Date:04/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/04/stories/2008120458480200.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Lady Andal makes it to quiz finals

Staff Reporter

— Photo: S.Thanthoni

WELL DONE! Lady Andal Venkatasubba Rao Higher Secondary School students Mohamed Karan (fourth from left) and Jay Puducheri (fifth from left), who won the city level Limca Book of Records Quiz 2008 in Chennai on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: Two students of Lady Andal Venkatasubba Rao Higher Secondary School won the Chennai finals of the Limca Book of Records Quiz-2008 on Wednesday.

The winning team of Mohamed Karan and Jay Puducheri would represent the city at the national-level quiz competition to be held in New Delhi later this month.

The two made it against teams from 31 schools in the city.

The preliminary round was conducted sometime ago, and on Wednesday eight schools that were short-listed participated in the finals. The team from Chettinad Vidyashram was the runner-up.

Quizmaster Andrew Scolt, who is vice-president of Derek O’Brien Associates, tested the students in topics ranging from history to music and science.

As students managed to answer even difficult questions such as identifying the voice of Amartya Sen in a university lecture, Mr. Scolt said the standard of quizzing in schools in the south was on a par with, or even better than, those elsewhere.

The buzzer round, the last round, proved decisive, as the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan and SBOA Matriculation School teams lost points for wrong answers. However, Lady Andal students made it good, scoring 10 points totally. The quiz was part of the corporate social responsibility initiative of Coca Cola India.