Time Well Spent...

Couple of decades ago, as a schoolboy, the idiot box beckoned...and a certain Siddharth Basu helped us understand that this box isn't as idiotic as it is made it out to be. Well that was well before Derekisation of quizzing scene and it commercialisation. Some relics of that bygone era, who got initiated into quizzing for the love of quizzing decided to get together and revive the quizzing culture in the City of Djinns, which was losing out to traditional leaders like Kolkata and Hyderabad and upstarts like Pune and Bangalore.

Kutub Quizzers, a motley group of people including a practising Army Doctor, a Management Consultant on sabbatical, one of the country's quizzing dinosaurs, an academic and couple of graduate engineers, keep organising open quizzes...sometimes oriented around a theme. Their last session at IIT-D, lived up to the expectations of high quality quizzing and trivia hunting ...Sample this:

1. Rohan Wijeweera started which radical organisation in late 60's, which got financial and logitical support from countries across the ideological spectrum?
2. Which Central Asian country's capital is a distortation of Sanskrit word for "two days after Saturday"?
3. What is the state motto of NY state, which in Latin means "High or Super"
4. Which brand of lingerie, started by Vivien Westwood's son, means a troublemaker in French?
5. Which word comes into the English language from the joisting competitions of the medieval ages?

And there were connects, meta connects and mega connects...It was indeed time well spent and it didn't hurt that I was paired with a तोडू quizzer, which helped us nose ahead of the team of veteran quizzers to win this round.