VISAKHAPATNAM: The colossal auditorium was filled with scores of youngsters in their school uniforms making the place a serious academic milieu. Making the most of all available resources -- from books to Internet, more than 550 students zestfully participated in the regional finals of the The Hindu Young World Quiz 2006 - the most eagerly-awaited annual national event managed by the Chennai-based 'Quizwalahs' that was held at the Port Kalavani auditorium here on Saturday.

The brilliant team from Damanjodi in the neighbouring Orissa, Divyanshu Arora and Sambit Mishra of Delhi Public School walked away with the first prize trophy for the third consecutive time. But this time, the champions managed to retain the title only after a tough tie-breaker with the team from Kaizen Academy. "There was a moment of suspense during the tie-breaker, but we were confident that we would make it through even this time," said the confident duo.

CMD of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Y. Sivasagar Rao, chief guest, gave away the prizes and trophies. The sizzling dais caught up heat as the finalists for the events were announced by Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan. Even as the finalists on stage played safe and allowed dicey questions to slip by, those in the audience grabbed them with gay abandon. At the end of three hours of scintillating fun, in the second place were Abhishekh Pandey and M.V.R.Murty (Kaizen Academy), the third prize was bagged by Akhil Raj and K. Vineel (Sri Chaitanya School), Aditya Acharya and Sanjay Nanda (DAV School, Bhubaneshwar) got the fourth prize, Jyotirmayee Lenka and Ganesh Pamidipati (Sri Chaitanya Junior College) secured the fifth place and Majisha N.P. and T. Akshay (The Navy Children School) sixth. The winners in the other categories are: Best outstation team - Asutosh Sahu and Deepanshu Patnaik (De Paul School, Berhampur), second best outstation team - K.Bhargava Ram and P.S.S.Sandeep (Aditya Public School, Kakinada), best team name - A. Radhakrishna and M.Siddharth (St.Francis de Sales School, Vizag), second best team name - Deepak Ranjan and Sureeth M. Kulkarni (Bal Bharati Public School, Parawada) and the third best team name - K. Jaswath Sri Ram Dev and S. Kavya (Little Angels School).

Sponsors

The title sponsor of the mega event was Eveready and the associate sponsor was Jamaai icecream. The other national sponsors for the programme included Vizag Steel, Reynolds, Cycle brand agarbattis, Penguin, Brittania Tiger biscuits, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Reliance Hello, HP, GCC and State Bank of Travancore. The TV sponsor was SS Music and the official drink sponsor for the event was Maaza. The regional sponsors were VPT, VUDA, Dolphin Coverage Solutions, Pelican Holidays/Holiday World, MGM Selvee World, Vijaya Medical Centre, Videocon, GKB Lens P Ltd, Lakshmi Hyundai, Food Ex, Vaibhav Jewellers, CMR Shopping Mall, MVS Jewellers, Hirawats, Vajrapu Gold and Silver Palace, Ravi Furnitures, Selvel, Tandoori Inn, Green Park, Shyam Zaveri, Darling's Paradise, Bhomraj Distributors, Fashion Centre, Siva Rama sweets, Mira Collections, Dhabba Express, Pages, Grand Bay, Taj Residency, The Park, Palm Beach, Fusion Foods, Prasad Electronics and Sri Tirumala Sai Suppliers.

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