Quiz in Bangalore
D and I are doing a KQA quiz on March 12, in Bangalore. Please attend. Finally, we could come up with a stage 2 connect yesterday. Feeling quite good about it.
Putting a quiz together over months (like we did here) is quite a pleasure and quite a pain. Sometimes, when I go over the 100-odd questions that we have made, I can see terrible flaws. Sometimes, they seem perfect for 'working out'*. Sometimes, they seem vague. Sometimes, they seem extremely interesting.
How does one get an objective view on this? My questions are based on things I know, fundaes I have researched. How do I find that inflexion point, where the facts will make the question interesting but not obvious? It's a struggle.
* for the uninitiated and Derek, quizzes are not supposed to be tests of knowledge but tests of problem-solving.
posted by dhoomketu at 2/27/2006 10:15:00 PM
8 Comments:
This word, "funda" (or "fundae"), I don't like it. Why is specialised knowledge "funda", huh?
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:17:00 PM
It's jargon, after all. The moment I say it, other fellow quizzers will recognise it and know what I am talking about. While people 'outside' of our group won't. Another way of marking our territory.
For that matter, even quizzers is jargon, no?
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:34:00 PM
> for the uninitiated and Derek, quizzes are not supposed to be tests of knowledge but tests of problem-solving
hear! hear!
Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:46:00 AM
Saint and Srin,
I know there's a small matter of a few kilometres between cities. But, try and see, if you can attend.
Friday, March 03, 2006 7:07:00 AM
Oh, too bad. i'll miss your quiz. This is Kaushik. we met at MI-2002, i was from xaviers. it was the year dibyo and you won all the quizzes. hoow're things with you these days?
Monday, March 06, 2006 3:58:00 AM
i would love to but am going to delhi 10th to 12th - rishi and i were just discussing questions and 'the Philosophy of Quizzing' as he puts it - i have always been of the opinion that his questions are always abstruse - workable but based on random facts which a jock like me would not know ..
why dont you mail us the questions - after the 12th and let us take a crack at them..
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:47:00 AM
hey, is rishi around? mailing will be a problem, the file's too big. but i'll see where I could post them..
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 2:17:00 AM
yup, he is around and will be in mumbai later this month, will be catching up with him in delhi..
will wait for your post
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:01:00 AM
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