Izawa Takushi


Izawa Takushi is a Japanese quiz contest player, YouTuber, entrepreneur and television personality. He is the founder, as well as CEO and editor-in-chief of the YouTube and media group QuizKnock. He was nicknamed as "Quiz King of Tokyo University" or simply Quiz King.

Early life and education

Izawa was born on May 16, 1994 in Saitama Prefecture, Izawa later moved to Ibaraki Prefecture and was an only child in a dual-income household. His father is Takashi Izawa, a former office worker at Yomeishu Seizo Manufacturing Company. His father introduced him to reading.
He attended Gyosei Elementary School. He said during this time he was interested in football and wanted to be a professional football player but he said that he lacks the skills to do it. He researched various topics including World Cup participants. He said this was the first time he discovered the "fun in gathering knowledge". He attended the Kaisei Middle School after his friends said that they were taking the entrance exam for that middle school. This was where he first joined a quiz club, which had eight members. He graduated from Kaisei High School in Tokyo, at which he became the first person to win the solo division of the All Japan High School Quiz Championship two consecutive times, doing so in 2010 and 2011. He enrolled in the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics, where he became part of the university's Quiz Club. He tried to enroll for a Master's degree in economics but was rejected, and instead went to the Faculty of Agriculture. He was in a three-month relationship when he was 20.

QuizKnock

On October 2, 2016, after being persuaded by Fukura P, he founded the media and YouTube group QuizKnock with his fellow club members at the University of Tokyo, becoming its editor-in-chief. The group started by creating online quizzes. He said in an interview with The Japan News he founded the group because he "wanted to create a system that would encourage people to proactively seek out information." Izawa dropped out of university in March 2019; he then founded QuizKnock Co., Ltd. and graduated in the TBS show Toudai King.

Filmography

Television

Games