Father Agnel’s Exquizzit – Aarghh… Damn it!
Posted by Prashanth | Filed under Quizzing
Yet another contest to go to, yet another contest to come back with a participation certificate. Optimistically thinking, this was another eye-opening experience for our FIITJEE Team of quizzers. After an encouraging Columban Open Quiz, this was an exhilarating one. Now, let the story begin…
Sept. 1st, 2007, was a holiday alloted for the parent teacher meet for us. (God bless Fr. Agnel guys!) Gladly, without missing any classes, KPS proudly sent its 2 teams of three each to the venue in a Toyota Haice! (I guess KPS recieves loads of charity these days!) Father Agnel, situated 42mtrs away from one of the FIITJEE hostels sprouted many ideas about its name in us thus initiating a thought provoking discussion in the van. We were finally happy with the theory saying, the guys who wanted to register the name of the school misspelled Angel to Agnel and registered it with the wrong name. Having run out of money, they couldn’t correct and re-register themselves with the correct name.
Anyway, this was supposed to be a talent fest consisting of competitions that included stuff from C++ Programming to Drama, to slogan writing and other bûllšhìt! Of all these, the Exquizzit Quiz contest is considered to be one of the more prestigious contests of Delhi. I had heard a lot about it from the Great Quizzards around me… I had to be there.
The quiz went way above my expectations… it was simply sooo daaamnn bloooddy brilllliant! Created by an extra-ordinary child of god named Rohan Monarka, an NSITian and an IIM-A alumni, it was what hardcore trivia, observer-friendly, and simply impressive quizzing meant. Even the prelims, at first sight, we couldn’t get any of it… but later, after intensive thinking, a good indexed search across the crevices and ridges in the brain, we figured out or gave calculated guesses to many questions… While discussing the answers with other teams, we got a hint that DPS RKP’s Ishaan Chugh is gonna steal this… He was roaming around with a smile spanning from one end of his face to the other silently announcing that he got each and every question in the prelims right.
Anyway, the result, we were 4th in the prelims amongst DPS RKP (x2), DPS VK (x2), Father Agnel (expected!), Father Agnel Some-other-branch (expected this too…) and New Era. It wasn’t the friendliest of the preliminary to be honest, we were both scared and exhilarated to go up the stage finals. Also, they asked a team name. We made a gaming console once again, PSP (Prashanth-Sanket-Pratham).
Rohan Monarka, (who looks way younger than he actually is), decided to make it a flat score direct-pass sort of a quiz consisting of 5 dry and 5 multimedia rounds. There is one thing that happens to me in every quiz, I get the worst or the most unlucky place on the stage. This one was no exception, all the toughies went through me ripping me apart with feelings of “Oh, I knew this… I simply screwed it up, I should have given a thought!” Many questions which were seemingly instantaneously easy were concentrated on the other half of the stage… and due to some dumb problems, the quiz was reduced to 7 rounds. Finally, we end up badly embarrasing ourselves up there with Ishaan Chugh’s team fairing 22 times better than us… The quiz was stupendously brilliant though… I just hope some Fr. Agnel guy walks past this blog and feels like mailing in the entire quiz to me…
PS- I asked those guys to mention on the certificate that we were the finalists of the quiz, otherwise, it would be just another invaluable piece of paper for us. But they failed to do so thus making me a leave a small piece of suggestion to future quiz organizers. LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE COLUMBAN OPEN QUIZ, AND MENTION THE POSITION IN THE CERTIFICATE OTHERWISE, THE PAPER THAT YOU GIVE US AFTER SPENDING 42 Rs ON CUSTOM PRINTING IS NO MORE VALUABLE TO US THAN YOUR DEAD SKIN IS…
Which quiz is up next… can someone tell me? And can anyone please get hold of the entire finals questionnaire complete with visuals and dry questions including those which were scrapped!
PS - Introducing Pratham to the FIITJEE Pinnacle Quizzing team. Pratham is fat guy who is bloody brilliant in quizzes themed on movies, literature, general trivia, music and many other observation based stuff. He is an avid reader and one of the most Bindaas people I have ever met. This was his very first quiz in Delhi. Good job mate! 
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6 Responses to “Father Agnel’s Exquizzit – Aarghh… Damn it!”
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Says:
September 15th, 2007 at 4:20 amSo true about the finals. It should be mandatory to atleast mention the fact you got on stage. Over-usage of 42 sometimes kills the charm of the number
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September 16th, 2007 at 5:39 amYou’re the WORST of a kind when it comes to remembering names, aren’t you? :p He’s Rohan MORARKA not ‘Monarka’. :p
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Says:
September 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pmWhatever, he didn’t send me the questionnaire despite me giving him my email id… He must be busy, but come on - its a 42 second job! Therefore, I wouldn’t make any corrections to the post…
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:35 amOh puhlease, as if you people, or anyone else for that matter EVER puts up stuff for uploads. Did Dynamix upload their papers as they promised? Nope. Does Exun do it? Nope. The only ones who ever do are the Code Warriors and Warp, MINET only this year. Everybody’s too ‘busy’, isn’t it? :p
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 amAlso, unlike tech events where every person who even makes the mistake of making it to the official list of participants from a school, quizzes generally only give a certificate of participation to people who get on stage; and that too positions are mentioned only for the top three. COQ is an aberration, not the standard practice. So a participation certificate from a quiz is very valuable, but that of a tech event isn’t. Guess what, even after making it the TV rounds of CBQC I got only a participation certificate.
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September 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pmHey… this time, it would be different. Even if the papers never make it to the DX site, they will make to my blog for sure… and for that to do me some good, I am thinking of NOT giving away answers to the questions over there… instead, I would advise people to visit my blog and download those papers to get the answers if they are interested!
And well, you made a nice point in this comment… only finalists will get the certificate in DX this time… saves money too!! And me too, they didn’t mention the regional finalist position anywhere on the certificate…
