And the winner is...

Rakesh Kumar admits that wicked thoughts crossed his mind when he handed out tickets to the lucky contestant who won 2 free tickets to Switzrerland on the Bengalooru Fatafat show

Consider this. 40 seconds + 6 questions + presence of mind = A free holiday for 2 to Switzerland! It happens only on 94.3 RadioOne. On Monday, the bugles, the trumpets and the drum-rolls went into overdrive to announce the winner of the contest. Fouru00a0u00a0 contestants, picked from thousands of entries, have been battling for the big prize, over the past 6 days. They braved a 40-second rapid fire quiz of 6 questions on Switzerland on Bengalooru Fatafat every morning between 7 and 11 on 94.3 RadioOne.

Fight to the finish: Nithya and Sumit Vats battle it out in the finals of the quiz on Bollywood's favourite foreign destination while Rakesh and Prithvi cheer them on

We even had a celebrity wife, Arpitha Lankesh, competing fiercely to win a holiday for herself and her husband, Indrajeet Lankesh.

Our 2 finalists were Nithya, a business development manager with IBM, and Sumit Vats, an asset analyst with an investment firm.u00a0

Despite their serious job profiles, they turned out to be fun people of the fatafat generation. Nithya was so fatafat that she didn't even wait to hear the question before blurting out her reply. We asked, what is the national symbol of Switzerland? a) The red cross b) The Swiss cross or c) The holy cross. She stunned Prithvi and me by saying, 'Red Cross'!

Sumit Vats came, saw and conquered. He attempted 5 questions, got them right within 40 seconds and walked off with tickets to Switzerland. There was only one thought on my mind when I gave him those precious tickets. Why couldn't it be me at the receiving end? What's he got that I ain't? Hello... please, I am not talking about VIP Frenchie!

The writer is RJ and producer with 94.3 RadioOne

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