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Aiyyyooooo!!!! Raama Raama!!!

Its me again!! I’m always at the receiving end Wondering whats going on??

My Bustle Corporate Quiz Review has stirred a controversy, again!!

The Quizmasters across the country seem to be following my blog very intently- I wonder if they constitute half of the hits on my page.. Anyway, my above said review has been read by QM Dr Sumanth and has been extremely kind to express his views about it too. You can find his esteemed reply here.

My response shall be crisp and simple

* Well, I’m sure the audience had great fun.. There was pretty much nothing else for them to do.

* It was pleasant to see all the questions missed by the finalists being answered by the audience, maybe the audience at a certain level knew more than the finalists

* Regarding SLR, I checked the official site I did not find a full form, the two links provided need not be accurate but as the case is I was wrong , so apologies

* What about the buzzer round?? This was definitely the first time I saw a buzzer being pressed before the question was shown. It doesn’t stop there- the question is actually displayed after this and the team that buzzed gets a shot at the question. Wonder how this would fair in a BEQ or TC? 

* Plagiarism et al.. Well, quizzing has always been open source- online groups are a database to possibly the best questions ever created (including live quizzes). Let me just reiterate that groups and blogs are an outlet for one’s passion; we all do it from the sheer love of it. No money involved, maybe a bit of fame- thats all. Its not right to pick up questions. I do think people should not over-react about questions repeating but I feel a quizmaster should note that when he is being paid to conduct a quiz, people expect good content and more importantly relative original content, than a huge chunk picked from one site/blog..

* My review was vicious?? Would we prefer diplomacy? I guarantee you that the feedback forms if read properly would echo my opinion. But as clearly mentioned in the disclaimer of this blog- All opinions are mine and solely mine. This is exactly what I felt.

* Well, atleast the best team(s) won!! Maybe this was only because it was Chennai- probably the quizzing capital of the country now!

Anyway, cant rant more. As a very notable Chennai quizzer said- all this is just a waste of virtual ink.. 

Adieu…

A follow-up to the review below

Ditching a tech quiz in Bangalore, I headed to Chennai- anticipating a fantastic business quiz by Dr Sumanth C Raman. An unknown name (for me), I googled to find this result and the excitement to participate ended up increasing exponentially. 

But alas, the quiz was a comedy of terrors (yes, inspired by Harri Puttar). Firstly, we walk in to find a registration fee of Rs 1000/- (let me guarantee you that after a number of mails with the co-ordinators regarding particiaption eligibility and rules, this fee thing never came up). We had travelled all the way from Bangalore and we couldn’t help but register.

Anyway, the quiz content was relatively bad (although the prelims had some googlies). Cut off was 13.

The final’s content was abysmal.. The Quizmaster just elucidated why one needs to have a fair share of experience to conduct a good quiz. The QM was bloody lost in the buzzer rounds and an answer to one of his questions befit the situation- FIASCO!!

Anyway, I can’t talk more.. Here’s Patrick’s post giving you all the questions, enjoy !!!

Follow up to the review below (including the quizmaster’s reply)

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Quiz: Biz Quiz

Part of : Entru-Meet ’08

Host: SVNIT (Surat)

Date: 20-21st September 2008

QM: BCQC, Pune

For details: Visit the official site

Find Review and the complete set of Questions from Bustle ’08- A corporate quiz here

Quiz: Jigyasa- The Business Quiz

Part of: Manthan ’08

Host: TISS, Mumbai

Date: 19th September 2008

Official Webpage (click here)

Quizmaster: Avinash Mudaliar

Winners: Souvik Basu & Govind Grewal

The Brewhaha Brainiacs Quiz started off with quite a bang with over 20 teams participating in the first edition.

This series will continue for the next eight fortnights and a grand winner will be chosen towards the end of the year.

The quiz hosted by Venky from Sasken and Vivek from CDC Software (Team Nexus)  had a great collection of 50 questions with a 10 question theme adding to the excitement. 

The quiz was eventually won by KQA stalwarts- Anustup Dutta & Ochintya Sharma (WALTO) , followed by Tejaswi Udupa & Mitesh. Lehar & Vijay (Mustafa) followed in third

The concept of the quiz is fantastic- A coffee quiz with a registration fee of Rs 300/- with a theme based quiz every alternate fortnight (Rs 200 can be used on food at Brewhaha). The casual atmosphere and the Sunday morning freshness adds to the fun.

The hosts were hoping to see more casual quizzers participate as well but I guess the steep registration charge is proving to be a hurdle for most quizzers (including a large group of students)

But, I must say, the quiz was a fantstic one bordering between moderate and tough ,with very workable questions. 

Next fortnight’s (Sep 20th) theme is Crime & Mystery. Hope to see many more teams! 

(Just for students in Bangalore- PESIT IEEE event happening on Sep 20th. More details coming, pls register on Quizplanner for more details)

Some questions from Sunday’s Brewhaha quiz. Enjoy yourself..

Do post your answers/tries in the comments section. I do not have a separate answer slide. Will confirm answers right here!

Brewhaha Brainiacs Quest – The Search for the Intra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

Presenting Bengaluru’s first open quizzing league championship at your favorite community centre, BrewHaHa in Koramangala.

The quiz is conceptualized and executed by Team Nexus – Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh S (Venky)

The league kicks off with a General Quiz on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM. There is a quiz planned every alternate Saturday starting from September 6, so do mark out your calendars.

 The rules are pretty simple and as given below:

·         There will be 8 quizzes starting from September 6 on every alternate Saturday. 4 General Quizzes and 4 Thematic Quizzes.

·         The timings remain the same for every quiz 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

·         The quiz is Open and you must take part as teams of 2 – no affiliations required between team members

·         The quiz will be fully written, and have approx 50 questions (no separate prelims and finals)

·         The top 8 teams will be awarded points basis their position in that quiz, and all other teams will get points for participation

·         The points that each team scores will be split equally between the two people in the team

·         You will continue to carry forward your individual points, even if you change team members

·         The top 4 individual performers at the end of the league will get grand prizes

M There is a fee of Rs 300/- per team, per quiz.

Rs 100/-out of this is Entry Fees for the quiz, and the balance Rs 200/- is encashable against Food & Beverages off the menu – BrewHaHa has put together a special international brunch menu for the occasion.

The winning team each Saturday will get their cover charge of Rs 200/- refunded.

So, do come by and take part in this unique quizzing festival and give your grey cells a good weekend workout!

For more information on BrewHaHa, please visit www.brewhaha.in

With the rise of the tech savvy quotient of the Indian population and easier internet access, the number of Blogs blossoming these days just cannot be tracked.

When I started Quiz blogging (approximately 2 years back) there were less than half a dozen dedicated quiz blogs, but today you find pretty much every quizzer with a personal quiz blog.

With a blogroll exceeding over 70 sites, it is not just difficult to update oneself but almost impossible to follow any of them.

But every problem has a solution and coming to our rescue this time are Quizblogs ‘creators’ – Naveen Giles & Sujith C.

Quizblogs.com is a meta aggregator of quiz sites and is extremely useful considering the feeds get priority depending upon the time of updation.

According to Naveen & Sujith-

‘QuizBlogs.com is intended as a single platform for bringing quiz blogs together. As quizzers we have always wanted a single place to browse new questions and this site provides just that. If you are a quizzer, QuizBlogs.com, being a Quiz Blogroll ensures NEW quizzing content from different people every time you come here. Apart from the Quiz blogs we have linked good news resources here which could be a good source of Quizzing info.

If you have a Quiz blog, QuizBlogs.com would be a good place to showcase your blog. Many of you have excellent quiz blogs, but apart from quizzing mailing groups, there are not enough forums to get more people to your Quiz blog. ‘

Bloggers can also submit there blogs (in case they haven’t been listed yet) using a link at the top of the site

Quizblogs.com also has a conventional blogroll on its right sidebar, a featured blogger of the week column, some very useful business quizzing links and interesting trivia and news widgets.

Although this is a fantastic website, as usual there are certain points which can be looked into. I found ta couple which are stated below

1. As Quizblogs.com works on feed aggregation, it considers only new posts for priority ranking (which means an update on a global meta link would never crop on top)

2. The Search box did not pretty much provide results I expected on a couple of searches (This again can be linked to the feed aggregation)

If you guys can work on these issues, it would really be a ‘Jesus’ website for all quizzers across the country..

Still, absolutely novel idea. Kudos to you!

For the sheer novelty of the idea- 4 out of 5 stars

For the review of the Madras Day Quiz 2008, click here

And find here an amazing compendium of all the questions asked in this year’s quiz thanks to Sylvian