COVID Fundraiser Series | Report on the Food and Drinks Quiz

Day, Date: Sunday, 19-6-2020
Quiz: BCQC COVID Fundraiser Series, Food and Drinks Quiz
Venue/Centre: Zoom

Fest/Organized by: BCQC
Flavour: Food and Drinks
QMs: Krish Ashok, Pranav “Floyd” Joshi, Aditya Gadre

Scores:
1. We are like this wonly: Thejaswi Udupa + Anustup Datta at 265
2. Wimwi Manaram: Srinath Bhashyam + Abhishek Kapoor + Vinoo Sanjay at 230
3. Godzilla vs. King Kong vs. Preetham: Navin Rajaram + Preetham + Santosh at 210
4. Coastal Compadres: Anirudh Anilkumar + Arnabh Sengupta + Shaayak Chatterjee at 200
5. Something Something Cauvery: Sachin Deshapnde + Nikhil Sonde + Sumant Srivathsan at 180
6. Meghshyam Shirodkar + Anand Shivshankar at 175
7. The Okay Millennials: Atulya Bharadwaj + Aswath Venkataraman + Aadisht Khanna at 135
8. Khan Daan: Yasho Tamaskar + Rajeev Chakravarthi + Navin Sharma at 125

The Food Quiz was the second installment in the BCQC's Covid relief fundraiser quizzes. Aditya Gadre, Pranav Joshi and Krish Ashok took up the mantle of hosting it. The quiz had been marketed as a general quiz on food which is exactly what it was.

The elims were a breezy affair with most questions having food a connect in some tangential form but the answers themselves required little to no knowledge of it. Answers covered various topics like movies, sports, history, geography and literature.

Predictably the elims were a high scoring affair.

The finals had a bit more food-centric stuff but still managed to balance it with the general side of things due to nicely framed questions and timely verbal hints by the QMs.

Krish Ashok, who has written a well-received book on improving domestic cooking, chimed in periodically with an interesting anecdote or technical/scientific concept explaining the answer. The written rounds also had interesting marriages between food and chemistry and food and music. The competition was neck to neck and until the last few questions especially for the 2^nd-3^rd-4^th places.

Overall, an excellent buffet of topics with snackable questions, whose taste will be remembered in the quizzing circles for years to come.

 

Report by: Ranajeet Soman