Did you know which building in Bangalore was named after the fourth Viceroy of India? Which town is sometimes called as India’s tender coconut capital? Which landmark in Bangalore was conceived by Major General Richard Sankey and originally named after Sir John Meade?
You might not know the answers to any of these questions but majority of Bangalore’s school goers have them all right on the tip of their tongues.
In fact, students of Bangalore are a few notches above their contemporaries in other Indian cities when it comes to knowing their history and heritage if their average score in the annual Cycle Heritage Quiz 2013 is anything to go by.
While 15 out of 25 has been the average score among students elsewhere, in Bangalore, it was 17. It is terrific score, a visibly impressed quiz master Titash Banerjea told dna.
Banerjea, a young quiz-buff of the five-member team that drew up the questions, said that among the 770 students from 70 schools in Bangalore, over 50 percent scored above 10.
Cycle Heritage Quiz 2013 is the third edition of the annual quiz for high school students held in six Indian cities: Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore. It focuses on the culture and heritage of India. The questions asked are all related to history, mythology, festivals, traditions, music, dance and art.
In Bangalore, about 10,000 students competed in the qualifiers to the quiz to find a place in the preliminary round. Of them, 385 two-member teams were picked for Friday’s rounds.
And of them, six teams -- Gaurang and Amith from National Public School, Navaneeth and Raksha from Sri Vidya Mandir Educational Trust, Namratha and Varun from Jindal Public School, Tejas and Santhosh from Pine Woods English School, Praveen and Abhishek from Cordial High School, and Radhika and Neha from Poorna Prajna School -- made it to the finals.
They then went on for another six rounds of 36 questions, where Navaneeth and Raksha with 79 points bagged the first prize of a laptop each, and coming second with 71 points, Gaurang and Amith won DSLR camera each.
“Kolkata used to be the quizzing capital of India. But now it is Bangalore,” Anik Banerjea, organiser in charge of the quiz, said.
And what could be the reason behind this? “Perhaps, it could be that a lot of schools here have quizzing clubs and most of the top quizzers of the country reside here,” he said.
For those of who are waiting for the answers to the questions at the start of this article, they are Mayo Hall, Maddur and Cubbon Park respectively.
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