On a bright summer morning three years ago, a handful of young folks met at the Barista opposite IIT Delhi. It was a motley crew of people, one from the ad world, a high school kid, an army doctor, a budding IT professional and a quizzer, fresh out of college. “We thought the capital ought to have a forum for quizzing at all levels. Most of this group don’t belong here, but have made Delhi their home. Seeing the vacuum in the quiz culture, we started Kutub Quizzers that very day. The spelling went around a bit, as do they all in the day of the SMS,” laughs Kunal Malhotra, 25, one of the founder members of the Club.

Since then, the quizzing scene in Delhi has undergone a radical change.

Prior to the Kutub Quizzers, a quiz aficionado would have to hop around the college circuit to participate in a brain-teasing quiz. In a bid to make a difference and provide alternatives to information-hungry minds, some quiz lovers have started communities on social networking sites such as Orkut. “I am an avid quizzer and an Orkut community is something that brings all of us together. We post quiz alerts and brain teasers on the community so that quizzers in the city can keep track of what is happening,” says Maurya Mondal, 22, a content executive with a news channel. Mondol’s community is listed on Orkut as Delhi Quiz Update. You can also log on to www.kutubquizzers.com. The site contains an exciting mix of questions and puzzles, information on the latest quizzes and also informal meetings for quiz enthusiasts to participate in.