"Agony and Ecstasy"
Date: 12 November 2009
Well, posting the review of the quiz after a week. The venue was Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi. I was participating in this quiz for the very first time but had an experienced partner in Prateek Vijayavargia. We reached the venue early and after the registration process were seated in the auditorium. Before the quiz began it was all usual stuff, meeting all friends and discussing some stuff or the other. The 'girl' prefects were, I guess, a little to harsh on everyone as they were constantly asking us to sit down which I didn't like.
After some commercial videos and some awe inspiring videos by Derek O' Brien Associates the prelims began. The prelims were being done by Derek himself. Well the questions were all pretty simple. You can see the archive here. After the prelims ,we were confident about scoring 23-24 and were a little dodgy about the rest. After the time it was time for refreshments which I think weren't good. Refreshments had Minute Maid and Maaza bottles and one could pick as many as one wanted. Long discussions went on with all the fellow quizzers during this break time.
Everyone thronged the auditorium, to know the 6 teams that had made it on stage. Well after all our chit chats we discovered we had something around 27 and were somewhat sure of qualifying. The first two teams were from DPS. The third team was ours. We had made it on stage and Derek was not late to mention that we scored 29/30 in the prelims which was easily the national record. We were joined in later by 3 more teams on stage.The one question that we missed was the visual: Kaka- which i think everyone got in the audi except us.
The quizzing finale began and we breezed through the quiz scoring heavily and once we were in the lead , we maintained it till the fifth round. All went wrong at the end of the fifth round when St Columbas hit the buzzers and answered 3 questions and jumped from 36 to 54 and join us in the lead. The quiz went into the last round which was on buzzer. The final four questions were to be asked. And we after all the hard work did everything wrong and hit the buzzer three times, only to find us give wrong answers every time.
The quizmaster somewhere in between the quiz had said :
Signing Off
Anshul Kharbanda
After some commercial videos and some awe inspiring videos by Derek O' Brien Associates the prelims began. The prelims were being done by Derek himself. Well the questions were all pretty simple. You can see the archive here. After the prelims ,we were confident about scoring 23-24 and were a little dodgy about the rest. After the time it was time for refreshments which I think weren't good. Refreshments had Minute Maid and Maaza bottles and one could pick as many as one wanted. Long discussions went on with all the fellow quizzers during this break time.
Everyone thronged the auditorium, to know the 6 teams that had made it on stage. Well after all our chit chats we discovered we had something around 27 and were somewhat sure of qualifying. The first two teams were from DPS. The third team was ours. We had made it on stage and Derek was not late to mention that we scored 29/30 in the prelims which was easily the national record. We were joined in later by 3 more teams on stage.The one question that we missed was the visual: Kaka- which i think everyone got in the audi except us.
The quizzing finale began and we breezed through the quiz scoring heavily and once we were in the lead , we maintained it till the fifth round. All went wrong at the end of the fifth round when St Columbas hit the buzzers and answered 3 questions and jumped from 36 to 54 and join us in the lead. The quiz went into the last round which was on buzzer. The final four questions were to be asked. And we after all the hard work did everything wrong and hit the buzzer three times, only to find us give wrong answers every time.
The quizmaster somewhere in between the quiz had said :
"The team that tops the prelims never goes on to win the quiz."This constantly played on our mind and maybe this is why we succumbed at the last juncture.
Signing Off
Anshul Kharbanda
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