It was the stuff dreams were made of. On December 2nd 2007, myself and Shetty sped off towards Devanahalli to try our luck at “Intellect Explorer”, the quiz held as part of “Reboot 2007”, the yearly inter-corporate cultural competition.
The playing field was packed with the who’s who of the corporate world – Infosys, Wipro, Oracle, Logica etc., to name a few. The quiz had a three-tier format – a written prelims followed by semi-finals and a final. The preliminary was a tricky affair, where we had to answer 25 questions and managed to finish 8th out of 12 teams. However, we changed gears in the semifinals, cracking questions at will, to finish on top of the round.
The finals were a completely different ball game. We were against five of the best corporate teams in the business. The quiz started off with a long visual connect question consisting of 19 clues, which we managed to crack on the second set of clues, to gain 22 points. Things started going downhill from there on, as we were unable to crack the next 21 questions, as the other teams started to leave us behind. However, we still had a little fight left within us and stormed back with the connect round and the buzzer round. And then, with two questions to go, a look at the points table made us realize that we could not lose. We had finished first.
For many years, we were the bridesmaid, and not the bride. But on that day, we were not to be denied. This was our first ever First Place finish in an inter-corporate general quiz. The Dream has just begun….
