Quiz! Quiz! Quiz!

Hello Folks!
This month turned out to be the most quizzical month in recent times with not less than 5 quizzes taking place in the state. I hope the coming months would see more quizzical action taking place in Guwahati and elsewhere.

I went to Duliajan to conduct the annual quiz for members of different OIL clubs in Upper Assam. The quiz was named as CONCENTRATION CAMP and was held at theZaloni Club auditorium on June 17. After 10 rounds of hardcore quizzing, the Digboi Club team represented by Sita Baruah, Samrat Sethia, Rupam Sutradhar and Dhruvarka Mama emerged winners. The second and third positions went to Zaloni Club teams. I would like to thank the Digboi Club people for coming down to Duliajan just to attend my show.

The next morning, I went to Digboi to conduct a school quiz organized by the India Club.There were 42 teams in the prelims, and ultimately 6 teams made it to the finals. After 8 gruelling rounds, the DPS Digboi team represented by Shakyashamik Kar Khound and Padmini (Pooja) Baruah won the first prize.This was my first school quiz in Digboi.

I would like to thank Mr.Prasanta Das, who accompanied me to Duliajan and Digboi and helped me in conducting the quiz by operating the computer.

I have a quiz news togive you all: the Narengi OIL Club, Guwahati is organizing the annual prize-money inter-institutional quiz on July 8. Two-member teams from class XI to the postgraduate level can participate in this quiz. Cash prizes for all finalists. Entry forms are available at Bharali Commercials, Panbazar. Last date for form submission is July 2. The prelims for the quiz will start at 4 PM on July 8; the finals start at 6PM.

See you all at Narengi! Take care folks!

*Lord Mani*

Prisoner Diary:Musings of Lord Mani from the CONCENTRATION CAMP

Wednesday, the 7th day of June, 2006: I entered the CONCENTRATION CAMP at Tintin's place at about 6.30 PM. I was being accompanied by JJ. Perhaps we people are unique in history, as we were the only people to enter a CONCENTRATION CAMP out of our own free will. When we entered the camp, we found two other confines—Tintin and Haddock.Fuehrer was there too. Fuehrer had set up this camp in order to grill us for over two hours with his ingenious torture-devices—twenty different rounds of questions. Now, some of you might ask this question as to why we people went to the CONCENTRATION CAMP out of our own free will. Well, we simply succumbed to the temptation of watching The Fuehrer in action after a long time. Quiz ke liye saala kuch bhi karega!

6.45 PM: Fuehrer laid down the instructions that we prisoners were bound to follow in the camp. He also gave us a brief overview of what was in store for us in the camp.

7 PM: We went for a draw of lots to decide the order of torture. I was chosen as the last to face the music. Tintin was chosen to face the first volley of bullets first.

7.15 PM: Fuehrer starts the session by asking us 15 questions in a row. We scribbled our answers in a sheet of paper. Fuehrer examined them and passed his word: 10 out of 30 to Tintin and Lord; JJ gets 4. It was a bad round for us. We could only answer 5 questions at the most, but since this was the CONCENTRATION CAMP, we couldn't expect a better score. We could imagine our lot at the end of the twentieth round in the first round itself. However, as we proceeded with the rounds, Fuehrer proved our fears wrong.

8 PM: We were done with the audio rounds. Fuehrer once again proved it that his class is entirely different from other Quizmasters.Nobody has ever asked us to identify groups like Foo Fighters in any quiz show in the region. Fuehrer's selection of audio clips was remarkable.

8.15 PM: We came to the first of the visual rounds. Fuehrer had collected some marvellous visuals on which he framed some equally brilliant questions. This time, we were totally bowled over. We did well in the visual rounds.

8.30 PM: Fuehrer now unleashed his most lethal weapon on us—the visual connection round. Fuehrer had made it the toughest round in his quiz. Fuehrer says that the ultimate quizzical strength of a quizzer is known from his performance in a visual connection round.We really had to slog hard in that round, so much so that Tintin and I ended up with headaches.

8.45 PM: Fuehrer now decided to use his entire deadly arsenal at us in the subject round. The subjects Sports, Geography & Nature etc. were no less deadly than the Zyklon Bs and the V2s. Fuehrer once again gave us a glimpse of his in-depth research.

9.30 PM: The last round ended at 9.30 PM. Fuehrer proved it that he means business when he is at the helm of affairs. Nothing short of perfection satisfies him. However, he also proved us wrong by being a not-so-harsh taskmaster (we had thought otherwise).The final score-card read: JJ- 29; Tintin- 150; Lord Mani- 220. Fuehrer proved it beyond any doubt that quizzing is not only a game of asking and answering questions, it is also an art. Long questions, intriguing audio-visuals, hardcore connections and complicated subjects have now become the trademark of us, the TriviaBytes people. That's the way we quiz in our place; that's the way it will be as long as we are around. Hail Fuehrer! Hail Quizzing! Hail CONCENTRATION CAMP!

*Lord Mani*


N.B. Fuehrer is Abhra da, JJ is Jagat, Haddock is Taheer, and Tintin is Mit.

Quiz Ke Liye Saala Kuch Bhi Karega!!

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