International Quiz Association (IQA), the world’s premiere Quiz organization, will be conducting its annual World Quizzing Championships on June 2nd, 2012. The aim of IQA is to elevate Quiz to a similar status as other mind-sports such as Chess and Bridge. It has been working with quiz organizations from around the world in order to run the World Quizzing Championships.
 This year too, Sri Lankan quiz enthusiasts have been granted the opportunity to compete in this prestigious world event and the Management Club will join hands with IQA Sri Lanka in conducting this Quiz in Colombo.
World Quizzing Championships (WQC) is an individual written quiz that is organized around the globe at almost the same time. The quiz consists of 240 questions, to be answered in a maximum allowed time of 90 minutes. The questions are divided over 8 categories of 30 questions each. The eight categories broadly cover areas of history, Media, World, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Culture, Sports, and Sciences.
In 2011, 1491 contestants from 28 countries competed in WQC with Pat Gibson of U.K emerging as the World Quiz Champion. The number one ranked player in Sri Lanka was Haren Fernando who incidentally was ranked 308th in the world. The top female Quizzer in the world last year was Dorjana Sirola of Croatia who was ranked 32 overall. Hasini Minuwanpitiya was the highest ranked female quizzer in Sri Lanka (world rank 787) as per the WQC 2012 rankings. Pat Gibson – the current World Champion
This year, Sri Lankan Quizzers will compete against top contestants from countries such as U.K, U.S.A, Belgium, India, Estonia, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, Finland, Norway, Croatia, France, Latvia, The Philippines, Germany and Australia. More than 40 countries are expected to compete at the WQC this year.
According to Ruwan Senanayake, Sri Lanka representative of the IQA, who is also TMC’s official Quiz Master, all arrangements have been made to conduct the Sri Lankan leg of the World Quizzing Championships in Colombo. This year too, the Quiz will be organized jointly by the IQA Sri Lanka branch and The Management Club (TMC).The quiz is open to all Sri Lankan nationals over 16 years of age, and will be conducted in English.
The venue for the Sri Lankan leg will be the Olympic House, 100/9F, Independence Avenue, Colombo 07. The quiz will be held from 4.00 p.m -7.00 p.m. on Saturday 02nd June 2012.
Those who are interested in taking part could send in their applications giving the name, address, and contact telephone numbers or emails if available to the email addresses varuna@freight-links.com , mindm@sltnet.lk or ruwan.p.sen@gmail or by post to: Varuna Ratnaweera, c/o The Management Club Galle Face Hotel ,Colombo 3.
Registrations will close on 20 th May 2012.
MEDIA RELEASE OF IQA SRI LANKA, APRIL 16, 2012 |
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