QMs:Ira Prem & Siddhant Parab
Last night, because of a question by QM Siddhant,I went down a rabbit hole to find out what
other ways humans today have found to speak to our descendants thousands of
years later. Isn’t that what we do? Communicate, commemorate, speak across
centuries in commandments, cave art, stories and rap music. We warn those who follow
to pay heed to the pitfalls that we have seen and created, but we also ask them
to stop and admire the wonders and beauty of our world. From the farthest known
star to the 8 thousander peaks, we are here to witness them all.
Quizzing , at its core, is an act of observation. It can be
a half-remembered story about an actor’s resilience in turning her facial
injury into her calling card. It can be a memory of reading a reddit thread about
Euler, or of watching an absurdly misogynistic comment in a Netflix documentary
about football. We take note, and because we do so, we give credence to the
world. "Come tell me what you see" ,a QM asks, "because this is what I see". We are
endlessly curious of the known universe and the unknown too.
Ira and Siddhant made disparate quizzes in the two halves.
But there was a common thread that tied their sets: they showed us what they observed
and found interesting. Who knew hats could be so fascinating (by the way, a fascinator
is also a type of head wear!). The Des-Pardes round was especially well made. Siddhant took us on a wonderfully whacky journey
that included a dictator’s granddaughter selling Casios, and a whole religion
created from the spiritual experience that is Coltrane’s jazz.
Both the QMs took us on a trip across space and time, across
facts and fundas that caused scratched heads and also applause. And we in the audience
admired the beauty of the questions, and how well clued they were. We raced to
the next dopamine hit of the correct pounce. And we stopped for a minute , and
observed what was and what will be.We answered the question:What do you see?
Results:
1st place: Team 1: 255 points
Kaivalya Karkare, Paul Gatward, Ira Prem, Magali Vaz,
Siddhant Parab, Shubhangi
2nd place: Team 6: 250 points
Anirudh Kakodkar, Altamash Panjwany, Vilas Pavithran, Amey
Parsekar, Ruchira Porob
3rd place: Team 4: 230 points
Angeline Pradhan, Ajit Nair, Shreya Ramachandani, Viola
Rodrigues, Annie Sen Gupta
4th place: Team 5: 225 points
Sanjay Parab, Diksha Mandlik, Aastha Dua, Assis Sequeira,
Ishan Kakodkar, Terrence D’Costa, Shujoy Dutta
5th place: Team 3: 210 points
Srijit Kumar, Aabha Lal, Devika Shetty, Upesh Pradhan, Srishti
Maruca, Shwetambari Parab
6th place: Team 2: 205 points
Ira Almeida, Anjali Sengupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Karan Dhingra
