Senseless Syndrome

ramanujam January 26th, 2006

I just now returned home after attending the odyssey quiz 2006 and I am feeling both happy and also little sad. Apart from the Landmark quiz, this is considered to be one of the big quizzes to be held in Chennai and also in the country. With over 800 teams competing for the top eight spots to book a berth in the finals, these quizzes offer myriad audience prizes making everyone glued on to their seats till the end and the reason for my happiness today is that I too was one amid the audience jumping out with the answers and *yeah* got a gift voucher.

I went on to the Music academy along with my team mates Anoop and Balaji and we as a team put on a decent show. We scored 14 on 35 with the cut off score to get on stage being 23. Due thanks to the aunty who was sitting in the front row Also we messed up with some of the answers or else we would have scored more but there are a lot of brainy intelligent guys off the stage who deserve a place on stage before us.

Another jolly facet of these quizzes is that prizes are given out for funky team names and as they are read they make you roll on the floor. Another exultant note was that my chum Mahesh got the best team name and bagged the cherished Rs.3000 gift voucher for the team name “jab thak samosa me aalo rahega, tab thak odyssey quiz chalu rahega”. Congrats Mahesh and Hari.

The happenings also made me a little sad because I did not get on stage (remind you first things first), even though I don’t deserve it now I guess desire is not bad. The question which I got for the audience prize was by far one of the sitters of the day (to identify Dan Brown); I guess 75% of the junta there knew it. Actually the quiz master signaled a green shirt before me to answer but I snatched the mike and blew. The chap felt very bad for missing the Rs.250 voucher and would have cursed me a lot. Also my fauvorite quizzer failed to win. The first thought was to get “The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” with the voucher but I would have to part it with my friends as per agreement. Anyway a nice outing today.

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