Times of Oman Inter School Quiz Contest set for Thursday finals

Muscat: Two sets of twelve teams, one from the junior and the other from the senior category, made it to the finals of the Times of Oman Inter School Quiz Contest (TOOISQC) and will battle it out at the City Amphitheatre on Thursday, April 21.
It was fantastic to see the students pit their wits against some of their brightest peers and outperform themselves in the Mega prelims at the Indian School Al Ghubra on Tuesday. It was a brilliance of sharp young minds in action. According to Joesph Vivek Basil and Naman Varma, finalist in the junior category from Indian School Salalah, they will work hard to win the trophy in the finals.
“We will try our best in the finals and we will prepare well for the finals,” Naman Varma said.
Speaking about their preparation Naman said, “we will focus on current affairs and topics like mythology, wild life, literature and we will give special focus on etymology.”
According to Joesph Vivek Basil the questions were bit tough and tricky. The junior team that qualified from the Modern International School says the questions were a bit tougher than the preliminary rounds. “Questions were tough but we were lucky enough to tackle most of them,” Vihaan Sahnkar and Sunny S. Sawant said. Speaking about their preparations for the final Sunny said, “we will try our best and prepare hard by covering the topics like history,
literature, science etc.
According to the team ‘Quiz Mates’, finalist in the senior category from Indian School Sohar, they are planning to take some online quiz prior to the finals.
“We are planning to take some online quiz and we are also trying to go through some books before the finals tomorrow,” Naukshatro Bose and Baibhab Mukherjee said.
“This will help us to boost our knowledge,” they added.
According to them the questions were bit tougher than the prelims.
Al Ghad Al Mushriq Private School, American British Academy, Bangladesh School Muscat, Bangladesh School Sohar, Indian School Darsait , Indian School Ghubrah, Indian School Ibra, Indian School Ibri, Indian School Maabela, Indian School Muladha, Indian School Muscat, Indian School Rustaq, Indian School Salalah, Indian School Seeb, Indian School Sohar, Indian School Sur, Indian School Wadi Kabir, Modern International School Oman, Pakistan School Muscat, Pakistan School Sohar, Sri Lankan School and Indian School Nizwa participated Mega Prelims.
The major sponsors are R & B, Muscat Pharmary, Pocari Sweat, Denim, Indomie, Al Mudhish and Suroor. The co-sponsors are Kwality Ice Creams and Chiko.
The official host is Radisson Blu Hotel, Sohar and official rent-a-car is Sixt rent-a-car while Travel City-Travel Point is the travel partner.
Venue sponsors are Relaxo, SchoolMate, Malabar Gold and Al Rawabi. Gift sponsor is Oman Phone. Other sponsors are Lakhoos Exchange, Al Nahda, Oasis, Sapil, Hoshan Pan Gulf, Parker Pens, and Nabil.

Winners | Seniors
School Participant 1 Participant 2
Indian School Sohar Naukshatro Bose Baibhab Mukherjee
Indian School Sohar Harikrishnan Lal Pillai Sneha Ann Reji
Indian School Al Ghubra Thejas Sasikumar Saurabh Pujari
Indian School Salalah Hridith Sudev Saurabh Singh
Indian School Sur Prasanth Thomas Shashank Dasari
Indian School Al Mabela Abin Joseph Haarish G Hari
Indian School Nizwa Ahmed Ahnaf Pranav Babu
Pakistan School Muscat Ahmad Aftab Hammad Mahmood
Indian School Al Seeb Nabeel Ahsan Giri Aravind
Indian School Al Wadi Al Kabir Rahul R Keerthan
Indian School Muscat Krithivaas Vijay Aliva Das
Bangladesh School Muscat Syed Mohammed Mazin Abbas Uddin

Winners | Juniors
Modern International School Vihaan Shankar Sunny S Sawant
Indian School Ghubrah Aditya Harish Shubham Bhan
Indian school Salalah Naman Verma Joseph Vivek Basil
Indian School Darsait Sinan Faizal Sidharth Narasimman
Indian School Sohar Swithin Gladson Rishabh Chopde
Indian School Al Maabela Pratyaksh Dhande Preetham Periyal
Indian School Ibra Nirmal Mathew Justin Augustine
Indian School Muladha Anamika Rajeev Shashank Shekhar
Indian School Al Wadi Al Kabir Chethan Sethu Adithya B Nair
Indian School Muscat Niranjan Raman Faris Abdul Nassar
American British Academy Nikhil Narayanan Afnan Azi Akbar
Al Ghad Al Mushriq School Mariam Hassan Urooj Fatima