Quiz: India Quiz
Day, Date, Time: Saturday, 17th July 2021, 1.30pm
Venue: The quiz was conducted over Zoom
Format: Elims (30 questions) + Finals (42 Questions with 30 IR + 4 written
theme rounds of 3 questions each)
QMs: Debanjan Bose & Sachin Deshpande
Scores:
1. Jayashree, Partha, Piyush -210
2. Shouvik, Prithwish, Deepanjan -165
3 (Joint) Udupa, Ramkey, Shashank and Alagar, Bhargava,
Priyambad -143
5. Preetham, Manu, Navin -140
6. Naman, Ashwini, Aabhas -130
7. Abhinav, Jayant, Shaswat -120
8. Salil, Samrat, Anil -115
9. Prateek, Kunal, Siddanth -80
A vibrant quiz, hosted by a couple of great guys who must be among the most likeable quizzers and quizmasters in the country. Quiz showcased our Incredible India with its multiple facets. Entire quiz was efficiently conducted with no glitches, owing to a perfect jugalbandi of both the QMs.
Accessible elims, even for non-regular quizzers, which fitted well with the theme of the Fundraiser quizzes, plus QMs being gratuitous by giving hints like "alliterative answers" to further help teams.
Therefore the elims cut-offs were insanely high, and some heavyweight teams missed out narrowly.
The finalists had a generational spread with veterans like Jayashree di and Shouvik da along with college-goers in Naman's team. It could be attributable to the variety of questions in the elims from classics like Ashokan pillar heads and jharokas, to new gen stuff like Enjoy Enjaami and Pinjra tod, with googlies like the WTC Test Mace.
The questions were top notch, with subtleties in framing like "hit show" hint for Jaspal Bhatti's still relevant noir comedy "Flop Show" or nickname clue for Chikoo and Chiclets, to a question linking Jahangir and Indira Gandhi political goals of "Garibi Hatao" to a tough one on Haflong Hindi, but brilliantly framed.
Also, Akhand bharat questions encompassing the Indian subcontinent with Z.A.Bhutto, Qurratulain Hyder , POK, Bangladeshi enclaves making appearances.
And no good India quiz is complete without its share of interesting food questions, here we had on Lal Maas, Bhaang dishes, gin etc but also stuff on temple kitchens and the legendary fast of Irom Sharmila.
Written round themes in finals were also quirky.
Letters
Bengali Theatre (with no Bangla bias as the answers
were Mousetrap, Vincent Van Gogh and IPTA)
Borders
Food Origins
QMs also did a good job with the geographical spread of questions, with almost every state and region represented. Especially North East, which is oft-neglected.
Overall a very enjoyable Saturday afternoon, with entertaining quizzing.
Fun Fact: We had participation of 74 teams, same as the years of India's independence!
Report By: Samrat Sengupta
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