Indian Doctors Forum holds Health Quiz 2019
Carmel School students emerge winners
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 17: The 10th edition of one of the most popular quizzing event for school children in Kuwait, the annual Health Quiz organized by the Indian Doctors Forum of Kuwait was held at the Indian Community School of Kuwait Sr Branch’s auditorium on Nov 8. The event was attended by a large number of students, teachers, IDF members and their families. The preparations for this highly anticipated event started in earnest a couple of months earlier with the selection of teams of two students each from classes 10 to 12 from eleven participating Indian curriculum schools in Kuwait. A preliminary round of written multiple choice question format exam was held on the same day at the ICSK premises for selecting the six teams
Photos from the event.
to compete with each other for the coveted trophy.
The final was inaugurated by Dr Surendra Nayak, President IDF, informing about the history and rationale of holding the quiz every year. He explained that the main aim was to sensitize, inform, educate, inspire and encourage children to take up medicine as a profession, and impart knowledge about the history and developments in the field of health, biology and medicine. The event was held at the well maintained and brightly decorated auditorium of ICSK in the presence of a very enthusiastic audience that participated in the highly informative and entertaining rounds of same prelims questions and received exciting prizes. The event was conducted with usual flair and aplomb by the quizmasters, Dr Ananthpriya Vaidya and Dr Naquib Inamdar supported very ably by a professional team of Dr Sriram Kannan, Dr Philip Reji, Dr Imtiyaz Nawaz, Dr Preeti Jolly, Dr Gautam Hebbar and Dr Satish Tadepalli.
The six teams that reached the finals included Ayesha Zean and Rudra Patel from the Indian Community School Sr Branch, Salmiya; Ganesh Narayanan and Arjun Biju from Indian Learners’ Own Academy, Joel George Moozhil and Shervinchris Philip Jain from Carmel School; Fahaad Ahmed and Harish Babu Gulf Indian School; Ganesh Karthikeyan and Arun Annamalai from Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School, and Gopika Anil Kumar and Lidhia Theres Gigi from Indian Public School.
Joel George Moozhil, and Shervinchris Philip Jain from Carmel School brought laurels to their school when they emerged winners after eight closely contested rounds that lasted around 90 minutes. The most exciting and entertaining rounds for the audience were the audio-visual rounds that included gripping questions from popular Hollywood movies and recent events. The team of Fahaad Ahmed and Harish Babu from Gulf Indian School and Ayesha Zean and Rudra Patel of Indian Community School Sr Branch, Salmiya came runners up and 3rd place winners respectively. The trophy, medals and certificates were awarded by Vice-Presidents of IDF, Dr Diwakar Chaluviaha and Dr Madhu Gupta.