Royal College Colombo and Dharmaraja College Kandy shared the top honours in the schools category at the TMC- ICTA Wisdom 2011 Quiz competition held at the Galle Face Hotel - Saturday before last - 24th September - - beating 9 other school teams.
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| CMI SL President Keethi Jayaweera presenting the book vouchers to St Lawrence captain |
At the end of the five rounds of Questions based on five subjects - Current Affairs, Sports, General Knowledge, Space & Astronomy & Arts/Literature and Entertainment - each round consisting of 10 questions, both teams from Kandy and Colombo had scored the same number of points. Having gone through two tie-breaker rounds, to resolve this tie the organisers had to declare them joint winners in the schools category, in terms of the rules of the competition as they scored equal points even on the two tie breaker rounds. Incidentally Dharmaraja won the schools category in last year's TMC quiz , having taken part in the event for the first time while Royal who were the overall winners in the inaugural TMC quiz, won the schools award in 2008 and 2009.
The team from Dharmaraja College Kandy was led by Akila Abesinghe and comprised of Kasun Bandara Ekanayake, Charudaththa Ekanayake, Lahiru Madushanka Ranaweera and Chamath Jayakody. They were accompanied by their Master in Charge Mr Kasun Somaratne
Royal College who fielded two teams at the Quiz as they had most often done in this competition, had Vajira Lasantha as their captain and Thilina Galapatty, Sachith Wijeyratne, Archanath Dickwella and D T S Kasun making up the rest of the winning team.
Overall winners of the Quiz was the team led by Vindana Ariyawansa who were awarded the WISDOM-ICTA Challenge Trophy and Rs 75,000/- in cash plus certificates. Organised by The Management Club (TMC) for the sixth year in succession, it was a tough battle with 43 teams competing for honours this year - the highest number in the history of the competition. The event was supported by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka for the first time as the main sponsor with ACBT, ICBT Campus, Pan Audio, DSI, CMI Sri Lanka Branch & People's Bank , Sunday Times and Education Mirror coming in as supporting partners
'All Thurstanites' another team of individuals led by Srimal Ratnasinghe emerged as Runners up and were awarded a cash prize of Rs 40,000/= plus a trophy & certificates and in 3rd, 4th & 5th place were teams led by Poorna Molligoda, Moumika Jayasinghe & Dammika Atapattu respectively winning cash awards of 25,000/=, 20,000/= and 15,000/= with certificates.
Seylan Bank won the banking sector award whilst the Mercantile sector award was won by Amba Research who also fielded two teams this year. Others who competed in the banking category were Commercial Bank,HNB, Sampath Bank, NDB and People's Bank whilst Diaolog Axiata, Interblocks, DHL Global, Akbar Brothers, Aitken Spence Cargo were among the teams under the mercantile sector.
The competition was open to 04 sectors - Schools & Educational Institutions, Mercantile Sector, Banks & Financial Institutions & Teams of Individuals and it was encouraging to see new teams entering the competition this year. Among the first-timers in the Wisdom quiz were teams from St Lawrence & Lyceum in the schools category and Akbar Brothers, Tech One Global, Techno Medics & Sri Lankan Airlines in the mercantile category and also a team calling themselves Smart Minds in the Independent groups category.
A notable feature in the Quiz was that all contestants received a certificate of participation, while all schools teams were awarded book vouchers to the value of Rs 2500/= courtesy CMI Sri Lanka Branch.
Ranked as one of the best table quiz competitions now in Sri Lanka, the questions - compiled by founder member of TMC and Sri Lanka's representative of the International Quizzing Association UK, Ruwan Senanayake - were of a very high standard as usual and generated much enthusiasm in the audience and the participants alike with visuals and video clips also being a part of some questions in every round.
TMC is thankful to all those who supported this program, especially ICT Agency, the principal sponsors of the event, and has plans to continue with the WISDOM-ICTA Quiz every September in their endeavour in continuing with this knowledge development initiative.
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