International Quiz Association (IQA), the world’s premiere Quiz organization, will be conducting its annual World Quizzing Championships on Saturday 04 June 2016.
IQA Sri Lanka chapter is conducting this Quiz in Colombo for the 11th year running, once again giving the Sri Lankan quiz enthusiasts the opportunity to compete in this prestigious world event.
World Quizzing Championships (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 8 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 118 venues across 38 countries took part in the World Quizzing Championships last year. Olav Bjortomt of England, with an astonishing score of 161 was adjudged World Quiz Champion in 2015, beating former world Champions Kevin Ashman and Pat Gibson.
Freelance journalist and school teacher Lathike Niriella emerged as the top Sri Lankan Quiz player in last year's World Quizzing Championships where most of the top Quiz players of Sri Lankan battled hard for improved rankings both locally and globally.
Haren Fernando, was placed 2nd best in Sri Lanka while Pulasthi Rupasinghe was the third placed whilst 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 40 countries are expected to compete at the WQC this year.
The Quiz will be organized by the IQA Sri Lanka branch and will be open to all Sri Lankan nationals over 16 years of age, and will be conducted in English.
The venue for the World Quizzing Championships 2016 in Sri Lanka will be the Distance Learning Centre , SLIDA building, 28/10 Malalasekera Mawatha , Colombo 07 and the quiz will be held from 3.00 p.m - 6.00 p.m. on Saturday 04th June 2016
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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 0777 418191 for any details.
Registrations will close on 31 May 2016.
