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Good response from teams to The Hindu-Young World Quiz

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : As many as 260 teams from 104 schools took part in the seventh `The Hindu-Young World Quiz' competition held at the A.K.G. memorial hall here on Thursday.

The competition began with an elimination round consisting of 25 questions, which covered a number of areas including religion, literature and food.

The question ``who described Thiruvananthapuram as the evergreen city of India?'' put forward by quiz master V.V. Ramanan captured the imagination of all. 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, Kanniyakumari, 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.

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 good response from the teams. The round also had negative points for wrong answers.

While Loyola School, Sreekariyam, led by Vishnu M.J. and Aravind A. Menon emerged as the winner, the runner-up trophy went to Leo Francis and Archith Mohan also from the same school. This is the seventh time in a row that Loyola has come up trumps at the regional finals of `The Hindu-Young World Quiz'. The winners received prizes from cine actor Indrajith Sukumaran, who was the chief guest at the function. 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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