My quiz club, the Microsoft Redmond Quiz club is organizing Chakraview: India Quiz 2008 for AID (Association for India's Development) on August 23rd at 2 pm on Microsoft campus. I have been involved with the club from the start and this is by far our biggest event, hopefully exceeding the 70+ people who showed up on a weekday for the Bollywood Quiz I conducted. I thought I might use this forum to garner support from locals (Sridhar, that's you) and slightly remote (RTD2, that's you) for this event. We are doing a fairly good job at making sure that if you are in Seattle, you are most likely to hear about it, but it can't hurt to spread the word and extol the virtues of an event like this. Most people get intimidated by the concept of quizzing and I submit that good quizzes are where you already know the answer to the question and it isn't a test of trivia. We have strived to do that in our club and this event will be no different. Plus, it is for a good cause.
Here's the text of an e-mail I had sent out about the event: feel free to pass it around to anyone you know who might be interested in this.
What links common English words like catamaran, shampoo, bungalow, juggernaut and pajamas?Here's the text of an e-mail I had sent out about the event: feel free to pass it around to anyone you know who might be interested in this.
Which Indian cricketer’s restaurant serves ‘Multan Ke Sultan Ki Tikdi’, a dish priced at Rs. 309?
What Indian organization beats Chinese People's Liberation Army, Britain's National Health Service and Wal-Mart as the world's largest employer?
The answers (English words derived from Indian languages eg. catamaran from the Tamil word kattumaram, Virendra Sehwag and Indian Railways) all relate to our great country, a place Mark Twain called the ‘cradle of the human race’.
Come join us for Chakraview as we embark on a journey of rediscovery of India. From Tendulkar to Tagore, from Panipat to Pushkar, from Amitabh to Ashwathama, come test your India Quotient. This will be a fun event for one and all where you answer questions on Indian history, culture, sports, rulers, entertainment, mythology and much more.
When: 2pm, August 23, 2008
Where: Microsoft Bldg 99 (14280 NE 36th St, Redmond, WA 98052)
Open Registration -- there is no entry fee!
Visit http://seattle.aidindia.org/chakraview to register and try out some fun questions. Write to chakraview2008@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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Great, I'll definitely make it a point to attend. And if you need any help in organizing, do ping me - will be glad to volunteer (either for collecting questions or conducting the event or both)
@Sridhar: Thanks for the offer. I think we have the volunteering based covered. What would really help is you could convince more people to show up. A lot of people somehow sit on the fence and we need some 'convincers'. You could definitely help out as one.
Awesome!
AID is also coming up with Hari Prasad concert on sept 13th..
http://aidsargam.com/default.htm
hope you will attend the concert and spread the word. BTW, have you made it to the AID meting yet. I remember trying to convince you last year..:)
@Pallavi: I am attending the concert for sure. No, I haven't actually been to their meetings yet :-) Should sometime.
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