Great quizzers: Younger, Smarter and Souther

Just got back from MICA, Ahmedabad. Did a lone wolf quiz for some of the best young quizzers in the country.

Some of these guys can conduct a mean quiz too. All ye who continue to live in the 70s and the 80s, when quizzing meant Satre, British Raj, Washington's Apple Tree, Jack the Ripper's list, Tagore, Bose and Vivekananda, wake up ! Today's quizzer treats Vermeer and Bunty aur Babli with the same ease / disdain.

This young brigade is brilliant and they are primarlily from the south of the Vindhyas. Move over Calcutta. Salaam Chennai, Bangalore and Pune !

I would have loved to add my own Hyderabad to that list, but we are not there yet.

Some of the young quizzers that invaded MICA Oct 21-22:

Samanth Subramaniam
J Ramanand
Shamanth Rao
Ravi Venkatesh
Rohan Morarka
Vikram Joshi ( New to the quizzing circuit, cracked the KQA Mahaquizzer in Mumbai )
Shrijit

I've left Alagarsamy and Mitesh out of this list cause they ain't young anymore !

Samanth conducted a rocking Biz Quiz. Alagarsamy and Mitesh Agarwal apparently walked away with it.

Ramanand did a cerebral yet entertaining Gen Quiz. Samanth and Ravi cracked it.

Alagarsamy won the Lone Wolfer that I conducted. PS: His every victory brings me pride. He is my quizzing inspiration. Hyderabad's shining light !

It was good to see an ISB dude, Praveen, in the finals. Lots of promise. Finally met a very talented subset of the Pune quizzing circuit. I forget their names but not their impressive showing in Ramanand's quiz.

Much fun was had by all. Big thanks to Deepa Swaminathan and Vinay for putting together a great quiz fest. Your dedication and your choice in quizmsaters(!) are exemplary.