Quiz master Barry O’Brien conducts Mega Open Quiz at Tezpur University

Tezpur: Leading quizmaster of the country, Barry O’Brien on Sunday conducted a ‘Mega Open Quiz’ at Tezpur University ’s KBR auditorium. A total number of 76 teams from various parts of the State and the country participated in the quiz. The quiz was held as part of a festival ‘ProGyan-the Mindfest’ which was organized as part of Tezpur University’s silver jubilee celebration.

A series of debate/oratory workshops and quiz competitions were organized from November 14-November 18. ProGyan-the Mindfest was sponsored by Oil India Limited and Samir Das, Chief General Manager, Pipelines Service OIL and Tridip Duwarah, Chief Manager, PR and Coordination, OIL were present in the event. The finale was played among six teams selected from the preliminary round. The top six played very sportingly and the best team was Ashish Singh and Amlan Sarkar from Ramjas College, Delhi. Dipankar Kaushik and Dilip Kumar Sharma, senior journalists of Assamese print media were the runners-up team. The second runners-up team was that of Ayushman Devraj and Snehasish Parashar from Tezpur University.

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