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The Taking Of Tata Crucible.

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     April 10, 2016.       Vivanta by Taj - President, Mumbai.      For once, this blog post will be more of a video and less of a narration. If this quiz was indeed my last quiz representing a bona fide institution (in the interest of full disclosure, the ICSI and Red Scarab Consultants routes will continue to be exploited to their limits), well quite frankly, it couldn't have ended in a better way.      It isn't often that you win a quiz with 53 points, with the runner - up having only 20. While the final round was a true - blue scorcher, the qualifying round or Wild Card was more of a thriller that would have made Sir Alfred Hitchcock proud. Our team sneaked in on the last question and then secured a place in the Mumbai finals with a follow through.      As far as the cliffhanger of the Wild Card round was concerned, it did put my mind at ease, as far as a couple of matters were concerned. I always wondered if my keen interest in ancient Egypt and the aviat