Coming out of the closet we were and come out of the closet did we! So what if people didn’t come out of their houses to Manajsa at first. Being Gandhians (Varun clan), we won’t lie. The first Pub Quiz at Manajsa, Tuesday Trivia I started an hour late but sans any compromise to the… Continue reading Tuesday Trivia I: A review
Sound check on the left monitors please!! Coming out of the closet HAS to be the punchline of the decade. No wonder QryptiQ decided to do so too! From the protected walls of Café Oz, we are out to rock Manajsa for another Billboard blasting journey of ROCK POP SCISSORS. A pub quiz with a… Continue reading Tuesday Trivia 1
Irrespective of the fact that Navratra was going on Thursday Trivia managed to draw a decent number of guests for the quiz. There were 8 teams, namely; Macho Pencho Rancho, God4saken, Bar Stewards, Wild Booze Chase, Vini Vedi Vici, Chhamak Chhallos, Vakils and Cerebral Jugglers. Vakils, our regular participants and also our regular winners stole… Continue reading Thursday Trivia 14.0
‘It was a good exposure and many question throw by the quiz master were excellent'[sic]- Anant Raj Singh, Thapar University ‘Excellent quiz i have to say'[sic]- Manu Abbi, Hansraj College ‘I wanna congratulate you for being such an amazing host. The best part of your job was the level of interaction you had with the… Continue reading Participants Testimonials
The 38th edition of the Platinum Jubilee Memorial Quiz included teams descending from various parts of North-Central India for a Sunday Quizzing Brunch. The menu included Starters, 3-for-all, Tic-Tac-Toe and Think Hatke! among other tried & tested items like Infinite Bounce (or Infinte Rebounds as the Pune quizzers call it) and crossword. The show had… Continue reading Platinum Quiz- Scindia School, Gwalior
Friday was an early start. So what if we had a quiz the previous night! A quizzing company has to what a quizzing company has to do. The Shatabdi soared out of Delhi for the princely city of Ajmer where a weekend, with giggly 16 year olds ready to pull out our hair, awaited us.… Continue reading MCGS Workshop- A review
Ken Robinson in this TED talk says that we think and express information in all ways that we perceive it- visual, sound, touch, taste and smell. When we took up quizzing as a profession in 2010, it was with the intention of not just doing an activity we enjoyed, but also to take the essence… Continue reading Fun Labs 1.0: A Qryptiq initiative
It was a hot Saturday afternoon and the mercury was rising. Qryptiq was all padded up for the Open Cricket Quiz at the St Stephen’s College as part of their annual quizzing fest, Quizzotica. Unlike the usual tardiness of DU quizzes, we were given the indication of the quiz starting on time. But alas, it… Continue reading De Ghuma Ke- The Cricket Quiz, St. Stephen’s
With the best of Punjab descending at Saturnalia, the annual cultural fest of Thapar University, Patiala, the standard was a little beyond my expectation. Well the quiz began on time, one of QryptiQ’s firsts in the year 2011. There were 20Qs in the prelims including four tie-breaker questions. After about 5-odd questions I saw a… Continue reading Bizooka- Biz Quiz, Thapar University
Smriti- The general quiz organized by the Economics Society of Kirorimal College, Delhi University received a monstrous response with 71 teams participating in the prelims. As is the case generally in QryptiQ’s quizzes 6 teams were selected for the finals. The final from the very beginning was a lopsided affair with the Delhi University veterans… Continue reading Smriti- The general Quiz, KMC