Texas Instruments’ Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz

KQA has partnered with the Texas Instruments Foundation since 2003  in conducting the Jack Kilby Science & Technology quiz for students of Std. VIII,IX and X. The fifth edition of the quiz will be held in Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi. Ochintya Sharma will ask the questions.

The dates:

Chennai: 26 October 2007

New Delhi:  first week of November (exact date will be announced shortly)

Bangalore: 11 November 2007

The Chennai and Delhi winners will battle it out with the Bangalore winners on 11 November 2007.

The other details will be put up here shortly

June 10, 2007 | Filed Under Inter School Quizzes, News | Leave a Comment 

Mahaquizzer 2007 – The All India Rankings

  1. Samanth Subramanian (Chennai) 71 (3*) wins Mahaquizzer 2007
  2. **Saranya Jayakumar (Chennai) 68 (10*)
  3. Swaminathan G (Chennai) 68 (6*)
  4. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata) 67 (4*)
  5. Anustup Datta (Bangalore) 67 (3 *)
  6. Shouvik Guha (Kolkata) 66 (6*)
  7. **Debashree Mitra (Bangalore) 65 (3*)
  8. Rajiv Rai (Mumbai) 64 (5*)
  9. Gopal Kidao (Chennai) 64 (4*)
  10. Vinoo Sanjay (Chennai) 61 (4 *)
  11. Archana Gupta (New Delhi) 60 (3*)
  12. Mukund S (Bangalore) 58 (3*)
  13. Vikram Joshi (Bangalore) 57 (3*)
  14. Anirudh Chari (Kolkata) 56 (3*)
  15. Kunal Savarkar (New Delhi) 54 (3*)
  16. S. Bhattacharya (New Delhi) 53 (4*)
  17. Arun Hiregange (Bangalore) 53 (3*)
  18. Gautam Ghosh (Kolkata) 52 (4*)
  19. Ravi Mundoli (Hyderabad) 52 (3*)
  20. Harikrishnan Menon (Thiruv’m) 52 (2 *)
  21. Krishnamurti G (Chennai) 51 (3*)
  22. Ramanand J (Pune) 50 (2*)
  23. Navin Jayakumar (Chennai) 49 (2*)
  24. **Binu Thomas (Thiruv’m) 48 (4*)
  25. Jayakanthan R (Chennai) 48 (2*)
  26. Sreeram B 47 (Chennai) (4* incl. 1**)
  27. **Sandeep N (Pune) 47 (4*- all single-stars)
  28. Manu Sudhakar (Thiruv’m) 46 (8*)
  29. Siddhartha Shanker (Bangalore) 46 (3*)
  30. Jaidev Karunakaran (Bangalore) 46 (2*)
  31. Vinod (IREVNA-Chennai) 46 (1*)
  32. Cheriyan Alexander (Bangalore) 45 (5*)
  33. Vibhendu Tewari (Mumbai) 45 (3*)
  34. Sumanth Srivatsan (Mumbai) 45 (2* incl. 1**)
  35. Jay Srinivasan (Thiruv’m) 45 (2*)
  36. Rajeev Gowda (New Delhi) 45 (1*)
  37. Arvind Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 43 (2*)
  38. Srinivasan Rajagopal (Chennai) 43 (0*)
  39. Anand Sivashankar (Mumbai) 42 (3*)
  40. **Vaibhav Devanathan (Mumbai) 42 (2*)
  41. Sameer Bora (Hyderabad) 42 (1*)
  42. Balakrishnan S (Mumbai) 41 (3*)
  43. **Vasudha Reddy (New Delhi) 41 (2*)
  44. Priyambad Pattanayak (Hyderabad) 40 (0*)
  45. Ajith Prabhakar (Mumbai) 39 (4*)
  46. Anurakshat Gupta, Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore) & Meghashyam Shirodkar (Pune) 39 (1*)
  47. Not awarded-see above
  48. Not awarded-see above
  49. Brijesh Nair (New Delhi) & Harshavardhan Ketkar (Pune) 38 (2 * incl.1**)
  50. Not awarded-see above
  51. Kinshuk Biswas (Kolkata) 38 (1*)
  52. Amit Pandeya (Mumbai) 38 (0*)
  53. Rahul S.K (Bangalore) 37 (0*)
  54. Sreekanth G (Bhubaneshwar) 36 (2*)
  55. Praveen V.R (Bangalore) 36 (1**)
  56. Rajagopal P.S (Chennai) 36 (1*)
  57. Abhijit Banerjee (Kolkata) 35 (6*)
  58. Abhinav Dasgupta (Kolkata) 35 (4*)
  59. Arnab Bhattacharya 35 (3*)
  60. Kunal Malhotra ( New Delhi) 35 (2*)
  61. Anang Rawat ( New Delhi) 35 (1*)
  62. Dharmendra D (Bangalore) 35 (0*)
  63. **Vimala Jagannath (Kolkata) 34 (3*)
  64. **Anshuman Pal (Kolkata) 34 (2*, both double-stars)
  65. Hrishikesh Varma (Thiruv’m) & Siddharth Vij (Mumbai) ) 34 (2*)
  66. Not awarded-see above
  67. S.P. Rajen (Chennai) 34 (1**)
  68. Prashanth (Chennai) & Rashmi Vallabhajyosula (Bangalore) 34 (1*)
  69. Not awarded-see above
  70. Thomas Jacob (Bangalore) & Tathagatha Chatterjee (New Delhi) 34 (0*)
  71. Not awarded-see above
  72. Govind Grewal (Mumbai) 33 (3*)
  73. Satyaki Prasad 33 (2**)
  74. Gautam Das (Thiruv’m) 33 (2* incl.1**)
  75. Arun Raghavan (Bangalore) 32 (2* incl. 1**)
  76. Bhavya Khanna 32 (1**)
  77. Anil Kothuri (New Delhi), Sandeep Achar (Bangalore), Thrivikraman P.S (Chennai) & Arka Bannerjee 32 (1*)
  78. Not awarded-see above
  79. Not awarded-see above
  80. Not awarded-see above
  81. Vivek Krishnan (Chennai) 32 (0*)
  82. Ajay Jaisinghani (New Delhi) 31 (3*)
  83. Sandip Sen (Bangalore) 31 (1**)
  84. Ameya Sawant (Mumbai) & Anil Kumar (Chennai) 31 (1*)
  85. Not awarded-see above
  86. Ramkey (Chennai) & Ashwin Koneti (Bangalore) 31 (0*)
  87. Sriharsha Bhat, Sumeer Kumar (Bangalore) & Ashwin Sudhir 30 (2*)
  88. Not awarded —see above
  89. Not awarded —see above
  90. Arpit Gupta, Ishaan Chugh (New Delhi) & Raghavendra H (Bangalore) 30 (2**)
  91. Not awarded —see above
  92. Not awarded —see above
  93. Bhargava, Chandu Lenin (Hyderabad), Sarin, Anil Raghavan (Thiruv’m), Amit Varma (Mumbai) & Sankaran C. (Bangalore) 30 (1*)
  94. Not awarded —see above
  95. Not awarded —see above
  96. Not awarded —see above
  97. Not awarded —see above
  98. Not awarded —see above
  99. Balaji, Srini Majji (Hyderabad) & Rohan Khanna (New Delhi) 30 (0 stars)

A (**) against the name indicates category winner in that cityThe highest score recorded by a lady entrant was 68 (Saranya Jayakumar—Chennai). Three out of the top 10 are women.

Anshuman Pal of Kolkata made 34 — the best performance so far by a school student. Sriharsha Bhat, a high-school entrant from Bangalore, made 30.

The best turn-outs, centrewise, were recorded in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar and Mumbai. 78 entrants took the quiz in Bangalore, while Bhubaneshwar and Mumbai recorded 58 and 57 participants respectively.

June 2, 2007 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment