Low on strength :|

Owing to school students having their half yearly exams and most of the regulars caught up with some personal work, the CQC meeting on 13/12/09 saw a meagre crowd. But even that didnt dampen our quizzing spirits, as we went along with the quiz with our usual fun and brilliant(yet incorrect :P ) guesses. The actual QM for the day was supposed to be Ram Mohan who had to leave on account of his internship. So I took the role of the QM, discussing his 30 questions and 1 SVC and me putting together another 20 questions and 1 LVC. Here is the powerpoint for the people who missed it. Lets hope for the usual crowd for the next CQC meet. Cheers!!!!

Cqc 13/12/09

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Hello Folks!!!!

Hello quizzers,

The long hiatus in the blog being updated with the quizzes is attributed to many reasons. Laziness, laziness, more laziness, very lazy and absolute levels of laziness to name a few :). After many failed members by the CQC members in trying to get the blog "MODERATORS" (Sharan, Vidyuth and Me) to post up the quiz, the subtle art of "UNDER THE BREATH" cursing was used. After many sessions of torturous mails, life threating SMS-s and road rokos :P, we have finally agreed to meet to the demands. We present to you the quizzes which were conducted over the past couple of months :)

The regular quizzing season will be commencing soon and I assume that the gladiators are sharpening their swords to taste victory. Best of luck to all you people and see you guys at the meetings.

Aravind aka 2-D aka Windy:

Cqc Informal

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Ganja :) :

Cqc

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Sunil :

Cqc Informals

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Sammy :

Cqc

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Vidyuth:

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P.S. I hope my lame excuse was good enough :)

Upcoming School Quizzes

As this Blog has been idle for some time no,thought will update on two school quizzes coming up Next week.
1.TCS IT Wiz-The 2009 edition of TCS IT Wiz – tech quiz for schools is slated for November 10 at the Corporation Kalai Arangam in R.S. Puram, Coimbatore.This is the second consecutive year of the quiz in Coimbatore. It is open to students studying from class VIII to XII. While there is no entry fee, only the first 500 registered teams would be allowed to participate in the quiz, states a TCS release.
The company has launched a dedicated site http://www.tcsitwiz.com/.
Last year over 1,100 students took part in the annual TCS IT Wiz in Coimbatore.
The winning team would get laptops and the runners up - cameras and digital photo frames.
The six finalists would also receive an array of prizes from the company ranging from backpack, watches to MP3 players.

2.Science quiz conducted by Our own Prof-Rangarajan on Nov 11th at SBOA School,Coimbatore.
Please contact Prof at 9842084281.
There has been a lull in the quizzing activities in the recent past as far as the Open Quizzing is concerned with all of us turning into Mere Spectators or in some lucky cases the Quiz Masters.
But Senthil and team are working on our delayed CQC Open which should happen in the near future.Just Keeping our Fingers crossed.
Anyway here is to Happy Quizzing to everybody and Good Rains in this part of the World.

Cheers

Tata Crucible national finals

Vizag Steel emerge victorious at the 6th edition of the 'Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz'
Mr. Sabyasachi Pani and Mr. Santanu Dey of Vizag Steel were awarded the National Champions trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 4 lakhs

Mumbai, October 04, 2009: The grand national finale of India's most challenging business quiz, the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2009 was held on Sunday, October 04, 2009, at the Crystal Room of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai. In what turned out to be a nail biting finish, the team of Sabyasachi Pani and Santanu Dey from Vizag Steel beat the rest, blitzing ahead with their lightning fast responses and robust reasoning skills. They were crowned the National Champions of the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2009.

Over the past two months, the 6th edition of the Tata Crucible Business Quiz has seen some exciting contests in the regional rounds held across the country. Nearly 1,400 teams in all participated in the 18 regional rounds for non-Tata corporates and eight regional rounds for Tata companies. The 18 finalists in the external track included technology firms like Sun Microsystems, Google and Yahoo India, media organisations like Mudra Communications and Savoir Faire and manufacturing companies like Bhilai Steel and Vizag Steel among others. The eight internal track finalists included teams from Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel, Tata Elxsi and mjunction Services.

The national final round of the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz saw the 18 regional winners from Ranchi, Patna, Panaji, Cochin, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar, Indore, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Pune, Ahmedabad and Chennai, face-off in two semi-finals. The two semi-finals which were held between nine teams each had several moments of brilliant quizzing demonstrating the super-fast reflexes of the participants. The top four teams from each semi-final progressed to the National Final. The eight finalists were Vizag Steel (regional round winner from Bhubaneshwar), Accenture (regional round winner from New Delhi), Bhilai Steel (regional round winner from Patna), Savior Faire (regional round winner from Panjim), Yahoo India (regional round winner from Bangalore), Vizag Steel (regional round winner from Kolkata), Sun Microsystems (regional round winner from Mumbai) and Chennai Silk (regional round winner from Chennai).

Known for its innovative formats of quizzing in the past years, the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz was once again presented in a new avatar. The quiz featured five rounds and with each passing round, the increasing degree of difficulty pushed the contestants to think at lightning speed and respond even faster. Interesting questions such as "ISO 4217 describing three letter codes defines what? (Answer: Currency codes e.g. INR, USD); Which current bestseller is associated with Project Solomon Key? (Answer: Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol) were posed to the contestants. Quizmaster Giri Balasubramaniam aka Pickbrain kept the audience glued to their seats, with his innovative and humorous style of quizzing.

The chief guest for the evening, Mr. Kishor Chaukar, Managing Director, Tata Industries Ltd. handed over the coveted Tata Crucible trophy and cash prize of Rs. 4 lakhs to the winning team, along with a host of other attractive prizes. Three teams - Accenture, Savoir Faire and Chennai Silk - were tied for the runner-up position. Speaking on the occasion Mr. Kishor Chaukar said, "It has been very satisfying to see the quality & quantity of response Tata Crucible has been able to elicit over the last few years. The teams have shown an incredible depth of knowledge and a very fascinating and at times amusing flight of imagination while answering the questions. From what I have seen in India and internationally, these teams are a match to the best in the world. Tata Crucible has been a terrific success for all concerned."

In the internal track held for Tata companies, the team comprising Mr. Suresh Kumar and Mr. Aniruddha Dutta from TCS emerged victorious and received the Tata Crucible trophy and cash prize of Rs. 4 lakhs. The runner-up in the internal track was the team from mjunction Services consisting of Mr. Debasish Mukherjee and Mr. Subashish Dey.

Additional prizes to the winners were given from Ascot (the formal men's wear range from Westside), Croma, Ginger, Tata Steel, Titan, Tata Indicom and Tata Housing.

Congratulations to the Tirupur Tughlaqs for having made it that far, and almost going the entire mile. You've made us proud.

Updates

Heylo ppl,

There's three quizzes coming up in coimbatore this weekend.

First up is an intercollegiate general quiz at PSG Tech. Teams of two.

Date : 2 october Time : 3 PM

Intercollegiate AudioVisual Quiz at PSG Tech. Teams of two each

Date : 3 October Time : 9 AM

Total prize money > 10K

The Chamber Quiz at Ramakrishna kalyana mandapam. Teams of two.

Date: 3 octover Time: 10 AM

It is humanly possible to go to two out of the three above. See you there. ;)

Updates!

And we're back. Again! (This is kinda becoming a catchphrase for almost every post in this blog :P )After a brief hiatus, owing to supreme laziness of a few people and supreme lack-o'-time-ness of a few others. And oh, the absence of a few pen drives with quizzes on them as well.

Here's a list of the quizzes that you can look forward to in the weeks to come.

MCET Quiz -- Mahalingam College of Engineering & Technology,

Pollachi, September 18

Team of two, College students only

Rahulan writes…

We had conducted a School Quiz on "Glorious India" in the month of August (which our own Atula triumphed.... thanx to her for introducing CQC to me)......

Our college is conducting a technical symposium this month on 18th & 19th of "September." The main event is the Master Mind, Inter-college Quiz, held by GYAN, The Quiz Club of MCET.

This time, the quiz is all about Entertainment Industry.... It'll range all the fields including movies, music, comics, computer games, arts, literature, sports.... u name it, we've got it!!

The quiz will have online prelims, but held in our campus, followed by the Final on-stage which will have the top 6 teams prevailing in the prelims.

Both the Preliminary & the Final will happen on 18th September. The prelims will happen in the morning & the final will happen in the evening @ 4PM.

Please convey this message to all the college students of CQC.

It is my personal request that the CQCians should make it & show my college students what hard core quizzing is all about!!

Biz Whiz - PSG CAS Sunday September 20^th

Open Quiz Team of two

Registration starts at 11 am.

Resilience Quiz - SRIT

For college students only

Date : 25th of September (Friday)
Venue : SRIT, Pachapalayam, Coimbatore.
Prize Money: I prize Rs. 2000
II prize Rs. 1500
III prize Rs. 1000 (tentative)
Reaching SRIT: 4.5 km from Perur temple. College bus available from all major parts of the city. If not college bus, then own vehicle is preferable.

Krishna College of Technology Quiz – September 26th

Team of two, College students only

Prelims and finals on September 26^th.

The Chamber Quiz Sunday October 4^th

Open Quiz Team of two

Venue and time to be finalized.

The CMAT Quiz – Date and timings once we receive confirmation.

Our own CQC open on September 27th :)

Quite a handful, innit?

And for those of you who'd like to check out the quizzes from the previous weeks, here are the links.

Sticky's quiz
School quiz (Ashwin's Indian history quiz and Atulaa's Etymology quiz)
Shyam's maiden quiz. (Maiden as in first :P )

Till next time then! Whenever that is.

Shyam turns 1

So now Shyam of Amrita turned quizmaster last week. :) this was what he had to offer.

Quiz Final1

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