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Good response to quiz

Thiruvananthapuram: Registration is in full swing for the eighth edition of The Hindu Young World Quiz-07 which will be held in the AKG Memorial Hall here on November 6. As many as 260 teams from 90 schools from the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli have already registered. The best response is from Thiruvananthapuram district.

About 64 schools in the district have registered so far. The registration is continuing.

The competition is open to students from Classes VI to IX. Teams of two students each 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 in order to participate in the competition.

The competition will get under way at 2 p.m. with a written preliminary round to select six teams from the participants for the second and final round.

The finalist from among them will be eligible to participate in the all-India finals. The venue of the all-India finals has been shifted from Visakhapatnam to Chennai. The regional round of the quiz, which was to be held in Chennai on October 29, had to be postponed due to incessant rain.

Now, both the regional round and the all-India finals will be held in the Kamaraj Aragam at Teynampet on December 3, the former at 9.30 a.m. and the latter at 2 p.m. The Hindu will meet the travelling, lodging and boarding expenditure of the teams and one accompanying parent or teacher from various centres to Chennai.

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.

Nutrifud Cakes and Vijayalaxmi Cashew Co. are the State-level sponsors.

The regional sponsors for Thiruvananthapuram are Quilon Radio Service and Babas Colour Lab.

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