Varsh nava, Harsh nava, Quizzing utkarsh nava.

The Spandan Foundation of Mumbai, will be organising a book fair to mark the Bengali new year (Pohela Boishakh) and they have planned a School quiz and an Open General Quiz as one of the marquee events of the fair. Both of these quizzes will be conducted by the Bombay Quiz club.The School quiz is aimed towards giving school children a taste of open competitive quizzing. The questions have been set by experienced Quizmasters and promises to be an enriching experience to all those who attend.

The Open General quiz  is open to everyone and while it will be a treat for those who have quizzed before, it is an ideal platform for the uninitiated to come and experience what quizzing is all about.

Both Quizzes will have a Prelims + Finals format. Teams of 2 for both quizzes.

Quizmaster: Bombay Quiz Club

  When: School Quiz -  4 PM, Friday, 19th April, 2013.
              Corporate quiz, 4PM, Saturday, 20th April, 2013.
              Please be there by 3.45 for registrations

 Where: Hiranandani Foundation School, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai

 Location on Google Maps. - https://maps.google.co.in/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=9802466981928128684&q=Hiranandani+Foundation+School&iwloc=A&gl=IN&hl=en

Norwegian Open

Like every year, the pilot quiz of BQC season 8 will be the Norwegian open quiz, organised by the guys at Norges Quizforbund and hosted by the BQC in Mumbai. The first points for the BQC championship (also known as "the race for second place") will be up for grabs this Saturday. Oslo, this quiz is  held almost simultaneously all around the globe so you get to pit your wits against people worldwide. The timing couldn't be better, the Europeans wont venture out in knee deep snow for a quiz, so make sure you don't miss it.

Since it is a written quiz, we will need to know the number of attendees beforehand in order to print answer sheets. Please register here. Only registered participants, and maybe a handful others, will be allowed to attempt the quiz. But don't risk it, register, its free.

Please bring a pen/pencil along.  

Quizmaster: Norges Quizforbund (Mumbai proctor Sumant Srivathsan)

When: 3 PM, Saturday, 6th April, 2013 (Please be there by 2:45 pm.

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

  

India Quiz

Navin Rajarams annual India Quiz, "Cannabis Indica" will be conducted at the BQC this Sunday.
It was conducted in Bangalore recently where it was very well received and appreciated, for being very

informative about India  both for the regular quizzer and for the newbie who has just come to learn more. 

Quizmaster: Navin Rajaram (Questions asked by Vikram Joshi)

   When: 3 PM, Sunday,24th March 2013 (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.

Kurukshetra for Kurukshetra

The BQC open set the juggernaut rolling and we can't seem to stop. Tomorrow will see the third quizzing session in as many Sundays.

Rajiv Rai will conduct the Kurukshetra Open quiz, which has been set by ace quizmasters including himself, Movin Miranda and Gopal Kidao, and has been labelled as one of the best quizzes in the country. So good, that we had to announce the quiz late in order to keep the turnout in check.

Saint Rajiv is already this season's champ, and in what might be the last quiz of the season (or maybe not), he does not want to miss the opportunity to see his flock fight for the remaining points.
The quiz will be followed by a glorification ceremony for Rajiv at the nearby Barista.




Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai  When: 3 PM, Sunday, 18th March,  2013 (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

League table

Open abhi baaki hai mere dost.

One of the marvels of quizzing is that it can never get exhausted.

The third BQC open last weekend was a roaring success which saw over 200 people take part in 6 quizzes, all of which lived up to their billing. As is true with all quizzes, all questions were carefully chosen from a huge question bank. But since we had to fit 6 quizzes in two days, time was of the essence more than it was for Phileas Fogg, and the QMs couldnt fit all their questions into their quizzes. With so many QMs and so many questions, we've decided to make a quiz out of all the leftover questions.

Seriously, the marvels of quizzing.

Quizmaster:  Various Artists

 When: 3 PM, Sunday, 10th March 2013, 3 pm (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 Open Quizzes 2013 Are Coming!

And with that Paul Revere-esque opening, we'd like to invite you to attend our third annual weekend of competitive quizzing in this tiny western outpost of the country.

We're hosting six quizzes over two days (2-3 March, 2013), and we'd like to have as many people over as we possibly can. Last year, we had a most wonderful turnout, and we're hoping to top that this year.

Not only have we scheduled the events so that locals and visitors from out of town can make it to the events and back comfortably, we've also put together a wide range of topics for our quizzes, and INR 60,000 in prize money.

Schedule, venue and other fun details of the event below:

The Venue: Bhagini Samaj Hall, Road No. 3, Hindu Colony, Dadar (E), Mumbai - 400014.

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Day 1 - Saturday, 2 March 2013

• The Sports Quiz
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 1030 hrs
• Quizmasters: Atul Mathew and Srinath TB

• The Bombay Quiz (Written)
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 1430 hrs
• Quizmaster: Shubhankar Gokhale

• The Movies Quiz
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 1600 hrs
• Quizmasters: Abhinav Dasgupta and Vibhendu Tewari

Day 2 - Sunday, 3 March 2013

• The Literature Quiz
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 0930 hrs
• Quizmasters: Anannya Deb, Sumant Srivathsan and Vibhendu Tewari

• The Roti Kapda Makan Quiz (Food, Fashion and Literature - Written)
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 1330 hrs
• Quizmasters: Amit Pandeya, Govind Grewal and Vikram Joshi

• The Bombay Open Quiz
• Teams of 3 or fewer
• Start Time: 1500 hrs
• Quizmasters: Aditya Gadre, Rajiv Rai and Sumant Srivathsan

Entry Fee: INR 150 per team per quiz. All-student (college/school) teams quiz free.

We will update the break-up of the prize money shortly. Meanwhile, book your tickets, clear your calendars, and inform the folks at home. And your friends too, if they'd like to join us as well. 

2013 CEAT Open

The Mumbai teams performed well at the CEAT Open last week with the Travelling Pillsburys (Vibhendu,Sumant,Srinath TB) finishing 3rd and Vikram Joshi qualifying for the Final.

We'll have a re-run this Sunday with Rajiv Rai as our QM. This is usually the best quiz of the year so I expect to see a good turnout.

Quizmaster: Rajiv Rai (Research by Team Quizician)
 When: 3 PM, Sunday, 3rd February, 2013 (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). 

Breaking (Priyam)Bad

 We kick off 2013 with a quiz by Priyambad,who will do a re-run of a quiz he did in Bhubaneshwar  last year. He's set some wonderful quizzes in the past (GREENKO) so this should be fun.


Quizmaster: Priyambad Pattanayak
When: 3 PM, Sunday,13th January 2013 (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).