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"The Silly Olympics" - August 2013 Sports and Entertainment Quiz - Results

When: 4th August, 2013

Where: Extentia, Pune

By: Curated by Aditya Gadre, based on a quiz by Suraj Menon. Valiantly conducted (in the face of relentless sledging) by Avaneendra Bhargav.

Format: 35 question written quiz for 2 member teams. (About 20-odd teams took the quiz.)


Results:

Winners: Ranajeet Soman and Ramanand (25 points)

2nd: Venkat S and Arnold D'Souza (20)

3rd: Samrat Sengupta and Maitreyi Gupta (19.5)


Report: 


An excellent set of questions on sports and entertainment (side aside: why is there a spate of Sports+Entertainment quizzes in recent times, "SpEnt" as it is referred to. Has the potential of just a Sports or an Ent quizzes been spent?). Most questions were very workable, even the ones masquerading as hip-hop questions.

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Vcat said…
This was a great afternoon! And quite a decent turnout.
6:25 PM
Aniket Khasgiwale said…
"Curated by Aditya Gadre, based on a quiz by Suraj Menon. Valiantly conducted ... by Avaneendra Bhargav."

It seems like the art of conducting quizzes has really evolved. Earlier one person could do a quiz on his own, but now we have people specializing in "setting", "curating"(!) and "conducting". Seems like it's no longer an amateur's game.
7:09 PM
Samrat said…
Interesting set of questions. Sports questions were quite diverse and workoutable. A disproportionate weightage of rap/hip-hop/black :) music. But gettable nevertheless. Thanks to Suraj,Aditya and Avaneendra. As Aniket said this is age of specialization :)
8:24 PM
Anonymous said…
Workable questions which were fun to answer. It would have made a good elims for a longer quiz.

-Maitreyi
8:40 PM
Aditya said…
Please give all credit where it is due - i.e. 6/7th to Suraj and 1/7th to Avaneendra.

All I did was choose 35 questions I liked from Suraj's quiz and put them in a ppt with slightly better formatting and fewer question marks.
11:26 PM
Ranajeet said…
Suraj's quizzes are super fun and most of them are 'my type' as Rohan Jain would say. Two golf questions and 3 hip-hop questions in a 35 qn SpEnt quiz is a bit much I think. Almost all were workable and Avaneendra provided decent clues in spite of being sledged pretty much throughout the quiz.
12:03 AM
Unknown said…
You mean it was "Not Quite Sports" and "Not Quite Entertainment", was it?

Where are the koschens, BTW?
10:27 AM
BVHK said…
I liked the set and although some of the questions were not down my alley, they were quite gettable.
11:44 AM
Kunal said…
'Twas trolling, not sledging. There's a difference ;)
1:25 PM
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