iQuizLeague

(review by Vinod Hariharan)

Do you know the last book Annadurai read?…..or that Bertie Wooster was also a journo?….who Hermann Tilke is..or how did Jahangir see a Dodo?…or how Taliban got their name?….Or at the least, why Samba came on time…Or why was Pantan missing..??

Not a clue..??…Well, you could have definitely got the answers for all of them except the last two (we are still jericho’ed on Samba and Pantan) if you had attended this meeting.

The flock that thronged the premises of Brio in their vivid miens and demeanours would answer to the names of Matti(zipped i/o), JK (wah!, kya kehna!!), Prabhakar (nooo, not the Lankan one..), Sriram (with his cute l’il kid), Samba (Mambo No.4pm?!), Sana (junior dhadi), Yeggy (senior dhadi), KN (kinda looking lost!!..was it an ET, KN?), Sridhar (pattaya kilappittaru), Vishwanathan(hope I got the name right), Patrick (ordered ice tea with me), Subhashree (did she see an ET too??) & umm…this writer (no, i’m yet to see an ET in my life).

We had an infrastructure crisis in the form of a laptop (which did a Lehman) and Yeggy bailed us out by bringing his one (merci beaucoup, monsieur)

And then the show begun, with this writer starting to fiddle with his little box of folded papers with much elan in a purpotedly ostensible show of “team selection”, which was watched intently by the others; just like they would, when Saurav Ganguly comes to bat. He later scuttled the plan like the pirates would have after they saw Asterix & Obelix…

We, finally sat down in some form of quizzing order, with this writer taking the charge of noting the scores. KN and many others had not understand the rules properly (Another ET perhaps!!) so the onus was thrust upon the mighty shoulders of this writer one more time; and he had 3 quizzes to Bucknor upon.

“Mutrupulli“  Sridhar, who took us into the world of literature at warp-speed with his set of 40 questions, did the first quiz. It was an omnibus of English, Tamil and “what-not-type” literature posers that really did not elicit much words in the form of answers from most of the teams. Well, what I meant to say was, the questions were good and many of them went uncracked (dey writer..yenda sutti valachu pesara.neeyum ET-ya paathaya?). This quiz was won by Matti-JK-Prabhakar combo with 15 points, pipping Sana-Vinod outfit by just half a point. It was a close encounter of the third…(ada chi…Close Finish, I meant to say)

Albiet, the last quiz of his for a long time to come, it definitely is one of the best that IQL has seen so far.

Good Stuff Sridhar. We wish you all the best for your ventures.

The second quiz of the evening was a Jaldi one facilitated by Subhashree. It was a decent set of questions. Though a handful, it did really perk up the scoring. Many teams were able to score points. The deadly combo of JK-Prabhakar won this also with 6 points, leaving Patrick-Yeggy with 4 points in second place.

Yeggy obliged to conduct the final quiz of the day, as most of them did not have additional questions (did they forget or was that again a…..?). It was an eclectic mix of questions, though it bit a little hard on the F1 genre. Sriram & Sana romped home first in this quiz with 8 points with KN-Sridhar-Vishy chugging into second place.

All in all, it was a good meet, 3 good quizzes and some good time; which made all of us alongwith Duck Dodgers, Mogambo & Captain Kirk happy (don’t ask me what they were doing there…they must have been the ET..har har..)

See you next week for the second edition of the Champions League.

Watch this blog for more details.

Folks,

In case you are wondering where do all these come together; allow me to oblige…

We have the next meeting of IQL at Kuppu Arcade, T.Nagar (Brio, Crossword) on Sep 27th at 4.00 pm.

All of you are expected to bring in at least 10 questions, at the meeting we would have Sridhar conducting a Literature Quiz and another person (whose name I can’t unearth) who would be doing a Business Quiz, plus the regular mini-quizzes of usual members.

See you there!!!