BCQC Open Quizzes

The Boat Club Quiz Club will be conducting two Open quizzes on the 9th of August .

Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
(The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino’s Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex in which are situated shops such as Mainland China. The place is about 2 km from Pune University. This is a wikimapia map to the location.)

Contact: Phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Salil (98231 12258), Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org

‘How to’s: Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees

Prizes

(the same for each quiz)
Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team, the Best School Team, and the Best Newbie Team.
Lots of audience prizes.
Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC.

Morning: ‘On the Same Page’ (a Literature Quiz)

Quizmaster: Anand Sivashankar
Timings: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (report by 9:45 am)
Flavour: Literature
Finals: Eight teams in the final

Afternoon: ‘Questionable Intelligence’

Quizmaster: J. Ramanand
Timings: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm (report by 2:15 pm)
Flavour: General
Finals: Six teams in the final

 

BCQC May Open Quizzes

The Boat Club Quiz Club presents two open quizzes in May. Here are the details:

Date: 17th May (Sunday)
Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
Contact: Phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Aditya (98811 01291), Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org

Upto two members per team;    no prior registration needed;    no entry fees

Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team, the Best School Team, and the Best Newbie Team.
Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune), Blaft Publications (Chennai), and the BCQC.

Morning Quiz – The Tyson Gibran Quiz
Quizmasters : Suraj Menon, Yash Tamaskar
Timings: 9:45 am to 12:45 pm (report by 9:30 am)
Flavour: General

Afternoon Quiz – Amnesia
Quizmaster: Niranjan Pedanekar
Timings: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm (report by 2:15 pm)
Flavour: General

Tip for those who have never attended a BC open : Niranjan’s Quizzes are typically brilliant and you really should not miss them . Missing Amnesia would be the worst thing you’ve done in a long time.

 

BCQC Open Quiz day

The BCQC will be organising two open quizzes on this Sunday. Check out this link for all details .

 

BCQC Open Quizzes

The BCQC will be doing two quizzes this sunday at Persistent Systems , Senapati Bapat road , Pune.

Visit the website for more details.

 

BCQC July Open

The BCQC will be organising two  quizzes this sunday ie the 27th of July. Entry is free for both quizzes.

The first quiz ,’The Interrogative’ , is a school quiz and will be set and conducted by Maitreyi , Yash and Rohit .

The second quiz will be an open quiz set by members of the Bombay Quiz Club and conducted by Sumant .

Further details are available on the BCQC blog.

 

Pub Quizzing

I had my first experience of Pub Quizzing yesterday. About eight of us went to Post 91 in Koregaon Park to get an experience of what this pub quizzing thing is all about.

We started pretty well by getting both the opening questions right and then screwed up by making three mistakes in the next round . Some of the questions were quite good but most of them were arbit trivia , the kind that would get you buried under a pile of stones at BC. There were a few disputable questions. Like one where we were asked , “what is India’s ballistic missile called?” Now India has quite a few ballistic missiles. So we wrote Prithvi . The QM said that Prithvi was a surface to surface missile and the correct answer was Agni . This is entirely wrong since Prithvi is a Ballistic missile. Being a surface to surface missile doesn’t make it a non-ballistic missile. We didn’t really get into any arguments at this stage and had to just let it go since Yasho , who would have normally been the person to tackle the quizmaster at this point , was too drunk to move and kept shouting “Screw You!” at everything that moved in the room .

Some of the questions that followed were decent while some were bad like colloquial names of everyday objects. In the end we lost because we didn’t know what a double handed cork screw is called by Bartenders. (It’s apparently called ‘Angel’s Wings’)

From the quizzing point of view , it wasn’t very good. Overall hanging out was lot of fun for me since everyone was getting drunk around me .Expect some interesting videos to be out on You Tube soon.