decathlon blues

i had signed up to be a super quiz judge at the decathlon for high school students. That was two months ago. two days ago two managers two levels above me invited me to a taskforce meeting to identify my road blocks and to accelerate my work. my previous post was my answer to them.

But since i had agreed to be a judge, i did not want to back out. So there I was expecting a quiz setting like in India, only to be on the opposite side this time around. But the format here is different and a little boring. Probably the topic of European Renaissance is not of my liking. I was just staring at questions like "which of the following is probably the greatest works of Mr X (italiano)?" and even better were the options that were provided [a] augustive IX [b] van percy V [c] T XV [d] Superbowl XL [e] unpronouncible III.

Whatever, it seems that the students were versed in that so good for them. But since this was a decathlon, I think the students were already stressed out everywhere else. It was nice to know about the various schools around town, and the rivalry that exists.

Our quizzes in india are more like the bbc mastermind (but that is a single person event). My old friend Hirak still has a quiz club at umich. Mine failed terribly while in undergrad, so i have not tried resurrecting that as yet. But this is also a shoutout to Arun K, Aditya K, Hirak P, Niranjan with whom we had solid experiences in our school life.