The Bagpiper:
When you're down and low, lower than the floor,
and you think that you aint got a chance,
Arnav Paul will come, he'll open you a door,
and you'll meet the Bagpiper and dance.
I have no idea why those four lines came up in my mind when I imagined a General Quiz, The Bagpiper and Arnav Paul in one frame. No, I could'nt imagine the advertisement featuring Ajay Devgun. C'mon it's a quiz, not an after 8 meetup. I also couldn't imagine why I kept on missing these wonderful quizzes. I should probably stop calling myself a quizzer.
Anyway, after a long time we had Arnav Paul hosting a quiz for NQC. Like everyone who came to know the quiz's name, I too imagined a lot of things (including those ridiculous 4 lines) thinking why would a quiz be named The Bagpiper? It was after the quiz when I heard a lot of feedback from the quizzers that I come to know that this was a quiz which made you constantly bring out a lot of knowledge from the cold storages of the deepest corners of your brain. I came to know that it was a cool breeze of fresh knowledge in the air which blew from the quizzers to the quiz master that, in a way, made the whole arena resonate. I came to know that once the teams were in unison with the Quiz Master's rythm, the result was an absolute melody. It didn't take me long to realize that this quiz was probably just meant to be called The Bagpiper and Arnav was just the musician.
Participants from a really wide age group had joined us for this wonderful quiz. With the Highest participation we'd ever had, we had 5 teams full of quizzers competing for that Gold Medal. With questions ranging from Football to Champagne, The Bagpiper was totally a quiz full of the variety you'd expect when you listen to that instrument. While it began like a soothing rythm, our quizzers where not going to miss out a note, they were ready with the beats to get to the answer. And as it got closer to the last few notes, The Bagpiper melody was reaching its peak and we had by then a clear winner. Of the 5 teams, Team E had taken the cake with a comfortable margin. Generally the margin of victory doesn't really make any difference, but when in a quiz like this a team wins with a 55 point margin you know you've got some really awesome badass quizzers. Well, you're at NQC. And at NQC it really doesn't matter because...when you're down and low, lower than the floor, you may think that you aint got a chance, that's when our QM will come, he'll open you a door, and then you'll win and earn yourself your Fans.
The scores!
1st place: Team E : 210 pts : Nrupal Choudhry, Prakhar Rajpalli, Aditya Mittali, Aadvik Bhatia, Anirudha Morarka, LS Bhati and Shiju Samuel.
2nd place : Team A : 155 pts : Naivedya Bhati, Karman Rai, Ripu Oberoi, Anagha Wankhede, Mokshit Kothari, Tanveer Khan and Padmanabhan Pillai.
3rd place : Team C : 135 pts : Tejas S, Mrinmay Meshram, Joy Aggarwal, Snigdha Rewari, Saurav Wanite, Vikrant Sawalkar and Devavrata Dharkar.
4th place : Team B : 105 pts : Vedant Damvi, Yogesh Khadke, Akhilesh Mehadia, Harshal rao, Akhil Badwaik, Ashwin S, Arpit Aggarwal and Anup Manchalwar.
5th place : Team D : 90 pts : Vibhav Pande, Gandharvraj Gwalani, Dhruv Chandak, Aman Jain, Rajat Joshi, Tanmay Chindalia and Vandana Chitnavis.
- by Vishnu "The Pacifier" Pillai
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