Champions League Ver 2.2 on June 27 at 11.15 AM June 26, 2009
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Hi everybody,
If you think you could pit your wits against one of the best quizmasters in the country, here’s your biggest chance!! Announcing the Champs League Ver 2.2 by V.V.Ramanan this weekend (saturday) June 27, 2009 at 11.15 AM at Coffee World, C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer Road, Alwarpet.
Be there on time and do bring your writing implements!!
Thanks,
Team IQL
Short and Tweet – roundup of Buzz140 Quiz on June 21, 2009 June 23, 2009
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The IQL team was involved in the Organizing Committee of the inaugural Twitter Unconference titled Buzz140! in Chennai on June 21, 2009. Even though the venue was quite far away from the heart of the city (Bang in the middle of OMR is like 30 kms from the city center), quite a few tweeps turned up.
After the morning sessions of buzzing around and a rather nice and heavy lunch (delicious too), the IQL team sprang into action with the quiz. There were around 60 odd teams (teams of two each) that participated in the prelims (some of the 150 odd people that turned up for the event left after lunch). The Prelims hosted by Hantan had 20 questions with in-built tie breakers.
This being a technology oriented quiz, most of the questions hinged on current affairs and latest technological devices and news. Barring one incident where a couple of teams resorted to cheating (googling, copying – you name it, you got it), the answer sheets were turned in. Tense moments followed as the answers were revealed and corrections were made. Six teams made it to the finals with a cutoff of 8.5 and lots of teams ranging on the 7-8 band! A close call for the organizers, no doubt.
Karthik Narayan hosted a rather quickfire, fun-oriented and tech-savvy final. Notable names amongst the finalists were Sylvian Patrick, Ajay Parasuraman, Kalai (college quizzer). Some of those who did not make it but were apparently close to qualifying – Aditya, Nambirajan, the gang from Anna University… The final consisted of three simple rounds – round one was a Twitter based round – with questions based on tweets, and within 140 characters. This premise ensured the questions were short and sweet!! Round two was an innovation of cryptic clues to identify technology websites and people associated with technology. The quiz ended with the last round which was a grid where teams could pick their questions and answer. The quiz ended with a photo-finish where three teams on equal scores. Eventually as many as 4 tie breakers were required to separate the Best of two teams out of three!!
Kalai & his teammate won the quiz on the penultimate question and Sylvian Patrick and his team mate Ahmed won on the last question which ran on Sudden Death!! The audience had their share of the fun with questions redirected at them which they answered with glee. They were also highly appreciative of the quiz and the questions.
That’s one more feather in IQL’s cap to have been there at the action spot!! Thanks to TKF for the opportunity and congrats to the research team of KN, Hantan and Murthy who put together this quiz!!
Quiz on exchanges by Marchahead June 15, 2009
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For all biz quiz enthusiasts, here’s a quiz aimed at you where you can participate and win!!
Round-up of the IQL meeting on June 13, 2009 June 15, 2009
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After a hectic, fast paced work-week, all of our quiz-enthusiastic members look forward to the weekend like never before for two reasons – more sleep and more quizzing!!
After a gap of nearly a month, the IQL regular meetings became regular again. With a relatively new venue and minus the coffee & comfort of a coffee day, the handful of us who landed up at the venue amidst the ever increasing Chennai heat were doing ok. Yaggy, Patrick, Sana, Vinod, Photo Vijay, Suraj Tewari and Matti were present apart from KN.
Matti had to leave early so he started with his usual ten questions. Then Vijay took over and brought out a quiz that had been hosted at CEG. KN was next with some current affairs questions (with a heavy dose of Roger Fed and the French Open). Sana closed out the meeting with some questions from a quiz that he had been part of. Ajay joined the meeting quite late (at around 6.30 PM).
Overall, we all had quite a lot of fun even without the food. The good part about the whole meeting was most of us were able to answer questions without much trouble, which means either we are getting better or the questions were simple. We prefer the first reasoning for obvious reasons.
Missing in action were Hantan, Kabala, Harish and Murthy, our other regulars.
Hope to see more action in the coming meetings.
Here are some questions from the meeting:
1. At the age of 29, he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lincolnshire constituency of Louth in a by-election on 4 December 1969. He gave up politics, was knighted instead, for his services to the world of books. Currently in India for his book Paths of Glory, which is a pathbreaking story of how a certain George Mallory might have been the first to reach Mt.Everest and not Hillary as many think!! Who?
2. Who are the only two Prime Ministers in the history of Indian politics to have returned for a second term after completing a full 5 year term?
3. Which was the first song in which AR Rahman sang and appeared on screen in the video?
4. Roger Fedrer won 3 out of the 4 Grand Slam titles in a year 3 times – 2006, 2006, 2007. The other slam winner in 2006 and 2007 was Nadal. Here is the question. In 2004, the French Open was won by an Argentine Player, nicknamed “El Gato” – the cat Who is the player
5. During the 2009 IPL season, Eddy Grant sang the song “Gimme hope Jo’anna”, what does the Jo’anna refer to in this song?
Answers:
1. Sir Jeffrey Archer
2. J.Nehru and Manmohan Singh
3. Vande Mataram
4. Gaston Gaudio
5. Johannesburg, it was dedicated as a memory to the people of South Africa who suffered the cruelty of apartheid.
Weekly Meeting June 10, 2009
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We will have our weekly meeting this Saturday at 4.30 pm.
Venue:
No 8, 2nd Floor, Corporation Complex, 3rd Main Road,
Opp to Kaliappa Hospital (now known as Billroth Hospital),
Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai 600028.
Please bring 10 questions.
