Monday, February 8, 2010

Quark Open Quiz 2010

Conducted the Quark Open Quiz 2010 at BITS Pilani, Goa (Feb 6). Was strapped for time with only a week to prepare the questions. Plus this year's event was a Biz + Sci-Tech quiz which meant I had a lot of reading up to do (sci-tech is not my cup of tea). Finished it somehow and wouldn't have been able to do it without inputs from Nakul Gopalan and Laxman Pai, friends and colleagues at Wipro.
The quiz was won by Rajiv d'Silva, Harshvardhan Batkuly and Aniruddha Sen Gupta of SEQC (Sunday Evening Quiz Club), Goa.
Format (the usual) - Prelims (30 questions). 6 teams in the finals. 5 rounds - Infinite Bounce (Biz & Sci-Tech), They Add Up (Biz), Visual Connect (Sci-Tech), Long Visual Connect (Biz), Take your pick (Biz & Sci-Tech).