A Quizzing League

This an idea I've had ever since class 9 or something. A Quiz League. Actually it's more like an F-1 Season, but what the hell.
I guess its better to start with around 5 colleges which have a good standing in quizzing circles and have a future. At complete random, say; NSIT, DCE, St.Stephen's, BVCOE and Ramjas.

This is a very, very raw idea. But try this:

Day 1: Qualifying round . Top 32 Teams qualify. They are divided into eight groups of four.
 By holding two to four quizzes simultaneously, you have the eight quizzes from which the top two teams qualify.
Day 2:  The top 16 are divided into groups of 4 again. They again quiz with the top two of each quiz making the semi-finals. The top two teams of each semi-final make the final. 

Points System:
Top 8 of qualifying round get same points as in a F-1 GP.
5 points per round won till final. 3 for second.
Final:
Winner - 10
Second - 8
Third - 6
Fourth - 4
Maximum Possible Points per Venue: 10+3*5+10= 35

Calender:
October 13-14: NSIT
October 27-28: DCE
December 22-23: St. Stephen's
February 1-2: BVCOE
February 22-23: Ramjas

Either you have a central quiz association like the KQA, which will conduct all quizzes or the quiz society of each college will conduct the quiz. But the responsibility of conducting the quiz will be alloted before the season begins. If we can get some sponsors and the support of the colleges, this thing actually has some potential.

Whatever, what do you'll think of this? 

The REAL Deal!!

They're here...

The Biggest and Hopefully, Best Quizzes of Delhi.

19th Feb- Spectrum DCE.

22nd to 25th Feb - Moksha. NSIT.

Check THIS for details.

Major Upcoming Quizzes

1. IMI Delhi

IMI Delhi is organsiing an inter B-school Business Quiz as part of its
Annual Management Fest Kritva on 10 February in its campus in Qutub
Institutional Area. Details are as follows:

Team: 2 members per team

Eligibility: Both members must be from the same B-school; corporate execs
are not allowed-sorry

Prizes: Attractive cash prizes

Format: Written elimination round, from which 6 teams get into the final.
Lots of special, visual/AV and bzzer rounds. Everyone at the quiz
venue-participants and audience-will get more than his money's worth

QM: Gautam Ghosh

For more details, please contact Suhail Rastogi at
pgp05suhailrastogi@ imi.edu, or call him at 09811777136

2. PECFEST Quiz(Eureka)

The quiz, Eureka, is a part of Punjab Engineering College's annual fest, PECFEST. The quiz is to be conducted by Mr. Satyajit Chetri on 11th February,2006. ..(Sunday)

The prelims start at 2.45 p.m.
Team : 2 members
Venue: PEC Auditorium,Sector 12,Chandigarh

The quiz is open only for college students although the two team members
need not be from the same college

for more details and for registrations. ..
log on to...

www.pecfest07. com

Exciting cash prizes to be won...

For any queries,contact:

Aseem Kakkar
Punjab Engineering College(Deemed University), Chandigarh
+91-9872043387

Note: When I tried accessing the site, I got an error message; so I'm not hyperlinking it.

IMS IQ 2007.

The St. Stephen's team that won IQ 2007 (Delhi) ought to call themselves "Phoenix". In the two biggest quizzes held so far (Panache and this one), they originally didn't make the final round only for them to fight and realize that their qualifying round papers hadn't been checked. They came second at Panache and yesterday, quizzed the way Federer plays tennis.
Check this, at the end of the quiz the two Stephens teams had a combined score of 215 points with the next highest team being somewhere around 50! IIT Roorkee were demolished IIT Delhi made a guest appearance and I frankly don't care who else made it.
Myself and the BVCOE guys stayed on despite us not qualifying... BVCOE's Team sh(Nimi+Nite+Dine) scored 7 out of 30 in the qualifiers, self and a couple of guys who I managed to drag along from ASE-hole Land (a fourth year dude called Ankit, who was pretty good and a second year guy called Bhanush, who kept calling me "Sir" on the phone!!) scored 11(could have been 13!) and the cut-off was 13.5!!
Millions and Billions and Billions of Blue Blistering Carl Sagans!!!
The quiz was good. Some genuinely awesome questions with a few weird ones thrown in, but it was an event where I can't say that I had wasted my time attending it.
Justin, Arka and Abhinav from St.Stephens get to participate in the All-India Semis and Finals (if they make it!) which is aboard a Star Cruise Liner off Goa and which will be broadcast on CNBC TV-18.

TATA Crucible 2007

TATA Crucible 2007 is an All-India Biz Quiz. It's gonna be REAL tough apparently. Quiz Master is Pickbrain Balasubramanium, so... be ready for screwed up questions. He is better than *cough* pr0n-n00b *cough*, but then again, anyone is!
Delhi round is on Feb. 10th at the IIT Seminar Hall between 1330 to 1630. Teams of two from the same institution. Registration and more info can be found HERE.
All The Best.

A Tale of Three Cities

There are three cities which I call home. I was born in the first one, the other is where I grew up and the last one is where I'm staying right now. Here's a pretty simple quiz on these three cities.

1. Connect:




2. Connect:




3. Connect with a place (be specific)




4. Opened in 1996 and located around 25kms outside Hyderabad, on the Vijaywada National Highway, this is the largest film studio area in the world acc. to the Guinness Book of WRs, covering an area of over 2,000 acres. It offers over 500 shooting locations and can one can supposedly shoot nearly 70 movies simultaneously there. Which place?

5. It was founded on December 20, 1999 by a group of Fortune 500 entrepreneurs and its partners include London Business School, Wharton Business School and Kellogg School of Management. What institution?

6. "Per pale, Dexter - per fess indented ermine and gules, in chief two palm branches in saltire proper, surmounted of a mitre or, in base an episcopal staff, in bend, gold, surmounted of an open book, also proper. Sinister - Azure achevron between three hanks of cotton agent." Motto of which 140-year-old institution.

7. This 332-acre area was the brainchild R.K.Baliga and started in 1978. However, it only took off in the 1990s and is now home to nearly 120 companies and 60,000 employees including the India HQs of such global majors as Microsoft, Infosys, Trilogy, Motorola etc.

8. Mythically, this place was gifted to Guru Dronacharya as Guru Dakshina by the Pandavas and Kauravas, hence earning its name, meaning Guru Village. Which place?

9. Which famous entertainer and politician's address is no. 25, Tughlak Road?

10. Rot 42: "Y ADEM JXYI DKYP IKSI!!!"

To NSIT, with...

A quiz on delhi's 4th best engineering college's latest hero.

1. Which was my first overseas posting during my tenure with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

2. In 2002, the government of which country awarded me the Grand Cross of Rio Branco?

3. This individual motivated me to become a diplomat after I met him when I won an essay writing competition and did my Master's degree in a school named after him. Who?

4. To counter claims of being non-charismatic, I sang which song at the UN Correspondents dinner early in December?

5. Though I claimed to be fluent in this language; I could barely understand, let alone answer, a question asked to me in this language by Neil Harland CBC news.

6. Who is my successor at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade?

7. After I emerged as the only person to recieve a vote in the fourth straw poll, who quit the electoral race?(by far, the easiest q. of all!)

8. Who was the first person to be elected to my current post?

9. Who was the only non-Asian who contested the election for my post?

10. Providing I don't die or resign due to the overuse of my name... when will my term expire?

Thank You, Thank You Very Much!