In the academic year when everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, I had something to cheer about. Yesterday on 20th Feb we(Anurag, Abhishek & myself) won a quiz at LNM IIT's fest Vivacity.
We cleared the elimination round with flying colours. (Out of 80 teams we were first in the elimination round. scored 21 out of 25.) The credit goes definitely to Anurag and Abhishek. They answered the tough ones which probably mattered most. After the round when I was going through the question paper, I realised I alone would have got only 13. The number looks good but they were mostly the simple questions all the teams would have got right. So basically, there's nothing to boast about.
Next we had the main round of quizzing. Four teams made it to final round. The second team was Arya College and two teams were from LNM IIT. After a good elimination round, the main round was a huge let down. It seemed as if all the energy and time had been devoted to elimination round only. The main round had only 32 questions in all. It would not have taken more that 15 minutes for the quiz to get over (The elimination round was of half an hour).
Hardly any preparation had been done for the main quiz. The questions were like those asked in school quizzes and mostly very very simple. The quiz master seemed to be fascinated with Slumdog Millionaire. A total of 3 questions were asked from the movie in some form or the other.
In the end we won with a score of 55 with second team on 45.
The first runner up, Arya College were a very good team. They scored 19 in elimination. We were actually scared of them (for they sat in such a manner that they would have got all the passed questions). They were the runners up in Blitzschlag 09 as well. That means a lot because for the past three years hardly any team from other colleges have cleared the elimination rounds in the quizzes of our college. This team would have given any team of Jaipur a run for their money and in short quizzes like the one in LNM IIT one can never be sure. It was just a matter of luck that we won and they didnt. One question could have decided the fate of quiz and they could have taken away the first prize. My congratulations to the Arya team.
In the end I was very relieved. I was a part of teams that could not clear the elimination rounds in Maharani college(with Anurag & Abhinav) and Tata Crucibles(with Abhishek) while both were pretty easy ones. Besides, Anurag & Abhinav had been the runner ups in Tata Crucibles and Abhishek& Abhinav had won the Blitzschlag 09 quiz organized by me and Anurag. I was the only one in the team who had not cleared any elimination round so far in this semester. I really thank Almighty for helping us win. In the end, something to be happy about. :)
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