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History of Quizzing at JU
"Contrast this with the scene in the early Eighties. Quizzing was the major and most prestigious event in campus festivals and carried a small cash prize: maybe rupees three hundred for a four-member team. For this princely sum, we took slow boats, failed to return home at night and gave ourselves stomach ulcers by surviving on watery tea.
At Jadavpur University, where I studied (and now teach), every week seven or eight teams participated in a sinister ritual called seeding quiz. The cumulative results decided which two teams would represent the university at college festivals. Alarmed at JU�s frightening appetite for quizzing, festival organizers had hastily legislated that not more than two teams from any institution could participate in the qualifying rounds."
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