The Illuminati Quiz

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The Illuminati Quiz is an annual Indian quiz contest that began on 8 December 2008; the students of the Model Engineering College (MEC) organized this south India level quiz competition as a tribute and a memorial to Sandeep Menon (1984-2008). In 2004 "The Illuminatus", [1] or Menon, as he was commonly called, started the community called "The Illuminati", [2] whose aim is to promote and continue the quizzing tradition both within college and with the extended community. It has conducted over 120 intra- and inter- collegiate quizzes to date. [2] In addition, three annual versions of The Illuminati Quiz have been conducted at a South India level. [2] The quiz consists of an online quizzing competition and a preliminary written round in which six qualifying teams make it to the final round.

In the third Illuminati quiz on 7 August 2010, the Quiz Master was Sadashiv N., and the winners were Amit R, RNSIT Bangalore, and Vineeth Raj, RVCE Bangalore, in first place; Pramod, NIT Trichy and Harish, SVCE Chennai, in second; and Varun Rajiv and Raghuram Cadambi, NLS Bangalore, in third. The Online Quizzer was Karthik Sivaram. [2] [3] [4] [5] Six teams qualified for the final leg of the event. The questions included, "name the connection between Ruy Lopez de Segura, a 16th century Spanish priest, Giuoco Piano, 17th century Italian monk, and Moheschunder Bannerjee from Bengal".[ citation needed ]

In its second edition, held on 8 August 2009, Nagadarsan Suresh was the quiz master. Nakul P Sangolli, RVCE, Bangalore, won the online quiz and the winners for the main event were Nakul P. Sangoli and Chaitanya G. Hegde RVCE, first place, Rohit S. and Balaji B, CEG & SRM, second, and Rahul Gupta and Sudarshan M. A. RVCE, third.[ citation needed ]

The very first TIQ, held on 8 December 2008, had Thejaswi Udupa from the Karnataka Quiz Association as the quiz master. Geo Thomas was the online quizzer in the first format of the game. [6] [7]

Sandeep Menon, former student of the Model Engineering College (MEC) at Thrikkakara, died from a brain tumour on 3 May 2008. In his memory, Menon's parents started a foundation called the Sandeep Menon Foundation that helps cancer patients and students who are not able to finance their studies.[ citation needed ]

Its founder's saying that the spirit of quizzing should drive the Illuminati forward to never miss an event [2] has become their unofficial motto, manifesting itself as the weekly TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) after school quizzes. [1] It conducts internal quizzes and trains newcomers. [1]

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