Comments on: At the NSIT Quiz Fest

By: On the Road Again | Rishabh Kaul's Weblog

On the Road Again | Rishabh Kaul's Weblog — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:21:47 +0000

[...] way to Chandigarh. Here’s a post by the Thapar Guys on their Quiz Blog about the event. Kutub Quizzers hosted that quiz, t’was good wonly. A lot of stuff was quite workoutable and we won rather [...]

By: Diversification of Quizzing | Rishabh Kaul's Weblog

Diversification of Quizzing | Rishabh Kaul's Weblog — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:27:26 +0000

[...] returning from the NSIT quiz (about which I have blogged here ), I came across Ankur’s post where he presented his [...]

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:41:09 +0000

Are you speaking of the same certain school with same certain experts that I am thinking? ;) Yup, certain school students say that about me too. And students who never participated in school have no idea what they’ve missed out. College quizzes are fun, but school quizzes have their own charm.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:53:28 +0000

Yup, nothing can beat the good old school days.

Going to other schools, winning competitions , eating good food and travelling in school transport , getting so many gifts/prizes, metting up with friends from all around Delhi at each symposium : that was too much fun.

And the fact is that , those who never went to these competitions, don’t realise what they missed during their school days.

Also in college you realise how much the various ‘organisations’ lied to their schoolmates about their achievements. A certain school’s student was unwilling to believe that i used to win a lot of tech quizzes, apparently their Experts told them that they won every competition.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:23:26 +0000

Ah. Still, NSIT QC wasn’t any exception to the norm, with hardly any tech questions. Ironic, given it’s primarily a computer science institute.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:09:15 +0000

Actually i was the organiser of the biz quiz , but i had my class at CL , so couldn’t be there to host it. the above comment was more general and less w.r.t. the NSIT QC.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:17:05 +0000

Is that why I didn’t see you there at the quiz fest with the other guys? :)

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:51:02 +0000

Yeah , the tech thing is pretty evident in the college quiz circles, infact tech quizzers are generally looked down upon

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:56:07 +0000

Oh, you got the Absolut connect? Amazing! I thought nobody did. Nice to see there are other people who agree with me on tech. It deserves more importance.

(And thanks for the info, that Baba Ramdev’s alias while participating in quizzes is Avinash Mudaliar. ;) )

By: Rishabh

Rishabh — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:56:58 +0000

Hi Ankur,

Rishabh here. Stumbled upon your blog post while searching for something else.

I totally agree with what you said. Gets fuck irritating while setting a quiz coz people dont know what a fail whale is.

And the same argument can be extended to Bollywood. Why cant we ask some really tough Bollywood trivia from th 50s? If you can do the same for Hollywood!

BTW I was on stage during the general quiz, we were the team that got the absolut connect (possibly the only highlight for us since we fucked up everything else in that quiz)