Most Indians,inclusive of myself,get this special happiness and pride when they realise that they know answers to questions. Quizzes for long had been these run-on-the-mill routines, flooded with mundane trivia like countries and capitals,world leaders’ names and such other obscure trivia…
For the beginner….Quizzing in general here could be classified into two genres:
1.Trivia Quizzes, where all the above types were asked…and those people who considered themselves “non-quizzers”(there’s this thought prevailing that quizzers are a special breed of people who spend all their time memorizing trivia…!) would be bored of all those questions…
2.Fundae-based quizzes,which tested the depth to which the participants knew their trivia and their ability to connect stuff…Guesses too played a role in these…and hence those “non-quizzers” found it interesting and likeable as well…
This classification,in the recent past,has started becoming obsolete and the former brand ceases to exist now…well,almost…
It’s well and truly a change for the better,’specially when you start exposing children of 10-12 years old into it..The YWQ regionals here happened three days back,and it was the usual Ramana-style questions…making the participants think…This has been one quiz which has managed to merge the plain trivia-logical fundae quite seamlessly…And so it was this time..
With a record number of teams in attendance(quite a few had to sit on the floor,in the aisles and all!), it was fun,fun and fun all the way for the li’l kids, most of them first timers in an event as big as this one..Well,it’s big cuz places like Trichy don’t have such an active quizzing scene,with open quizzes and all.I’ve felt many times,that,despite some inter-school quizzes we had here,we never got to fight it out with the “Big Boys”,those city-based wizkids who,from our eyes,knew everything under the sun…
People are ready to do open quizzes here,but there are very less people who are ready to invite them…
Well,there are people like The Quizzociates,probably the best quizzing club Trichy has seen for a long time now.And they’ve been trying to improve the quizzing scene here,and,to an extent,succeeded in bringing people into this wonderful thing.Places like Trichy,despite all the odds and exposure problems,continue to put up a fight in their bid to emulate those “Big Boys”…And yours truly is proud to be part of this group!
