The Gwalior leg of the 8th NSMQ was held in the scenic campus of ITM biz school. Situated about 10km from the main city ITM played host to 40 teams from Gwalior, Ujjain, Indore and even Jaipur. The latter trying to play it smart on its bid to outsmart the rest of the teams by… Continue reading 8th AIMA NSMQ, Gwalior- A review
I wasn’t too keen on writing a review for these two quizzes, for two reasons- 1. I wasn’t too sure if anyone ever reads or is interested in reading them, the reviews of quizzes I mean. Are they any interesting? or let me re-phrase this- Is quizzing, and all the passion that comes with it,… Continue reading NIE Quiz and KMC Quiz Review
Galaxy 2011, after being postponed twice, was finally conducted in the cramped auditorium of JIMS, Kalkaji on the 26th day of November. Cramped not because of the small size but because of the number of teams that turned up for the quiz(80+), with a few teams from Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kolkata. After a quick little… Continue reading Galaxy 2011: A review
A packed house with teams scrambling for tables and the QM jostling for space sure gives away our marketing potential but… wait for it… there was more. Plagued by the absence of a projector and few of the regulars, ensured new winners and fans. With mind boggling team names like “Tormenting Thumbelinas” to the uber… Continue reading Thursday Trivia 16.0: A review
Friday, October 28, 2011, a day of surprises, pleasant and otherwise: Thursday Trivia happened got cancelled! Our projector lost colour! Quiz Bingo came down to 2 teams! Team Vakil lost! An all girls’ team WON! A semi-drunk maiden fell through the false ceiling! YES! Metallica’s stage being broken wasn’t the only trending topic on twitter.… Continue reading Thursday Trivia 15.0: A review
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Taking a leaflet from Vikram Joshi’s book I’ll start with a pie chart of the distribution of topics the quiz covered. Having conducted the IT Quest last year as well I had a fairly good idea of the standard of questions that I had to keep in this quiz. And as it turned out I… Continue reading IT Quest- Jaipuria School, Kanpur
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
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
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