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Information unlimited at Landmark quiz

Meera Srinivasan

A range of questions keeps the audience on the edge of their seats

— Photo: S.S. Kumar

Battle of the brains: Quiz master Navin Jayakumar hosting the 15th edition of the Landmark quiz at Music Academy in Chennai on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: A few of them at the venue knew nothing about anything. Some of them knew something about a few things. A few more knew something about almost everything. But together, they knew pretty much everything. After nearly three hours of non-stop exchange of information and unlimited entertainment at the Landmark quiz here on Wednesday, the individual and collective intellects of those present were likely to have gone up.

The return of quiz master Navin Jayakumar to the contest after a hiatus, known faces among finalists (some of them winners in previous editions of the contest) and a packed house added flavour to the 15th edition of the Quiz.

The finals of one of the most popular quiz contests of the city started off with an announcement on the best team names. With the audience’s roar determining the winner from a short-listed few, ‘Shahrukh says Chak De, we say cheque de’ was adjudged the best team name in this year’s quiz.

Four rounds covering a range of questions from one on Dendronautics (the study of access to or climb to the tropical forest canopy) to the one on Guggenheim Museum (Spain) shown in Shivaji kept the audience on the edge of their seats. Though the winning team (QED) maintained a comfortable lead almost throughout, the competition between the eight finalists was rather close at some points. And members of the audience, besides amusing themselves with what seemed like the excitement associated with a good one-day cricket match, had several opportunities to flaunt their might in trivia.

The right answers on bar-code hairstyle (When a balding man combs his last few strands of hair across the top of his head, it is said to resemble a bar-code pattern) and ‘fridge googling’ (running a google search for recipes depending on the items one finds in the refrigerator) had everybody in fits of laughter. The team QED, comprising Swaminathan, Samanth Subramanian and V.V. Ramanan, scored 94 points and walked away with trophies and Landmark gift vouchers worth Rs.30,000.

The team ‘No brainers’ came second and ‘Intel inside mental outside’ came third.

Quizzer Ajit was crowned ‘Quizzer of the year’. Based on the performance in the preliminary rounds, P.S. Senior Secondary School was named the best school team. Presented by XBOX 360, the event was co-sponsored by ITC Expressions’ Paperkraft and supported by The Hindu.

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