NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, AUG 30
Chennai’s popular annual quiz event – the Madras Open Quiz donned a new avatar due to COVID -19 pandemic and went online this year.
The virutal quiz programme held on Sunday was hosted by renowned Quizmaster, Dr Sumanth C Raman. The fun-filled quiz on Namma Madras had over 1000 participants at the preliminary round.
The top-scoring 6 individuals battled it out in the final round conducted virtually. This event was also webcast live and was watched by over 250 viewers.
Sriram Sridhar won the Madras Open Quiz 2020 while Jayakanthan was the first runner up followed by Tejas Venkataraman as the second runner-up. Tejas, a class 12 student of PSBB, KK Nagar, was the youngest participant.
All the six finalists including R Subash, Srinivasa Ramanujam and Karthik A Bhat, were awarded gift vouchers by the Murugappa Group.
The Madras Open Quiz, a well-known fixture of the Madras week celebrations, has over the years become a popular event among the quizzing enthusiasts of the city, a release from the organisation said.
