After Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Delhi and Bangalore, its time for quiz lovers in Mumbai to hit the buzzer as Cerebration - The Business Line corporate quiz enters its final leg in the city on January 26 concluding five nail-biting regional rounds held across the country.

The online quiz has been taken by more than 145 teams and the top 87 teams have been short-listed to participate in the Mumbai regional finals. This would be followed by the Republic Day themed National Finals to be held soon after.

The quiz so far has garnered an enthusiastic response from over 800 teams participating across the corporate world, B schools and engineering colleges with each team comprising two members.

The Chennai quizzing duo of Sreekanth G and Jayakanthan R of TCS, the Coimbatore regional winners of Krishna Kant Prasad and Royce Thomas of TCS, the Hyderabad regional winners of J.Rahul and A.G.K. Murthy of Vizag Steel, the quiz wizards from Genpact Rohan Khanna and Anupam Jain from Delhi and the Bangalore Oracle team of Mitesh Agarwal and Yagnyeshwaran Hariharan would await their challengers from Mumbai to join them for the National Finals.

Some of the teams that have qualified for the Cerebration Business Line corporate quiz from Mumbai are Mahindra and Mahindra, Capgemini, Larsen & Tubro, Axis Bank, Vodafone, NSE, Symbiosis, SAIL, IIT Bombay, Yes Bank, IIM Indore, NMIMS, Cognizant, Standard Charted, Draft FCB Ulka, TCS, IOCL among others.

The title sponsor for the event is Corporation Bank and associate sponsors are NCDEX and SAIL. The gift sponsors are Raymond Weil, App Tabs and Lawrence & Mayo. Well-known quiz master Giri 'Pickbrains' Balasubramaniam of Greycaps would anchor and conduct the quiz show.

But those who didn’t manage to make it to the team needn’t lose heart as apart from the qualified teams, individuals interested in the high-decibel quiz are also welcome to attend the regional finals as audience and be part of the audience quiz. Exciting prizes await the lucky winners!

>Manisha.jha@thehindu.co.in

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