B. Sashi Kiran and Manoj Reddy, students of Teja Vidyalaya, Kodad in Nalgonda district, squealed in excitement as their names were announced as the winners of the battle of brains they had so gallantly fought with five other teams.
The Hindu Young World Quiz 2014 was a roaring success with students drawn from 125 schools across nine districts enthusiastically participating in the event. The sprawling campus of Siddhartha Academy teemed with students clad in their respective school uniforms. Minutes before taking their seats, the young enthusiasts were seen jogging their memories for one last time.
Though the winning team got up on a flyer right from the beginning, their friends Md. Aziz and P.M.S. Karthik from V.S. St. John’s Higher Secondary School, Gannavaram, gradually narrowed the distance and ran close to the winning team only to finish as the runners-up.
The team of T. Srujan Vyas and Ch. Bala Geethika from Teja Talent School, Huzoornagar, emerged third.
Divided in 321 teams (two in each team), all participants appeared for a preliminary round comprising 25 questions. Even as the answer sheets were being assessed backstage to zero in on the six finalist teams who were to take the final ‘on-stage’ round, Quiz Master V.V. Ramanan tossed a volley of questions and students answered most of them and rewarded with audience prizes. The other three finalist teams represented Chaitanya Olympiad, Teja Vidyalaya and Teja Talent School. The initial questions were relatively simple and the participants handled them with remarkable ease. But as the event progressed, the anxiety mounted. There came a point when the path seemed twisty making it impossible for any one of the teams to come up with the correct answer. The climax saw the first two teams engaged in a neck and neck and it looked for a brief while that the teams were headed for a tie. But bonus points gained after a wrong guess by another team which had pressed the buzzer helped the boys Teja Vidyalaya to emerge the winners. M. Krishna Kumari, Director of All India Radio, Vijayawada, gave away prizes to the winners. DGM of Andhra Bank, Krishna Rao, graced the occasion and addressed the participants.
Britannia Milk Bikis was the national sponsor, Firefox was the associate sponsor and Reynolds and Success Notebooks were the gift sponsors. Andhra Bank was the regional sponsor of the event.
