Regulars

Quizmasters

At the RIMC Challenge Quiz held at RIMC, Dehradun, on May 4, the School was represented by Ashish Mitter, Chetan Agarwal and Chinmay Sharma. The school was placed 2nd amongst the fourteen participating schools.
The School was represented by Ashish Mitter, Chetan Agarwal and Yash Gandhi at the Rajeev Khanna Memorial Inter-School Quiz held at Scholar’s Home School on Saturday, May 6. The Doon School emerged runner-up in the competition. Thirteen schools took part in this quiz.
Congratulations!

Smashing Success

The School took part in the Wasu Memorial Table Tennis Tournament held at Riverdale High School from May 6-8. The junior team comprising Amit Gupta, Ashutosh Kejriwal and Sagar Agarwal was placed runner-up.
Well played!

Martial Artist

Anirudh Khanna has been appointed as the boy-in-charge of Tae Kwon Do for the year 2006.
Congratulations!

Poetic Voices

In the Vikram Seth English Poetry Recitation Contest, 2006, the following are the positions:

Well spoken!

Winning Writers

The results of the Shankar Dayal Sharma English Essay Competition for Juniors – 2006, are:
1st: K.P. Somaiah
2nd: Yashvardhan Jain
3rd: Manit Bhandari
Well written!

Talk Time

Pavan Vaish (ex-372 K, ’86) of IBM Daksh, spoke to the S formers in the AV Room on May 6 on how to start a business and see it grow.
Ajay Bahadur Singh held a talk on local history from ancient to modern times for the D, C and B formers on Saturday, May 6 in the MPH.
There was a talk for the S formers by Mohit Lalwani from the Adelphi University on May 5.
Sumit Dargan (SMD) gave a presentation on the IB for the A formers in the Kilachand Library on Saturday, May 6.

Film Fare

The documentary, New Boys, made by David MacDougall, was screened in the Library for the faculty on Monday, May 9. This was followed by a discussion. The following evening, the same film, made on the D formers of Foot House (batch of ‘98-‘99) was shown to the S formers. A lively discussion ensued.

Unquotable Quotes

They ditch a dig.
AKM gets the order wrong.
“We’re going to Ibiza” was sung by Welham Boys’.
Rudra Bajpai, the music-lover.
Aluminium is light-weight in colour.
MTS knows her chemistry.
Stop licking your fingers with your hands.
Nipun Mohan, anatomically challenged.
My ears are as sharp as a hawk’s.
KAR flaps his wings.
Pass the face ‘waash.’
Shaurya Kuthiala, wanting to be clean.
Too many broths spoil the cook.
Mansher Dhillon, demanding gourmet.
There will be a lot of dead corpses.
STB envisions World War III.

Career Call

The Careers’ Notice Board will float information on prospects in the Indian Navy this week. All would-be seamen should have a look.

Did You Know?

• Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

• Fires on land generally move faster uphill than downhill.

• The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long.

• As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.

• If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.

• All polar bears are left handed.

• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  
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