V.V. RAMANAN, who has been fascinated with facts and trivia for as long as he can remember, has been quizzing with a good degree of success for more than quarter of a century now. Ramanan has won many a top prize at leading school, college, corporate, radio & television and Open quizzes. He was a regional finalist in Mastermind India 1999. He has also helped conduct quizzes for leading schools, colleges, clubs and corporates.

Ramanan, whose quizzes have been featured in many publications, is at present the resident quizmaster at The Hindu, where he works on the Sports Desk as a senior journalist.

He has been writing the much-appreciated regular weekly quiz column for The Hindu Young World since early 2000. Ramanan also writes a quiz on computers and IT called `Cyber Quest' in The Hindu Business Line, a fortnightly quiz titled `Quiz Corner' in Sportstar (India's leading sports magazine) and a weekly quiz in the 'Education Plus' supplement of The Hindu.

Ramanan has been the host of arguably the biggest, live National-level inter-high school quiz show, 'The Hindu Young World Quiz' for the past six years. The 2006 edition, the seventh in the series, will see schools from 13 cities battling it out for top honours beginning October 5, 2006.

Ramanan has authored three popular quiz books: The Hindu Young World Quiz Book Vol. 1, The Hindu Young World Quiz Book Vol. 2 and The Penguin India Quiz Book 3, for the Penguin Group.

A man of varied interests, Ramanan lives and works in Chennai.