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Namma Bengaluru!

UTPT is less than a day away and we bring to you this informal based on namma Bengaluru!

1. Established first in 1982 by Mr. Narayana Rao, a BSc Agriculture major and a diploma holder in Hotel Management, it initially started as a fast-food joint selling three flavours-Hot Chocolate Fudge, Hot Butter Scotch and Chocolate Mint, priced at just Rs.6.Over the years, it evolved to the form as we know it today, with several outlets all over Bangalore,selling the most unique creations, the most popular among them named in a manner that makes it sound like a blissful form of execution. ID the establishment and the popular creation.

2. This road, SH87, begins from the Adugodi cemetery and goes through Jigni, and finally reaches Anekal town. It was originally named Anekal road, but later renamed after the most popular tourist attraction on the way. What is the name of the road today?

3. This building, the ground floor of which is occupied by the first ever “Café Coffee Day Square” used to house an iconic establishment which also lent its name to the intersection where it is located. Which establishment?

4. The logo of this transport service launched a few years ago in Bangalore seems to be the name of the service in English at first sight, but a closer look reveals that, when read along the diagonal, it reads the same in the Kannada script.ID this direction based transportservice launched in 2008.

5. Oriental Cuisines Private Limited, founded by foodie, professor, restaurateur & entrepreneur M Mahadevan in 1994, runs 3 restaurants serving different cuisine styles in the same building on Ulsoor Road. One of them means iron plate and refers to a style of cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food. The second is derived from ‘five colours’and refers to a kind of porcelain. The third name gives you asense of ownership of a state in India .Name all three restaurants.

6. Train number 17303/4, an express of the Indian Railways, lies between Yeshwantpur (Bangalore) and Mysore in Karnataka. This comes under the South Western Railway. In 2011, this train was given a more endearing name, something fitting to that particular section of the country. Perhaps a tiger or M.K.Gandhi will one day board the express. What name?

7. _______ is a Bangalore based initiative with the motto,"Kaam chalu mooh bandh. Stop Talking, Start Doing.”. It is an anonymous group of volunteers who help in ‘spot fixing‘ at various locations. Which initiative is being talked about here?

8. This temple is said to have been originally built by the Chalukya ruler Jagadekamalla I inthe 7th century AD, and rebuilt by the Maratha chieftain Parashuram Agale in the 18th century. The deity, a form of Parvati, gets its name because the temple is situated in the Tilakaaranya forest in Bagalkot district in North Karnataka. The deity is also called Shakambari.Name the temple, which is also the name of the deity.

9. While designing the logo for this Bangalore-based project, it’s creators are said to have designed it with the purpose of reviving the traditional rangoli art while depicting the seamless, continuous connectivity of the _____, covering all parts of the city. Which project is being talked about here?

10. ‘X’ is a global semiconductor design & manufacturing company. It is a leader in semiconductor solutions for analog and digital embedded and signals processing. It is responsible for the title silicon valley in Bangalore. Which company does X refer to?

11. Mysore _______ are strict vegetarians whose chief occupations were studying the Vedas,Priesthood and so on. After learning baking techniques from Kerala, they established theBakery business in leading cities in South India, including Bangalore. _______ Bakeries are known for quality, hygiene and non usage of saturated animal fat in their products. FITB[Blank not indicative of size]

12. A _______ is the fruiting body of a subterranean Ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber. Some ________ are highly prized as a food and have been referred to as"the diamond of the kitchen” and are held in high esteem in French, Georgian, Greek,Italian, Middle Eastern and Spanish cooking, as well as in international haute cuisine. In Bangalore, ________ is the name of a popular student hangout, known for its mouthwatering burgers and desserts, with the tagline ‘Even when you’re not hungry!’ Have you found the answer yet?

By Swathi H(ECE), Sumedha Bhat(ECE)

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Fast and the Furious

1. X-Y is a car body style that has evolved through several distinct meanings over its history.X-Y originated as an early 19th century British term for a vehicle used to carry X parties with their equipment and game. The term Y was initially a chassis used to break in horses —and was subsequently used to describe a motorized vehicle. The term was later applied to custom-built wagons by high-end coach builders and subsequently became synonymous with station wagon or estate. In contemporary usage, the term X-Y has broadened to include a range of vehicles from five-door station wagons — to three-door models combining features of a wagon and a coupé.

2. ____ _____ was an amalgamation of four German automobile manufacturers viz Audi, Horch, Wanderer, DKW (Dampf-Kraft-Wagen), founded in 1932 and established in 1936 in Chemnitz, Saxony, during the Great Depression. The company evolved into present-day Audi and is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.

3. The Harburger Transporter and model TN of Mercedes Benz, are two best sellers in its list of transport vehicles because of their versatility in application and ease of maintenance. The fame that the former gained in the market led to its introduction in India under a different banner and name badge, followed by the latter. How do we better know these two market kings of their respective times?

4. This car is considered India’s first indigenously developed passenger car. The car was rebadged and released in the British market as City Rover by MG Rover, (which according to Top Gear journalist James May, was the worst car that he had ever driven in the programme :D This ugly car was the reason why MG Rover went defunct in April 2005).Car hesru Enu!

5. Duster : TerranoPulse : Micra_____ : Sunny

6. Initially wood was used in this part of vehicles due to its good compressive strength.Later, with the advent of sporting variants of the vehicles, it was observed that wood could not bear the heavy shocks which proved fatal to the part. Engineers then discovered that the failure of the part was because they tried to store the energy of the shock in compression. So they reversed the idea to store the same in tension. What did This lead to the creation of?

7. The Indian Army felt that the Maruti gypsy had become too old, hence needed a Hummer for its operations. Mahindra & Mahindra came up with the solution. What solution?

8. MTT president hired Christian Travert, a former bike racer and custom builder, to build him a super bike. The bike genius fitted a Rolls Royce Allison Model 250 helicopter engine into a bike’s body and thus, X was born. Gimme X..!

9. RE200, Ape, King, Minidor are all models of what?

10. X-Y Automobiles, founded on 12th Oct 2014, by the merger of X and Netherlands based holding company, is a multinational company and the world’s 7th largest auto maker. X-Y now operates through two main subsidiaries: X in Europe and Y in the US with many well-known automotive marquees including Alfa Romeo, Dodge, SRT, Jeep, Lancia, Abarth,Mopar, Ram Trucks, also Ferrari and Maserati and obviously X and Y. X-Y?

By Manu (ECE)

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Revisit Your Childhood

As we begin our countdown to UTPT, which is 90s themed, we bring to you this informal quiz, based on Disney- a huge part of the 90s and our childhood!

1. In the 1936 cartoon short Mickey's Rival; the second X was introduced as Mickey's competitor for Minnie's affections. In the comics, this X was briefly renamed Montmorency Rodent (pronounced "Ro-Dawn"), in an attempt to differentiate him from the pre-existinguncle, but the new name did not stick. Mickey's rival was once again called X in latercomics. ID X.

2. Aladdin needed to become a Prince in order to court Princess Jasmine. The Genie obliges and turns him into a Prince. The Prince’s name is made to sound similar to that of Ali Baba. What is the name of this Prince?

3. A lovable marsupial has its name split in 2 to give the names for this mother-son duo. The mother is the only female in the series while the son loves to bounce. The son’s name means soul in Hindi. This marsupial was the inspiration for a very motherly Pokémon.

4. This Swahili phrase means “No Worries” and in accordance with true Disney style hasbeen turned into one of the most popular songs on the planet.ID the phrase and/or song.

5. X very famous Disney characters are all portrayed as having a happy lifestyle that is typical to that of their race according to mythology. They are happy enough but their names are thought to represent the X stages of cocaine addiction. Identify the characters spoken about here and name them if you can :P

6. The Python Molorus was actually a mentor to the protagonist of the story but Disney believed that at the time, the general public would not accept a python as a heroic character, so they twisted the character into the secondary antagonist of the movie. Name the Pythonwho always has an issue with his s-s-s-sinus.

7. The Snow Queen (The story on which Frozen is supposedly based on) is a story whereThe Snow Queen kidnaps a little boy. She kisses him causing him to lose his memory andtakes him to her castle and his friend Gerda spends her entire childhood looking forhim. What made Disney change their minds about Elsa being the evil Snow Queen?

8. X's appearance in a very famous Disney Princess movie is an amalgamation of several animals. It's said he has the head of a buffalo, the brow of a gorilla, the body of a bear, themane of a lion, the tusks of a boar, and the legs and tail of a wolf. ID X.

9. Wall-E is an adorable little robot who cleans up garbage on the abandoned planet formerly known as Earth. He falls in love with another robot called Eve and their story turns out to be a very adorable love story. Who is Wall-E named after?

10. The singing quartet of vultures from Disney's Jungle Book was not voiced by Y who they are inspired from. However, the cartoon characters retain the shaggy hair, caricatured personas and distinct English accents. ID Y.

11. There was a controversy over the formation of dust during a certain scene. Activist Donald Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association, asserted that the dust gathered to form the word "SEX" if you looked at a freeze frame of the scene and was an intentional subliminal message aimed at promoting sexual promiscuity. The producers saidthat really it was meant to be "SFX," as a reference to the special effects team that wasworking on the movie. Which movie are we talking about?

12. Which Disney Palace is modeled after one of the 7 Wonders of the World? Hint: The place where the palace is in sounds similar to the place where the Wonder issituated.

13. A certain Disney character's comics was banned in Finland for a certain reason. The reason that most of us know of is actually a myth. The actual reason was that politicians in Helsinki decided they were wasting taxpayers’ money on mindless American comics and that these comics were polluting the youth's mind. So they were cut from the library budget. Which character and what was the myth?

By Rishab Nagraj (2nd Year,CSE), Samiksha M (2nd Year, CSE)

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Here's the schedule for UTPT 2k15

Day 1 (26th Feb)

Sakkath Sawaal (The Karnataka Quiz)

Day 2 (27th Feb)

IndiGenius (The India Quiz) Toonwiz (Cartoon Quiz) Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz

Day 3 (28th Feb)

Varun Krishnamurthy Memorial Game Theory (Sports Quiz) Lieut-en-ent (Literature and Entertainment Quiz)

Day 4 (1st March, RV Teachers College Campus)

The Major Quiz (Gen Quiz) Magnum Open (Open Quiz)

The good, the Brand and the Ugly

Informals on Brands! Try your hand at this one. 1. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with the team leader exhorting his team to "use their imagination" ("Fantasie" in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "______!". What are we talking about?

2. This company was founded in 1929 in Bombay, British India by the Chauhan family of Bombay. The company is named after a particular area in Mumbai, which derives its name from two temples, Virleshwar and Parleshwar located in that area. In 1947, when India became independent, the company launched an ad campaign showcasing _____ as an Indian alternative to the British _____. The brand became well known in India following the success of its products. Identify the company.

3. The company XY was stated by William X , a candle maker and James Y , a soap maker.After the invention of the electric bulb in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison their business crashed. Their business was revived when a factory worker accidentally left a soap making machine on, leading to the invention of a type of floating soap. Name the conglomerate XY,which has business ranging from laundry soaps to shaving products.

4. Jean René _____ was a French tennis player and businessman, who was nicknamed "The Crocodile" by his fans because of his tenacity on the court. Though he won 7 Grand Slams from 1924-1929, he is now popularly known for the creation of which brand?

5. The name of which product was decided after the first six names were rejected by the inventor?

6. In the early 20th century, the Mysore Kingdom was one of the largest producers of X in the world. It was also one of the major exporters of X, most of which was exported to Europe. During the First World War, large reserves of X were left over because they could not be exported due to the war. In order to make good use of these reserves, the king of Mysore, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, established the brand in 1916 at Bangalore which used the oil from X to manufacture its major product. Identify the brand.

7. Connect:Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Jaguar Land RoverLandmark BookstoresVoltasAirAsiaStarbucks

8. In 1971, BRS (Blue ribbon sports) decided to launch its own brand, which would first appear on a football boot called the X, manufactured in Mexico. Davidson designed the logo of this company and was paid 35$ for her services. After X became very famous, Davidson was presented a diamond ring engraved with the X and an envelope filled with 500 X stock as gratitude by the owner. What is X? Name the symbol.

9. M’s first product was soap. In order to sell the soap, M offered free baking powder. The baking powder became more popular than the soap leading to his switch to baking powder.To help sell his baking powder, he offered X for free. Eventually X became even more famous and today he leads in the production of X. Identify M (person) and X (brand).

10. Originally, the company X was to be called Pequod, after the whaling ship from Moby-Dick, but his name was rejected by some of the co founders. The company was instead named after the chief mate on the Pequod, X. The influence of Moby-Dick is loosely noticed in its logo. Identify X.

11. The X Corporation was formed in 1649 when a Dutch merchant named Peter Thorwöste was given a charter to establish a Blast Furnace and forging operation in the small village of X-Bruk. In the early years, X made nails, wire, hoes, and metal reinforced wheels from wrought iron but is famous for a totally different product, ______. The company’s first pair of orange colored _____ was first produced in 1967. Identify the company X and fill in the blanks.

12. This company was incorporated in December 1945, in Mumbai . It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, Maharashtra, under the trade names of Kisan, Sunflower and Camel. Today, its major revenues are from a totally different source. It is now the one of the 4 Indian companies which are a part of the Open Handset Alliance (which makes Android OS based smartphones). The company logo still contains a sunflower to reflect products of the original business. Which company?

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Use your Comic Sense!

The Second Informal Quiz is here. For those of you who love comics, this one's for you!

1. Portrayed as narcissistic, whimsical, absent-minded, and talkative, X has a difficult timeremembering Y's name. X confuses Y's name with malapropisms such as "Paddock", "Harrock", "Padlock", "Hopscotch", "Drydock", "Stopcock", "Maggot", "Bartok", "Hammock", and "Hemlock". Identify X and Y.

2. Dick Grayson Jason Todd Tim Drake _________ This is an exhaustive list containing four names. Give the last name on this list and/or what this is about.

3. A pair of Katanas, a pair of Nunchucks, a pair of Sai and a Bo staff are all used as weapons in the martial arts. Name the crime fighting group and its members associated with these weapons.

4. The Indian adaptation of Marvel's Spider Man is set in the town of Mumbai. The characters' names are a phonetic distortions of those that occur in the actual Spider-Man comics. Where Peter Parker is Pavitra Prabhakar, Aunt May is Aunt Maya, Harry Osborne is Hari Oberoi and Uncle Ben is Uncle Bhim, who is Mary Jane?

5. Common themes in this comic include the main character's sarcasm, laziness and obsessive eating and was one of the first medias to spread the disdain of Mondays and diets among all its readers. Set in the town of Muncie, Indiana, what comic is this?

6. These are members of which superhero allegiance:  Cannonball  Captain Universe  Ex Nihilo  Hyperion  Manifold  Nightmask  Shang-Chi  Smasher  Star Brand

7. These stories, not often known for their comical nature have a long and complex prehistory. They can be translated as "whimsical drawings" or "impromptu sketches and are typically printed in black and white. Marketeers primarily classify them by the age and gender of the target readership. After a series has run for a while, publishers often collect the episodes together and print them in dedicated book-sized volume. What are these stories better known as?

8. This word ______, intended to be used as a slang in the English Dictionary has the following meaning(s).  A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents.  A stupid or oafish person. This word owes its origin to E.C.Segar's famous comic strip series in the 1930s, popular even today. It comes from a character in the comics called Alice the _______. What’s the good word and which comic strip?

9. This popular comic strip follows the story of a shaggy, scruffy, overweight, red-bearded Viking who regularly raids England and sometimes France. The juxtaposition of contrary qualities is what cartoonists think that makes this character endearing to the reader. Featured in over 1,900 newspapers across 58 countries, ID the character or the comic.

10. Forsythe P Jones III is better known by his nickname X. Although being the best friend of the protagonist Y of this comic book, he is shown as a lazy glutton and has (certain) opinions conflicting with those of Y. Give X and Y.

11. Usually dressed in a polka dotted attire, X's wife is a fat, dominating lady who is the boss of the house and occasionally battles thieves and goons with a rolling pin. When Y, an alien from the planet Jupiter visits earth, he decides to stay after tasting delicious parathas and halwas made by X's wife and thereafter has a daily meal of 108 chapatis, 12 kilos of halwa, and about 20 litres of lassi and is the main brawn in this comic series. Identify X and Y.

12. In the 1980s, graphic novelist David Lloyd created a comic strip in which the protagonist is an anarchist who battles a fascist authoritarian state. A certain feature in this comic is seen widely adapted in a number of protests around the world. Mr. Lloyd describes 'the object' as "convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny…it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way". What work of Mr. Lloyd's and what object?

By Fahad Rasul (1st year CSE) and Prineeth Ramachandra (1st year EEE)

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Eat, Quiz and Be Merry!

First Informal Quiz is here! And this one is based on something we all love-Food!

1. In the 1950’s the British tried to break the Chinese monopoly on ‘X’. The British, "using Chinese seeds, along with Chinese planting and cultivating techniques, launched a ‘X’ industry by offering land in Assam to any European who agreed to cultivate ‘X’ for export."India was considered as the largest producer of ‘X’ in recent times but in 21st century India was displaced by China. ID ‘X’.

2. This breakfast item is shaped like small baskets with the help of jack fruit leaves, filled with batter and steamed. The use of jack fruit leaves adds a distinguishing aroma to the dish. It is usually prepared during Ganapathi festival and is served along with sprouted moong side dish (mooga mole randayi). What?

3. ’X’ known to be one of South India’s best breakfast, has its origins linked to Udupi. The Tamil X is softer and thicker whereas the one from Udupi became more popular throughout India. Name the ‘X’.

4. 'X' originated from the kitchen of Thanjavur Marathas ruler Shahuji in Tamilnadu. Shahji wanted to make a dish called “amti”, where he experimented with pigeon peas instead of mung bean and tamarind pulp for kokum (Garcinia Indica) and the court named it 'X' after the guest of the day, ‘Y’, second emperor of the Maratha Empire. ID ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

5. ‘X’ is said to have been first introduced by restaurant, Moti Mahal, located in Daryaganj. It is thought that ‘X’ was hastily prepared by a Delhi eatery chef post dinner time for a harried VIP customer who wanted “some” ________ dish. A chef named Simon Mahli Chahal first prepared this when he only had half of a Tandoori chicken which he tossed with liberal amounts of butter, tomato, and garam masala to improvise for a dish he was supposed to make for the ruler of Mareelun. He forgot to buy enough ingredients and so he ended up with this dish. Gimme X.

6. Kakasura Madappa was one finest cooks in Krishnaraja Wodeyar dynasty. He once came up with a sweet by mixing gram flour,ghee and sugar. He didn’t have a name so he just simply called it as 'X' meaning “A sweet from [this region]”. What sweet?

7.‘X’ is typically served with a chutney which is made out of shredded coconut, tamarind pulp and garlic. This dish was initially a cheap meal for the poor in Maharashtra. But, due to its taste, it has become so popular that many sophisticated hotels have also started dishing it out, that too at high prices. However, ‘X’ is still regarded as a humble dish and many people have it for breakfast, lunch and even dinner. What dish?

8. ‘X’ is dehusked rice which is flattened into flat light dry flakes. These flakes of rice swell when added to liquid, whether hot or cold, as they absorb water, milk or any other liquids. The thickness of these flakes vary between almost translucently thin to nearly four times thicker than a normal rice grain. X enu?

9. This dish originated in the Magadha region of India which today, is Bihar. It is called Phulki in this region but is known by another name 'X' in the rest of India. The 'X' literally translates to “watery bread”. The filling is made by lightly mashing boiled potatoes with black salt, salt, some spices and a generous portion of tamarind pulp. Name 'X'.

10. The origin of this dish is traced to textile mill workers in Mumbai in the 1850s.The mill workers used to have lunch breaks too short for a full meal, and a light lunch was preferred to a heavy one, as the employees had to return to strenuous physical labor after lunch. A vendor created this dish using items or parts of other dishes available on the menu. Roti or rice was replaced with ‘X’ and the curries that usually go with Indian bread or rice were amalgamated into just one spicy concoction, the 'Y'. Initially, it remained the food of the mill-workers. With time the dish found its way into restaurants. ID “XY”? 11. ‘X’ is a milk-solids based dessert. In India, milk solids are prepared by heating milk over a low flame for a long time until most of the water content has evaporated. These milk solids, known as khoya in Pakistan and India, are kneaded into a dough, sometimes with a pinch of flour, and then shaped into small balls and deep fried at a low temperature of about 148 °C. The balls are then soaked in a light syrup flavored with green cardamom and rosewater, kewra saffron. ‘X’ is often served at weddings and birthday parties. ‘X’? 12. ‘X’, is baked at high temperatures (450 °F or 232 °C), causing the flattened rounds of dough to puff up dramatically. When removed from the oven, the layers of baked dough remain separated inside the deflated ‘X’, which allows the bread to be opened to form a pocket. However, ‘X’ is sometimes baked without pockets and is called "pocket-less X".‘X’ can be used to wrap kebabs, gyros or falafel in the manner of sandwiches. It can also be cut and baked into crispy chips. ‘X’?

13. ’X’ is a food common in the Gujarat gram flour. Generally eaten as a snack, it is mostly served with roughly chopped onions, sev, fried chilies sprinkled with salt and chutney. In some shops it is also served traditionally in a large green leaf. Sometimes it is also garnished with scraped coconut.’X’ sometimes part of the Gujarati Thaali (cuisine) is an almost identical dish of dhokla in look but, actually has lot many variations with its batter and its taste in comparison with X. What’s ‘X’?

By Amogh Shetty (2nd Year CSE)

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UTPT 2015 is here.

8 quizzes. Insane prizes. And this time, we're going back to the 90's. Come be a part of UTPT 2015.

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Saarang 2015

"All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go..." My excitement knew no bounds. It was the 7th of January 2015, the day I had been eagerly anticipating for the whole of my first semester at RVCE. The beginning of my first ever trip to the vast paradise that is IIT-Madras for Saarang 2015. Boarding the train with my fellow Quizcorpers, seniors and juniors alike, I couldn't wait to participate in the various events and get cracking at the quizzes.Over plenty of train 'chai', countless games of charades and loads of good music, we first years got to know each other, our seniors and a little bit of the legacy that is Quiz Corps.

Chennai was as hot as I expected. (No, hotter and a lot more humid) but the sight of the beach on our drive to the IIT campus had everyone in high spirits. When we first got there, us first years were enthralled by the beauty and size of the campus. After a lot of exploration and meandering, we decided to hit the beach at Besant Nagar. It was a wonderful time, football on the beach, playing in the waves and dinner at Murugan Idly, all the while waiting eagerly for the quizzes the next day.

The quizzes were mindblowing! (as expected). The Buzzer quiz and the Biz-tech quizzes were the first two quizzes at Saarang. I had never felt so excited, so nervous and so ecstatic(at having cracked a question) at any quiz before. The finals were literally a nail biting finish. The finalists were buzzing before we could even complete reading the question! That night after many games of wolf, bluff and wandering the campus, (with deer occasionally strolling across our paths), we finally fell asleep to a suprisingly cold night at IIT-M. The next day was filled with even more events. The SpEnt quiz was really tough, with hi-fi funda and remote connects. But as an Ent enthusiast, I still loved it. The Lone Wolf prelims were next, where a lot of us quizzers discovered our strengths and weaknesses.

That night we headbangers went crazy at the amazing rock concert where Paradigm shift opened for Aussie band Karnivool. The Lone Wolf Finals followed beginning at 1.45 at night. And then there were few. The Finals were a test of endurance and grit along with sheer brain power. And finally The India Quiz. After a week full of events like Whats the Good Word, Treasure Hunt, Cluedo and so many nail biting quizzes, this was a quiz that us Indians knew we would ace. With amazing questions and wonderfully Indian fundas, we ended our quizzing spree at IIT-M.

Another night of wonderful music from Agam and Sunidhi Chauhan followed and for those of us who didn't have tickets, roaming the beautiful moonlit campus listening to the reverberations and cheers was good enough. After taking pictures and selfies to our hearts fill at the main IIT addas (Gajendra Circle, Gurunath, the IRCTC and Kickstart Cafes) and loads of milkshakes and noodles, it was finally time to head home to Bangalore. Tired yet extremely proud of those Quizcorpers who had made it to the finals at different quizzes, we bid farewell to the sprawling campus, the deer and the late night explorations into the vastness of IIT-M. It had been one huge package of fun, quizzing and much more, snowballing into a wonderful experience and plenty of bonding for all Quizcorpers. The fun had not ended yet and charades and taboo and 20 questions on the train just kept us in splits on the way back. Back at Bangalore on 12th January at night, we parted ways at the cold Bangalore station, with the memory of an amazing trip and an unforgettable experience etched into our minds!

Signing off,

Shruti Muralidharan

As told by a first year: Fresher's Quiz 2014

Being an avid fan of all things quiz related, I spent most of my first few weeks in RVCE eagerly waiting for the Freshers Quiz 2014 that was to be conducted by RV QuizCorp. As I walked into the IEM auditorium on 28th August 2014, the excitement, tension and nerves set in immediately and I couldn't wait to get started and get cracking. The team gave us a quick run through of how they work, organise, plan and execute amazing quizzes with a wonderful presentation by Sai Krishna and a video by Varun Kashyap and Rajath Dani. It had us in splits and was so intriguing and insightful at the same time (Sherlock stole the show) but then came the really fun stuff! Students from all branches were huddled in teams of two and three in eager anticipation, thinking of cool names for their teams and waiting for the preliminary round to begin. For the people who had come in thinking that quizzes are boring, a humongous surprise was in store. The prelim, pieced together by the third years, covered everything from sports, trivia and entertainment to general knowledge, music and current affairs. The quiz master kept us on our toes throughout the quiz; bombarding us with connect questions, tough to crack picture and audio clues and plenty of other mind boggling puzzles and hard to decipher pieces. From Porky pig and Woodstock 1969 to The FIFA World Cup and Bill Gates, the quiz master just kept it coming and we loved it!

The adrenalin rush lasted throughout the quiz of 20 questions and we couldn't wait to see how much we had scored. With lots of “Oohs”, “Aahs”, “We should have cracked this one!” and friendly fighting amongst team mates, we concluded a wonderful, exciting session of quizzing. The Freshers Quiz for most of us was our first insight into the amazing world of college quizzing and we’ll spend sleepless nights waiting to participate in and eventually help host such amazing quizzes with RV QuizCorp. Quizzing shows you the intriguing ways in which the mind works and how it can achieve so much more. All it needs is a little push. I am looking forward to a lot more quizzing and brain teasing fun in the four years to come.

Shruti Muralidharan

I Sem, Mechanical Engineering

Edit: The introductory video referred to can be found here. Here's a link to the list of finalists. Check back soon for venue and timings!

INTACH Heritage Quiz 2014

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage or INTACH, in short, recently held a national level Inter-College Quiz Competition at RV College of Engineering, Bangalore and RV QuizCorp had the honour of helping them with the organization of the event, and also participate in the competition on the 24th based on the world famous heritage and amazing culture of India and Indians!!

The Quiz Master for the day was Kunal Sarvarkar, who kept the crowd engaged with his witty humour and references (one of them being a Pink Floyd one!). The quiz had a wide range of questions, some of which had us excitedly discussing the answers, some of which had us pondering over it and making guesses at the answer and some others that left us stumped and curious. The audience actively participated, never missing a chance at winning some goodies in the form of books (generously provided by Hachette) when the QM asked them tricky questions pertaining to the subject. On the whole, the quiz was a good one, in terms of its variety and quality. The most entertaining bit was the numerous retakes of the quiz as it was being recorded by Doordarshan(DD) channel for being telecasted later on.

3 teams from RV (QC) qualified to the finals along with 3 other teams from different colleges. The winner of the quiz was one of the teams from RV, and the runner-up was a team from PESU. The various stages of the quiz were filmed and will be broadcast soon on DD National.

To those Freshers who turned up at this quiz, we hope you had fun quizzing and got an insight as to how quizzing at the college level works. Hope to see more of you peeps in the upcoming quizzes!

A big shout out to all QC volunteers on the day for helping out, and also congratulations to Sumukh, Sagar and Nikhil for being placed first. Not to forget the other two teams comprising of Srihari, Kishore, Anurag, Shreyas, Saketh, Sudeep who made it to the finals.

Until the next quiz, cheers!!

Signing off,

Pavitra Tagore.

Freshers Quiz 2014: IEM Auditorium, 28th August 2014, 3.30 pm.

Whether you've known the eighteen (and growing) moons of Saturn since forever or are just interested in the free air-conditioning for an hour or two, come check out the fresher's quiz for 2014. Form teams of three and get ready for a battle of wits. You're bound to have fun and learn a thing or two.

PS: This is NOT an audition. Also, open to first years only.

Venue and timings to be announced shortly. Stay tuned to this page for further updates.

To the Prince... I knew - RIP Varun

By Rajan (Casillas)

It was my final year of Engineering - two semesters and a few months as a active member of RV QuizCorp. While many of my seniors were around; it was and is just not the same if you are out of college - a feeling till date I have, whenever I attend (and so rarely) one of the RVQC hosted quizzes or the OTRs.

Back in the college, I loved sports quizzing over other topics and probably movies gave a good run to my otherwise heavy inclination towards sports. It was after the fresher's quiz in 2005 I met two bright students - both shy and had passion for quizzing and the excitement was to be seen if and when the question remotely came close to having a sporting connection.

I guess being a three-year senior didn't matter to us as 'sports' ended up being the ice breaker.

'Varun' as I called him lived close to my house. On most occasions he was my pillion while on our way back home. It was not a surprise that we talked a lot of about sports and I was impressed with the fact that he was ears when I went about talking. Over the course of few months in his first semester, we participated in quite a few 'Sports Quizzes' held in Bangalore. He became my teammate for two member teams and Aditya (Bagri) joined us for the teams of three event.

What do I recall? A shy, nervous guy of 18 years uttering the word 'Pickles' when asked to identify the dog's name on the screen. Probably, I remember the incident vividly as it happened to be our first quiz together and he answered it while I was struggling to recall the name correctly. We came second in that open quiz. He was excited like a kid and I remember the joy he had - while we were having some tea at his place that evening. His mum joined in as well. And not to forget him being a ardent supporter of Liverpool FC.

There is a tradition in RV QuizCorp - about not losing finals at the NLS Sports Quiz. NLS hosted one of the best sports quizzes in town and being in the final year - there were expectations. Let's say we nailed it as a team and I was happy to see these two 'young' sports enthusiasts would take 'the strong sports tradition of Quiz Corp' forward. That was 2005!

He visited my place often and we would end up spending a lot of them just talking about sports! We kept in touch after my college graduation. We met at the OTRs or the UTPT which I attended till 2008. I was out of India by the time he graduated in 2009. He promptly used to send me the sports quizzes he conducted, in particular the 'Game Theory' of 2009.

Call it a three-year gap - I did not get to be an active part in his transition from a prince to be a guy known as the 'King' by his peers. To this day, I do not know the origin of his nickname but knew him a little to pen a few lines from my memory.

To Varun, RIP - You will always be remembered by me as 'the prince' and in who I saw a bit of myself whenever it came down to sports!

All Hail the King - Post by Shyam Shreyas

Manas Wi, as he calls himself now, walks up to a bunch of QuizCorpers, as we call ourselves, after a UTPT quiz, and goes, “Nice quizzes da. We have the Arbitarium, the Sports Quiz and the General Quiz at Utsav. You guys should come.” Varun hits him with, “You guys should really call these the Arbitarium, the Arbit Sports, and the Arbit General Quizzes.”

The King, may he rest in peace, always was quick-witted and sharp-tongued. Once you got to know him better, you realized that he applied the same rules to himself and was always a sport about being the butt of jokes, poor and great impressions of his rants included. He was one of the ‘cool’ quizzers, at least by my definition of having fun while quizzing than indulge in it as it were the competitive sport we often make it out to be.

He was a loyal friend, who always kept in touch and loved hanging with QC whenever he could. Datta, Cry and I met for a drink a few months before I left Bangalore and I have revisited that evening many times over in the last few hours. When I called him on one of the UTPT 2011 nights, he wrote back thanking me for the call and told me he missed hanging with QC during UTPT the most.

Being one of the ‘responsible’ seniors of QuizCorp, I am fairly certain that Kryptos (guess I’d have to explain, Kryptonite/Kryptos is my team at QC, I refuse to use the past tense here) had a significant role in introducing Varun to the ‘pleasures’ that the world had to offer and watch him grow up. He always was a fun drunk. I’m sure Jose, Soda and Raj have more stories to recount about Cry’s antics at NITK/IIT/Any given quiz fest where he was drunk.

Maybe I would have had more stories to talk about had I stayed in touch as he often pestered me to. The guilt hangs heavy. The last conversation I had with him, he was telling me how he would have loved to be in NY with the rest of us, but circumstances dictated otherwise. We had a minor disagreement, but looking back, I know I was wrong.

The King had a penchant for poking people in the eye to size them up and take them on. This time, he went too far.

The Day You've Been Waiting For

is finally here. Less than 24 hours to go for UTPT 2014, people. This time tomorrow, expect to be dazzled by fascinating facts and interesting fundae at the IEM Auditorium, RVCE.

Day 1 of UTPT ‘14 will start off with the Indi-Genius prelims followed by the first ever Sakkath Sawaal Prelims. Be there by 9.30 or you just might find yourself seated on the staircase. And bring along a friend or two, so that they may also be enlightened by the wisdom of our quizmasters. The Indi-Genius finals and the SciBizTech quiz will round up the schedule for Day 1.

Day 2 will consist of Sakkath Sawaal finals, the Literature and Entertainment quiz and Game Theory, the sports quiz.

We have some interesting informal quizzes lined up on day 3 of UTPT, including one on TV shows.

On the final day, we’ll be shifting to the massive NMKRV auditorium in Jayanagar for the general and open quizzes.

We hope to see you all there, for what promises to be an unforgettable UTPT.

PS: Please bring along your own pen/pencil/eraser/compass, we will not be supplying any writing implements.

UTPT '14 Prizes

So here’s the most important update about UTPT - prize money! Huge prize money up for grabs this time as well. Sakkath Sawaal: 1st place: ₹4000, 2nd place: ₹2000 Game Theory: 1st place: ₹9000, 2nd place: ₹7500, 3rd place: ₹6000 Indi-genius 1st place: ₹9000, 2nd place: ₹7500, 3rd place: ₹6000 Ψ-Tech: 1st place: ₹9000, 2nd place: ₹7500, 3rd place: ₹6000 Lieut-en-ent: 1st place: ₹9000, 2nd place: ₹7500, 3rd place: ₹6000 The Major Quiz: 1st place: ₹9000, 2nd place: ₹7500, 3rd place: ₹6000 The Magnum Open: 1st place: ₹18000, 2nd place: ₹15000, 3rd place: ₹12000 Additional exciting prizes: Best School Team Best College Team Best Corporate Team - See more at: http://utpt.blogspot.in/#sthash.2gFsuOhd.dpuf

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