A two-member team from IIT-Madras won the preliminary round of The Hindu BusinessLine Cerebration Business Quiz on Saturday.
The team with G. Pranav Hari, a civil engineering student, and Rahul Humayun, studying chemical engineering, both from IIT-M, forged ahead during the buzzer round to bag a ₹10,000 cheque and earned a seat in the final round of the 15th edition of Cerebration – the Business Line Corporate Quiz 2017 presented by Union Bank of India to be held in Mumbai.
The event is also being organised in other metros — at FIIB in Delhi on September 2, ; at Jain University in Bengaluru on September 9; and at Ramada Juhu in Mumbai on September 23.
The Loyola Institute of Business Administration campus was abuzz on Saturday afternoon as over 65 teams from more than 20 colleges and as many companies attended the preliminary written round to be one of six teams to compete in the business quiz.
Quiz master Miraj C. Vora of Quiz Works took the selected teams from Sai MitraConstructions, Tata Consultancy Services, Asian College of Journalism, Ford India, Cognizant Technology and IIT-M through a lively hour-and-a-half session of multiple rounds of questions. A tie-breaker was needed between TCS and Ford in which TCS came out ahead as the runner-up.
Cerebration Business quiz is presented by Union Bank of India and powered by The Hindu Business Line. The event is managed by WOOT Factor Events Pvt Ltd, and Quizworks is the quizzing partner. (More details at: http://www.cerebration.
co.in.)
The business quiz targets business professionals, corporate executives, MBA aspirants and students from India’s biggest B-schools. The unique quiz is packaged as India’s toughest corporate business quiz with four teams participating in the grand finale in Mumbai for top three spots.
