All three were hosted on Kahoot this year, and the organisers - Landmark Bookstores, Murugappa Group and the Rotary Club - were happy to see that the numbers hold steady at the usual average of 1,000 per event.
“Quizzing has managed to transform and reorient itself to the new online milieu rather seamlessly,” says Dr Navin Jayakumar, 58, a neuro-ophthalmologist and veteran quizmaster who conducts Chennai’s three major annual offline quizzes - Landmark, Murugappa Quotient and Rotary. There are apps for quizzers, such as Kahoot, designed to host rounds of Q&A, with in-built systems to track answers and tally scores from large numbers of participants. The quizzes take place all over the internet too - on WhatsApp, Instagram, through Google forms, on Discord and via Zoom. You can opt for online quizzes on Rajinikanth or The Game of Thrones, women in science, the history of furniture, or horror movies, geography, music or just one sport. You don’t need to know a little bit about a lot of things to make a splash either. Over the past few months, avid quizzers have turned quizmasters, trivia lovers have turned avid quizzers and new formats have evolved where it’s not about knowing the right answer but connecting clues to take an intelligent and entertaining guess. Online quizzing, growing even before the pandemic, is now seeing a boom. What is best described in three words, has one right answer, and can engage thousands of people at a time? The quiz question!
