Sports Quiz at AFMC - Report

Date & Time: 5 May, 2022
Venue: AFMC, Pune
Fest: Silhouettes 2022
Format: Elims + Finals
QM(s): Naman Jain
Results:
1. Akshay Parale (Open)- 75 points
2. Sahil Gupta and Shivam Sharma (Open) - 70 points
3. Giridhar Gopal and Saurabh Singh Bisht (AFMC) - 70 points

Sports quizzes tend to be esoteric. For everyone who attended the sports quiz at AFMC this year, they were pleased to see this myth getting debunked like a ramp shot from Jos Buttler's blade. Think of all the reasons for not attending a quiz: middle of a pandemic, weekday and a god awful heatwave. Despite this, we had a full house for the event with 24-25 teams showing up (a rarity for sports quizzes apart from BC Cup).

Elims were an enjoyable affair with 20 crisp workable questions, also reflected in the fact that the cut off for the finals was 10.5 with many teams scoring between the range of 8-10. A trend that I have observed in this QM's other quizzes is that his sets are well-framed and cater to a large audience. So everyone attending any of his quizzes will always have something to look forward to.

Finals comprised of 23 questions with 12 questions on IR, a written round of 5 and a theme round of 6 six questions. Just like the elims, those who stayed on for the finals were treated with some lovely well- researched questions. Loved the distribution of the set knowing that roughly 30+ sports were covered. My only crib was that the number of questions in the finals (23) was way too less for an Open quiz. But owing to the quality of the questions that was still justifiable.

Kudos to the QM for putting up an excellent theme round on 'Songs of Sid Moosewaala'; which for me was the highlight of the quiz. Song titles were linked to iconic moments in sporting history through keywords. As for the performance in the quiz almost 3-4 teams were in the scheme of winning the quiz right till the last question where a last minute epiphany helped yours truly to finally win an Open sports quiz by a small margin of 5 points with the open team of Sahil and Shivam tied at 2nd place with the home team Giridhar and Saurabh. All in all, everyone had a great time and were happy just knowing that offline quizzing is back in Pune!

Report by: Akshay Parale