No quick-fire rounds, buzzers, fancy gifts or hampers… only the joy of learning something new, finding answers to a question from clues as a team and celebratory high-fives in the end. Here is K-Circle Quiz Club (KC to its members), a 50-year-old quizzing group of Hyderabad, the oldest in the city. Nothing can stop this motley group of passionate quizzers from meeting every Saturday at 5pm, not even the city’s weekend traffic congestion.
Celebrating a milestone
K-Circle Quiz Club celebrates its golden jubilee by hosting Kaikuu 2023, a quiz festival for the quizzers of India in October at the Bhaskara Auditorium, Hyderabad
The conference hall on the top floor of Columbus Hospital Institute of Psychiatry and De-addiction in Begumpet is where men and women of different age groups and walks of life — all K-Circlers and therefore avid quizzers— have gathered. Ten teams of have their eyes glued to a screen as quiz master Nitin Kishore Sai Samala, points towards a number in a screenshot of a PayTm transaction and asks: ‘What is the purpose of this number in front of the merchant’s name? How does it change or relate to currency notes? As murmurs fill the room, the quiz master hops from one group to another, asking for answers. The answers by the two teams are close. The right answer: Transaction counter, the number indicates the number of transactions made to that merchant that day and identifies if the transaction is valid.
