Quiz 6: Friday Oct 16 @ 11.59pm

By -- Swapnil
At -- 11.59pm on Friday Oct 16, 2009 (midnight quiz)
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for questions in 26 'different' categories, and brush up on rudimentary game theory to enhance your chance of winning while diminishing others' chance of winning:-)

Quiz 5: Friday Oct 9 @ 5.30pm

By -- Nishtha and Pranjal
At -- 5.30pm on Friday Oct 9, 2009
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for a (customary) question on The Beattles, and then the rest on some pot-smoking hippie rock groups, TV/movies mixed with of lots of geekdom questions and assorted bollywood facts!

ps. Last chance to win free passes for the IGSA diwali event.

Quiz 4: Sunday Oct 4 @ 4pm

By -- Varun and Deepak
At -- 4pm on Sunday Oct 4, 2009
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for an interesting mix: literature, film and music trivia, followed by some more "recent" entertainment, socca' and F1 trivia!

ps. Like last week, there are prizes for the winning team.

Quiz 3: Friday Sep 25 @ 6.15pm

By -- Suyash Shringarpure
At -- 6.15pm on Friday Sep 25, 2009
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for TV-related trivia, classic literature (QM says, "Mills-and-Boons and Jeffrey Archer is not literature") and some soccer trivia -- when in doubt answer ManU :-)

Quiz 2: Friday Sep 18 @ 6.15pm

By -- Vyas Sekar
At -- 6.15pm on Friday Sep 18, 2009
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for long excerpts (Ctrl-C Ctrl-V) from Wikipedia, Biblical myth, and some geekdom trivia. (Brush up on XKCD and Seinfeld, but don't even bother about Bollywood film/music ;-))

Report (Updated on 9/22):

Vyas conducted the second quiz of the season. And keeping with his tradition, he opened the quiz by (accidentally?) giving out the answer to a question. The quiz had a bit of medical bias (not surprising given the upcoming House season premiere, I guess ;-)) camouflaged as etymology and visuals.

The quiz had a high answer rate, with most questions being answered in one or two tries. The post wouldn't be complete without mentioning that the final scores had a very uniform looking "Bell curve", which is no surprise given the quiz master's fetish for statistics :-)

Scores/standings: TBA (really soon)

Quiz 1: Friday Sep 11 @ 6.30pm

By -- Apurva Samudra
At -- 6.30pm on Friday Sep 11, 2009
In -- Wean 5409

Watch out for some entertaining "pictionary", mostly "fun-oriented" trivia, and of course, a customary question on "9/11" :-)

Report (updated on 9/12):

First quiz had a record turn out -- 35 people showed up! I am guessing the quiz-master was the crowd puller, and he set a high bar for the future quiz masters ;-)

Apurva made a 42-question quiz with the usual mix of entertainment, etymology, cricket, bizzare stuff, and a score-boosting round. Although the quiz did not have a "customary" 9-11 question, it did have a question with answers like the "T-word" and bunch of flight mishaps -- alright, I am just making up a connection to the date of quiz :-)

Overall, the quiz was very entertaining (no one walked out ;-)) with a very few unanswered questions. Looking forward to Vyas's quiz on Friday!

Scores/standings: TBA

Quiz Club 2.0

Announcing the second season …

Date: Friday, September 11
Time/Place: TBD

Please volunteer to conduct quizzes (calender on the right side), and consider doing a full/half quiz.

Feel free to spread the word among the new/incoming students. Looking forward to another great season.


ps. Post comments on any new things that we should try, anything that should not be repeated from the last season, or other general feedback!