Date: Saturday,
7 April 2018
Quiz: Quiztronomy
2018
Venue: College
of Engineering, Pune
Fest/Organized by:
COEP Astronomy Club
QM(s): Siddharth
G, Nimish, Daivanti
Flavour: Astronomy
Results:
1. Rohit Dhanorkar (SeamEdu Baner, Solo)
2. Nikita Bhakre, Aditya (ILS Law College, Pune)
3. Samarth, Shreyas (MIT, Pune) (Won tie-breaker)
Other Finalists:
Sarang Vandana and Prayag Gore (Jyotirvidya Parisanstha,
Open) (Lost tie-breaker)
Pooja, Mohan (Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Open)
Anirudh Anilkumar and Arnabh Sengupta (AFMC)
7th of April saw us making our way to COEP for the annual
Astronomy Quiz by (you guessed it), its astronomy club.
Greeted by familiar faces of usual suspects, we sat down
for the prelims which was a heady mix of know-it-or-you-don’t questions and
some basic astronomy most people encounter in life (or if you were googling on
the ride to the venue). The prelims were aced by an astronomical margin by a
Lupus Solus, and the usual suspects mostly missed the cut. Making it in as the
last finalist, yours truly sat down for 5 rounds of hardcore quizzing.
The format was a little skewed: no bounce, and the teams’
seating determined which questions they ended up with. That did not stop the
eventual winner from running away with the quiz from the get go. This starry
eyed Sound Engineer loved his astronomy and his lead only told us how much. The
other teams were left scrambling for the 2nd place as his scores breached the
Oort Cloud.
The rounds took off but crashed back down on Nobel Prizes
in Physics for too long. This came as a surprise to as push-ups for SINMQ hadn’t
even started.
The final round was a lateral connect round with Stephen
Hawking as the answer; it was cracked by only one team. #tcq But, it proved to
be a decider, as the team that came second clawed their way into the podium
from the back of the pack thanks to Mr. Hawking (PBUH). But by then, there was
a clear winner in this space race. Truly, there was fault in our stars.
Gallery:
Nikita Bhakre and Aditya, 2nd Position (Below)
Rohit Dhanorkar, 1st Position (Below Right)
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