqaquizzes.org/2011/05/13/mahaquizzer-2011-registrations/

Supriyo Saha

Supriyo Saha hosts his first BQC quiz this weekend. It's a General Quiz with a slight MELA (Music,Entertainment,Literature,Arts) bias so it should be fun. See you Sunday.

Quizmaster: Supriyo Saha

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 15th May, 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

2011 Kartik Bose Open

Anannya hosts the latest installment of the Kartik Bose Open this week. Based on his recent adventures, you can expect a lot of questions on SE Asia. And let's not forget Kartik Bose.

Quizmaster: Anannya Deb

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 8th May 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.

Ameya Samant

Ameya Samant hosts the second quiz of the new season this Sunday.

Details:

Quizmaster: Ameya Samant

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 17th April, 2010 (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.

Norwegian Open Solo Quiz

The Norwegian Open Solo Quiz

We kick off Season 6 of the BQC with a quiz set by the Norwegian Quiz Association. This quiz is conducted across several cities across the world. The BQC will be organising the Mumbai round.

The rules:

Written quiz with 6 sections

240 questions in 90 minutes

Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- (free for school students)

For more details,log on to http://www.norgesquizforbund.no/

Solo event. Please bring a pen along.

Mumbai Proctor: Rajen Prabhu (9833498749)

When: 11 AM, Saturday 2nd April 2011 (we'll be starting at 11 sharp so that we can wrap up in time for the final)

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.

Meghashyam

Meghashyam hosts the last quiz of the season this Sunday.

The details:

Quizmaster: Meghashyam Shirodkar

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 27th 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.

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.