We learnt not to lose focus: quiz winner

The 15th edition of The Hindu Young World Quiz held at Dr. Ambedkar Bhavan on Wednesday saw an enthusiastic participation by students from schools across the city, Tumakuru, and Hosur in Tamil Nadu. This year, students from classes 3 to 5 participated in the sub-junior category and those from classes 6 to 8 in the junior category.

In the sub-junior category, after the preliminary written round, six teams made it to the final round.

The team from National Public School (NPS), Indiranagar, held its nerve and gave the right answers to two questions in the final round to ace the category.

At the beginning of the final round, the NPS team comprising Siddhant Doshi and Vishnu Sampath Kumar was trailing Presidency School, R.T. Nagar, by five points. The NPS team garnered 20 points in the final round to push Akash Anand Desai and Sampreet Vasishta of Presidency School to the second position.

Siddhant and Vishnu, both class 5 students, said they were “overjoyed” and it was a “big win at a big event”. “It was a big learning experience. It taught us how not to lose focus when we were trailing. We were determined to win,” said Vishnu. Each of them received a bicycle, a trophy and a certificate.

Shruti Karthik and Pragun P. from Sishu Griha School stood third.

The second team from NPS, Indiranagar, finished fourth followed by Delhi Public School (Bengaluru East) and the Oxford Senior Secondary School (CBSE), J.P. Nagar.

The competition, held in the afternoon, also saw some edge-of-the-seat moments. The team from National Hill View Public School (NHVPS), Rajarajeshwarinagar garnered 40 points in the visual round to ace the competition. Sameer Keshavan and Aditya Rao lifted the winner’s trophy by scoring 77 points.

Aditya, a student of class 8, said: “We were a bit nervous as we hadn’t scored points in the first round. However, we were able to provide the right answers to all the questions in the visual round. It boosted our confidence and also helped us to keep our cool. We never looked back from then on.” They received a bicycle each, and trophies and certificates.

Prahalad Anand and Asray Nambiar from NPS, Koramangala, were the first runners-up with 66 points.

Adithya P.S. and B. Senthooran of Presidency School, R.T. Nagar were the second runners-up followed by teams from Presidency School, Nandini Layout; St. Paul’s English School, J.P. Nagar; and Sri Chaitanya Techno School. All the finalists received certificates and trophies from The Hindu .

Former child artiste Manjunath of Malgudi Days fame gave away the prizes. He congratulated the winners and said that The Hindu is doing yeoman service by continuing the tradition of educating people.

Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan kept the fun going by posing a few questions to the audience. A few googlies bowled by him were replied with aplomb by the audience.

As many as 301 teams participated in the event.

All the participants received certificates from The Hindu and goodie bags from sponsors. Britannia Milk Bikis was the presenting sponsor and Firefox was the associate sponsor. Reynolds and Success Notebooks were the gift sponsors.