(By Pantan aka Ananth)

The second edition of the IQL Champions League was conducted at the Brio cafe on 5-10-08. The quiz was supposed to start at 11.00 but began 20 minutes later. Pantan, the clown that he is, was busy browsing through the latest edition of Men’s Health magazine for information on reducing his omnipresent tummy and other details that cannot be printed here. This is a family blog you pervs.

The participants and the scores:

  1. JK – Quiz Master
  2. KN – 1
  3. Sana – 3
  4. Pantan – 0
  5. Vijay –
  6. Yaggi –
  7. Priyanka –
  8. Kid –
  9. Sumo –
  10. Swami –
  11. Sriram –
  12. Mensa – 10
  13. Achu –
  14. Karaboudjan –

Folks, I don’t remembers the final scores of the quiz. if you guys are reading this post and remember your respective scores, drop a comment, I will update the post.

The format:

20 questions for the prelims, at least 40 for the finals.

The quiz:

Knowing how JK frames questions, we did not expect sitters and that was how it turned out to be. The first question was a beauty but unfortunately for most of us it meant digging into the part of the head that houses the brain, only our brains had fallen off somewhere on Ranganathan Street. Most of the questions were obscure, some of them were relatively easy (or so we thought). Pantan, for a change did not score a point. The horror.

At the end of the prelims, there were 6 finalists – Sumo, Swami, Kid, Mensa, Sriram and Karaboudjan – familiar faces and quizzing powerhouses. The finals were entertaining though. Those of us who did not qualify were swatting imaginary flies while the others tackled questions with ease. Although we were expecting Kid/Swami/Sumo to win the contest, it was Mensa who won it in the end. Kudos to him. Karaboudjan the underdog did not score for a while till he cracked that connect question –  the one about the tallest peaks in different continents. He finished last but it was a good effort from him.

Overall I felt the level of questions set were way above our heads and could have been a bit easier.

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