I know, haven’t been posting for a while. Mostly studying these days, and well, got bored of writing posts. A few movie reviews and other posts in the wings, but haven’t been written yet.
I went to school yesterday to conduct an intra for the quiz club, and to discuss about organizing the Inter-DPS Contemporary India Quiz to be held in our school next month. Things have gotten ’strict’ in our school ever since a bunch of guys walked into school last month on the pretext of meeting someone and beat a chap up. These days, they log all visitors in, click the photos blah blah. All useless, if you ask me. People who want to beat somebody’s face in may as well do it outside the school. The downside is that even alumni have trouble getting in these days. I had to call the vice principal, and Varun who came to help me also had to jumo through a few hoops to get through.
The question paper I made was mostly pulled from HT Inquizitive and Times of India Fun-da-Mental archives, because I wasn’t really sure how many serious students would be turning up and didn’t want to waste time making a paper if that was the case. It happened with Varun and Rach the last time they went to conduct an intra. Still, the question paper has a few funny questions, rather, people giving funny answers so you might want to check it out.
Click here to download the DPS VK Quiz Club Intra - August 2008 edition paper (with solutions)
Update: There was a mistake in the first question, which Prateek Vijayavargia pointed out. The Football World Cup in question was not the first, but one in 1950. He knows, after all he was Delhi champion at Times of India’s Olympics Quest 2008. 
Narrowly missed out in the national finals.
I never got to participate in the Texas Instruments sponsored Jack Kilby Science Quiz, because I was too old to meet the age criteria. It’s a fun quiz though, I’ve heard, and I had an archive of the quiz compiled by Prateek Vijayavargia lying with me for quite some time; just hadn’t had time to go through it. I did get some time recently, and am putting up the archive now. Most of the stuff was done by Prateek, but I did add a bit, especially one question which I think was wrong. Standard of the quiz is quite okay, given that it is targetted at students of and below 10th standard. Obviously, tech does seem to be an important topic while preparing for this quiz/ Enjoy the archives.
Update: You no longer have to download the whole list to view your result any more. You can check them out online on the DCE website. (Thanks to Tikna for the update)
The DCE / NSIT CEE 2008 results have been put up on the Delhi University website, but they haven’t really taken the care to draw any attention to it. You’ll need to scroll down on that page a bit. Or simply click here to download the result list for DCE / NSIT CEE 2008. It’s a PDF file (approximately 1.04 MB in size - still, a smaller download than viewing the text file on the DU website), so in case you haven’t got a PDF reader handy, you can download the very small and handy Sumatra PDF viewer from this page. Oh, and the file I’ve put up is only for the general category students; others can download their category’s result files from the DU site (link given at the beginning of this paragraph).
The funny thing is, that instead of going the general way - creating a database and then allowing individuals to check their result - they simply took the easy way out and put up a text document containing everyone’s result online. Seems like a text document fresh from sorting from their guys at scanning - haven’t seen PRT files being used for formatted text. A really dumb way to distribute the results too, because if they really want to handle the load of loads of people checking the results the more sensible way would have been using databases. Then again, maybe they don’t have that capability on their host.
Another interesting thing. The official DCE website is apparently maintained by students. I’d have expected the site to be a bit better looking and more updated than THAT - the site has hardly any information about CEE 2008! Surely the sort of people who can make dcetech.com can make a better ‘official’ site. Maybe it’s not the same people.
Filed Under (Quiz, downLOADS) by Ankur on 05-06-2008
The Karnataka Quizzing Association, one of the oldest and biggest quiz clubs in the country, hold an annual quiz called Mahaquizzer every year. Quite amazing quizzes to full of pure trivia. And it can be quite fun when quizmasters themselves come to give the quiz. It’s a written-only quiz, with 150 question - 150 pure spermology stuff. Oh, did I spermology? That’s the technical term for the ’study of trivia’, although there IS a bit of debate about that. Come from the Latin roots of the word. Can be quite fun though, to walk up to your parents and say that you’re interested in a career in ’spermology’.
Enjoy these amazing papers. Download them from www.kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/
