Quest for Universal Intelligence Zanith ( QUIZ ) Compettition is an event which finds a place in most socio cultural gatherings. Our Company's annual compettition is not an exception to this. In my younger days , Sidhartha Basu used to dazzle all of us with his Quiz Time programs ( Quiz time 86 with pretty Radha seth and Quiz time 88 with another pretty girl Shibani ). He rose to become an Iconic figure in the late 80s . Later,Bhaskar Bhatacharjee was also popular in the late 80s. In One event (Microsoft Teched 2001 -Visual basic birth day bash ) , i happen to get a chance to participate in a quiz compettition where Sidhartha Basu was the Quiz master. Our team came fourth in the compettition.
IMHO,Quiz compettition was a good thing when knowledge gathering was an expensive operation. Now , The Wikipedia giving all Encyclopedias run for their money and the advent of new specialized search engines, one can dig up facts about anything ,in a matter of seconds. One Problem i have seen in all "Quiz whiz kids" is they get too much pat on the back very early and will be considered as little "Genius". The real world is so messy that most of them are the store house of factual knowledge which has got little to do with their mainline of activity. The bloated Ego generated through winning some compettitions in the early days works as an impediment to their progress in real life. The Economics of Quiz compettition is a classical case of Diminishing returns.
Having Said all this thing , i am participating in the Quiz compettition conducted in our company. I suspect there is wisdom in particpating in some events where one can see people in a self created "mess".
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