St. Paul’s High School turns the tables on inaugural winners Army Public School, Bolarum, in the second quiz of the circuit conceived by SVES Chairman Sri K. V. Vishnu Raju
Hyderabad, November 7, 2026: What do food and current affairs have in common? Quite a lot, as young contestants discovered at VISTA Quiz – Current Affairs, organised by Sri Vishnu Educational Society (SVES) at BVRIT HYDERABAD College of Engineering for Women, Bachupally, on Saturday.
The quiz brought together 138 students representing 69 teams from 23 schools across Hyderabad, with participants drawn from Classes VIII–X.
Among the highlights was an innovative “Food for Thought” round, in which contestants literally ate their clues before attempting to answer the questions. The round added an element of surprise and experiential learning to a competition that otherwise tested students’ knowledge of contemporary events, general awareness and their ability to connect facts and ideas.
The competition featured a written preliminary round, two semifinals and a final.
St. Paul’s High School, represented by Laksh Chavan and Md. Armaan Ullah Siddique, emerged victorious, securing the first prize of ₹20,000. Army Public School, Bolarum, finished second, receiving ₹15,000, while Little Flower School, Uppal, won the third prize of ₹10,000.
For St. Paul’s, it was a remarkable comeback. Having narrowly made it through the semifinal, the team staged another recovery in the final to edge past Army Public School.
The result was also a reversal of fortunes from the inaugural VISTA Quiz earlier this year, when Army Public School had won a closely contested final, relegating St. Paul’s to the runner-up position. This time, St. Paul’s turned the tables on their rivals.
The VISTA Quiz Circuit is the brainchild of Sri K. V. Vishnu Raju, Chairman of Sri Vishnu Educational Society, whose personal passion for quizzing and belief in education beyond textbooks have been central to the initiative.
“With tools like ChatGPT and Claude, students today can access information more easily than ever before. But what matters more is their ability to connect the dots — to draw upon the knowledge they have, recognise connections and reason their way to an answer. That is precisely what we want VISTA Quiz to encourage,” said Sri Vishnu Raju.
Conceived as a continuing series of interschool competitions rather than a one-off event, the circuit seeks to encourage curiosity, independent thinking and awareness of the world among schoolchildren. The Current Affairs quiz was the second competition in the circuit, following its inaugural event in Hyderabad earlier this year.
The quiz was conducted by Nyayapati Gautam, Director – Quizzing, VISTA Quiz, whose high-energy, interactive style kept the proceedings lively and engaging. Going beyond the conventional question-and-answer format, he encouraged contestants to think aloud, make connections and approach questions from different perspectives, combining intellectual challenge with the excitement of live competition.
With its tagline “Where Curiosity Competes,” VISTA Quiz reflects SVES’s commitment to creating opportunities for young people to experience the excitement of learning, discovery and intellectual competition.
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