Knowledge no bounds

A few of us at the venue knew nothing about anything.Some of us knew something about a few things.A few more knew something about almost everything.Together,we knew pretty much everything.

The venue i am referring to here is the Music Academy,Chennai...and 'we' or 'us' is the 1800+ strong crowd present at the venue for the Landmark Quiz 07.Dr.Naveen Jayakumar was the Quiz master for this 15th edition of the annual event.(The pic shows the stage of the music academy all set up for the start of the event).The prelims consisted of 40 questions which were to be answered on a sheet of paper and each team should be comprised of 3 members.An interesting range of questions kept me interested throughout the evening.I was disappointed that there was no question regarding the game of cricket/football in the prelims,though there was one cricket question in the finals(Who are the two players to have scored a century in both their debut and in their final test?This question was actually asked to the huge audience and not to the teams.I knew the answer and was jumping and shouting with a raised hand...but unfortunately the quiz master had decided to go to the right hand section of the hall whereas i was seated on the left hand side).However,there were 2 questions concerning Harry Potter in the prelims.There was a prize for the best school team and the winners said that they had got 23/40 correct.We(my team)got 20 questions correct i guess.So,our performance was below par when compared to 3 school guys.(I am just out from school and to make this a huge difference between us would be unfair on me:( ).There were 3 prizes for innovative team names and we chose to have 'Aiya Thoda' as our team name.('Aiya Thoda' is a commonly used Tamil slang which is something similar to 'Yeah right').The team with the name 'Sharukh says Chuk de..we say cheque de' won the prize.The final showdown between 8 teams kept the audience glued to their seats.The crowd favourite was one guy who kept going after some wild guess and he also won the 'Quizzer of the day' award though his team finished a credible fourth.His team 'Singapadai'(Lion's army)were sitting right in front of me during the prelims.My most favourite question of the evening was 'What do you mean by the term "Fridge googling"?'.None of the eight teams had the answer and so it came to the audience and i saw only 2 hands being raised.'Fridge googling' actually refers to running a Google search for recipes depending on the items one finds in the refrigerator.The crowd gave a huge roar when the last question(video question)was asked.It was a song from the movie 'Sivaji' and the crowd went berserk on seeing Rajinikanth.Another video(A scene from MIB)was shown and the connection between the 2 clips was asked.The answer was that both the videos were shot in Guggenheim museum.While the Sivaji song was shot in Spain branch of the museum..the MIB clip was shot in the American Guggenheim museum.
Earlier i had hoped that Derek O'Brien would be the quiz master(he has come in 2 or 3 occasions)but nothing goes as i hope for.

(The answer to that cricket question is Mohammad Azharuddin and Greg Chappel)