To most, quizzing is a General knowledge test. You either know the answer or you don’t. If you don’t, the quiz is terribly boring. There might be a climax about stealing the straw from the horses’ mouth, but beyond that narrative, your brain isn’t being made to work. You might as well watch a soap opera.
Quizzing for the hardcore quizzers transcends over knowledge to problem solving and thinking abilities. A good quiz question will always have subtle hints that make you rack your thinking cap and draw your Eureka moment. It keeps you perpetually involved and makes you hunt down the small tidbits that you may have pocketed in the pockets of your brain. It is not only about knowing, but locating and reproducing what you know. Quizzing is about knowledge rather than cramming up drab facts like the capital of Slovakia or the head of state of Georgia. And as Rancho said in 3 Idiots, gyaan har taraf hai, jahan se mile lapet lo (Knowledge is all around, immerse yourself in it).
Good quizzes are not only academic. The top-notch quizzes can test our capacity to recollect from the most improbable of sources. Collating facts with lateral thinking and forming a well-thought hunch go a long way in making a successful quizzer. Quizzing is a continuous brain-challenging playfield which individuals from different walks of life come together for a ridiculously captivating heady cocktail of information and entertainment. Expressions of the contenders are an added glamour, exuding from confidence to blandness. Fist-punching the air, mild brawls between team-mates and moving heads to hysterical convulsions especially when the quiz reaches its climax is routine. While all this happens on-stage, off it the audience too is drawn into the trance till the very end as they sometimes try and involve themselves by assuming themselves to be sitting in place of a finalist on stage and thus keeping a track of their own score. I would like to end with the lines of the Mastermind winner J Ramanand, who expressed the fantastic experience that quizzing provides beautifully when he wrote: “Working out answers is sometimes like tugging at the loose thread in a sweater. A decent yank & the whole thing unravels magically.”
Examples:-
- Phineas T. Barnum, an American entertainer, once sent an agent to buy this hoping to use it as a circus attraction. When it arrived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the public was not impressed and Barnum had to keep it hidden while he tried to decide how to recover some of the high cost. What expression originated from this incident?
-White Elephant
- The first X was performed in Berlin in 1901 by Eugene Hollander and is now the seventh most popular aesthetic surgery in the world. Technically, it is known as Rhytidectomy. What is X?
-Facelift
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