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BOB 2013 21 Apr 2013 8:13 AM (12 years ago)


BOB 2013 Prelims from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 - Round 1 (Written Round) from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 - Round 2 (Infinite Pounce) from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 Round 3 (A2Z) from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 - Round 4 (Infinite Pounce) from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 - Round 5 (Anagrams Round) from Srisha Haridas
BOB 2013 - Tie breakers from Srisha Haridas

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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2012 - Results. 9 Nov 2012 6:34 AM (12 years ago)

The Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition was held in fifteen venues across the country this time with an additional venue overseas in Dubai. Here are the top 50 scores. All half points have been removed.






Name Score City Category
1 Jayakanthan R 72(4) Chennai Open
2 Shouvik Guha 71(6) Kolkata Open
3 Kiran Vijayakumar 68(4) Chennai Open
4 Samanth Subramnian 64.5(4) Chennai Open
5 Aniruddha Sengupta 62(2) Kolkata Open
6 Krishnamurti G 60 Dubai Open
7 P.Srikant 58(7) Kolkata College
8 Balakrishna S 58(6) Mumbai Open
9 Sumanth Srivathsan 58(4) Mumbai Open
10 Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka 56.5(5) Kolkata Open
11 Gautam Ghosh 55.5(6) Kolkata Open
12 Manu 55.5(3) Chennai Open
13 Samarth Mathur 55(3) Roorkie College
14 Krishnamurthy J 54.5 Hyderabad Open
15 Ravi Mundoli 54(6) Chennai Open
16 Aryapriya Ganguly 52 Delhi Open
17 Vinoo Sanjay 51(5) Mumbai Open
18 Vijaya Sarathy 49.5(3) Chennai Open
19 Pratik Gupte 49(4) Mumbai College
20 Srinagesh V 48.5 Hyderabad Open
21 Vikram Joshi 47(2) Mumbai Open
22 Govind Grewal 46(3) Mumbai Open
23 Pravin Varma 45(5) Mumbai Open
24 Arka Panda 45 Delhi College
25 Kunal Sawardekar 43(2) Pune Open
26 Rajiv D'Silva 42.5(2) Goa Open
27 Vibhendu Tiwari 42(4) Mumbai Open
28 Abhinav Dasgupta 42(3) Mumbai Open
29 Aditya Gadre 42(2) Mumbai Open
30 Siddharth Pai 42(2) Bangalore Open
31 Tathagata Chaterjee 42 Delhi Open
32 Ashwan Lewis 41(2) Bangalore Open
33 Keshav Krishnamurthy 41 Lucknow Open
34 Abhijit Banerjee 40(2) Kolkata Open
35 Anik Kothuri 38(3) Mumbai Open
36 Ankit Khasgiwale 38(1) Mumbai Open
37 Sharad Venugopal 37(3) Mumbai Open
38 Arvind Vijayasarathy 37(2) Hyderabad Open
39 Mustafa Hashmi 36(2) Hyderabad College
40 Anagh Mukherjee 36 Delhi College
41 Krishnaroop Chauduri 35.5 Hyderabad College
42 Aditya Bagri 35(2) Mumbai Open
43 Vivek Krishnan 34(2) Hyderabad Open
44 Pavan Bharadwaj 34 Pilani College
45 JK Lakshmi 34(1) Hyderabad Open
46 Arun A.S 33(3) Thrissur Open
47 Roshith 32 Mumbai Open
48 Prasanna Karmarkar 31.5(1) Hyderabad Open
49 Kinshuk Biswas 31.5 Kolkata Open
50 Pranjal 31(1) Kolkata College








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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition - Results 8 Sep 2011 5:47 AM (13 years ago)

Here be results.

Bangalore:
Open : Arul Mani - 93
College : Samarth Rangavittal - 37

Bhubaneswar:
Open : Sambit Mishra -32
College : Geo Thomas - 24

Chennai:
Open : Jayakanthan - 73
College : Rohit.S - 41.5

Coimbatore:
Open : Ashwin - 28
College : Vidyuth Anand - 17.5

Delhi:
Open : Udatta - 60.5
College : Ishan Chugh - 86

Goa:
Open : Aniruddha Sen Gupta - 70.5
College : Ajachi Chakrabarti - 41.5

Hyderabad:
Open : Srikant Kanthamneni - 56
College : Syed Mustafa Hashmi - 36

Kolkata:
Open : Shouvik Guha - 69
College : P. Srikant - 69

Lucknow:
College: Keshav Krishnamurthy - 46

Mumbai :
Open : Rajiv Rai - 61
College : Pratik Gupte - 29

Pune :
Open : Suraj Menon - 52
College : Vikram Keskar - 34

Pilani :
College : Krishnaroop Chaudhuri - 28

Ranchi :
College : Sameer Agrawal - 24

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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011 - Results 7 Sep 2011 5:47 AM (13 years ago)

Here are the top 50 scores as of now. This might be subject to a few changes when more results come in.

NameScoreCategoryCity

1Arul Mani93OpenBangalore

2Ishaan Chugh86CollegeDelhi

3Tejaswi udupa82OpenBangalore

4Anustup Dutta82OpenBangalore

5Arun Hiregange78OpenBangalore

6Rahul kottalgi73OpenBangalore

7Jayakanthan73OpenChennai

8Gopal Kidao71OpenChennai

9Aniruddha Sen Gupta70OpenGoa

10Movin Miranda69OpenBangalore

11Shouvik Guha69OpenKolkata

12P Srikant69CollegeKolkata

13B.Sreeram67OpenChennai

14Santosh V Swaminathan67OpenBangalore

15Ravi Mundoli63OpenChennai

16Sumeer kumar62OpenBangalore

17Rajiv Rai61OpenMumbai

18Udatta60OpenDelhi

19Sumant Srivathsan60OpenMumbai

20S Balakrishnan58OpenMumbai

21Srikant Kanthamneni56OpenHyderabad

22Alagarsamy54OpenBangalore

23Rajagopal54OpenChennai

24Vinod S Krishnan54OpenDelhi

25Ochintya Sharma54OpenBangalore

26Anil Kumar52OpenChennai

27Sudip Dey52OpenKolkata

28Suraj Menon52OpenPune

29Govind Grewal52OpenMumbai

30Anghsuman Pal49CollegeKolkata

31Vivek Krishnan49OpenHyderabad

32Rajiv D'Silva48OpenGoa

33Ananya Deb48OpenMumbai

34Vikram Joshi48OpenMumbai

35Anand Sivasankar48OpenMumbai

36Navin Rajaram47OpenBangalore

37Gautam Ghosh47OpenKolkata

38Nilay Puntambekar47CollegeKolkata

39Raghu Gopalan46OpenBangalore

40Keshav Krishnamurthy46CollegeLucknow

41Sudarshan M A45OpenBangalore

42V.Deviprasad43OpenChennai

43Pravin Varma43OpenMumbai

44Ajachi Chakrabarti41CollegeGoa

45Rohit.S41CollegeChennai

46Aryapriya Ganguly41OpenDelhi

47Ashwin41OpenChennai

48Hrishikesh Varma41OpenBangalore

49Kinshuk Biswas41OpenKolkata

50Aravind Vijaya Sarathy40OpenChennai

PS: All half points have been cancelled as of now since the key clearly said no part points. The scores might change a little after reevaluation.


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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011 - Paper 4 Sep 2011 6:53 AM (13 years ago)

The Oasis Quiz - Lonewolf Edition was successfully conducted today across fourteen venues: Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kharagpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pilani, Pune and Ranchi. We would like to express our immense gratitude to everyone who helped us out in every venue. The results and winners will be announced here soon. Keep checking here for updates. And now for the quiz itself:

Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition - 2011
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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition - 2011 Answer Key
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You can simply download the pdf here:

The Oasis Quiz - Lonewolf Edition 2011 Questions
The Oasis Quiz - Lonewolf Edition 2011 Answers



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Oasis Quiz 2011 Lonewolf Edition 20 Aug 2011 4:59 AM (13 years ago)



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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011 8 Aug 2011 7:25 PM (13 years ago)




We will be conducting the Oasis Quiz - Lonewolf Edition on September 4th 2011.
It will be a 90 minute 120 question written solo quiz, held simultaneously across various venues across the country. The quiz is open to all. The college-level winner in each venue will be invited to Pilani during Oasis, the annual cultural festival of BITS-Pilani to participate in a mega showdown. The winner here will be crowned champion and, needless to say, will win lots of money and pride and honour.

There are prizes for winners in the open as well as college category in each venue.

Keep checking this site for details and updates.

Please fill up this form to confirm your registration:


Tentative list of venues: Bangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kharagpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pilani, Pune

For queries contact: Srisha Haridas : 07891400727, srishaharidas@gmail.com


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Surprise Surprise 8 Jan 2011 6:10 AM (14 years ago)



Where would you find this?

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Oasis Quiz 2010 Lone Wolf Edition 17 Oct 2010 12:49 AM (14 years ago)

This quiz was held on 17th October 2010 simultaneously in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pilani. The top-scorers in each venue will be announced shortly here.Oasis Quiz Lone Wolf Edition - Questions
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Oasis Quiz Lone Wolf Edition - Answers
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Oasis Quiz 2010 Lone Wolf Edition 16 Oct 2010 7:27 AM (14 years ago)



Oasis is a 96-hour extravaganza of fun, colour and psychedelia. One of its flagship events is the Oasis Quiz, one of the most prestigious quizzes on the college circuit.

This October, ELAS, BITS-Pilani, brings to you an old wine in a new bottle - a lone wolf edition of the Oasis Quiz, to be held simultaneously in five venues across India.

Date: Sunday, 17th October 2010

Time: 9:30 am

Venues:
Bangalore: Auditorium, Command Hospital Air Force , Old Airport Road.
Hyderabad: BITS, Hyderabad
Chennai : Dept of Management Studies, IIT Madras
Pilani: BITS, Pilani
Mumbai: Bombay Quiz Club

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Strange Frequencies 27 Sep 2010 2:21 PM (14 years ago)

This blog needs a revival. Let me start by posting a humble question.



What structure is that in the pic above? What is it a nod to, and why?

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Brain of BITS 2010 11 Apr 2010 11:25 PM (15 years ago)

Brain of BITS 2010- Hosted by Siddharth Ravichandran

Prelims

Brain of BITS 2010 Prelims
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Finals
Brain of BITS 2010 Finals
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OASIS online Quiz 22 Oct 2009 12:27 AM (15 years ago)

Oasis Online Quiz 2009
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mail in your answers to arun@bits-oasis.org before 27th 0000 hours

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KCircle 19 Oct 2009 10:01 AM (15 years ago)

Final Quiz K Circle
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A quiz I had hosted 2 years ago at K Circle, finally got about to uploading it. Enjoy.

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SEQC Monthly Quiz 14 Oct 2009 11:55 AM (15 years ago)

SEQC Goa October Quiz
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A few questions shamelessly stolen from past quizzes set by Harsha, King and Rishabh (Vemana too).

All questions stolen from non-friends have been removed.

All my slides can be viewed here

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KCircle Quiz of the month for June 2009 22 Jun 2009 11:03 PM (15 years ago)

Quiz09
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Apologies to SumantS, and krishashok for using their photos/works without permission.

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QOTD 26 May 2009 9:58 AM (15 years ago)

This is the life restoration of what? Started quite few online discussions very recently.
M cracks this one.
The asnwer is the Darwinius Masillae, which has also been dubbed as the missing link (and later disproved if I am not wrong). Google honored it last week by making a doodle out of the fossil.

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Back After a Long Hiatus 23 May 2009 10:21 AM (15 years ago)


Should be an easy one , just connect the pics .
  

   










Answer : The BCCI logo , it is derived from the emblem of the Order of the Star of India, India's highest order of chivalry during the British Raj and also its Coat of Arms.

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Question of the day 25 Apr 2009 12:36 AM (16 years ago)


Its origins are believed to lie in ancient American tribal history, where it was more of a spiritual affair. Earliest form of what?

Lacrosse

Cracked by PRADEEP, Bipin and Rithu

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Identify 18 Apr 2009 10:39 AM (16 years ago)

A fairly easy tech question for today. Identify this man (or his invention) whose love for shorter sentences, fewer keystrokes and fewer wheels on his cycle has made our lives much easier.


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Connect 18 Apr 2009 10:18 AM (16 years ago)

What word connects the following? List not exhaustive.





Shattered by Rishab and NIKHIL

Answer:(Highlight adjacent space)**People who go into the connect are Captain Queenan from 'The Departed', the Comedian, Marty Janetty and Mace Windu. The connect is the word 'defenestration'-the act of throwing someone out of a window.**

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Could it be? 16 Apr 2009 8:03 AM (16 years ago)

An interesting theory which did the rounds on the internet a while ago. What? 



Answer: (Highlight the adjacent space) Microsoft copied Playstation to name its console 'X box 360'.

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Identify 12 Apr 2009 10:51 AM (16 years ago)


What are these people holding? 

A close up of the object:
 This is the Bram Stoker Award presented anually by the Horror Writers Association.
 
 Cracked by Debjit


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Brain of BITS 2009 2 Apr 2009 5:41 AM (16 years ago)

The prelims and finals of BOB 2009, the lone wolf quiz competition of BITS, Pilani.
Please feel free to comment/ leave your answers as comments.

Prelims

Brain of BITS 2009 Prelims
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Finals

Brain of BITS 2009
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Note: i)A few questions (3) I owe to K-Circle, the quiz club of Hyderabad. Thank you, and apologies.

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