How to
get started with Business Quizzing?
If you want to get started with Business
Quizzing because you want to win Tata Crucible – don’t.
If you want to get started with Business
Quizzing because it will be a good point on your resume – don’t.
If you want to get started with Business Quizzing because it seems like a cool thing to
be involved with – DON’T.
To be honest, it isn’t cool. It is a little nerdy.
I am not saying it is a bad thing – all I am saying is don’t have unrealistic
expectations. Yes, if you persist with it – you will win a few quizzes, you
will get more than a few bullet points on the resume, and a very specific niche
of people will consider you cool. But it is not going to happen if you start
with those things in mind. For any of these to materialize, you need to go to
the basics. You need to really enjoy a piece of
information and trivia however useless it might be.
It should give you a certain amount of kick (Salmanwala….)
knowing that the founder of Victoria Secret committed suicide by jumping off
the Golden Gate bridge. You should find
this interesting even if you are not Mark Zuckerberg and even if it is not Sean
Parker giving you this information. This hunger for knowledge and this passion
for trivia is something which will make you a good quizzer.
Having said that, here are a few realistic pointers to get
you started:
1 – Start
reading. Read
as much as you can. Read books, magazine, novels, websites – read anything that
you can lay your hands on.
2 – Devour
lists. Go
through all the business related lists that you can lay your hands on. Be it
the Fortune 500 or the Forbes Billionaire lists or most respect brands in
India. The point is that these lists are not the end goals, but starting
points. Pick names from the list and read about them. If they are important
enough to be featured in one of these lists, you should know about them.
3 – Attend
quizzes. It doesn’t matter if the quiz has any prize money or not.
It doesn’t matter if you have ever heard of the quizmaster or not. It doesn’t
matter if it is two random students who have made the quiz. It doesn’t matter
even if the quiz is boring and shitty. The amount of learning that you will
have from a quiz cannot be replicated elsewhere. There cannot be a better use of
your time to improve your quizzing skills than to attend an actual quiz. If you
live in a place which has a quiz club, join it. If you live in a place that
doesn’t have one, get couple more like minded people together and start one.
Do note that these are all starting points.
This is a marathon that you are getting into and not a sprint. Hope I will meet
you somewhere along the way.
Best of luck!
Author’s Bio: Ravi Handa
is the founder of www.handakafunda.com and runs an online CAT coaching course for CAT preparation. He is the author of the national
bestseller Biz World and the winner of the inaugural edition of NDTV Croma Tech
Grandmaster.
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