Home>>Activities>>Quizing
Inquizitive QUIZ CLUB REPORT 2009-2010:
The quiz club of our school, Inquizitive has taken great leaps and bounds since its culmination. It's continuing in its outright goal – to share knowledge. And this knowledge is being well shared not just by seniors, but from all students irrespective of their class. The juniors are showing excellent promise as they keep on getting better with every passing year. On the other hand, the seniors are outperforming themselves each year bringing several accolades to this school.
Inquizitive has always believed in the sense of participation. If firmly believes that with every quiz comes a chance to participate and to learn something new. Hence, it believes that the students should take part in each and every quiz.
The year 2009-2010 was very eventful with our school taking part in a lot of quizzes and did pretty well in most of them. The seniors proved that National Gems Higher Secondary School definitely feature in the Top 3 quizzing schools of Kolkata.
It all started off with the St. John Diocesan quiz where our school represented by Chayon Mondal, Arpan Roy Chowdhury and Anwesh Mishra came 4th.
The ASISC quiz saw the senior team represented by Arka Dyuti Palit and Anwesh Mishra win the Kolkata round and coming in 3rd in the Regional Finals.
Prithwish Nath and Debkalpa Goswami finished Runners Up at the TCS IT WIZ, one of the most prestigious quizzes of Kolkata with over 400 teams participating. It was a terrific achievement for the school and they won a lot of prizes.
The greatest victory came when the school continued its good form and a team represented by Chayon Mondal, Souvik Sarkar, Arka Dyuti Palit and Anwesh Mishra went on to win the Jaco’ Iz, organized by St. James School.
The school team comprising of Debkalpa Goswami, Prithwish Nath, Chayon Mondol and Anwesh Mishra showd their skill as they again got Runners Up trophy in our own Topical quiz 2009 defeating around 26 other teams. It was really an event the whole school relished in its own campus.
The school also became Runners Up in the Chavara Memorial quiz organized by K.E. Carmel School with the team members being Anwesh Mishra, Prithwish Nath and Arka Dyuti Palit.
The Juniors also proved that they have got what it takes of perform well by coming 2nd in a Radio quiz organized by Friends FM defeating various top schools of Kolkata. The team consisting of Promit, Sharma, Aditya Nad and Arghya Mukherjee did the school proud.
The Juniors continued to perform well in the Limca Book of Records quiz organized by the Derek O' Brian Associates at Vidya Mandir where the National Gems school quiz team consisting of Promit Sharma, Swati Singh, Rishav Aditya and Sabyasachi Sarkar came 7th s out of 183 teams.
The Neil O' Brian quiz, held for the first time was a unique attempt at role reversals, where the students (Wade Calvert, Debkalpo Goswami, Anwesh Mishra, Arka Dyuti Palit and Juhi Agarwal) conducted the quiz along with Abhishek Sir and Barry O' Brian Sir and parents and teachers' were the participants. It was a wonderful event and had the Senior School teachers' team consisting of Ritika Kunda, Shaoni Dutta, Soumyo Mukherjee and Sougata Basak as winners much to cheer of the students.
Amidst all these inter school quizzes, the Inter House quizzes for both the Seniors and the Juniors were held with Liberty winning the former and Fraternity the latter. In the Inter Class Quizzing, class VIIIC won for the juniors and class XII C won for the Seniors category. All these intra-school events were conducted by Abhishek Sir.
Having set a good platform, Inquisitive wishes to strive forward with even higher goals. The expectations are also huge and the students are up to the task. It seems the only way for Inquisitive now is forward with more and more students quenching their thirst of knowledge through this shared platform.
Anwesh Mishra
Class XII Sec. C (2009 - 2010)
Abhishek Bagchi
Quiz Club Coordinator
TOPICAL QUIZ 2009-10:
It's been called the Mother Of All Quizzes, its been called The Grandest Stage of Em All, its been called a lot of things. But what it boils down to, is, it's just a quiz. A quiz which happens to be the dream of every quizzard in National Gems. A quiz which makes stars out of its participants. A quiz which is somehow more than just a 'quiz'. Much like cricket is for India, quizzing is for us. And the topical quiz is our World Cup.
The topical quiz 2009 place on December 11th, with 27 top schools of in and around Kolkata participating. At the helm was Mr. Barry O' Brien, who in his trademark style, flared up the audience as well as put the contestants at ease. His humour, his statements, his presence on the stage as the quizmaster-have always been a signature of the NGHSS Topical quiz, and this time was no different. He conducted with ease, keeping control as well as keeping the audience from getting bored, with crowd-pleasing tunes in the audio round, and the vintage 'left vs right' contest! A quiz doesn't usually have dull moments. But with Mr. O'Brien as quizmaster, it's a statistical impossibility! The round on Words was a standout winner – fantastic way to make things interesting as well as expanding, everyone's vocabulary. In addition to all that there was the shower of chocolates and gifts for the audience.
After a grueling of quizzing, where teams went back and forth, again and again, La Martinere for Boys emerged as the winner, with the second and third positions being decided on the last question of the quiz, in the buzzer round. National Gems, represented by Debkalpa Goswami, Prithwish Nath, Chayon Mondal and Anwesh Mishra emerged runners up, with St. James’ placing third.
With the ambience, the audience, the music and – most importantly – the quizzing, it was an amazing night, reminding all why the NGHSS Topical quiz is the Super Bowl, the Wrestlemania, the World Cup, among quizzes in Kolkata.
Prithwish Nath
Class XII Sec A
Abhishek Bagchi
Quiz Club Coordinator
NEIL O'BRIEN QUIZ:
The 9th of December, 2009, saw the commencement of a novel quiz programme in honour of the father of quizzing in India, Mr. Neil O'Brien. Hosted by National Gems Higher Secondary School, this programme was singular in its concept — it aimed at presenting to the city a group of young quiz masters who could satisfactorily carry forward the exciting culture of quizzing.
Quite different from the other quiz competitions, here we had the teachers and parents of NGHSS Junior section and NGHSS Senior section grouped in 4 teams. On this occasion Shaw Public School was also invited for participation and their teachers and parents formed two other teams.
The introductory session was conducted by Mr. Barry O' Brien while the other rounds were led by students or the 'budding quiz masters' as Mr. O'Brien described them. Mr. Abhishek Bagchi, the head of the Quiz Club of NGHSS also conducted one round of the event. The quiz was based on Kolkata which made it fairly easy and familiar and, therefore, quite interesting for both the participants and the audience. After every round Mr. Barry O' Brien commented on the strengths and weakness as of each debutant quiz master.
At the end of this entertaining session of quizzing NGHSS senior section teachers were declared the Winners, followed by Shaw Public School teachers as the first Runners up and NGHSS Senior Section Parents as the second Runners up. The young quiz masters also received certificates from Mr. Neil O' Brien.
This unique concept was decided to be taken forward with the quiz being conducted at an Inter-School level, and Mr. Neil O'Brien himself being present to conduct at least one round of it.
The Annual Topical Quiz of National Gems Higher Secondary School, easily the biggest quizzing event in Kolkata, stepped on to its 13th year and was held on the 11th of December, 2009. In the first round the quiz master of the show, Mr. Barry O'Brien, emphasized on the importance of new words in English language.
The music round, as always, received an amazing amount of crowd participation and applause, thanks to Mr. O'Brien charismatic presentation. At the end of the show La Martiniere for Boys emerged as the winner with National Gems Higher Secondary School bagging the second place. The Prizes were given away by Mr. M. S. Calvert, the Principal of NGHSS.
Abhishek Bagchi
Quiz Club Coordinator
