Quiz Competition by Pune Kutchi Yuva Mandal

The Pune Kutchi Yuva Mandal organizes some event every 2-3 months here. Recently they organized a quiz competition. The overall quiz competition was very well organized and I thought maybe sometime in future KV can also have a quiz competition.

They had divided participants into 4 teams : “Amazing Aryabhatts”, “Brainy Birbals”, “Chatur Chanakyas”, “Electric Einsteins”. They had prepared nice vertical pamphlets for each team. The photo that you see in this post contains all 4 pamphlets. Each team had around 20 people. (Total 4×20 = 80 participants). Each team member was given a colored team band to wear on the forehead. These 20 people from a team were further divided into subgroups of 2 or 3 people based on age. The subgroups from each team would compete against each other in a quiz round.

Each quiz round was divided into 3 subrounds. Subround1 had 2 questions for each team. Subround2 was category round where team will be asked 2 questions from category that they pick from the chits. Subround3 was buzzer round with audio – visual clues. They had managed to buy a buzzer system too. Round2 and Round3 had negative points for wrong answer.

Each quiz round had a winning team but the scores across rounds were also cumulative. So all 4 teams were always excited at end of each round to see which team was ahead in cumulative scores. I was part of the Brainy Birbals and our team stood second overall and we (all 20 people) got a cash prize for being runners up.

Organizing Such a quiz takes lot of preparation and a good quiz master. Anoop Gala who is VP of Engg at Mphasis and has moved from Chicago/Boston did a very well job of quiz master. Reminded me of Deep Nishar. :-). Hopefully KV will be able to organize a quiz competition sometime soon. 🙂

Sample of the quiz:

Me at the event:

Prashant at the quiz