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.

Code Warriors were the overall winners at Montfort School’s tech event, Gateway 2008. Or as they’d have it, G@teway 2008. Guess that opens up the tab of wins for this year. This, despite having less hands on board. Dunno if MINET’s gonna be conducted this year, they don’t seem to have anyone left in their club to conduct anything. Congratulations to current Code Warriors!

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.

• Download Jack Kilby Science Quiz 2006 Prelims archive (PDF, ~486 KB)
• Download Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz 2006 Finals archive (PDF, ~460 KB)

Just got news from Vivek that DPS Vasant Kunj Quiz Club’s team were the runners up at this year’s edition of the Columban Open Quiz, finals held today at St Columba’s. I really can’t express how happy I am at the meteoric rise of the DPS VK QC for the past two years, culminating in this amazing feat. I’d have loved to go and watch it happening, except that I’m down with a bit of viral fever and cold right now. I’m sure it was great fun. Apparently, I was missed there too by some folk, my antics are still remembered it seems. I think a big round of kudos is in order for the whole current DPS VK Quiz Club team, especially the for the guys who came runners up today.
Update: Read Vivek’s post on the Columban Open Quiz 2008.