Just a few hours left to put your fingers on the buzzer! The latest edition of Young World Quiz for 2014 will begin at 2 p.m. at Shri Sudhindra Auditorium at Canara Girls High School, Dongerakery, here on Friday.
While the 15 edition of the event from the publishers of The Hindu is being conducted for sub-junior and junior levels in many cities, Mangaluru hosts only the junior level – Classes six to eight. Students who wish to register on the spot should bring a letter from the school or identity cards and reach the venue by 1 p.m.
The quiz is hosted by The Hindu’s quizmaster V.V. Ramanan. The sub-junior-level quiz contests are being held in Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Coimbatore and Madurai.
The junior-level quizzes are being conducted in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Salem in Tamil Nadu; Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Hubballi in Karnataka; Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode in Kerala; and Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
RulesA team consists of two members from the same school. Any bona fide team from a school can participate by registering online and paying a non-refundable fee of Rs. 200 per team. The quiz will have two rounds — a common written preliminary and an on-stage final for the top six teams chosen based on the marks scored in the prelims.
Winner takes it allParticipants and the audience will have an opportunity to win gifts and goodies. In each city the winners will receive a trophy, a bicycle and certificate.
The first and second runners-up will receive trophies and certificates.
All participants will receive a goodie bag and a certificate. Make sure you and your school are a part of the excitement. For details log on to thehindu.com/ywq2014.
SponsorsThe Presenting sponsor is Britannia Milk Bikis, Associate sponsor is Firefox and the gift sponsors are Reynolds and Success Notebooks. The regional sponsors are: P.A. College Of Engineering; Canara Bank, Mangalore Special Economic Zone Ltd., Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., Centre For Advanced Learning, D.K. Co-Operative Milk Producers Union Ltd., and The CAMPCO Ltd.
