The finalists of the first-ever quiz for Karnataka expatriates with event organisers from the Tulu Koota Qatar expatriate forum
The team of Arun Kumar and Deepak Shetty (Karnataka Sangha Quizzers) have won the first-ever quiz competition for the expatriates from Karnataka, organised recently by Tulu Koota Qatar.  Ravi Kumar and Aditya Karkera (Kaizen) took the second place.
In all, 15 teams participated in the preliminary round of the event held at the Indian Club.
Six teams qualified for the final round. Besides the first two teams, the other pairs who qualified for the finals were Anand Balu and Rajshekar Kalyansheeti (Quiz Warrior) Vinayak Kamath and Rachna Kamath (Double Devils) Naveneeth Shetty and Shrest Shetty (Coorg Champions) and Manoj and Abhilash (Citrex).
Kiran Anand, who anchored the show, earlier briefed the teams on the rules and regulations.
The final round of the quiz was conducted by ace toastmaster and former Tulu Koota Qatar general secretary Rajashekar. Harish Poojary was the MC and the event co-ordinator. Seetharam Shetty, Santhosh Kumar and Kiran Anand were the co-ordinators.
Chief guest and Karnataka Sangha Qatar president VS Mannagi, guest of honour and Gulf International Enterprises managing director Alfred Sequeira, Ravi Shetty, Ramachandra Shetty, Ashmath Ali, and Sandesh Anand gave away the prizes for the winners.
Tulu Koota Qatar president Ramachandra Shetty welcomed the gathering and treasurer Seetharam Shetty proposed the vote of thanks.
Ronald Fernandez, managing director of Shajahan Trading Company, sponsored the event.