A Brief History of Quizzing
Yesterday I had been to Kozhikode for a quiz by Malayala Manorama. And as has been the story for some time now , we were placed second behind nit calicut team .Most probably this was the last quiz for us as students.
I used to win prizes in school level . Once I joined pre degree I got exposed to college quizes. Many say it as the golden period of Kerala quizzing . I never stood a chance to qualify in any contest at that time. The competition was too tough.It was the same story when i joined degree. Though I believe I was a better quizzer that time I never had a nice partner.
Then came my days in GEC Thrissur. I have to thank Gheverghese for his support and Vaidyanathan who was ready to have long quizzing sessions in his room for making me interested in quizzing again.These sessions were very interesting .When I joined GEC I never qualified even for the intra quizes. Slowly I picked the pace and went on to win some inter quizes also. I had a long number of partners during this journey - 15!. My first team mate was my room mate Sony. Funny part is that he doesnt remember that!
Me and Maxin were team for some time . Then that nut started to lose interest in Quizzing and got interested in projects and Linux.Now he is placed in HCL and im still job hunting.It took me a great long time to find a partner in Arun Ashok. Fortunately he was also out of partner when his team mate got involved in CAT.Our team was one of the most succesful from our college.Highlights of my quizzing life includes University Challenge 2003.
Thinking of quiz masters the first person that comes to my mind is Dr Kishore Chandran. Sadly he has gone to Banglore.Many in my college said that it is a lose for GEC since he used to do most quizzes in our college.He used to do truly class quizzes with wonderful qns from sports.He was also very encouraging and inspiring. Some of his connection Visuals were real fundas.Promoth George has wonderful trivias and biz qns.He is the most energetic QM I've seen. I could only attend one quiz of Devdas Krishnan. It was realy enjoyable.
My 15 partners -Sony Mathew, Sarath Kumar, Maxin John, Smitha Sebastain, Sachin Nair, George Stephen, Ghevarghese Daniel, A K Vaidyanathan, Paul Mathew, Mahesh Nair, Rajasekhar, Harikrishnan, Chandu Lenin, Rahul Girish and Arun Ashok.
We had a great time together. i used to compete against most of these and we GECians always enjoyed the healthy competition.
Then we had those from other institutes; the list led by the NIT Calicut members Manjith, Praveen , Abid(only last day i knew that he has compiled a quiz book and will soon release the next one),Vipin and Atul, The one man army from medical college Sarin , the one man army who calls himself "Ayur Kid"-Vijaynath.(we used to thank god that Sarin and Vijay didnt end up in same institute) the maharajas-Lloyd, Mrinal and Anand.we had nice fights on stage.though I couldnt face him on stage Sajan was by far the best that I have seen.
now i has to try my luck in some open events
I used to win prizes in school level . Once I joined pre degree I got exposed to college quizes. Many say it as the golden period of Kerala quizzing . I never stood a chance to qualify in any contest at that time. The competition was too tough.It was the same story when i joined degree. Though I believe I was a better quizzer that time I never had a nice partner.
Then came my days in GEC Thrissur. I have to thank Gheverghese for his support and Vaidyanathan who was ready to have long quizzing sessions in his room for making me interested in quizzing again.These sessions were very interesting .When I joined GEC I never qualified even for the intra quizes. Slowly I picked the pace and went on to win some inter quizes also. I had a long number of partners during this journey - 15!. My first team mate was my room mate Sony. Funny part is that he doesnt remember that!
Me and Maxin were team for some time . Then that nut started to lose interest in Quizzing and got interested in projects and Linux.Now he is placed in HCL and im still job hunting.It took me a great long time to find a partner in Arun Ashok. Fortunately he was also out of partner when his team mate got involved in CAT.Our team was one of the most succesful from our college.Highlights of my quizzing life includes University Challenge 2003.
Thinking of quiz masters the first person that comes to my mind is Dr Kishore Chandran. Sadly he has gone to Banglore.Many in my college said that it is a lose for GEC since he used to do most quizzes in our college.He used to do truly class quizzes with wonderful qns from sports.He was also very encouraging and inspiring. Some of his connection Visuals were real fundas.Promoth George has wonderful trivias and biz qns.He is the most energetic QM I've seen. I could only attend one quiz of Devdas Krishnan. It was realy enjoyable.
My 15 partners -Sony Mathew, Sarath Kumar, Maxin John, Smitha Sebastain, Sachin Nair, George Stephen, Ghevarghese Daniel, A K Vaidyanathan, Paul Mathew, Mahesh Nair, Rajasekhar, Harikrishnan, Chandu Lenin, Rahul Girish and Arun Ashok.
We had a great time together. i used to compete against most of these and we GECians always enjoyed the healthy competition.
Then we had those from other institutes; the list led by the NIT Calicut members Manjith, Praveen , Abid(only last day i knew that he has compiled a quiz book and will soon release the next one),Vipin and Atul, The one man army from medical college Sarin , the one man army who calls himself "Ayur Kid"-Vijaynath.(we used to thank god that Sarin and Vijay didnt end up in same institute) the maharajas-Lloyd, Mrinal and Anand.we had nice fights on stage.though I couldnt face him on stage Sajan was by far the best that I have seen.
now i has to try my luck in some open events
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