Posted by: Aadisht on: April 22, 2010
This blog is back up (please say you noticed it was down), and much writing will follow. But first, an important pending task: here is the link to the NED Open Quiz 2010. It contains all the audio, all the video, and all the answers. This makes it a massive download, but based on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 25, 2010
An important announcement: The NED Open Quiz will be held this Sunday (that is, March 28) in three different cities. Questions have been prepared by me, Kodhi, and Wimpy with inputs from Baada, Aisha, and Gaurav. We’ve prepared this with loads of louw, and it will show in the quality of questions. So please do [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 18, 2009
This Independence Day, I achieved two long-standing dreams. The first was at the Landmark Quiz Chennai. We (me, Skimpy and Kodhi) won it. The three of us have been taking part in the Landmark or Odyssey quizzes since 2004. We’d do our August 15/ January 26 pilgrimage to Chennai and just miss qualifying, or qualify [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 11, 2008
The absence of regular posts has been because I was busy getting a quiz ready. In the time since my last bout of regular posting, armed motherfuckers shot up my city, I quit my job, multiple people I know got married, had babies, or celebrated their birthdays; and I upgraded WordPress to 2.7. So it [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: March 24, 2008
While in Calcutta, I went for a litquiz with Aishwarya and Pradipta. Despite four self-overrules in the prelims, we qualified; and despite a Bong-funda heavy first half, we ended up winning the quiz. I think the margin of victory was at least three questions, and probably four or more. Apparently, it’ll be reported in the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 15, 2007
I’ll be conducting my first ever quiz for the Karnataka Quiz Association this Sunday. It’s a ranking open, with a History, Geography, and World Culture theme. (The World Culture has been thrown in for the sole purpose of letting me sneak in general questions in case I run out of history and geography fundaes). Before [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 2, 2007
Qualifying easily for a Landmark Quiz and then getting rodded on stage. What makes it worse is that Derek continued the grand tradition of chucking teams of stage (we were #7, and the first to leave), and that the Bangalore Landmark had no prizes for 4-8 (but Udupendra got a consolation prize for just missing [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 9, 2007
Beatzo-san is conducting the Graphics Rampage comics and graphic novels quiz for the KQA this Sunday. I’m very excited about this. For starters, I missed the original Graphics Rampage (in my defence, I was thulping calamansi juice in Singapore) back in December 2005. That Graphics Rampage is one of the watersheds in quizzing history. It [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 14, 2007
I’m off to Chennai tomorrow to compete in the Landmark Open Quiz. I’m going with Kodhi and Wimpy. We’re calling ourselves NED (No Enthu Da, for the uninitiated). We will be up against formidable opposition. Most formidable of all will be our ex-teammate Swami the HT Commie’s current team, QED. And even without QED, enough [...]