Tough battle for top honours at World Quizzing Championships on June 4
International Quiz Association (IQA), the world’s premiere Quiz organization, will be conducting its annual World Quizzing Championships on Saturday 04 June 2016.
IQA Sri Lanka chapter is hosting this event in Colombo for the 11th consecutive year, thus giving the Sri Lankan quiz enthusiasts the opportunity to compete in this prestigious world event.
World Quizzing Championships (WQC) is an individual written quiz that is organized around the globe at almost the same time. The quiz consists of 240 questions, to be answered in a maximum allowed time of 120 minutes. The questions are divided over 8 categories of 30 questions each. The eight categories broadly cover areas of History, Media, World, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Culture, Sports, and Sciences.
Most of the top quiz enthusiasts in Sri Lanka have already registered for the event and it is bound to be a very competitive battle for top honours which will improve their rankings both locally and globally.
Ruwan Senanayake, Sri Lanka representative of the IQA, says that these keen Sri Lankan quizzers will once again get an opportunity to compete against top contestants from countries such as Australia, Belgium, England, India, Ireland, Finland, Norway, Scotland, USA, Singapore, and Malaysia. More than 40 countries are expected to compete at the WQC this year.
The Quiz will be organized by the IQA Sri Lanka branch and will be open to all Sri Lankan nationals over 16 years of age, and will be conducted in English. It will be held at the Distance Learning Centre , SLIDA building, 28/10 Malalasekera Mawatha , Colombo 07 from 3.00 p.m - 6.00 p.m. on Saturday 04th June 2016 Those who are interested in taking part could send in their applications giving the name, address, email address (if available) and contact telephone numbers to the email addresses mindm@sltnet.lk , ruwan.p.sen@gmail.com or varunaratnaweera@gmail. com or call 0777 418191 for any details. Registrations will close on 31 May 2016.