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The Hindu – Young World Quiz on Friday

Coimbatore: Young World, the children’s supplement of ‘The Hindu’ as part of its Newspaper in Education initiative, has organised a pan-India Inter-City Inter-School Quiz for the tenth year on November 6. The initiative began in 2000.

The quiz held in Hyderabad, Kochi, New Delhi and Chennai was an overwhelming success.

Enthused by the response, ‘The Hindu’ decided to make it an annual affair.

Ever since it has been held regularly throughout the country, and, is now the best-known and most widely-attended live inter-city inter-school quizzing event in the country.

The quiz conducted every year since then draws enthusiastic response from thousands of students from hundreds of schools at regional events conducted nationwide.

The regional winning teams, of two members each compete for top honours at the Grand All-India Final, where the ultimate winners are crowned in all glory and showered with a veritable cornucopia of prizes.

In this year’s edition of the quiz, the regional rounds were conducted at Chennai, Puducherry, Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Coimbatore. The finals will be held in Coimbatore on Friday.

Once again the quizmaster for this year is V.V. Ramanan, well-known in quizzing circles as a quizzer and quizmaster.

I-Ad is managing the event. Schoolchildren between classes VII and IX are eligible to participate in the quiz. Each school can send a maximum of three teams comprising two students each.

S&M Kids Wear is the title sponsor, while Kalasalingam University is the associate sponsor.

The national sponsors are Black Thunder, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd., Gold Winner, Hatsun Agro Product Ltd., Vizag Steel Plant, Lotte Caramilk, and Crocs shoes, Firefox Bikes, Britannica Encyclopaedia, Penguin Books, Cherry Blossom and Reynolds. Dabur Real Fruit Juice is the beverage sponsor and I Ads & Events is the event manager.

Shri Kannan Departmental Store (P) Ltd. is the Regional Prime Sponsor. Hotel Rathna Regent is the Hospitality Partner and Savithri Photo House is the Photo Pavilion Partner.

Other regional sponsors are ARC Aqua Pura Water, Avathar Jewellers, Banaanaa Slice, CBR Masala, CUE English (India ) Pvt. Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Milka Wonder Cake, Phoenix Induction Stove, Sri Krishna Sweets, Vama Oil and Zimson Watch World.

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