TCS Rural IT Quiz - II Place

As you may be knowing about TCS Rural IT Quiz. It has been conducted from the past 9 years and is still going strong. I had been the state finalist for 2008.

We went there to see the exhibition on 6th NOV at around 4 PM. To be honest the exhibition was lacklustre. Only a few stalls and the most that hurt me was that Microsoft being a Diamond Sponsor did not put up a stall. It was inaugurated by our CM Mr. Yeddurappa and Gujarat CM Mr. Modi.

We came the next day ie: the Quiz day to the Palace Ground at 1:15 PM. It was one of the most frightening moment because our Autorikshaw toured the whole Bangalore city before taking us there. But it was his loss because the meter had gone up to Rs 50 but we just gave him Rs 20 and some scoldings.

The six teams who qualified for the State Finals were: 

1. Kashinath Handiganur & Manjunath Malipatil – Vidyabharati High School Talikoti, 

2. Shashank S Meti and Prabhu B Viratimath – St Annes Convent High School Bagalkot, 

3. Devrath N D and Surya V – MKET PU College Harihar (ofcourse we), 

4. Vittal R Pai and Madhusudan S – Kalpataru PU College Tiptur, 

5. Prashanth Pai  and Snehith Periera – SMS PU College Brahmavar and 

6. Rakshitha H M and Shravya R – Carmel Convent Mandya.

The quiz started with the commencing of Mr. Hegde, the Primary Education Minister at 4:30 PM. It was our first Zonal and State Finals so some nervousness and curiosity at the same time. And the quizzing began with the quiz master Giri 'Pickbrain' Balasubramaniam.

The first round was "Global Bytes" that had questions on history of computing, to people and products from the world of IT. We choose History and got a picture of a man standing in front of a computer. We answered it as Bob Bermer and UNIVAC but right answer was Grace Hopper and UNIVAC. Bad start.

The second round was "Quick Bytes" which was rapid fire rounds on buzzers. We answered quite a few questions here. I guess we answered 2 questions here. 

The Third rounds was "Lateral Bytes" which was an audio/video round requiring lateral thinking. 

The Fourth round was "Bits & Bytes" which was a round of crisp animated clues where teams had to think on their feet. I remember answering Intel for one of the questions here.

And the last round was "Last Bytes" which was on the buzzer and we had to crack the answer based on the clues.

After 6 rounds of adrenaline quizzing the team from SMS PU College Brahmavar got I Place and we got II Place. We got a Trophy, Rs 35,000 + 16,000(Zonal finals) and Nokia 3110.

After many firsts this year I have promised myself to study much better next time and win this Quiz. I thank my partner Surya too for the hard work and being my partner. And i also thank my parents without whose support i could not have become a Zonal Finalist I guess. And also our Principal for relieving us from the Mid term Examination that is being held presently.

Good Bye for now and hope and pray for winning it next year.