Rajiv Rai and Movin Miranda romped to an emphatic win in the BQC quiz last Sunday, as the rest of us cowered under tables and hid behind chairs. "This is a conference room, not a Hollywood film," we begged, "stop firing." But they kept shooting answers at Sheriff Harshil Shah, the quizmaster, who caught a flight back to the USA a few hours after the quiz. It is clear why.
Rajiv extended his lead on top of the BQC rankings with this win, while Sumant Srivathsan and Kedar Sastry came second, followed by Rishi Iyengar and Amit Pandeya in third place. The quiz was entertaining -- pun intended, as there were some excellent questions on entertainment, all of which I have forgotten because I am aged now. (Subscribers have access to all questions of all BQC quizzes, so, ahem!)
The results:
1st with 23 points
Rajiv Rai
Movin Miranda
2nd with 15 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Kedar Sastry
3rd with 13 points
Rishi Iyengar
Amit Pandeya
4th-5th with 9 points each
Amit Varma
Sameer Nair
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Devang Ghia
Amit Grover
6th with 8 points
Ameya Samant
Mukund Sridhar
And now, the league standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 18 quizzes, as of December 16, 2007)
99.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 13 quizzes)
74 points
Rishi Iyengar (15)
69 points
Amit Varma (15)
62 points
Prasann Potdar (12)
56 points
Sumant Srivathsan (14)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
41.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (15)
40 points
Govind Grewal (14)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (12)
36 points
Ameya Samant (14)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)
Kedar Sastry (11)
32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (12)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Amit Pandeya (10)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)
24.5 points
Devang Ghia (16)
24 points
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
20 points
Shambhu Shankar (?)
18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Atulya Bharadwaj (2)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Sameer Nair (2)
Movin Miranda (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (2)
The next BQC quiz is on January 6, 2008. More details will follow on this blog.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Now it's Harshil Shah's turn
Harshil Shah conducts the next BQC quiz this Sunday. This will be the last BQC quiz of 2007, and offers a good chance to everyone to end it on a high note. (Of course, everyone won't, but why think about that before the event?) So be there!
The details:
Time: 3pm, Sunday, December 16 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Harshil Shah
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
You can read a report of the last quiz, and see the latest league standings, here.
The details:
Time: 3pm, Sunday, December 16 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Harshil Shah
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
You can read a report of the last quiz, and see the latest league standings, here.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Rishi Iyengar makes his move
Rajiv Rai was absent. Rishi Iyengar looked around furtively. And leaped.
A snappy quiz by Mukund Krishnan was won this Sunday by Rishi Iyengar, Ameya Samant and Shambhu Shankar. The second place was snapped up by my humble self, in partnership with Vibhendu Tiwari and Souvik Basu. (My seventh second place this season -- pah!) Sumant Srivathsan, Devang Ghia and Atulya Bharadwaj trotted in at third place.
The quiz was short and sweet, and contained much more Indian content than most of our quizzes, which was a welcome change. The turnout was low this week, perhaps because India was playing Pakistan in a Test match in Bangalore, a battle nowhere near as well-contested as ours.
The result took Rishi zooming up to second place in the league standings. Infants in Bandra, beware.
The results:
1st with 16.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
Ameya Samant
Shambhu Shankar
2nd with 14 points
Amit Varma
Vibhendu Tiwari
Souvik Basu
3rd with 12.5 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Atulya Bharadwaj
Devang Ghia
4th with 8.5 points
Prasann Potdar
Govind Grewal
Sarat Rao
5th with 7.5 points
AP Alagarsamy
Sandip Sen
6th with 4.5 points
S Balakrishnan
John Mascarenhas
And now, the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 17 quizzes, as of December 9, 2007)
89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)
70 points
Rishi Iyengar (14)
69 points
Amit Varma (14)
62 points
Prasann Potdar (12)
49 points
Sumant Srivathsan (13)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
41.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (15)
40 points
Govind Grewal (14)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (12)
36 points
Ameya Samant (13)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)
32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (10)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)
24.5 points
Devang Ghia (15)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
20 points
Shambhu Shankar (?)
18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Atulya Bharadwaj (2)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Samir Nair (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (2)
The next quiz will be held on Sunday, December 16. More details will follow on this blog.
A snappy quiz by Mukund Krishnan was won this Sunday by Rishi Iyengar, Ameya Samant and Shambhu Shankar. The second place was snapped up by my humble self, in partnership with Vibhendu Tiwari and Souvik Basu. (My seventh second place this season -- pah!) Sumant Srivathsan, Devang Ghia and Atulya Bharadwaj trotted in at third place.
The quiz was short and sweet, and contained much more Indian content than most of our quizzes, which was a welcome change. The turnout was low this week, perhaps because India was playing Pakistan in a Test match in Bangalore, a battle nowhere near as well-contested as ours.
The result took Rishi zooming up to second place in the league standings. Infants in Bandra, beware.
The results:
1st with 16.5 points
Rishi Iyengar
Ameya Samant
Shambhu Shankar
2nd with 14 points
Amit Varma
Vibhendu Tiwari
Souvik Basu
3rd with 12.5 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Atulya Bharadwaj
Devang Ghia
4th with 8.5 points
Prasann Potdar
Govind Grewal
Sarat Rao
5th with 7.5 points
AP Alagarsamy
Sandip Sen
6th with 4.5 points
S Balakrishnan
John Mascarenhas
And now, the standings:
BQC Season Two Standings (from 17 quizzes, as of December 9, 2007)
89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)
70 points
Rishi Iyengar (14)
69 points
Amit Varma (14)
62 points
Prasann Potdar (12)
49 points
Sumant Srivathsan (13)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
41.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (15)
40 points
Govind Grewal (14)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (12)
36 points
Ameya Samant (13)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (12)
32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (10)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)
24.5 points
Devang Ghia (15)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
20 points
Shambhu Shankar (?)
18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
Atulya Bharadwaj (2)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (3)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Samir Nair (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Harshil Shah (1)
4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (2)
The next quiz will be held on Sunday, December 16. More details will follow on this blog.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Step up for the Mukund Krishnan Quiz
BQC regular Mukund Krishnan conducts his first quiz for the BQC this Sunday, and it promises to be a hell of a way to finish the weekend. The details:
Time: 3pm, Sunday, December 9 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Mukund Krishnan
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
A report of the last quiz, and the latest league standings, are here.
Time: 3pm, Sunday, December 9 (reporting time: 2.40pm)
Quizmaster: Mukund Krishnan
Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz West. (Detailed directions here.)
A report of the last quiz, and the latest league standings, are here.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
The Boss is Back
For a few weeks, Rajiv Rai was silent. Like Krakatoa in the first half of August 1883. Then...
J Ramanand conducted an enthralling BQC quiz last Sunday, won by a massive margin by Rajiv Rai's team. Rishi Iyengar and Avinash Mudaliar steered their team to second place, winning a tiebreaker against Sumant Srivathsan's team. Others scrambled for lesser places.
Ramanand's questions were a connoisseur's delight, though some of the younger lads looked a little flustered, and one of them remarked to me during the break, with immense sarcasm, "Very easy quiz, isn't it?"
"Have you sacrificed any infants this week?" I asked him sternly.
"Er, no," he replied.
"Then?" I thundered. "Then?"
Anyway, Ramanand's questions are here, get a taste of them for yourself.
And now for the results:
1st with (gulp) 130 points
Rajiv Rai
Vaibhav Devanathan
Samir Nair
2nd with 80 points (on tiebreak)
Rishi Iyengar
Avinash Mudaliar
Atulya Bharadwaj
Harshil Shah
3rd with 80 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sandeep Randery
Sandip Sen
Sauvik Basu
4th-5th with 65 points
S Balakrishnan
Shambhu Shankar
John Mascarenhas
Prasann Potdar
Sritanu Chakrabarti
Mukund Krishnan
Kedar Shastry
6th with 50 points
Amit Varma
Udatta Duarah
Devang Ghia
7th-8th with 30 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Anand Sivasankar
Amit Grover
Sarat Rao
Govind Grewal
Karthik R
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao
As for the BQC standings, guess who's on top. Guess, guess. Guess, no!
BQC Season Two Standings (from 16 quizzes, as of December 2, 2007)
89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)
62 points
Amit Varma (13)
Prasann Potdar (11)
60 points
Rishi Iyengar (13)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
45 points
Sumant Srivathsan (12)
40 points
Govind Grewal (13)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (11)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (11)
34.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (14)
32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (10)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)
26 points
Ameya Samant (12)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
20.5 points
Devang Ghia (14)
18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
10.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (2)
Shambhu Shankar (?)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Samir Nair (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Atulya Bharadwaj (1)
Harshil Shah (1)
4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (1)
The next two BQC quizzes are on the next two Sundays. Mukund Krishnan conducts a quiz on December 9, and Harshil Shah conducts one on December 16. This is to avoid a quiz on the New Year, as would otherwise be scheduled. More details will follow on this blog.
J Ramanand conducted an enthralling BQC quiz last Sunday, won by a massive margin by Rajiv Rai's team. Rishi Iyengar and Avinash Mudaliar steered their team to second place, winning a tiebreaker against Sumant Srivathsan's team. Others scrambled for lesser places.
Ramanand's questions were a connoisseur's delight, though some of the younger lads looked a little flustered, and one of them remarked to me during the break, with immense sarcasm, "Very easy quiz, isn't it?"
"Have you sacrificed any infants this week?" I asked him sternly.
"Er, no," he replied.
"Then?" I thundered. "Then?"
Anyway, Ramanand's questions are here, get a taste of them for yourself.
And now for the results:
1st with (gulp) 130 points
Rajiv Rai
Vaibhav Devanathan
Samir Nair
2nd with 80 points (on tiebreak)
Rishi Iyengar
Avinash Mudaliar
Atulya Bharadwaj
Harshil Shah
3rd with 80 points
Sumant Srivathsan
Sandeep Randery
Sandip Sen
Sauvik Basu
4th-5th with 65 points
S Balakrishnan
Shambhu Shankar
John Mascarenhas
Prasann Potdar
Sritanu Chakrabarti
Mukund Krishnan
Kedar Shastry
6th with 50 points
Amit Varma
Udatta Duarah
Devang Ghia
7th-8th with 30 points
Vibhendu Tiwari
Anand Sivasankar
Amit Grover
Sarat Rao
Govind Grewal
Karthik R
Pradeep Ramarathnam
Sireesh Rao
As for the BQC standings, guess who's on top. Guess, guess. Guess, no!
BQC Season Two Standings (from 16 quizzes, as of December 2, 2007)
89.5 points
Rajiv Rai (from 12 quizzes)
62 points
Amit Varma (13)
Prasann Potdar (11)
60 points
Rishi Iyengar (13)
48 points
Ashwan Lewis (8)
45 points
Sumant Srivathsan (12)
40 points
Govind Grewal (13)
37.5 points
AP Alagarsamy (11)
35 points
S Balakrishnan (11)
34.5 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (14)
32 points
Ajith Prabhakar (13)
29 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam (11)
28 points
Mahesh Murthy (6)
Kedar Shastry (10)
26.5 points
Mukund Krishnan (8)
26 points
Ameya Samant (12)
24 points
Amit Pandeya (9)
Anand Sivasankar (13)
Kartik Srivatsa (5)
20.5 points
Devang Ghia (14)
18 points
Avinash Mudaliar (8)
Kartik R (?)
Sarat Rao (?)
17 points
Ravi Venkatesh (6)
16.5 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (10)
14 points
Samrat Sengupta (5)
Udatta Duarah (6)
11 points
Ajay Ravindran (4)
Meghashyam Shirodkar (3)
Nandan Krishnaswamy (6)
10.5 points
Souvik Basu (?)
10 points
Aravinda Talluri (1)
Neeraj (1)
Nilesh Jain (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Gaurav Singh (1)
Raghu (?)
Sritanu Chakravarty (2)
Sowmya Ramaswamy (1)
Hansraj Singh (1)
John Mascarenhas (2)
Shambhu Shankar (?)
Vaibhav Devanathan (1)
Samir Nair (1)
8 points
Hanisha Vaswani (5)
Francis Rodrigues (9)
7 points
Akshay Mahajan (1)
Rahul Bhaskar (3)
Saurav (?)
Nrupal Choudhari (?)
Atulya Bharadwaj (1)
Harshil Shah (1)
4 points
Padma Sinha (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)
Sireesh Talluri Rao (6)
Sushant Raut (5)
Chitra Raghunath (1)
Arvind Krishnaswamy (5)
Sandeep Randery (1)
Sandip Sen (1)
The next two BQC quizzes are on the next two Sundays. Mukund Krishnan conducts a quiz on December 9, and Harshil Shah conducts one on December 16. This is to avoid a quiz on the New Year, as would otherwise be scheduled. More details will follow on this blog.
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