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A pulsating round of quiz

Staff Reporter

ENGAGING: The Thiruvananthapuram regional finals of The Hindu-Young World Quiz in progress at the AKG Memorial Hall on Thursday. - Photo: S. Mahinsha

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Name the Indian Icon who described Thiruvananthapuram as the evergreen city of India? The question posed by quiz master V.V. Ramanan for the written preliminary round set the momentum for the seventh edition of The Hindu-Young World Quiz competition at the A.K.G. Memorial Hall here on Thursday.

Of the 25 questions during the preliminary elimination round, attended by over 260 teams from nearly 100 schools, it was the question on Thiruvananthapuram that captured the imagination of the audience.

The question, flashed on an LCD screen, was thrown open to the audience for an answer after the completion of the preliminary round.

The audience, comprising students from Thiruvananthapuram, Kanyakumari, Kollam and Pathanamthitta, tried their luck with answers ranging from Jawaharlal Nehru to Mother Teresa before coming up with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as the right answer.

One enthusiastic youngster even rattled off the name of Vivek Oberoi, leaving the audience in splits.

The preliminary round saw six teams qualifying for the finals, which consisted of a number of pulsating rounds, such as Headlines, Topsy Turvey, Anagramania, Spectrum and End Game.

The headline round had participants enacting the role of journalists by guessing the headline given to a historical event, like the way it appeared in the newspaper on that day.

The team members were given the dateline of the event as a clue.

`Anagramania' and `End Game' were buzzer rounds that called for a hair-trigger response from the teams. The round also had negative points for every wrong answer.

Loyola winners

While Loyola School, Sreekaryam, led by Vishnu M.J. and Aravind A. Menon, emerged winners, the runners-up trophy went to Leo Francis and Archith Mohan from the same school.

This is the seventh consecutive time that Loyola has come up trumps at the regional finals of The Hindu-Young World Quiz.

The team from the Holy Angel's Convent Higher Secondary School walked away with the prize for the best cheering squad.

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