Honorable Sir/ Madam,

 

Rotary Club of Bangalore, in association with Rotary Club of Madras, Rotary Club of Mangalore and Rotary Club of

Cochin warmly invites your institution to participate in the 62^nd Annual Edition of The Ramnarayan Chellaram Inter-Institution Quiz Competition – ROTOQUIZ 21- which is the “THE LONGEST RUNNING LIVE QUIZ IN THE WORLD”.

 

This edition which would be held as an online event with the Preliminary and Semifinal Rounds  on 26^th  September 2021 and Final Round on  27^th September  2021, is expected to see  participation of around 400 TEAMS from across Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu.

 

Up to Four teams of two participants from each college who are currently enrolled and studying in classes 11 or 12 Pre-University Schools/ Colleges, Undergraduates, Graduates and post graduates can participate.

 

We would be honoured to have up to  four teams from  your Institution participate in ROTOQUIZ 21 adding to its glory and  benefitting the bright youth of your institution  with this priceless exposure.

 

 Rotary Club of Bangalore and ROTOQUIZ:

The Eighty-Seven year old Rotary Club of Bangalore is one among the large Rotary Clubs in the world.

It would be  difficult to capture the innumerable service projects that RCB’s hallowed membership has implemented over decades. Crores of Rupees are channeled every year to provide respite and succor to the lowest sections of the society. RCB under its aegis- runs a school for the under privileged, co manages  A Home For The Destitute, runs one of the largest Blood Banks of the country in addition to the myriad of other service activities it undertakes individually and jointly with the District, National and International Rotary Community.

Every Rotarian, who is an accomplished and successful individual himself,   snatches out time from his schedule because of his passion to serve the society- to bring cheer and joy to the underprivileged and to soak and bask in the good feeling of being useful to fellow humans.

 

While implementing all these projects  together, the members develop a beautiful bond of friendship and camaraderie which becomes  their mainstay.

 

One day, sixty two years ago some RCB friends came together and decided to hold a Quiz Competition for college-going youngsters with an aim to develop in them an interest for current affairs and enable them to connect more confidently with the world around them. They imagined the youth- transformed into  well-informed global individuals, leading the society with open mindedness emanating from a clear comprehension of diverse social behaviors.

Youth, who are aligned to contemporary developments in every field would be able to engage themselves in meaningful endeavors as they would be able to vividly envisage the future without ending  up reinventing the wheel, or get caught in limiting beliefs and ideas, they thought.

 

This was the year 1959 - much before the era of the now famous Quiz Masters like Siddhartha Basu or Derek O Brien.  Deeply inspired by this vision of an “Empowered Youth” a famous RCB member of those times Late Shri. Ramnarayan Chellaram offered to sponsor this event, and, now, this Ramnarayan Chellaram Quiz – ROTOQUIZ which is still patronized by the Chellaram family has  gone on- to BECOME “THE LONGEST RUNNING LIVE QUIZ IN THE WORLD”.

 

Rotoquiz in Chennai and Mangalore

In the last 5 years, the Rotary Club of Mangalore (Sister Club of RCB), joined the  Rotoquiz Caravan and  by their magical efforts, last year’s Rotoquiz   saw  the display of brilliance from  55 teams from Mangalore alone  in the Preliminary Round making it a celebration of  information and illumination.

ROTOQUIZ, last  year,  also saw the debut of the very famous Rotary Club of Madras ( Mother Club of RCB itself) adding the mighty Chennai into this Competition Ring. In the first year itself the dynamic and seasoned  Club led the participation with 95 teams participating from Tamil Nadu Alone.

In this year’s edition Rotoquiz has been able to capture the imagination of Kerala as well, with the 84 year old Rotary Club of Cochin joining hands to take Rotoquiz to newer heights,  bolstering the  excitement and expanding the Rotoquiz Footprint.   

 

The Quiz Master:

 

Rtn. Shailesh Shah, the Quiz Master of Rotoquiz 2021  has worked in every habited continent of the world with  top level Business Teams after his reading of  Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research (Applied Mathematics) and Business/Economics from  the Universities of Bangalore, Syracuse, Drexel and Pennsylvania respectively. Having a  stellar record in the corporate world, he has also been part of panels which have given strategic inputs to the World Economic Forum, Singapore Economic Development board and Nasscom in Europe.

 

RCB is proud to have such a distinguished Quizmaster as its esteemed Members because of whom an event of such scale gets organized with highest levels of finesse without any commercial interests facilitating participants and audiences to take back loads of intellectually exciting memories laced with wisdom, wit, and humor.

 

How to participate:

Please visit www.rotoquiz.blogspot.com to get the rules and the details of ROTOQUIZ 21-22. This page contains the Registration  Link which will lead to the Registration Form.  To be sure, Registration is free. Four Teams of  Two Members  can participate from each Institution.

Quiz Format:

Triggered by the pandemic, Rotoquiz donned an online Avatar last year with an Online multiple choice preliminary round and a Live Zoom Final Round. The format is embellished this year with an additional online multiple choice semi-final round which will see the emergence of top Teams from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala who will then lock horns in a live online Final Round on Zoom. The zoom Final will be beamed across Facebook and Youtube to reach a vast viewership.

 

Thank you for your continued support to the longest-running annual General Knowledge Quiz in the world.  We are attempting to get Guiness Book and India’s Limca Book to recognize this great intellectual asset of the Rotary World which now spans all the Southern States of India led by the most prominent Rotary Clubs.

 

All finalists will get prizes (Rupees): Winner 50,000 | 1^st Runner up 25,000 | 2^nd Runner up 15,000 |

3^rd Runner up 10,000 | 4^th Runner up 5,000 | Fifth Runner up 2,500.

 

The Top Performers from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Mangalore would be given special Prizes by the Rotary Clubs of Madras, Cochin and Mangalore respectively.

 

Eagerly looking forward for the four teams from your esteemed institution to be part and add to the glory of ROTOQUIZ which comes loaded with ROTARY’s dash of keeping  SERVICE ABOVE SELF.

Please visit www.rotoquiz.blogspot.com for further details.

 

Thanking You,

Yours Truly,

Rotoquiz Team 

Rotary Clubs of   Bangalore, Madras, Mangalore and Cochin.