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Quiz competition for students on November 3

KOZHIKODE: The Hindu-Young World Quiz-07, the eight edition of the event, will be held at the Tagore Centenary Hall here on November 3. It is open to students from classes VI to IX. Teams of two students can participate in the competition. Each school can send a maximum of three teams. Entry cards have been sent to schools, which should fill and send them to the local office of The Hindu within the specified dates.

The competition will get under way at 2 p.m. with a written preliminary round to select six teams from among the participants for the second and final round. The first prize-winner will be eligible to participate in the grand all-India final, to be held in Visakhapatnam. The Hindu will meet the travel, lodging and boarding expenses of the teams and one accompanying parent or teacher coming from the various centres to Visakhapatnam.

For the regional winners, the first prize is Rs.8,000, the second Rs.6,000 and the third Rs. 4,000. The prize money will be double that for the national winners. There will be several other prizes in cash and kind at both the regional and the national levels for the participants and the audience.

The competition is being organised in 12 other centres, including Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.

The other centres are Puducherry where the quiz will be held on Saturday, October 27, Chennai, Bangalore, Mangalore, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.

Amity University is the national title sponsor for the competition. Tara talcum powder and Lotte BooProo are the associate sponsors. The other sponsors at the national level are GM Pens, Penguin, Encyclopaedia Britannica, State Bank of Travancore, Cycle Brand Agarbathis, Vizag Steel Plant, Tourism Malaysia and Extramarks.com. Dabur-Real Mango is the beverage sponsor. The event managers are Quizwalahs. Nutrifud Cakes and Vijayalaxmi Cashew Co. are the State-level sponsors.

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