Date: Friday, 9th February 2018
Quiz: InGenius
Venue:
Symbiosis School of Economics
Fest/Organized by:
Equililbria 2018
QM: Bhargav
Gopal and Team
Flavour:
General
Results:
1. Omkar Dhakephalkar and Pranav Pawar
2. Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar
3. Ranajeet Soman and Dikshant
4. Anirudh Balajee and Akshay Ayush
Other Finalists:
Pranav Joshi and Charles Matthews
The quiz began post an opening ceremony where the organizers
gave a demonstration of singing 90s pop songs and dancing on a medley of songs
ranging from Chura Ke Di Mera to Livin La Vida Loca. The impact of the
performance was so deeply felt that it is tough to distill just the quiz from
this entire experience and thus finds a mention in this report.
The quiz was surprisingly dialled down in comparison with the
earlier festivities. There was an entire notepad handed to teams in lieu of
answer-sheets. They also provided water bottles, albeit 150ml, to everyone. The
format was written eliminations followed by a 6 team final.
The eliminations had 25 questions. The difficulty of the
questions swung wildly from fairly easy to multiple choice to unguessable. That
being said, the questions were of an acceptable quality considering the
organizers’ inexperience in the matter and also considering the backdrop of
horrendous quizzes with maths problems masquerading as quiz questions faced by
the writer in the past.
After the break, it turned out that there were only 5 teams in
the finals. There was more drama to come when it was announced one team would be
eliminated from the finals after 2 rounds. This was because there were
questions in multiples of 4 set in the following rounds and have 5 teams would
skew the carefully tailored format.
The finals had all the usual suspects qualifying along with 2
young law students who gave some good answers. The finals began with 2 general
rounds but had no infinite bounce (any variation). Instead there was direct and
pass, but only if a team passed on the answer. If the team got the answer
wrong, the question died an unceremonious death then and there and the team was
slapped with negative points.
After 2 rounds, the guillotine fell on Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi
and Charles’s team. This wasn’t received well by the team eliminated but they
stayed around to heckle the remaining participants.
There were some controversies in the quiz with the
pronunciation of Shintoism, if abductor muscle was an individual muscle or a
class of muscles (which was clarified by the student doctors of AFMC by gallantly
performing exercises highlighting the said muscles), and also whether there
were spoilers on an airplane. Hand of God also struck a couple of times, which
meant that one team had lost their chance to answer a direct question and since
there were only 8 questions in the round, the round had to be turned into a
written one.
Team 1 was leading till the last round but some poor misses
meant they conceded the lead and tied for second. Since it still hadn’t been
determined if airplanes had spoilers and it was 4.30pm, Team 5 was granted 2nd
place (rightly so).
The quiz was enjoyed by the teams in the finals because
of the non-stop banter. The organizers did well to keep their cool till the
end. We hope they continue to do this quiz with a rising standard each year.
Report by: Ranajeet Soman
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