For the bona fide devotees, a quiz is not a simple game of question and answers. Meet the tribe that travels from city to city chasing incongruous clues andminingmiscellaneous information. Bonus: Five quizzes, including one that is Google-proof

Inside Brahman Naman

The film’s writer, Naman Ramachandran outlines a brief history of the Netflix indie comedy, currently the talk of tinsel town

The quizmaster’s code

A quizzer becomes a quizmaster, but soon realises the true nature of the job: people must be entertained even as they are challenged, and spontaneous problems (irate parents, eccentric professors) must be dealt with

Why quizzers travel

Quiz fests are the next big trend in the Indian quizzing world, attracting seasoned quizzers willing to travel far and wide for a jam-packed weekend

Eavesdropping and fierce whispering in Calcutta

Over three decades of college quizzes, the quizzards’ digestions, both of funda and dhop-chop, have remained phenomenal

Get set, shoot

How sports quizzing changes the way you follow sports

An organic model of knowledge

India, despite having a dry and uninventive education system, has a much more creative and enjoyable quizzing culture than the US

The Basus of TV quizzing

What does an out-of-print, cult quizzing book have to do with the beginnings of televised quizzing in India?

Ode to a titan

Through erudition, charm and sheer force of personality, Neil O’Brien became an idol for an entire generation of quizzers in India

The philosophy of trivia-hunting

What goes through the mind of an obsessive gatherer, a master of trivial pursuit?

The (hopefully) Google-proof quiz

With the advent of Tineye and similar software, no quiz can claim to be completely Google-proof. This is not a particularly tough one, but it should be fun to work through, and just cutting and pasting in Google will probably not help. Good luck!

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