A general quiz by any other name......

will still be a general quiz. It can never be a Books Quiz. What we had last weekend at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan were two Open General quizzes, one which went curiously went with the name of Books Quiz. Samanth Subrmanian's quiz was a pseudo books quiz. Mind you I am not criticising the standard of the questions, but the questions themselves. The prelims was literarly non-literary. Samanth had very smartly explained at the beginning that any written word would be treated as literature, which is fine. But somehow the choice of questions made me feel that the questions normally asked had just been repackaged with a different name. And needless to say we had the usual finalists on stage, making this another session of good quizzing, but not so engaging for the non-finalists. BTW for the record I am pissed off with seeing the same goshti's at all the quiz finals. I have come up with some rules to plainly make it more even a contest and more entertaining. Will write about it at some point.