ST. ANTHONY'S HIGH SCHOOL WINS THE INTER-DIOCESAN SCHOOL ONE-ACT PLAY CONTEST

Seven schools participated in the first ever Inter-Diocesan School One-Act Play Contest held at St. Mary’s School, Ripon Street on 27th September, 2013. St. Anthony’s High School was declared the winners of the competition for staging the original play “Life is Beautiful”. The play was written and directed by Mr. Steve Menezes. Mr. Binod Prabhakar was the co-director. The judges of the contest were Mr. Sunil Lucas, Mrs. Mavis Partridge and Mr. S. Roy.

The Actors of "Life is Beautiful"

Nathan Astle Spirito

Md. Arif

Md. Asif

Souchitro Mondol

Sarbartha Chakraborty

Md. Javed Akhtar

Vipul Chowdhury

Argha Biswas

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ST. ANTHONY'S HIGH SCHOOL HOSTS LET'S GET QUIZZICAL

St. Anthony’s High School, in association with The Telegraph, organized Let’s Get Quizzical 2013: the Inter-School Quiz Competition on 27^th September. The quiz was a part of the series of inter-school events being organized to celebrate the Sesquicentennial Year of Foundation of the school. This was the second edition of Let’s Get Quizzical, the first edition being held in 2011. The event was an eagerly anticipated one for the budding quizzers of the many schools as they had seen the hoardings around the city advertising the event. The quiz was held in Fr. Camille Limbourg Auditorium and saw enthusiastic participation from fourteen top schools of the city. The event was sponsored by Oxford University Press and powered by TTIS. The Area Sales Manager of Oxford University Press, Mr. Pratik Ghosh Dastidar, was present on the occasion. The quiz was conducted by the renowned Delhi-based quiz master Mr. Adittya Nath Mubayi of QuizCraft, the firm known for conducting knowledge-based events. Mr. Adittya has worked as Research Coordinator with Synergy Communications and assisted Mr. Siddhartha Basu. He has also been the Content Editor for popular television shows like Kaun Banega Crorepati, Kamzor Kadi Kaun and Mastermind India.

Felicitating Mr. Pratik Ghosh Dastidar

Mr. Adittya conducting the Quiz

The quizzing began with the preliminary round from where six top teams – Calcutta Boys School, St. James’ School, Don Bosco (Park Circus), St. Thomas Boys School (Khidderpore), St. Aloysius School (Howrah) and the host St. Anthony’s High School – qualified for the final. Mr. Adittya conducted a challenging quiz consisting of rounds based on Anagrams, Visuals, Audio as well as direct questions. The quiz was stimulating as well as fun with a good number of questions for the audience too. The final round saw the buzzers going on rapidly as the teams tried to grab as many points as they could even though the round had negative points for wrong answers. There was a tie between Don Bosco, Park Circus, and St. Thomas Boys School, Khidderpore, for the third place and a tie-breaker question decided the final standings. Calcutta Boys' School, comprising of Deb Shankar Ghosh, Sayan Bhattacharya, Saikat Kar and Rajarshi Mukherjee emerged the deserving champions. The first runners-up trophy went to St. James’ School comprising of Adwait Mitra, Ayush Banerjee, Siddhartha Chatterjee and Tamoghna Chowdhury. The second runners-up trophy was won by Don Bosco, Park Circus, comprising of Ananda Sankar Dasgupta, Kundan Dasgupta, Niladri Shekhar Dutt and Nikhil Nair. The Headmaster of St. Anthony’s High School, Fr. Devraj Fernandes, gave away the prizes to the winners and thanked the participants. He also welcomed them to participate in the upcoming inter-school events of St. Anthony’s High School leading to the closing ceremony to mark the 150^th Anniversary of the school’s foundation.

Champions - Calcutta Boys' School

1st Runners-up - St. James' School

2nd Runners-up - Don Bosco, Park Circus