The World Quizzing Championships 2011, known to many as WQC, organised by the International Quizzing Association (IQA) based in UK, was held this year on 4th June last. The competition was held in 79 venues across 32 countries. Over 1400 solo quizzers took part.
The quiz was in the usual format: 240 written questions divided into 8 subject sections of 30 questions each, all to be answered in 2 hours, the score being the total of the best 7 sections.
In Kolkata it was held at IBS in Sector V at Salt Lake from 4 pm onwards. There were 38 contenders, 16 of them students.
This quiz is a real test of knowledge in the internationally accepted style. One needs to know things. Unlike a lot of quizzes in our country today where one is encouraged to guess or work out the answer through a plethora of clues and helpful hints. The questions are intelligently framed and of short length. No long-winded questions, XYZs, themes or connects - which fall more in the 'puzzles' category. Here also one can guess, but one needs to be in a position to guess, with the adequate reading or knowledge to work from.
This year most found the Entertainment section tough going. Personally, I thought that the History and World sections could have been slightly more difficult. The Sports section, as always, covered a wide range of sports and games, not just the popular cricket, soccer and tennis. Overall a good and enjoyable quiz, with something for everyone. And lots of things to learn and take home. The quiz is backed by excellent research. In all the years, there has never been a single doubt about the correctness of any question or answer. A very neat, clean and above-board quiz.
Credits are due to IBS, The Telegraph, Gautam Ghosh for liaising for the venue, and Rudradeep Sanyal for doing all the slogging and thankless work to put up the quiz.
The Kolkata results -
1st: P.Srikanth with 119 (best 7 score).
2nd: Abhijit Banerjee, 105.
3rd: Gautam Ghosh, 99.
4th: Shoubhadra Chakraborty, 98.
5th: Kinshuk Biswas, 95.
6th: Sanjoy Mukherjee, 83.
7th: Anirudh Chari, 82.
8th: Sudip Kalyan Dey, 81.
Category winners -
Entertainment: P.Srikanth, 16.
Culture: Abhijit Banerjee, 16.
Lifestyle: Shoubhadra Chakraborty, 19.
Sciences: P.Srikanth, 23.
History: Abhijit Banerjee, 25. (Also sole country winner in this category, the next best in India being 23.)
Media: Shoubhadra Chakraborty, 23.
Sport and Games: Kinshuk Biswas, 15.
World: Abhijit Banerjee, 19.
9 comments:
How about some sample questions from each section?
We should do an all India quiz of similar nature instead of the cryptic crossword known as Mahaquizzer. Each section maybe handled by the people who have high marks in them. What say All??
This is a quiz some luminaries avoid because their level of knowledge will be exposed in full view of the public, like being caught with their pants down! It is so much more safe and comfortable to hide as a non-performer in a team scenario, preferably a high-flying team, where others will do the work and you will share the credit! You are on your own here, and you can't blame the seat positioning, or luck of the draw, or bias by the quizmaster, or anything else.
Yes, it is a quiz for the brave-hearted. 38 brave quzzers took part this year, it would be fair to say. Hats off to them all!
Was pretty decent. Increased my score from last years by around 20 odd points. Good stuff!
Was an amazing experience to be a part of something like this for the first time around. Got to test the extent of my knowledge and weakness in specific fields.
Was a good quiz and the good thing was as kingshuk said that the questions wete unambious. though i will not agree the format of questions was superior to mahaquizzer. The kind of questions u like is upto u but if u see the top ten for calcutta its almost same for both mahaquizzer n wqc barring people who coildn' t attend both events. i am a big fan of kqa stye questions. You should be able to work ot stuff from clues given t u. but in every quiz the person with mostinformation is in the most advantageous position as he can work stuff out better than anyone esle.
A point about scores. i and some other quizzers sae some participants rewriting answers and increasing their scores in the guise of checking thr scores. i thibk there should be more supervision abt this checking scores from next time on
Can somebody post the questions if they can recall some? For someone like me who has not sat in a GQ for ages (I did one recently but I have Dr, Abuda and Gautam da in the team), this will help me to build up knowledge to at least talk with u guys
typo - had and not have
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