It was an evening of unmatched display of enthusiasm and excitement at the 16th edition of Landmark Quiz held in Chennai on Aug 15. With Quiz master Dr Navin Jayakumar orchestrating the show with his charismatic style as he has beeen doing for the past 15 years, Landmark quiz'08 also saw the inclusion of a national finals.

The the event just got bigger and better this year, with Chennaionline.com doing the Live Webcast of the event for the first time ever.



The venue, music academy was abuzz with inquistive participants right from the afternoon and the show started with the prelims followed by Regional rounds and national finals. The national finals had previous winners of Landmark Quiz from Bangalore and Pune who joined the battle of brains with the Chennai winners.

In the regional round, Chennai�s QED team emerged winners by quite a comfortable margin, with 'Singh may be king but iyer is higher' as runners-up. The national finals consisted of three intellectual rounds, wherein Chennai, Bangalore and Pune teams had a tough competition.

Challenging questions and quick wits from the quiz master Dr Navin Jayakumar added more fizz to the proceedings. After rounds of thrilling quizzing the Bangalore team 'Quizzing Goramis' came on top defeating chennai's QED by a thin margin of 10 points and won the rolling trophy and a gift voucher worth of Rs 45,000. The runner-up prize worth Rs 30,000 was taken away by Chennai QED team.

If you wonder what's the name of the teams all about, well...there was a special prize for creative team name and it had lot of interesting contenders on the day. 'Singh May Be King, But Iyer Is higher' was adjudged the winner in this category.

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