Inauguration of Sapience- The Quiz Club

The inaugural ceremony of Sapience: The Quiz Club of Christ (Deemed to be University), Lavasa was conducted on 22nd January 2020 in the classrooms and later in the Auditorium, Management Block from 2.30 PM onwards. It was inaugurated by Director & Dean, Dr Fr. Jossy P George and organized by First Year MBA students.

 An array of activities were planned for an enriching experience. All the activities were evaluated and the winning team was awarded certificates. The preliminary round was conducted in respective classrooms and the students assembled in the Auditorium for Finals.

The event began with a brief introduction about Sapience, by Annabell. Then Dr Fr. Jossy gave the inaugural address and unveiled the Sapience Logo and the quiz began in earnest. Round 1 was Pictionary and was conducted by Isha and Shruti wherein one participant drew a given word on the board and the partner had to guess the word within a minute. Round 1 was won by SY Finance. In order to keep the tempo there were some exciting and interesting filler rounds such as identify the logo and the winners were suitably rewarded.

It was heartening to note that nearly 112 participants took part in the quiz at the outset. A preliminary round was conducted to shortlist the participants for the next round. The pen and paper round was conducted in respective classrooms and top two high scorers qualified for Round 1.

Round 2 was conducted by Amit and Rahid and was the pyramid word puzzle round where all teams were given a set of 9 questions and they had to complete the round in 10 minutes, which. Round 3 was the quiz round and was conducted by Akanksha and Christy where each team had an opportunity to answer at least 3 questions each. The Final round was a rapid fire round which was conducted by Kshitij, wherein the participants had to answer as many questions as they could within mere 60 seconds and the winners for this round were Team FY Finance.

After all rounds were successfully conducted the final scores were collaborated and the winners were announced. The first position was secured by Team FY Finance (Rahul Negi and Akhil Ramakrishnan). There was a tie between SY Marketing (Harsh and Chaitali) and SY Finance (Hashim and Dakshisha) for the second position. All the winners were congratulated and certificates were awarded to the winners. The entire event was coordinated under the guidance of HOD, Assistant Professor Soumya V and later the volunteers had a debrief session to discuss the overall conduct of the program and suggest measures to improve in future. The event truly exhibited their mantra, ‘Be Wise, Be A True Homosapien’.