One more Quiz @ Mysore

One fine day in mid May, my HR (Cripa) calls me and asks, can you do a quiz event for us? I was shocked. I knew that this location was not at all alive and kicking; also there were no interested people to attend quiz events as they were too busy with their work, so I thought twice. Then said ok as I wanted to show them what quizzing is. Before this unfortunately , the dumb quiz was organized by our company which had me fuming and me blasting the organizers , I always tell that quizzing is a difficult thing to organise as the preparation takes more time and also some ground work needs o be done.

I asked Cripa to provide me the last year’s paper so that I can start preparing my Q’s. But that never came, so I was not at all waiting for that. Let it be, I had an idea to start with , let me do a warm-up round where the visual questions shall be asked to all the people , where they will be sending the answers , this was of course non googlable,. The idea was accepted by the HR’s and then I started with the Q’s were where tough, the first day’s feedback was, it was difficult to answers all the Q’s, So I was told to reduce the level of difficulty (of course, if these Q’s were put up in blogs, all would have been cracked). So then I had to reduce the difficulty of the Q’s, then also they found it tough to answer all the Q’s , said to Cripa that this was the easiest possible questions I can set , then one suggestion came up saying that the dry questions can be given , I was against it , but no go I wanted teams for the quiz , so it was to be accepted. So sports round had the dry questions, which were easy for them to Google.

In Bangalore when I did quiz for Infotech, we had a road show in every floor where we were asking some questions to generate interest in the people, here also we decided to do so, it was an opportunity for me to show how I am interested in quizzing and also to make new faces to talk to me ( as Anish was about to leave and KP will soon leave Mysore ). The day started with my questions firing to the audience and many were answering them, also were getting chocolates for the right answers, Also my quiz advertising was getting done. So this was bit successful in some ways.

On June 3rd the quiz was supposed to be held , again this was a postponed date( I wonder , when my company people will stick to their dates , I have experienced the same since my college days, every time they give one date and finally postpone it .). The prelims started with all the teams assembling I the conference room , good for the first time all were ready and eager to face the questions. I knew that my quizzing level had to be low since they were new people attending the quiz. Questions were easy and there were 15 teams in the prelims, good number though when u have 180 employees in the location. I was thinking why I didn’t have the same response at Bangalore. There 24 teams came for 1000+ employees.


For the first time in my quiz all the teams score 4+ points, not even the last team scored less than 5, well for them. I had prepared quiz finals for 5 teams with some spare Q’s , after seeing the reposes I talked to Cripa and said , I will have 6 teams for the finals ,for which she said yes. So 6 teams were ready for the finals. Anish and KP missed out by 3 points of course they were very sad when they heard that they have lost out.

Finals stared with some 40 + audience coming to see the quiz. Good response for the quiz. There were 3 teams from the infenion dept and 3 from the games team. Good competition was there in the finals , of course I have always messed things at one stage or the other , here it happened in the last round of derailer ,where one team was asked 2 Q’s and one answer was wrong which cost one of the teams the first prize.

The audience sat through the quiz, once again the quiz had impressed them, the question were bit standard, though it was workable, in all over 70% of the questions were cracked. I was satisfied at the end. Though it went as tone more quiz which I did for free, other than that I was able to make an impact on the people and show them I am still the active quizzer @ lnt Infotech. I would like to say special thanks to Anish and KP who did the slide handling and the scoring.