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COME February 22, Thomasian brains will be pitted against each other again in the ultimate intellectual battleground called Pautakan.

Already on its 26th year, Pautakan is considered the longest running inter-collegiate quiz contest in the country.

This year, 10 teams will try to take the Pautakan trophy away from last year’s champion, the Faculty of Arts and Letters.

COME February 21, 10 teams will try to stop the Faculty of Arts and Letters from achieving its hopes of a grand slam in the 27th annual Pautakan, the longest running intercollegiate quiz contest in the country.

IT ALL ended in an unexpected fashion.

The Faculty of Arts and Letters defeated the Faculty of Engineering in latter’s own game to end a 13-year drought in the “Pautakan 2002: The Silver Edition,” the UST annual intercollegiate quiz contest last Feb. 23 at Medicine Auditorium.

“It really paid off all the effort, all the sweat, ang dami naming pinagdaanan and we are so happy (we won),” said a jubilant Prof. Rhodora Lintag, one of coaches of the all-male AB squad, after the contest.

AFTER three decades, the revolving trophy is now in their backyard.

The College of Nursing survived a nerve-wracking clincher round against powerhouse Faculty of Engineering to grab its first-ever Pautakan team title in 31 years last March 3 at the Medicine Auditorium.

“It’s surreal,” said graduating team captain Gabriel Fernandez, whose seven-man squad bested Engineering with a narrow 140.004-140.003 victory following consecutive checks on History, UST History and General Information. “It’s unbelievable; we didn’t believe we would make it.”

Nursing copped the haymaker question in math to break away with a .001-point edge and bag the college’s first title in the country’s longest running inter-collegiate quiz contest.

INTELLECTUAL excellence is the immovable pillar of the University as epitomized by the annual intercollegiate quiz Pautakan, organized and founded by the Varsitarian.

Now on its 30th year, the activity provides a distinct venue where Thomasian brains from different colleges and faculties meet, in a stiff yet glorious academic competition, for the prized Pautakan trophy.