aPril's Foolishness

Have always loved quizzes, right from Bournvita quiz, ESPN school quiz to mastermind and so forth. But there's a huge difference between participatin and being an audience - So, I was understandably in denial even after takin stage for the Quiz show.

Firstly, I didn’t even attend the selection round. So they(whoever put my name in) rang me up, since i was the only other female candidate to volunteer & gave both me & my hubby tele quiz & I through some cheatin, top scored with 8/30 :D

The TRISHNA quiz was held by my dad's engineering Alumni & the quizmaster Mr. Ochintya Sharma (CLICK click))was a newcomer to us, but his questions were tricky, smart and right at the tip of your tongue.

I was in the Family round, with Daniel, an All in all guy - man of the match, series of name it & he's that person and a 10th std kid - Rohit - who's quick to jump the gun. Needless to say, this is the round which determines who gets the rolling trophy which we never got to close to in the past.

Here are some excerpts from the quiz show :




Q1 - Because of my lens & screen placed at a good distance, I mistook it for a parrot - so Daniel wrote - PINJAR - which i knew was wrong anyway!!




Q2:

Q3:

Q4: (check the shape of the street lights) - V got this one!!

somethin in common - Buzzer Round

Q5: Daniel - Queen Elizabeth & ME - Prince William’s girlfriend - Kate Middleton!! Minus 5

Q6:

Q7 - Whose daughter is this first time actress from BLACK?

Round 5 - Theme based round - set of questions, guess the theme - points from max for the 1st hint & so forth.

Q8 - Guess who is this?

I wrote down the theme on seein the pix & underlined it twice - highlighted - what not!!

Q9 - Our direct - missed

Q10 - Identify the group



Q11 - Again our direct - Got it

As soon as Rohit said the answer, I jumped up, almost grabbin the mike to scream out the answer & the quizmaster hurried up sayin, press the buzzer & write down the theme.
But I was shoutin it out
APPLE

WOOOOhooooooooo - it was so damn exhilaratin!!
WE were in the lead with that

Round 6 - Buzzer with the answer from a word formin a sentence
Q12 - Starting with T, which place in Kerala is well known for its tourism with artificial lake & periyar National Park?
Q13- H
Q14- A
Q15- N
Q16- K
Q17- Y - Voted the best song of 20th century and record for highest no of cover versions, which song is this of Beatles?
Q18- O
Q19- U
WINNERS - US - wowowow - it was unbelievable & I was called the APPLE girl for long afterwards!!
Answers are as below :

Ans 1 - Ellipathayam (mallu movie)
Ans 2 - Arundhati Roy
Ans 3 - National Geographic Channel
Ans 4 - Hershey's Street(check the shape of the street lights) - V got it!!
Ans 5 - Queen Elizabeth & Queen Rania :D
Ans 6 - Amitabh Bachan
Ans 7 - Amartya Sen
Ans 8 - Gwenyth paltrow's daughter's name - APPLE
Ans 9 - Newyork - Big APPLE
Ans 10 - The Beatles - APPLE Records
Ans 11 - Isaac newton
Ans 12- Thekady - We got it
Ans 13 - ME - YESTERDAY