At the regional final for the East Zone of India Fact Quiz Championship 2020, Pradunma Chowdhury (22) from Agartala beat 3 other semi-finalists from West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand to qualify for the final leg of the national championship. The regional final was conducted virtually via Zoom and aired on Times NOW.
As India’s first ever digitally gamified quiz on data and facts on India, India fact Quiz was launched in February. The championship is created as a launchpad to identify the brightest and most factful young minds of India. It was launched with an online quiz content with over 450,000 quizzers participating across India. Four semi-finalists were shortlisted from the North, South, East and West zones each. Along with Pradunma from the East, the 3 other finalists who will compete with him in the upcoming national final are – Aditya Maurya (Delhi Technological University), Shriya Ejanthkar (PES University, Bengaluru) and Rajpriya Bharti (St. Aloysius College, Jabalpur). The upcoming national final of the India Fact Quiz 2020 Championship will be aired on Times NOW on 5 & 6 December.
