Quintessential Theory

Quiz: Business Quiz

Host: Goa Institute of Management

Date: 01 March 2008

Venue: The International Centre, Donapaola, Goa

QM: Mr. Ajay Anthony

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Quiz: ET in Campus ‘08 (Earlier called ET in the Classroom) - Bangalore Edition

Quizmaster: Pickbrain

Date: 3 March 2008 (Monday)

Venue: Gurunanak Bhavan, Vasanthnagar, Bangalore

Time: 1400 hrs

Winners: ICFAI Business School (Karthik & Pareekshit)

Quiz: Business Quiz

Part of : Megabucks ‘08

Host: IIT-Kanpur

Date: 01 March 2008 

QM: Satyajit Chetri

Open to: Everyone (Teams of maximum 4)

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Quiz : Business Quiz 

Part of: Chrysalis ‘08

Host: LIBA, Chennai

QM: Derek O’ Brien

Date: 02 March 2008

Open to: Everyone (Teams of 2)

Official Website: Click Here

Quizzes :

1.General Quiz

2.Business Quiz

3.Lit-Ent Quiz

4.Sports Quiz

5.Lone Wolf

6. India Quiz

Part of: Spring Spree ‘08

Host: National Institute of Technology, Warangal

Date: 7-9 March 2008

Open to: College students with a valid ID card (Teams of 3)

Contact : shovik@springspree.org / www.springspree.org

Download brochure : www.springspree.org/brochure.pdf

For brand Equity Quiz 2008 Updates, Click here

Quizmaster: Derek O Brien

THE BRAND EQUITY QUIZ ‘08 (popularly known as BEQ ‘08 )

Official Website: Click Here

12 March ‘08: Calcutta - TCS

14 March ‘08: Ahmedabad- Triton Communications

17 March ‘08: Delhi - SAP Labs

19 March ‘08: Indore - Bhilai Steel Plant

24 March ‘08: Cochin - Malayala Manorama

26 March ‘08: Chennai- Citibank

28 March ‘08: Hyderabad - JWT Mindset

31 March ‘08: Bangalore - Kotak Life

02 April ‘08: Pune - TCS

03 April ‘08: Mumbai - Deutsche Bank

20 April ‘08- National Final- TCS, Kolkata

Reply (from the organizers) to the below ‘query’ raised by me can be found by clicking here..

Dear All,

This message might come as a surprise to many.. An intolerant one to few… Why is Rohit being a pest , many would say!
The simple reason is that I believe the best team must always win.. But they must rightly be a team…

When I questioned Giri about allowing ICAI students before Crucible started, he said the Tatas take the call..

I wanna shed some light on Crucible qualifications before getting into the heart of my message..

Tata Crucible (in Bangalore for example) differentiates the teams from Christ College on the basis of BBM/ BCom and MBA.. This has been the case for a number of years.. No one has questioned it..

But this year, Crucible crosses the limit and lets 2 students affiliated to ICAI (institute of Chartered Accountants) participate as a team immaterial of which company they audit for.. maybe next year you could just let ppl with a correspondence degree from IGNOU also participate…

Well, if Tatas and the QM think its right, so be it… But what if the participants are not affiliated to ICAI (directly)

Now, I come to the main part of this message..

Tata Crucible Hyderabad 2008..

Winners- Anirudh Janak & Aditya N (for Aditya Nagarajan)

This team claims to be affiliated to ICAI..

A certain glance at the winner’s orkut profile gave me an insight to this team… or rather atleast one member..

Mr Aditya Nagarajan is the 3rd runners-up of BT-Acumen (South) 2007 representing BIM, Bangalore

Mr Aditya Nagarajan is the winner of Tata Crucible Hyderabad 2008 representing ICAI

Now, I know that you can write your foundation of ICAI and if you pass it you can have an ICAI certification, which you can use for future articleship. .
But is ICAI affiliation in a quiz like Tata Crucible allowed when a person is pursuing his full time MBA at a college like BIM ??

I also hear that Mr Anirudh Janak (who had even left a comment on my blog a few days back) represented Aurora College at the IPE Quiz recently conducted by Mr Deepak Karamungikar and finished 3rd.. Anirudh will also be representing Aurora College at the Tycoons ‘08 National final. For press report, click here

Inicidently, Anirudh & Aditya had represented Aurora College the last year(2007) at Tata Crucible Campus Hyderabad …

The rest is for you to ponder..

Provided below are links which have helped me dig this out…
You can peruse it.. And possibly come to your own conclusions. .

You might want to sideline this mail but just remember- MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN… ALWAYS!!

To see,

Media report mentioning Anirudh representing Aurora College at Tycoons ‘08, Click here

Report branding the above mentioned Crucible winners, click here

Report branding Aditya Acumen 3rd runners up(South Zone), Click here

Aditya’s orkut album pic showing Crucible victory, Click here

Aditya’s orkut album pic showing Acumen victory, click here

Aditya’s orkut album pic showing ‘their’ success at TC Hyd 2007, Click here

and in case these photos are deleted by the time you read it.. worry not, , mail me.. I have them on my desktop, laptop, Google & WordPress servers

Do mail me at Rohit.s.nair@gmail.com .. For i’d like to know wat the team deserves

I will make a compendium of all your replies and ‘Showcase’ it for our friends to enjoy for the rest of their life..

Cheers
Rohit

Quiz : Business Quiz

Part of: Transcend ‘08

Host: SIBM, Pune

QM: Avinash Mudaliar

Date: 24 Feb 2008

Winners: IMT, Ghaziabad ( SMS & Harkareet)

For Questions: Click here

A day after Quintessential Theory’s (with Quizkrieg) announcement of the ET in the Classroom (now being called ET in Campus) 2008 , the official schedule has been circulated.

The dates and venues are as follows ( All quizzes to be held at 2 pm)

18 Feb : Chennai- Winners: LIBA

19 Feb : Trichy - Winners: Sastra University

20 Feb: Coimbatore- Winners: PSGIM

21 Feb: Cochin- Winners: GEC, Thrissur

03 Mar: Bangalore- Winners: ICFAI Business School

The Quizmaster as usual will be Pickbrain

2 Quizzes- Tech and Business(both open)

Part of: Kritansh’08

Host: KIIT Bhubaneswar

QM: Dhananjay Shettigar

Date: 17th Feb 2008 (Both quizzes)

Prizes: Rs 40,000 cash and lots of gift vouchers.

For some questions, Click Here

Some Crucible Updates

Format: Called ‘Nano Quizzing’.. This is just a branding exercise.. Nothing changes from the normal Pickbrain quizzes.. Same old bad connect questions follow some good dry questions.. Hoping to be present in a Giri quiz someday which does not have that Lateral connect round..

Steps to the Final 6

Top 4 institutes (which means only one team from every coll, even if two teams from same college get more than the ‘cut-off’) get a direct seat in the final. The next few teams (by score- immaterial of institute) will battle for the next 2 seats in the wild card round(s). This will be completely on the buzzer..

The final has 5 rounds.. Very short quiz (assuming due to telecast constraints) Just 24 questions..

Crossword Round- Is workable and has 6 questions ( not on the buzzer)

Tata World- World of Tatas ( 4 questions on the buzzer)

Domain Expertise- Choose your topic round has 6 questions ( Not on the buzzer)

Lateral Games- The bad Pickbrain connect round ( 4 Questions on the buzzer)

Nano Round- One word/phrase clue ( 4 questions on the buzzer)

For details of Tata Crucible Hyderabad, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Ahmedabad, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Mumbai, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Cochin, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Lucknow, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Indore, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Bangalore, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Kolkata, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Chandigarh, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Delhi, click here

For details of Tata Crucible Pune, click here

For updates and reviews, register here

For updates on results, click here

Wishing all participants good luck..

Cheers

Rohit

2 Quizzes- General and Business

Part of: Drishtant ‘08

Host: BIT, Mesra (Ranchi)

QM: Gautum Ghosh

Date: 10 Feb 2008 (both the quizzes)

Prizes: Rs 30, 000 for both quizzes combines

For more details, click here 

or mail the event head at: drishtant@bitmesra.ac.in

Quiz: Biz Quiz

Host: BITS, Pilani

Part of: Interface ‘08

Open to: Students and Corporates

QM: Mitesh Agarwal

Date: 9 Feb 2008

Prizes: Rs 20,000 cash and gift vouchers

For more details, click here

or mail the event head at: bakshi.sid@gmail.com