CIC Discover India Quiz 2016
Wish you all a wonderful 2016. Hope the year has been treating you well till date. As always, CIC is busy trying to put together an interesting slate of events for you to participate, meet new people, and most of all, have fun. To that effect, we are happy to announce our very first event of 2016, the second annual CIC Discover India. The first ever Discover India Quiz was held in 2015 and the response was very enthusiastic. Participants seemed to enjoy the event as much as I, the quizmaster had in putting the event together. So, it made sense to continue the tradition and organize one for 2016.
The community has a lot of new faces and this is an event designed to bring new people together and get them to meet some of the folks who have lived in the community for a long time. As many participants from last year would attest, this is the ideal icebreaker event. You can partner up with someone you know or use the opportunity to meet someone new. By the time the event comes to a close, rest assured, you would have made a lot of new friends.
Name of the Event: Discover India Quiz 2016
When: 2 pm - 5 pm, Sunday,February 21st, 2016.
Where: Vineland Public Library, 1450 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose, CA 95118
Sign up: Click here to fill the form.
Early Sign up deadline: Jan 31 (comes with some perks)
Late Sign up deadline: Feb 11
Walk ins: Only if we are short of teams. Strongly urge people to sign up early.
For F.A.Qs on signups and teams, see below.
What is Discover India?
Discover India is our very own quiz and trivia event. This is an opportunity for all the smart folks of Cambrian to match their wits against one another. Worry not, this is not a hardcore quiz. No prior preparation is required. It is a trivia event and has something for everyone. I wrote an FAQ for the event for last year and much of the spirit of it holds true. You can read that here. If you are unsure if this is an event for you, reach out to me and I will connect you with one of last year’s participants. You can talk to them and make your decision. There will be a lot more information I will provides we get closer to the event with regards to rounds, points, etc.
Last year, we had prizes and the wonderful community strongly urged me to do away with them because they wanted to just have fun. So to that effect, based on feedback from last year, there will be no competitive prizes.
There will be rounds of jeopardy style questions, a few rounds of audio and video questions from movies and stuff, dedicated cricket and sports rounds, 20 questions, dumb charades and more. Most importantly, all questions will be about India or Indians. So it will be an awesome opportunity to learn more about your country. I can assure you that you will walk away learning something new about India.
This is a team event. Each team will be composed of 3-5 adult members and up to 2 child members (9 or above). If you cant form a team in advance, worry not. We will get you into a team at the venue. The key is to sign up in advance. Families can participate together as teams or join hands with friends. We'll provide a detailed FAQ about the rounds and specifics, a week before the event.
How is Discover India 2016 different from the one last year?
This is one question I wanted to address for those who participated or heard about the event from last year.
- This year’s event will be a little shorter in duration (I will have more questions than time permits as always but we will try to finish quicker).
- We will have significantly better video systems (this).
- We will have much better audio (the CIC has its own Ion Block Rocker that can easily fill a room with good sound)
- Audience Prizes !
- Interactive rounds. I am trying to take the best from last year and do more of it. I am also trying a lot of cool new ideas this year that will hopefully excite participants.
- Questions do not test your trivia skills. Questions are designed to make you connect the dots and work together as a team.
- Designed to bring families, friends and newcomers together. It is our best icebreaker event. Make the most of it.
What is this early sign up you are talking about?
To incentivize people to sign up early (and help me prepare appropriately), there will be some bonus perks. These perks will only be revealed after the Early signup deadline passes. Suffice to say, it will give these teams a slight edge going into the event. Is that reason enough?
Do I have to prepare?
No, no, and no. Just sign up, meet new and old friends and have a lot of fun.
If you want to warm up here are some audio quizzes I(Prabhu) did a while back.
Links:
Indian TV ads Quiz - Part 1, Part 2
Trivia: The image on the blog post link and on the top of this page is my rough rendering of the Thanjavur Brihadeeswarar temple which turned 1000 in 2010. No kidding! Know more about your country. Sign up for Discover India today. You lose nothing but you gain a lot.