2017 World Quizzing Championships on June 3
The International Quiz Association (IQA), the world’s premiere Quiz organisation, will be conducting its annual World Quizzing Championships (WQC) on June 3 through local chapters.
Organisers said IQA Sri Lanka chapter is conducting this quiz in Colombo for the 12th year running, once again giving the Sri Lankan quiz enthusiasts the opportunity to compete in this prestigious world event.
The 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 eight categories of 30 questions each. The eight categories broadly cover areas of History, Media, World, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Culture, Sports, and Sciences.
Over 2,000 quiz players in 125 venues across 45 countries took part in last year’s championships. Here in Sri Lanka, freelance journalist and school teacher Lathike Niriella emerged as the top Sri Lankan Quiz player last year in the world tournament where most of the top quiz players of Sri Lanka battled hard for improved rankings both locally and globally.
Haren Fernando came second and Walter Hall, third while Hasini Minuwanpitiya emerged as the top female Quizzer in Sri Lanka.
According to Ruwan Senanayake, Sri Lanka representative of the IQA, enthusiastic 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 50 countries are expected to compete at the WQC this year.
The venue for the World Quizzing Championships 2017 in Sri Lanka will be the Royal College Union Skills Centre, Rajakeeya Mawatha Colombo 7, between 3 pm - 6 pm on June 3. 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 2017.