The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) won the Bhubaneswar qualifying round of the Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017 held here on Sunday.
Team of three Alankar Devta, Sharzab Al-Haque and Abhik Biswas answered the brain-teasers posed by Quizmaster Seema Chari and won the Bhubaneswar finals in which 130 teams participated.
Embassy of Sweden Counsellor and Head of Economic Josa Karre handed out the prizes at the Inter-Collegiate quiz competition which saw avid quizzers from across reputed colleges and technical institutes of the city and from nearby areas.
Winners of the Bhubaneswar round will represent the city at the national finals which is scheduled to be held on October 11 in New Delhi.
Apart from Bhubaneswar, the quiz would also be held in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Kolkata, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.
The winners of the quiz will get an all expenses paid trip to Sweden, where they will visit headquarters of the partnering companies, Swedish universities and the Nobel Museum.
The partnering companies for Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week 2017 are Atlas Copco, IKEA, Oriflame, SAAB, Sandvik, Scania,Tetra Pak, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group.