Celebrating Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav with Smartacus 2022, the Hindustan Times National Interschool Quiz

Smartacus is a pan-India online quizzing event for Indian students of grades 5 to 12. Children studying in Indian schools overseas are also eligible to participate. Participation for Smartacus 2022 will be spread across four zones—North, South, East, and West, with representation from all Indian States and Union Territories. The quiz will test budding quizzers on topics including history, geography, sports, language and literature, science, arts and entertainment, culture and lifestyle and general knowledge.

Smartacus 2022 will be hosted by two of India’s celebrated quizmasters, Dr. Navin Jayakumar and Avinash Mudaliar. Dr. Jayakumar, an Ophthalmologist by profession and a Quizmaster by passion, is the founding member of The Quiz Foundation of India and is also the quizmaster for well-known national-level quizzes, such as the Landmark Quiz, the Murugappa Madras Quotient School Quiz and the Rotary Galaxy Science and Technology Quiz to name a few. He also hosted the world’s largest online school quiz, ClassAct 2022, The Hindustan Times Republic Day Quiz. Mr. Mudaliar was the quizmaster for the Power of Ideas Print Quiz, Airtel Quiz-o-Mania, Airtel’s techQ, and the NTPC Electron Quiz to name a few. He has also hosted quizzes for major corporates and prestigious institutions and co-hosted the world’s largest online school quiz, ClassAct 2022, The Hindustan Times Republic Day Quiz.

This national-level interschool quiz will be conducted over five rounds—Selection, Prelims, Semi-finals, Finals and the Quizzer of the Year. HT School will reward winners at each stage of the quiz.

The Selection round will be individual, wherein students of grades 5 to 12 will compete asynchronously on the Quizizz Platform. It will comprise 60 questions, including multiple-choice and type-in formats.

After the Selection round, 16 top-performing schools from each zone will be invited to participate in the Preliminary round based on the scores of their individual participants. The invited schools will create a team of 5 to compete in the Preliminary round, which will follow a knockout format.

Out of the 64 schools battling it out in the Preliminary round, four (one from each zone) will make it to the Semi-finals. The Finale will see the top two schools vying for the champion’s trophy and exciting prizes. The Finale will be followed by the Quizzer of the Year contest in which 20 students from the 4 Semi-finalist teams will compete for the most coveted award for quizzers. The Quizzer of the Year contest will take place asynchronously on the Quizizz Platform.

Smartacus 2022 is slated to be the biggest quiz of the year, as HT School celebrates 75 years of Indian independence in all grandeur.

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