Coimbatore :

A quiz programme on the history, heritage and culture of Coimbatore-styled ‘Murugappa Kovai Quotient Quiz 2014’ will be held in the city on January 25.

Organised by the Murugappa Group of Chennai, the programme is open to students from Class V to XII. The programme would offer prizes totalling over Rs 1 lakh and trophies for the top 3 schools in the finals.

In a release, the organisers said that there would be a written preliminary round ahead of the finals that would be open to student teams of 3 each. There was no cap on the number of students the schools could field. There would be audience rounds too.

Registration for the quiz programme would close on January 22 and for details and registration, the interested students could log on to www.murugappa.com.

There will be pre-event contests on Facebook and Twitter with family holiday packages to be won and other prizes. (www.facebook.com/murugappagroup and www.twitter.com/murugappa_group).

This is the second year that the Murugappa group is conducting the quiz programme in Coimbatore.

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> News / by R. Yegya Narayanan / Coimbatore – January 10th, 2014