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Kuppu Arcade was a serene place almost entirely unaffected by the crazy traffic outside it. Inside Kuppu Arcade, at the Crosswords Book Store (the Brio coffee shop to be exact) the IQL met. Samba and myself reached there first, and we were closely followed Vinod, Vijay(2), KN, Ananthu, Sana, Amar, JK, Govind(gerimox), Karthik the fifth (or is it sixth?), Saneesh and the legendary Gopal Kidao.

at crosswords

The quiz started with White Mamba’s cool 20, followed by Subhashree’s teasing ones, and my sitters, and KN’s Wilde at heart quiz, Saneesh’s Biz Blitz and Vijay(2)’s questions. The meet went well with quite a load of interesting questions being shot by everyone. Govind is becoming the recent find of the IQL with his brilliant answers during the start of the quiz. With some experience, he can sure make it big in the Chennai Quizzing circles. Saneesh was enjoying the day both as the quiz master and as a member. the beauty of the meet was almost every question went answered. What more can you expect when Gopal Kidao, Jk and Vinod and KN are firing on all cylinders.

Basically we still had the same problems that we faced at IIT, as people at the opposite end of the laptop weren’t able to view the questions easily. But this place had the serenity of IIT CCD which was what we needed. This shall be our venue until we find greener pastures, which will be announced in a month.

Saneesh conducting his quiz

Landmark Clarifications

We find quite a few doubts being raised in the groups regarding the landmark quiz. It would do us a world of good if people ask queries to the individual people (myself) rather than the group as a whole.

Landmark Quiz for Chennai will be held on August 15th at Music Academy. To register for it, you’ll have to collect forms from the nearest Landmark bookstore. Still official word has not been given regarding this year’s Landmark quiz and we would like people with further queries, to keep track of their site http://www.landmarkonthenet.com for further updates and to not spam the group with these queries. Thanks Vinod for being  really kind enough to answer the queries but it would be better if you send the reply to the concerned quizzer rather than to the groups. Thanks again for your efforts dude.

All the best For the upcoming quizzes folks, Epecially Landmark

Quantum Quiztum

Here are a few questions from the meet (post in your answers in the comments)

1. After the French Revolution in 1789, the King, the Queen and the Jack disappeared from the deck of playing cards, atleast in France. What were the three new names introduced instead? (C: Vijay(2))

2.Corporate Lingo: This name of this strategy has Shakespere’s most frightful and ambitious characters.This is the strategy in which a third party poses as a white knight to gain trust, but then turns around and joins with unfriendly bidders. Name the strategy. (C:Hantan)

3.The word ‘X’ comes from the Medieval English word male (spelt that way until the 17th century), which was the term used to describe a traveling bag or pack. The French have a similar word, malle for a trunk or large box, and in Irish for a bag.(C:Samba)

4.  What is Acute viral nasopharyngitis, or   acute coryza ? (C:Subhashree)

5.We have all heard or read about nano and pico seconds, but what is an “ohnosecond”? (C:KN, was beautifully answered by Gopal Kidao)