My unexpected life in quizzing continues...

Last week saw another solidly conducted pub quiz by whysoQrious (Adittya Nath Mubaiyi and Mudita Chauhan-Mubayi), this being the inaugural (and Delhi-themed) quiz at Fort City Brewing in Hauz Khas. I had been invited there as one of eight “mentors” – in the company of such hefty names as my friend Trisha Gupta, young Eshan Sharma, Swapna Liddle, Anant Raina, Saif Mahmood, Vidyun Sabhaney and Nitin Sreedhar – but I don’t think the teams, being mostly made up of avid quizzers, needed our wisdom. (I must shamefacedly admit to knowing/deducing the answers to only two or three of the questions asked.)

There was plenty of buzz in a crowded room, lots of jingle-jangling too – since the “pouncing” here was done not with light-sabres, as at the Depot48 quizzes, but with tambourines that had the team names on them (mine was Mehfil-e Mehrauli).

One entertaining question was about the Rajendra Kumar character from the 1965 film Arzoo claiming to be from “a very improbable place”, as the quizmaster put it. (Keep in mind the questions were all Delhi-centred.) This happens when he is being introduced during a skiing competition, early in the film.

Only one person in the room – a member of my team – knew the correct answer, and this was because he recalled his dad enthusiastically showing him the scene decades earlier. (I was reminded of my Spartacus moment from this quiz a few months ago.)

This is how the Rajendra Kumar character is introduced:

“Mr Sarju, from Okhla Village.”

 

 

Mentos! Mentors! Minotaurs!

Anuja Chauhan, the answer to the last question