India's Vikram Joshi has won the World Quizzing Championships. Vikram scored 176 points out of a possible 210 including a full house in the History category. USA's Steve Perry took the second spot with a score of 174 and in third place was World Quizzing Champion, England's Kevin Ashman with 170.
In the top 100, there are five other Indians. They are Rahul Kottalgi (rank 38, score 129), Shouvik Guha (rank 57, 123), Arul Mani (rank 59, score 123) and S Bhattacharrya (rank 81, score 119).
Vikram has been quizzing since he was at school 30-odd years ago. He took part in one of the early Bournvita Quiz Championships when it was still hosted by Ameen Sayani on the radio. During his engineering college days in Mumbai, he quizzed in the Bombay college quizzing circles.
He then moved to the USA to join the University of Virginia and then stayed on to work as an engineer in Boston.
His interest in quizzing was revived when he moved back to Mumbai and discovered the Bombay Quiz Club and their weekly quizzing sessions and a great group of people to bounce questions off, to host quizzes for and to partner with. Since then, he has been Landmark National Quiz champion (along with his teammates), won Mahaquizzer of India one year and won Mindsweep internationally. He also hosts several quizzes as part of the Mumbai Quiz Festival every year.
At the WQC, he started slowly with a rank in the mid 100's, but moved up to number 9 last year and number 1 this year.
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