Prisoner Diary:Musings of Lord Mani from the CONCENTRATION CAMP

**This is an old post from my personal blog. I thought maybe all of you should read this. Do drop in your comments. It is just a quiz report, however.

Wednesday, the 7th day of June, 2006: I (Lord) entered the CONCENTRATION CAMP at Tintin's place at about 6.30 PM. I was being accompanied by JJ. Perhaps we people are unique in history, as we were the only people to enter a CONCENTRATION CAMP out of our own free will. When we entered the camp, we found two other confines—Tintin and Haddock. Fuhrer was there too. Fuhrer had set up this camp in order to grill us for over two hours with his ingenious torture-devices—twenty different rounds of questions. Now, some of you might ask this question as to why we people went to the CONCENTRATION CAMP out of our own free will. Well, we simply succumbed to the temptation of watching The Fuehrer in action after a long time. Quiz ke liye saala kuch bhi karega!

6.45 PM: Fuhrer laid down the instructions that we prisoners were bound to follow in the camp. He also gave us a brief overview of what was in store for us in the camp.

7 PM: We went for a draw of lots to decide the order of torture. I was chosen as the last to face the music. Tintin was chosen to face the first volley of bullets first.

7.15 PM: Fuhrer starts the session by asking us 15 questions in a row. We scribbled our answers in a sheet of paper. Fuehrer examined them and passed his word: 10 out of 30 to Tintin and Lord; JJ gets 4. It was a bad round for us. We could only answer 5 questions at the most, but since this was the CONCENTRATION CAMP, we couldn't expect a better score. We could imagine our lot at the end of the twentieth round in the first round itself. However, as we proceeded with the rounds, Fuhrer proved our fears wrong.

8 PM: We were done with the audio rounds. Fuhrer once again proved it that his class is entirely different from other Quizmasters. Nobody has ever asked us to identify groups like Foo Fighters in any quiz show in the region. Fuhrer's selection of audio clips was remarkable.

8.15 PM: We came to the first of the visual rounds. Fuhrer had collected some marvellous visuals on which he framed some equally brilliant questions. This time, we were totally bowled over. We did well in the visual rounds.

8.30 PM: Fuhrer now unleashed his most lethal weapon on us—the visual connection round. Fuhrer had made it the toughest round in his quiz. Fuhrer says that the ultimate quizzical strength of a quizzer is known from his performance in a visual connection round.We really had to slog hard in that round, so much so that Tintin and I ended up with headaches.

8.45 PM: Fuhrer now decided to use his entire deadly arsenal at us in the subject round. The subjects Sports, Geography & Nature etc. were no less deadly than the Zyklon Bs and the V2s. Fuhrer once again gave us a glimpse of his in-depth research.

9.30 PM: The last round ended at 9.30 PM. Fuhrer proved it that he means business when he is at the helm of affairs. Nothing short of perfection satisfies him. However, he also proved us wrong by being a not-so-harsh taskmaster (we had thought otherwise).The final score-card read: JJ- 29; Tintin- 150; Lord Mani- 220. Fuhrer proved it beyond any doubt that quizzing is not only a game of asking and answering questions, it is also an art. Long questions, intriguing audio-visuals, hardcore connections and complicated subjects have now become the trademark of us, the Trivia Bytes people. That's the way we quiz in our place; that's the way it will be as long as we are around. Hail Fuhrer! Hail Quizzing! Hail CONCENTRATION CAMP!

N.B. Fuhrer is Abhra da, JJ is Jagat, Haddock is Taheer, and Tintin is Mit.