Tag: Quizzing

Delhi Public School, Mathura Road conducted the quiz competition ‘Quizzard’ (grrr, I’ll sue them for trademark violation) during their annual Talent Fiesta today. Two teams per school had gone, and we did well in the competition. Team A consisted of me, Abhishek (the President) and Srishti; while Team B consisted of Tuseet, Abhimanyu and Karan.

There was a 25-question (or was it 26-question…) written prelim as soon as we stepped in (well, they did show us that their audio equipment was BAD by TRYING to play Star Wars III before that, but I digress…), and both teams had to attempt separately (team B didn’t like this). It was, um, a good paper and team A did well. We were a bit a clueless on some, not many, but the P and the VP handled it well. Srishti really shocked us both Bongs by saying (and answering faster than us) on a question related to Satyajit Ray literature, and answered a few more I think.

We topped in the preliminaries, and I was surprised to see some good teams not qualifying. The qualifying teams were (not in the order of merit):

• DPS Faridabad
• Springdales, Dhaula Kuan
• St Columba’s School
• DPS Dwarka
• DPS Vasant Kunj
• DPS Mathura Road

The questions which came were easy, but there were some that really foxed the teams. It was unique in the sense that it actually differentiated rounds on the basis of topic, which is generally not done these days. Even the audio round, if I can call it that, since nothing was audible, was pretty strange, since it didn’t have any music at all – just clippings from movies. In the end, we just stopped one question away from victory. Springdales won, and we came second, in a quiz which was definitely MINE. Really disheartening sometimes when you come so close, and yet fall short with victory in sight.

Bad thing about the talent fest – no refreshments. The certificates also did not indicate the position we had secured. No trophy too for second place, at least in school contests they aren’t so miserly generally.

Anyway, good exposure to new members, and finally the skeleton of a possible team seems to be emerging. None of the new ones are top-level yet, but I hope over time, they will.

The Times of India Fun-da-Mental Quiz 2006 was held today at the Siri Fort Auditorium. The crowd seemed to be much lesser than usual, but that maybe because of the fact that many schools have their exams going on right now. Anyway, the participation was much than previous years.

The started off, as usual, with those horrible promos of sponsors that we quizzers always have to endure at such places. The team was totally new and experimental. It consisted of me, Abhimanyu and Srishti. To tell the truth, I was really apprehensive whether they’d deliver performance….

The written prelims had 30 questions, round conducted by Bhavna of DoB&A (conducted lots of the ones in which I’ve participated). Their projection systems kept failing (as usual with DoB&A). We did somewhat well in the prelims (what we thought then), but we did mess up. Or rather, I own up, I messed up. It was all my fault that we did not qualify. We did not make it to stage because of one measly point. It’s all because of my fault, since Srishti had given two correct answers, which I had overruled. Had I listened to her, then our team would have been there on stage. I apologize to the team, and to the DPS VK Quiz Club, for messing this really bad.

The teams which qualified for the stage rounds were:

1. Amity International School, Saket (they have a quiz team?)
2. DAV, Suraj Bhan
3. New Era Public School, Mayapuri (they eventually won, congrats Prateek)
4. Ramjas School, Anand Parbat
5. Mothers International School (came second, I guess all due to Milind and Krittika)
6. Vivekananda School (who the hell are these people?)

Derek O’ Brien (aka Derek No Brain) looked idiotic as he always does, looking like some wet chicken dragged out of bed. He also brought along his stupid ‘Infinite KQBounce’ system. We didn’t stay till the end, since our members needed to be back at school, but it wasn’t as high energy as it generally is. It seemed as if people had come along just for the sake of it. Or maybe it was because of the fact that KITW hadn’t come there.

In all, I’d say that our performance was okay, going by the fact that these are new members. Abhimanyu hardly did anything, too much overlap between what he knows and what I know. Srishti did well for a first time at a big event, and put the team with crucial points needed for qualifying, before I messed up everything. All my fault. I guess I better listen to other members too the next time…