On Friday, 21st March, COEP quizzing circle gathered on BC for ‘Abhimanyu: The Intra-college Solo Quiz’. The quiz was set, monitored and and conducted by BCQC. Last year’s winner Aniket Khasgiwale was supposed to be the quizmaster. But he was unavailable, so it was conducted by Niranjan and Ramanand.
Elims were conducted two weeks earlier…this time by Aniket Khasgiwale in a very innovative manner. He showed tremendous resourcefulness as he carried out the whole session by reading out questions from his i-Pod. 8 finalists were selected at that time- Abhishek, Gadre, Kaustubh B, Yasho, Mohit Karve, me (for the first time), Avnish and Aadinath:the Enthu-Fresher.
The finals were in 2 parts. 1 general round and 1 specialty round. Each finalist had given a topic of his own choice on which he was asked 10 questions. My topic was, not surprisingly Michael Schumacher. I could answer only 5 out of 10. Got 4 wrong out of ignorance and 1 by over-confidence!
Other topics were-
Avnish- Foundation Series:Asimov
Aadinath- Tin Tin (Though his 1st choice was Tour de France, quizmasters refused to set questions on that. So poor guy had to take this 1)
Mohit- Formula-1
Yasho- Yes Minister
Kaustubh- Iron Maiden
Gadre- World Cup Football
Abhishek- XKCD
Finals were very eventful, with quizzers delivering all sorts of performances (ranging from pathetic to excellent). Abhishek won on Gadre’s last question.
March 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm |
no comments on the questions?
Mine being a topic with a story line, was a bit easy i guess. I got 8 on ten. Missed a sitter,and there was no chance could remember the other name. But happy, got 13 overall
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March 27, 2008 at 5:02 pm |
Gadre was a bit unlucky on the last one. Khasgi had shortlisted 10 of the 25 questions I’d given him, but I chose to skip one and ask another from the backups instead. (Gadre answered the one I’d skipped when I asked him after the quiz).
April 11, 2008 at 3:45 am |
Undoubtedly, a thrilling finish. BTW, I had very little to do with the organisation or conducting (conduction?), so all credit or otherwise must solely go to the likes of Aniket, Meghashyam, Niranjan and the rest who set the qs.