Akansh Naik, Thomas Abraham, Mukund P.G. and B. Guruvayurappan are all avid quizzers. It was in Shantiniketan that the four middle-school students bonded while hitting the heritage trial, going on nature walks and feasting on food and books. Every evening they would brush-up their general knowledge by quizzing each other. But once the camera was on, they became arch rivals fighting it out for the Bournvita Quiz Contest 2015-16, being held for the first time in the land of Rabindranath Tagore. Akansh and Thomas of Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram, Chennai locked horns with Mukund and Guruvayurappan of PSBB Millennium School, Coimbatore, in the south zone finals of the quiz. One team reached the national semi-final while the other had to go back home. This contest proved a learning experience for both the students as well as the teachers. The latest edition of the quiz contest saw around 4,500 schools from 100 cities participating in the preliminary written round. Hundred schools made it to the second round and a video test finally saw 16 teams from four zones (north, south, east and west) at the old Mela grounds of the Visva-Bharati campus.
The Shantiniketan episodes will go online from mid-February and can also be downloaded as a mobile app. National English School, Baguiati is the only school from Calcutta to make it to the top 16.
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