The most colossal and respected of all
Business Quizzes, Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2012 series was
kick-started with a finger-gripping competition and an absolutely
nail-biting finish at The Utsav, BNR Chanakya, Ranchi on August 4th.
The Tatas have always had that special
little thing when it comes to quizzes in Jharkhand and they revered it
big time in the Ranchi edition. First time ever they experimented with a
venue as elaborate as the BNR Chanakya, the Railways Heritage Hotel and
it proved to be an instant success. Pickbrain Giri, the ever-venturer
quizmaster of the Tata Crucible quizzes since its inception, was at his
best as he plundered through the quiz with the piquant ease of humour
and razor sharp logics- as have always been his trademarks!
The format of the quiz this year, has
been decided to be kept under folds for all the cities so as to equalize
the brunt of expect-the-unexpected phenomenon that was only exclusive
to the city the Crucible started with in all the antecedent editions.
The winners were a remarkable team from the Rourkela Steel Plant,
who have made it to the country finales in the precedent years,
snatching the turkey from under the nose of the 2 teams dominating the
scoreboard for a major part of the quiz. One of those teams, and the
runners-up, was an extremely experienced duo from SAIL Ranchi. The other
was a young dynamic team fresh out of college, from ITC Patna. The
latter sat in their first corporate edition of the Tata crucible ever.
It was really a sight to savour, watching the Costello’s challenge the
Vivid Bhartis of the Indian Business Quizzing! The audience questions
comprised of some of Pickbrain’s jewels and the onlookers were a really
competent lot too…
The prize money of the finale this year
has been increased by a whopping 1 lakh rupees from the earlier one
being that of 4 lakh rupees citing an ironic trivia by the Pickbrain
itself that the prize money of the Crucibles have always gone up
whenever India faced a financial recession- thus imparting a significant
perk to the brains of the country in times of flailing economy!
The event was concluded with another
amusing coincidence when one of the teammates of the winning team
revealed an injured upper arm and Giri pointed out something similar
happening in the Ranchi edition last year too. So folks! If you happen
to be in Ranchi around the Crucible months and injure yourself, you know
where to head out on a cloudy, dewy Saturday morning to brain feed with
chicken soup!!
