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BOB 2013

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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2012 - Results.

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:52:00 +0000

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

Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition - Results

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:09:00 +0000

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

Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011 - Results

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:45:00 +0000

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


	Name	Score	Category	City
1	Arul Mani	93	Open	Bangalore
2	Ishaan Chugh	86	College	Delhi
3	Tejaswi udupa	82	Open	Bangalore
4	Anustup Dutta	82	Open	Bangalore
5	Arun Hiregange	78	Open	Bangalore
6	Rahul kottalgi	73	Open	Bangalore
7	Jayakanthan	73	Open	Chennai
8	Gopal Kidao	71	Open	Chennai
9	Aniruddha Sen Gupta	70	Open	Goa
10	Movin Miranda	69	Open	Bangalore
11	Shouvik Guha	69	Open	Kolkata
12	P Srikant	69	College	Kolkata
13	B.Sreeram	67	Open	Chennai
14	Santosh V Swaminathan	67	Open	Bangalore
15	Ravi Mundoli	63	Open	Chennai
16	Sumeer kumar	62	Open	Bangalore
17	Rajiv Rai	61	Open	Mumbai
18	Udatta	60	Open	Delhi
19	Sumant Srivathsan	60	Open	Mumbai
20	S Balakrishnan	58	Open	Mumbai
21	Srikant Kanthamneni	56	Open	Hyderabad
22	Alagarsamy	54	Open	Bangalore
23	Rajagopal	54	Open	Chennai
24	Vinod S Krishnan	54	Open	Delhi
25	Ochintya Sharma	54	Open	Bangalore
26	Anil Kumar	52	Open	Chennai
27	Sudip Dey	52	Open	Kolkata
28	Suraj Menon	52	Open	Pune
29	Govind Grewal	52	Open	Mumbai
30	Anghsuman Pal	49	College	Kolkata
31	Vivek Krishnan	49	Open	Hyderabad
32	Rajiv D'Silva	48	Open	Goa
33	Ananya Deb	48	Open	Mumbai
34	Vikram Joshi	48	Open	Mumbai
35	Anand Sivasankar	48	Open	Mumbai
36	Navin Rajaram	47	Open	Bangalore
37	Gautam Ghosh	47	Open	Kolkata
38	Nilay Puntambekar	47	College	Kolkata
39	Raghu Gopalan	46	Open	Bangalore
40	Keshav Krishnamurthy	46	College	Lucknow
41	Sudarshan M A	45	Open	Bangalore
42	V.Deviprasad	43	Open	Chennai
43	Pravin Varma	43	Open	Mumbai
44	Ajachi Chakrabarti	41	College	Goa
45	Rohit.S	41	College	Chennai
46	Aryapriya Ganguly	41	Open	Delhi
47	Ashwin	41	Open	Chennai
48	Hrishikesh Varma	41	Open	Bangalore
49	Kinshuk Biswas	41	Open	Kolkata
50	Aravind Vijaya Sarathy	40	Open	Chennai

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.

Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011 - Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:41:00 +0000

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

Oasis Quiz 2011 Lonewolf Edition

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Oasis Quiz Lonewolf Edition 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:26:00 +0000

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

Surprise Surprise

noreply@blogger.com (Siddharth Ravichandran) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:55:00 +0000

Where would you find this?

Oasis Quiz 2010 Lone Wolf Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:39:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Srisha Haridas) — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:23:00 +0000

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

Strange Frequencies

noreply@blogger.com (Siddharth Ravichandran) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:17:00 +0000

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?

Brain of BITS 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Vivek Krishnan) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:23:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Rishabh Kaul) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:25:00 +0000

Oasis Online Quiz 2009

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

KCircle

noreply@blogger.com (Rishabh Kaul) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:57:00 +0000

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.

SEQC Monthly Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (Vivek Krishnan) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:38:00 +0000

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

KCircle Quiz of the month for June 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Vivek Krishnan) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Quiz09

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

QOTD

noreply@blogger.com (Rishabh Kaul) — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:09:00 +0000

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.

Back After a Long Hiatus

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:25:00 +0000

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.

Question of the day

noreply@blogger.com (Rishabh Kaul) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0000

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

Identify

noreply@blogger.com (Pranav) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:18:00 +0000

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.

Connect

noreply@blogger.com (Pranav) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:52:00 +0000

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.**

Could it be?

noreply@blogger.com (Pranav) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:18:00 +0000

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'.

Identify

noreply@blogger.com (Pranav) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:50:00 +0000

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

Brain of BITS 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Vivek Krishnan) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:33:00 +0000

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.