Jithin Jacob

Jithin Jacob was one of the premier college quizzers in the Kerala college circuit while representing College of Engineering, Trivandrum from 2005-2009. A popular quizzer, he makes it a point never to miss out on a quiz, and is appreciated for his sense of fairplay and competitive spirit.

His peers consider him among the best when it comes to working out answers from woe-begone clues, and is one of the lot who have the ability to come up with guesses that are right.

Jithin has been based in Bengaluru since mid-2010 and quizzes as part of the team CIDs From Kerala.

His areas of interest are Movies, History and the geography of the world.

Partners: Vishnu Vijay, Jose Thomas, Hrishi Varma, Abdul Raouf

Achievements:

Winner, Greycells Open History Quiz 2010 (P: Hrishi)

Winner, Open Quiz @Jyothi Engg. College (P: Arun AS)

Winner, Anoop Adithian Memorial Open 2009 (P: Viswas)

Winner, Babu Chazhikkadan Interuniversity Quiz (QM: Abraham Joseph) (Partner: Jose Thomas)
Winner, All Kerala SBT Intel Teens Quiz 2008 (Partner: Jose Thomas)
Runner-Up,General Open Quiz @ Echoes 2011, IIM Kozhikode (P: Hrishi, Arun, Viswas)
Runner-Up, General Open Quiz at SCT, Trivandrum 2010 (P: Hrishi) (QM: Arul Mani)
Runner-Up, General Open Quiz @Dhwani, CET 2010 (P: Hrishi) (QM: Arul Mani)
Third, Open Lone Wolf Quiz @Echoes 2011, IIM Kozhikode
Third, India Quiz at Under the Peepal Tree 2009, RVCE (Partners: Viswas Viswam, Hrishi Varma)
Third, Science Quiz at Under the Peepal Tree 2009, RVCE (Partners: Viswas Viswam, Hrishi Varma)
Finalist, General and Sports Quizzes at Under the Peepal Tree 2009, RVCE (Partners: Viswas Viswam, Hrishi Varma)
Runner Up, Biz-Tech Quiz at Incident 2009, NIT-K, Surathkal (Partner: Abdul Raouf, Ashwin G)
Runner Up, Backwaters 2009 at IIM-K (QM: Shamanth) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay, Naufel Samad)
Runner Up, General Open Quiz at Ragam 2008, NIT-C (QM: Arul Mani) (Partner: Jose Thomas)
Third, General Open Quiz at Ragam 2009, NIT-C (QM: Arul Mani) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)
Third, KQA Inspire Open Quiz at Cusat, October 2008 (QM: Arun Hiregange) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)
Winner, Surge Aleit 2008 at Jyothi Engineering College (QM: Vijaynath) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)
Third, the Fifth Greycells Open of July 2008 (QM: Manjith and Praveen VR) (Partner: Mithun Zachariah)
Third, General Open Quiz, Reverberates 2008 by Dreamz (QM: Capt. Chandrakant Nair) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)
Third, Ganglion 2009 Open Quiz (QM: Arun AS & Hrishi Varma) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)

Runner Up, Mindscape 2009, Kristu Jyothi College (QM: Arun AS) ["the anti catholic priest fight at changanassery". Had planned to partner Hrishi for the first time, but the organisers wouldn't allow cross college teams as well as lone wolves. had to put up a fight to be allowed to participate. finally Arun bhai intervened and we were allowed as lone wolves.]

Runner Up, Nirmaan 2008, GEC-Thrissur (QM: Arun AS) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)

Runner Up, Insignia 2008, GEC-Thrissur (QM: Hrishi Varma) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)
Winner, Momentum 2008 GEC-Thrissur (QM: Dr. Sarin P) (Partner: Viswas Viswam)
Runner Up, Nirvaan 2009, SCT, Thiruvananthapuram (QM: Dr. Sarin P) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)

Winner, 18th Abdul Wahab - Bijuraj Memorial Quiz 2009 at Bethany Students Centre, Nalanchira (QM: Ajay Joy) (Partner: Vishnu Vijay)

Winner, All Kerala Inter Collegiate Quiz 2009 at All Saints College, Thiruvananthapuram (QM: Vijayakumar Sir) (Partner: Jose Thomas)

Runner Up, Quiz at Musaliar College of Engg. & Tech. 2007 (QM: Promoth George) (Partner: Jose Thomas)