This quiz was the third in the series of quizzes by Abhijit Banerjee or our own Abuda and the first time outside Salt Lake and in the new hotbed of open quizzing of our city at YMCA. Abuda being the traditionalist classical quizzer the quiz was expected to be in similar lines. There were 18 teams for the prelims. There was a huge lift in the glamour quotient of the quiz by the presence of a Fox History Channel crew and two models the anchors for a new show 'Whats with Indian Men'. They were covering the various cultural passions of the men of the city where quizzing was deemed as one by the producers of the show. Good for us the quizzers of Kolkata who are trying to build a genuine reputation outside of certain names which have long been associated with the quizzing of the city.
The first question of the 30 question prelims was : Correctly write the name of the famous New York City hotel which lent its name to a salad of walnut, apple, celery and mayonnaise. I’m looking at something particular in the way the name is written. And we knew that the quiz would be very classical. The answer is Waldorf=Astoria. The '=' sign was required for marks. The funda was that they were two different adjacent hotels which were acquired separately by Conrad Hilton and he buit a sky bridge connecting both and brought them under a single management. The '=' was made into a trademark of the new combined hotel signifying the sky bridge. Great funda and a great question to kick off things.
Inmaniacs topped the prelims followed closely by Hammer and Tongs. The other teams to make it were Answering Service, Byapok Byatha, Quiz Lovers of Calcutta, Barrackpore Boys, Gone Up in Smoke and Potoldanga Thunder Club.
For the first time in Kolkata quizzing there were cheerleaders for a team which was made up of the two anchors of the Fox History channel show. The show will start from Saturday 4th of June at 10 PM. The episode about Kolkata will be later down the line. However it is a request to quizzers to watch the program as they are going to promote proper open quizzing of Kolkata. The main quiz was of 80 questions of infinite bounce and flat scoring with a varied spectrum of subjects. Hammer and Tongs and Inmaniacs started off very well and went into the lead. Answering Service started little late but by the halfway mark they had caught up with the two leading teams. At the midway mark the quiz was a threeway battle with all the 3 teams with a good chance of winning. The other teams though had given brilliant answers but were a little behind and had to make a major comeback to be in fray.
The second half of the quiz was similar in pattern with three teams continuing to score. Potoldanga Thunder Club, Byapok Byatha and Gone Up in Smoke had started to make some inroads but not enough. Eventually Hammer and Tongs were comfortable winners with 165 points followed by Inmaniacs with 135 and Answeing Service with 115. Abuda arranged for a trophy for each member of the top three teams and a beautiful coffee mug as a memento.
It was a very fine quiz with wonderful content and a lot of things which people learnt about. As with all of Abuda's quizzes his experience as a quizzer was reflected in the questions. The only drawback was that there were no Audio or Video in the quiz which Abuda has deliberately avoided due to technical snags that happen frequently with these questions. All in all a wonderful experience which has left us craving for more from this wonderful quizmaster and wonderful person.
Results:
1. Hammer and Tongs: Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani and Kinshuk Biswas.
2. Inmaniacs: Gautam Ghosh, Malabika Banerjee, Anirudh Chari and Sudip Kalyan Dey.
3. Answering Service: Sanjay Mukherjee, C.P. Singh, Soubhadra Chakraborty and P. Srikant.
The first question of the 30 question prelims was : Correctly write the name of the famous New York City hotel which lent its name to a salad of walnut, apple, celery and mayonnaise. I’m looking at something particular in the way the name is written. And we knew that the quiz would be very classical. The answer is Waldorf=Astoria. The '=' sign was required for marks. The funda was that they were two different adjacent hotels which were acquired separately by Conrad Hilton and he buit a sky bridge connecting both and brought them under a single management. The '=' was made into a trademark of the new combined hotel signifying the sky bridge. Great funda and a great question to kick off things.
Inmaniacs topped the prelims followed closely by Hammer and Tongs. The other teams to make it were Answering Service, Byapok Byatha, Quiz Lovers of Calcutta, Barrackpore Boys, Gone Up in Smoke and Potoldanga Thunder Club.
For the first time in Kolkata quizzing there were cheerleaders for a team which was made up of the two anchors of the Fox History channel show. The show will start from Saturday 4th of June at 10 PM. The episode about Kolkata will be later down the line. However it is a request to quizzers to watch the program as they are going to promote proper open quizzing of Kolkata. The main quiz was of 80 questions of infinite bounce and flat scoring with a varied spectrum of subjects. Hammer and Tongs and Inmaniacs started off very well and went into the lead. Answering Service started little late but by the halfway mark they had caught up with the two leading teams. At the midway mark the quiz was a threeway battle with all the 3 teams with a good chance of winning. The other teams though had given brilliant answers but were a little behind and had to make a major comeback to be in fray.
The second half of the quiz was similar in pattern with three teams continuing to score. Potoldanga Thunder Club, Byapok Byatha and Gone Up in Smoke had started to make some inroads but not enough. Eventually Hammer and Tongs were comfortable winners with 165 points followed by Inmaniacs with 135 and Answeing Service with 115. Abuda arranged for a trophy for each member of the top three teams and a beautiful coffee mug as a memento.
It was a very fine quiz with wonderful content and a lot of things which people learnt about. As with all of Abuda's quizzes his experience as a quizzer was reflected in the questions. The only drawback was that there were no Audio or Video in the quiz which Abuda has deliberately avoided due to technical snags that happen frequently with these questions. All in all a wonderful experience which has left us craving for more from this wonderful quizmaster and wonderful person.
Results:
1. Hammer and Tongs: Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani and Kinshuk Biswas.
2. Inmaniacs: Gautam Ghosh, Malabika Banerjee, Anirudh Chari and Sudip Kalyan Dey.
3. Answering Service: Sanjay Mukherjee, C.P. Singh, Soubhadra Chakraborty and P. Srikant.
Some Questions from the Quiz:
Q) Alexander Selkirk and Robinson Crusoe are the two main ones in this geographical group. Which group?
A) Juan Fernandez Islands
Q) For one whole number jump the difference in wave amplitude is 10 times, and the difference in amount of energy released is 31.6 times. What is being discussed?
A) Richter Scale
Q) Which two countries fought the Pastry War in 1838-39, after a pastry cook from one of the countries claimed that his shop had been ruined by looting officers from the other country ten years earlier in 1828?
A) France and Mexico
Q) Alexander Selkirk and Robinson Crusoe are the two main ones in this geographical group. Which group?
A) Juan Fernandez Islands
Q) For one whole number jump the difference in wave amplitude is 10 times, and the difference in amount of energy released is 31.6 times. What is being discussed?
A) Richter Scale
Q) Which two countries fought the Pastry War in 1838-39, after a pastry cook from one of the countries claimed that his shop had been ruined by looting officers from the other country ten years earlier in 1828?
A) France and Mexico
Q) ‘No.5, 1948’ is No.1 since 02.11.2006 in what list or category?
A) The most expensive Painting ever sold.
A) The most expensive Painting ever sold.
The next quiz to be reviewed will be the Dalhousie Institute Open by Neil O'Brein.
5 comments:
Was a very good and entertaining quiz.
Loved every bit of it, although we missed qualifying by 1/2 points.
It was great to see that there actually was an audience which stayed back to see the quiz.
Looking forward to another quiz by Abuda.
As usual a great quiz from quizzer who happens to be an engineer and a gentleman.
Supratik
A big Thank You from so many of us! A most enjoyable quiz, we all really loved it. And ... people really really realised and appreciated the pains ... taken ... over the (excellent) questions. Finally, this is really helping the revival of Kolkata quizzing.
Great job ... Keep it up!
The highlight of the quiz for me was Mrs J asking Indrani Dasgupta to come properly dressed for a quiz in future.
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