Quiz: WYGW - Who You Going With, the InFest General Quiz in memory of Vcat Srinivasan
Date: 9th January 2022, Sunday, Day 2 of InFest 2022
Venue: Held over Zoom
Format: Elims + Finals
QM: Suraj "Pheno" Menon
Results:
1. 210: King Kong vs Godzilla (Santhosh, Preetham, Navin)
2. 198: WIMWI Manaram (Vinoo, Srinath, Rajiv)
3. 168: Chete Chete Khabo (Manav, Alok P, Brajendu)
4. 160: RoTF (Kiran, Ravi, Manu)
5. 125: Peter Panchali (Sachin, Debanjan, Prithwish)
5. 125: Covid positive otherwise negative (Shantanu, Shashank)
7. 120: Hello Hello G (Navin Sharma, Nikhil Sonde)
7. 120: Maris Troika (Raju, Thejaswi, Ramkey)
9. 95: ZEF (Anannya "Dada" Deb, Aditya Gadre, Ingit Sir)
UNESCO Best QM Suraj Menon conducted the general quiz at InFest 2022. The quiz was held in memory of Vcat (a prominent and unforgettable BCQC quizzer) who tragically passed away last year. One minute of Iron Maiden was a nice tribute to someone who was always larger than life and a minute of silence would have just been wrong.
The quiz started with a fast paced elims which resulted in a predictable bloodbath. The questions, as always, were fun, interesting, wide ranging and very well framed.
The top 9 teams qualified for the finals - which had 36 questions on the pass (with pounce) and a short written round. Suraj had set questions based on books he had read over the last year (more or less) and yet, the quiz was extremely well balanced and general - just shows the sheet range of the man's reading and research.
There was the added gimmick of teams choosing a book (from a very well formatted array on the screen) and getting a question based on it. The questions were general enough without really requiring any in depth knowledge - and most of them were nicely framed and workoutable.
My one small crib was that while the fundas were fantastic, many questions were missing the one clue that would lead one to the answer - which reduced some potentially brilliant questions to merely nice fundas in "Know It Or You Don't' packaging.
Report by: Aditya Gadre
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