Being just a first year and also relatively new to quizzing circuit, you may raise an eyebrow over the way I criticise this event but you ll back me after reading this.
The JPR college's ECE symposium Quiz Prelims started at around 1.30 and having already missed out on finals of various big quiz events like Techofes and IIT's biz quiz, we were low on confidence and morale and we were badly in need of a victory for motivation. With all the big quizzing moguls assembled at SSN's Instincts 08, we had more than just a good chance of winning this one by storm. We knew what was coming at the first sight of the question paper. Some questions :
When was Benazir Bhutto assasinated? a.26th dec b.27th c.28th
What is the land of cakes ? a.Scotland b.France c.some country which I dint bother to see
The Manchester of India ? ( This one had no choices, a written one...tricky question by their standards! )
And I was actually rolling on the floor laughing when I noticed three questions in Match the following mode !
We handed the papers and the finals was to start in another 10 mins.
We qualified.
And at 1.50, the "grand" quiz finale started, equipped with overhead projector and a huge working crew. Seeing this big horde of quiz organisers, I felt the questions will be of decent material. And they announced Round two - Dumb C
~~ Dumb -C? I think am in the wrong place~~
After explaining the rules of the round ( 2pts maximum can be scored in this round ) , Pravin was asked to enact MNCs and they had told earlier that the Dumb-C will be based on simple things. Can anyone explain on what basis, multi-national companies 'is' an object ??
And the other team got 'college', where they just pointed to the floor and got it right.... I swore that I wont give a hifive ever again after seeing that team (all smiles) exchange highfives after getting college right !
The third round was a video round where a 20sec clip was played and questions were asked on our observation power. Like how many cars in the entire clip and the pick of them....
A black and white video followed by the following questions - What was the color of the horse and question 2 - what was the color of the shoe ! Duh, it should either be black or white...
I went straight to the so called quiz master and asked, when the actual quiz will start and when this stupid crap will end...And the reply was even more baffling, " This is a nontechnical quiz. So... " never completed the sentence.
So, in a technical quiz they ll show that stupid video of a car race and ask what circuit is used in the speedometer? What crap !
I had an ominous feeling that the next round will be even more worse than the previous ones and so was it !
Audio round was announced.
~ Yikes ~
We were played a 20 sec speech of someone in some language. Thanks to a misfunctioning audio system ( the speakers were deliberately turned away from us as if the speaker is right there inside it), we couldnt even makeout the language.
And the answer Fidel Castro in cuban language I suppose.
We lost the quiz.
I remember answering the second question Scotland when I was in fifth grade during Maggi quiz finals. And people here havent grown up.
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