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National, January 12, 2013
The quiz is being conducted in 6 cities viz. Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore,Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai Vis-à-vis 3 cities last year. The title sponsor for the event is Corporation Bank and associate sponsors are NCDEX and SAIL. The gift sponsors are Raymond Weil, App Tabs and Lawrence & Mayo for this year’s Cerebration quiz contest. Well know quiz master Giri 'Pickbrain' Balasubramanian of would anchor and conduct the on ground quiz.
Delhi city warms up for the Cerebration The Businesss Line corporte quiz contest on Jan 13, 2013
The Chennai Quizzing wizard combo of Mr.Sreekanth G and Jayakanthan R of TCS stormed into the National finals with a phenominal score leading from the start. Hyderabad witnessed come spirited competition with domestic and multinationals corporates like Novartis, Reckitt & Benckiser, TCS, Infosys, Sai Mitra Construction, VSP and Vizag Steel. But eventually it was the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant duo of J.Rahul and A.G.K.Murthy who stole the show with some high standard of quizzing. It is now time for the Delhi quizzers to perform.
Cerebration - The Business Line Quiz now moves from the city of Chennai, Hyderabad and Coimbatore to Delhi on 13th January 2013. The online quiz has been taken by more than 115 teams in just 3 weeks and the top 85 teams have been short-listed to participate in the regional finals.
Some of the teams that have qualified are Delloitte, Yes Bank, HCL Technologies, NTPC, Indian Oil, BPCL, Birla Inst of Management Technology, SBI, Sun Pharma, GAIL, Godrej and Boyce, Bajaj Allianz, Central Secretariat, IMT Ghaziabad, RBI, Group M, Press Trust of India and many more.
Contestant are advised to reach the venue early to complete all the registration formalities.
The Delhi Regional round will be held at:
Venue: India Habitat Center
Date: 13th January 2013
Registration: 10:00 am
Preliminary test: 11:00 am
We wish the Delhi teams best of luck for the regional finals round.
Apart from the qualified teams, individuals who are interested in high decibel quiz are welcome to attend the regional finals as audience. Audience are required to enroll themselves through the website www.blquiz.com or can call Mr.Ashish Saxena on 9899979045 to register their name and telephone number. There would be audience quiz too and exciting prizes are in instore for audience.
For further information, please contact:
The Hindu Group of Publications
Ashish Saxena
Mobile: +919899979045
Email: ashish.saxena@thehindu.co.in