A novel type of a quiz was conceived by Sreshth a young Calcutta Quizzer who was leaving for USA on the 20th. His idea was to have a MELA (Music,Entertainment,Literature and Art) quiz. As it was a new concept a lot of teams turned up and the quiz master being young people expected a contemporary and different quiz from the classical type quizzes being dished out by the regular quizmasters.
There were 19 teams who were present for the preliminary round. The prelims were a good balance of old and new. Sreshth had forgotten to Photoshop the name of the artist on a painting so one question was cancelled and it was of 29 questions.
Last Action Heroes topped the prelims with 24 points followed by Potodanga Thunder Club which was welcoming back their talismanic quizzer Robin after a long time of absence due to work pressure. The other teams to make it were Boye Gaiche 2.2, A team with Varun Rajeev a new import from Bangalore, Felix and Jimmy go to the White Castle, Hammer and Tongs, Comfortably Dumb and Sudip Kalyan Dey's team named perennial underachievers.
The finals started with a written round of 5 questions and went on to the regular infinite bounce pattern. In the middle was another written round with a theme. Lastly there was the anticlockwise infinite bounce round.
It was generally a two way battle all through the quiz with Potoldanga and Last Action Heroes going neck and neck. All this was punctuated by a few brilliant answers from Varun Rajeev and his team. Boye Gaiche was following closely behind.
The theme round and the second half continued in the same vein. Eventually Potodanga settled the matter by answering a few questions before the end.
The quiz was overall quite enjoyable. The questions were from a lot of different topics. However, Sreshth remained in his comfort zone and asked questions on things he knows and likes. Thus the music part was abit heavy on western. There was no classical music both eastern or western. But that made this quiz different from normal classical quizzes and was a new experience for quizzers of the city. Overall an intersting evening of different type of Quizzing.
First: Potoldanga Thunder Club: Robin Dey, Prithwish Datta
Second: Last Action Heroes: Partha Sarathi Ghatak, Samrat Dutta and Anurag Sarkar
Third: Varun Rajeev and Team
Questions:
Q) In the world of live, street and television performances, how do we better
know Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos?
A) Criss Angel
Q) The origin of this phrase means “to make up one’s mind to go through with an unpleasant situation or experience” dates back to the day when the wounded had to be seen to without the benefit of anesthetics or painkillers. The victim would be given an object that would help him brace himself against the coming pain. What phrase?
A) Bite the bullet.
Q) It is known as raqs sharqi in Arabic, but its English name is attributed to Sol Bloom, entertainment director at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It is a popular form of exercise and entertainment today, with many different styles of the dance. Identify this style of dance which is the literal translation of the French term ‘Danse du Ventre’. What?
A) Belly Dancing
Q) We first heard Sandeep Vinayak Prabhu on November 3rd 2006 till 26th Jaunary 2007, a total of 86 days. Then we heard him from 17th August 2008 for another 98 days. After that he was heard on 26th December 2009 for another 84 days. And the last we heard of him was from October 3rd2010 for another 96 days.Where did we hear him?
A) As the voice of 'Big Boss'
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