WINNERS: Anant (left) and Siddharth of Centre for Management Studies receiving their cheque from Tata Elxsi Managing Director Madhukar Dev in Bangalore, on Sunday. Quizmaster Giri Balasubramaniam (second from right) is seen. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

Bangalore: Do you know that a clinical toilet is one that measures the blood sugar in your urine? Or which is the company that trades on the stock exchange as JCP? These and other such challenging questions were thrown at participants at this popular quiz contest.

It was a battle of the brains. Students from city's best colleges fought it out in the Bangalore leg of the Tata Crucible-Campus Quiz 2007, an inter-collegiate business quiz hosted by the Tata Group targeted at engineering colleges and b-schools across the country at the NIMHANS Convention Centre here on Sunday.

"Pickbrain" Giri Balasubramaniam, Bangalore's own ace quizmaster, had the audience literally on the edge of their seats, while the participants spent nervous moments exercising their grey cells.

Supposedly the toughest quiz in India, now in its third edition, the Tata Crucible Campus quiz is back in a new format called "Pyramid Quizzing".

Four teams from Centre for Management Studies, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB), BMS College of Engineering and St. Joseph's College of Commerce battled it out in the Bangalore finals of the Tata Crucible Quiz.

Finally, Anant and Siddharth from the Centre for Management Studies walked away as champions, with Ganesh B. and Ajit Pai from IIMB close on their heels. The winning team got a cash prize of Rs. 60,000, while the runners-up pocketed Rs. 30,000.

The winning team gets to participate in the grand finale — the national final to be held in Mumbai on March 5.

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