Whispers and hushed discussions filled the silence at The Phoenix lounge at The Saturday Club as the quiz co-host announced, “What was newsworthy about the screening of Black Panther on April 20, 2018 at a screen of AMC theatres somewhere?”. The time was ticking and the wrong answers were pouring in, till team Bar None (the winners) answered, “It was the first movie to be screened in Saudi Arabia after the cinema ban was lifted.” This concluded The Saturday Club Open Quiz presented by The Telegraph on June 17.

The fourth edition of the quiz started with the prelims where each team was given a sheet with 30 questions to get to the final round. During the final round, eight teams faced two hours of serious Q&A on diverse topics. t2 joined in on the fun...

The Winners

Organiser speak 

“This is the fourth year of this quiz and the response we got was amazing. We are trying to make it a family event,” said Renu Kapoor, member of the library subcommittee, The Saturday Club.

The quizzers

“All the participants were thinking outside the box. There were many answers that were wrong but so much thought was put into it that it sounded like it could be the answer,” smiled Dhruv Mookerji, the co-quizmaster.

“I was happy to see a young team win. There was this one question we asked the audience, which was, ‘Which railway station was named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose?’ The answer was Gomoh station. One participant pulled me aside to tell me that his grandfather had an anecdote about Netaji. So not only is the quiz a competition but you learn new things as well,” said Jayashree Mohanka, co-quizmaster.

Text: Urvashi Bhattacharya
Pictures: B. Halder