Flume Reports

 

Meeting

The quizclub meets every Sunday at EECS-1311 at 2:30 p.m. Incase EECS-1311 is occupied, look in the neighbouring rooms.

Upcoming Quizzes

Fall Quiz 2005

The quiz club conducted its Fall Quiz festival on 30th October. The quizzes started at 11 AM in the morning, everyone having enjoyed an extra hour of sleep, thanks to the transition from Daylight saving time. The festival kicked off with the General Quiz, conducted by Dinky and Raghu(with Raghu disclaiming responsibility for all the geeky questions). The questions covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from Stone Cold Steve Austin to "Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz." group 
        image After that, came one of the main attractions of the day, the pizza, delivered by our resident pizza delivery boy, Hirak. Once the tired participants had consumed their well-deserved meal, there was the India Quiz, conducted by Hirak and Arvind Rao. The quiz introduced a new system of evaluating the quizzing abilities of the participants- their Rao number(for details, you may contact Arvind Rao himself). The questions were framed in an interesting way, with the participants being encouraged to "think Rao" to crack them. For example,try and connect Mallika Sherawat, Sylvester Stallone and Filmfare. Go figure! The last quiz of the day was the Literature and Entertainment Quiz, conducted by Mekhala and Amritha. Another new sytem was introduced in this quiz, with an "RG" round, in which teams were given a chance to reduce other teams points by passing their direct question on to some other team. The quiz questions also reflected the morbid taste of the quizmasters, with a fair number of questions being on how various famous people died- turtles falling on people's heads, bladders bursting and so on. The day was wrapped up with a group photo of all the participants and the sole audience member. But the fun was not quite over yet. Hirak announced the awards for the festival in his mail next day, with Mr. Ranga grabbing the most coveted award of the "Best Storyteller" for his long-winded and fundoo, but unfortunately wrong answers. The consolation prizes went to Rao and Shiva for their "Peeping Tom" answer(the actual answer was Doubting Thomas!),Raghu and Akshat for their brilliant teamwork by which Raghu helped Akshat overcome his shyness and Raghu and Dinky for the best photo moment of the day.

As for the actual quiz results, they were as follows-

General Quiz

  1. Sumedha & Hirak
  2. Rajeev & Manjunath
  3. Mr. Ranga & Shiva

India Quiz

  1. Raghu & Akshat
  2. Saradwata(Vateez)& Aditya T.
  3. Sumedha & Shiva

Entertainment & Lit Quiz

  1. Dinky & Mr. Ranga
  2. Aniket & Adithya
  3. Saradwata (Vateez) & Aditya T. and Sumedha & Hirak

A number of awards were also given

Best Answer:

Peeping Tom for Doubting Thomas by the "Limitless Duo" Rao and Shiva

Best storyteller:

Mr. Ranga

Best Teamwork:

Raghu and Akshat
Raghu: "He is shy, so I will tell the answer!"

Most common answer:

Pass

Best and only audience member:

Snehal

Dinky and 
    Raghu

Best comic pose:

Raghu & Dinky (see picture)

Most well-behaved team:

Sorry, no awards

All in all, woe to ye, ye who missed the quiz fest.!

Mailing List

Quizclub mailing list is quizclub@umich.edu. To join send a mail to quizclub-request@listserver.itd.umich.edu with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. To browse through the archives of the mailing list, go to the listserver interface.