Quizzing – Page 19

Exun 2007

I hear it’s been a fairly successful day 1 for the Code Warriors at Exun 2008. They qualified for the senior quiz, junior quiz, crossword events. Got a second in Swat The Bug. Not exactly a rosy picture as of now in the points tally, but CW’s victory for the past few years has been built around the success of its quiz team. For the past two years, our quiz team came up with the numbers needed to make it to the top. Sigh. I still remember going on stage BOTH in 2006 and 2007 for the senior quiz – and both times it was pretty clear to us that we had to get a podium to clinch the overall. Some photos from last year’s prize distribution ceremony. Oh, and the defining moment at Exun 2007 – Code Warriors winning the overall trophy (see the video below). Sure hope to see some scintillating quizzing tomorrow. 🙂

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Heritage India Quiz Resources

Heritage India Quiz 2008 regional and national finals are coming up soon, so I thought it’s the best time to put up some resources related to it. First is a relatively simple stuff that Hindustan Times published (click on the image to view full size version).

The second is the Heritage India Quiz prelims database that me and some other DPS VK Quiz Club members compiled. It contains questions from the past few years of the Heritage India Quiz prelims. Not all of the questions are answered, but this should regardless be helpful for the prelims since HIQ repeats a lot of questions in the prelims. The database is an OpenOffice.org database; to open the file you need the free OpenOffice.org office suite which you can download from here. Use the ‘Form’ view for easier viewing.

About the regional / national final levels. A lot of it is audio-visual, so be prepared for those kind of questions. I kinda think that the Penguin India Quiz Book series is quite useful for this particular quiz because in it you’ll find the sort of questions which come at HIQ. The earlier editions of the series, that is.