Bizarre - the Open Quiz

Vista concluded this evening with Bizarre, the traditional Business Quiz, conducted by none other than Mr. Derek O'Brien and his company. 

A prelim round in the afternoon was followed by a face to face with 6 teams on stage in the breezy Open Air Theater. And two teams had an IIMB flavor too - including one with Prof. Rajeev Gowda! With his trademark wittiness, Derek certainly made the quiz a lot of fun to attend - as could be seen from the size of the audience. From "What is the largest solar harvesting industry" (agriculture) to "which is the most expensive spice after saffron" (vanilla), the questions were reasonably tough but just workable enough for the audience to be actively discussing the answers amongst themselves...

People from a host of companies like GE, Sun, KPMG, TCS, Yahoo!, Oracle etc. took part (the prelims had over 100 teams taking part). But in the end, the victors were fairly seasoned Bangalore quizzers - a team comprising people from Accenture, Sun and Kotak. And hey - the team from IIMB with Prof. Gowda in it came a close second, much to the joy of his students!

All-in-all a high voltage and exciting event - that saw relaxed FII (Forum for Industrial Interaction at IIMB - the organizers of Vista) members sitting down and having fun - after days!