Quiz contests in April: Bollywood, Crosswords, Sports & a Mumbai Showdown

Crossword Battle by The Indian Express (Delhi)

 

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Tooting our own horn? Express Puzzles & Games is hosting an open crossword contest on April 20 at ConQurso, the annual quiz fest of Hansraj College. Word nerds of all ages can participate, for a shot at prizes, press and punny glory. For beginners who’d like practice, we recommend sampling our Mini Crossword’s free archives. Conqurso has an overall prize pool of Rs 40,000, with five other quizzes spread out from April 18 to 22.

Registration: Sign up solo or in teams of two from bio.link/iepuzzles by April 19. Don’t forget to say hello at the event!

Hindi Ent Quiz at IIIT Delhi

A written quiz for Bollywood buffs, this event promises “lots of Masti and Dhamaal, and hopefully some Tamasha too.” You can team up with a friend to crack the 100-question mega set on April 20. The event starts at 9am at IIIT Delhi, and will be hosted by quizmasters Mohd Fahad and Amit Sinha. The latter is the author of ‘Do Different: The Untold Dhoni’, which should come in handy for the next quiz on this guide.

For a long time, we haven’t attended a good Hindi Ent quiz in a physical setting. So, we decided to do one ourselves. @RandomCricketP1 and I present to you a mega 100-question long Hindi-Ent quiz, with lots of Masti and Dhamaal, and hopefully some Tamasha too.
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— Mohd Fahad (@mohdfahad42) April 3, 2024

Sports Quizzing League, Online

Season 2 of Sports Quizzing League begins from May 6. Fans of everything from cricket to croquet can participate in this MIMIR league, which features 10 gameweeks with one sports quiz per week. MIMIR is a British format that makes online quizzing fair and exciting, and for SQL, you will be matched with other players from around the world and compete for points on a leaderboard.

Registration: Paid, at Rs 1500 for open category and Rs 500 (early bird) for college-goers. Free for school students. You can sign up here.

Madras Minutiae ‘24 by IIT Madras

IIT Madras’ Quiz Club is hosting a two-day campus quiz festival on April 13 and 14. Day 1’s quizzes (Fine Arts, HELM) are by reputed national QM Major Chandrakant Nair, while Day 2 features Sci Tech and Open Quiz contests by local veterans. Grab the full schedule:

Here is the schedule of Quizzes for Madras Minutiae ’24, happening on 13th and 14th of April.

All participants are requested to fill out this form: https://t.co/leTxAdWqBz

More details on each quiz follows. pic.twitter.com/xl34n72Bim

— Quiz Club, IIT Madras (@quizclubiitm) April 12, 2024

Registration: Sign up on this form before arriving on campus.

Fundaesliga Summer Showdown, Mumbai

Fundaesliga Quiz League–now in its third year—is bringing an offline brain games contest to Mumbai on May 11 and 12. Featuring six events, the competition will have a Rs 1 lakh-plus prize pool and unfold at the Nehru Centre in Worli. Team, solo and elimination-style formats should make this one a doozy!

Registration: Sign up solo (and early) on this form. Accommodation in Mumbai may be arranged on request.

Hello quiz friends, after ten seasons of asking questions online, FundaesLiga Quiz League will go offline in exactly one month from today with “Summer Showdown”, a two-day quiz festival in Mumbai on May 11 and 12, 2024.

There are six competitions in all and questions will be… pic.twitter.com/g3vXDQ13lC

— Sreshth Shah (@sreshthx) April 11, 2024

QFI Invitation Quiz, National

The Quiz Foundation of India (QFI Chennai) will be hosting their annual Invitation Quiz on June 9 (prelims). Helmed by veterans Abid Abdulla, Siddhanth Rao, TK Balaji and Dr. Navin Jayakumar, this is a national GK quiz that will simultaneously unfold in multiple cities across India — if yours doesn’t have a venue yet, you can host or become a proctor by writing in to quizfoundation@gmail.com. Early registration is advisable, hence the inclusion on an April guide.

Registration: Sign up on bit.ly/qfi_iq2024 in teams of up to three by June 9.

@quizfoundation will hold the 2024 edition of QFI Invitation nationwide team quiz on Sunday, June 9th, between 2 PM to 5 PM.

Further details and registration form (mandatory) at https://t.co/6B6nurUmc9. If you would like your city to be a venue, contact us here or by email. pic.twitter.com/7GqxQSgeAN

— QFI (@quizfoundation) April 7, 2024

Ambedkar Memorial Quiz, Pune

Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary (Ambedkar Jayanti) is on April 14. To mark the occasion, RJ14Sports is hosting an online quiz competition in Pune for students aged 4 to 16+. There are four categories to choose from, with cash prizes, trophies and certificates in store for the top three winners of each category.

Registration: Paid. Sign up on their All Events page before April 14.

This guide will be updated as and when more quiz contests are announced. For alerts and exclusive trivia, you can follow @iepuzzles on Instagram.