It was a humdinger. The Hindu Young World Quiz contest, held here on Wednesday, went right down to the wire as the winners were decided in the very last question of the day.
Hosted by The Hindu’s quiz master V.V. Ramanan, the regional finals in the junior category, for Classes VI to VIII, had all the elements of a thriller movie.
As the last question was put before the six teams that made it to the final round, Vidya Niketan CBSE School held a slender lead over Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB), Coimbatore. However, Nithish. M and Jeremy. R.S, Class VIII students from PSBB, managed to successfully guess that Genesis and Exodus were the first two books in the Old Testament.
The other four teams that made it to the final round after competing among 235 teams in the preliminaries were Vidya Niketan CBSE School (Team 2), PSBB (Team 2), Yuva Bharathi School and Gedee Public School.
The quiz master also kept the audience engaged and threw several questions in their directions. While the winning team scored 114, the audience scored 80 points.
Sub-Junior category
In the Sub Junior category, for Classes III to V, Ritesh Kaushik and Vishnu R Nair, class V students from Chinmaya Vidhyalaya CBSE School, Coimbatore, walked away with the top honours.
A total of 173 teams took part in the Sub Junior category. The other five teams that made it to the final round were Mount Litera Zee School, Vidya Niketan CBSE School (Team 1), S.B.O.A. Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Suguna PIP School and Vidya Niketan CBSE School (Team 2).
Chief Guest of the programme R. Mohanram, Chairman, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, presented the awards to the students. Winners in both categories received Firefox cycles, Trophy from The Hindu and gift boxes from Banaanaa slice. Other five teams have received trophies and gift boxes from Banaanaa slice.
The presenting sponsor is Britannia Milk Bikis.
The associate sponsor is Firefox, and the gift sponsors are Reynolds and Success Notebooks. The regional sponsor for Coimbatore is Sri Eshwar College of Engineering. Banaanaa Slice sponsored gifts for the winners and audience.
Each team consisted of two students from the same school and the same category. There were no restrictions on the number of teams a school can send.
