MegaWhats 2009- The National Open Quizzing Championships
MegaWhats is a quiz designed to answer the question ‘Which is India’s best open quizzing team?’.
The operative word here is ‘open’; anybody can form a team to participate, and any team can win. The syllabus, to preempt the obvious question, is surprise.
The quiz will be held across nine cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have tentative venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Kolkata. More information on venues soon.
The venue in Bangalore is The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
Date: Sunday, 13 December 2009
Info
- General quiz, open to all.
- Teams of FOUR members (or less).
- Prior registration is essential.
- To register, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2009 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
- Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school or open categories
- Email registrations will close on Sunday 6th December 2009. Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
- Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
- The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
- School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field a maximum of TWO teams (of four members each)
- Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. The quiz will start at 1500hrs (sharp) and end by 1730hrs.
- Contesting teams will answer a written quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
- Answers and scores will be announced on the same day–prizes will be given out for Best School Team and Best Open Team.
- The prizes are small–Rs. 250 x4 for the Open and School winners.
- We will also announce a national winner and rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
- The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-master will be final and binding on all participants.
Please note that we will close registrations in Bangalore once we reach 40 teams–the venue will not support a larger number.
Solus Rex Topics: Semifinals 3 & 4
Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains (real-life ones)
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4: War Crafts i.e. vehicles used in warfare
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 8th November 2009.
Science Quiz, Hubbub-a! and Persiflage – Results
Results of the three open quizzes held on Sunday, 20 September 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
KQA Open Science Quiz
QM: Rajagopal P.S.
1. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Arul, Kiran, Swami): 39.5
2. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Gautam Shenoy and team): 36
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu, Dibyendu): 33.5
4. Ad Hoc Quartet (Ravi Mundoli, Priyanka, Hussein, Nambirajan): 32.5
5. Pugwash Movement (G R Raamesh, Sarat Rao, Ashwin Kelkar, S Balakrishnan): 29
6. Rajat, Praveen, Ravi, Jayant: 23
7. Geek-a-boo: 22.5 and K.D.: 22.5
Hubbub-a! – The annual Bengaloor-bage Quiz
QM: Prof. Rajeev Gowda
1. Tarle Nann Makkalu (Wimpy, Udupa): 42.5
2. True Value for Mani (Appu, Arul): 39.5
3. Tande Thayi Aashirwada: 30.5
4. 1/2 a Cool Name: 28
5. Rajat & Jayant: 27
6. Cattle Class (Ramesh, Nidhi): 24.5
7. K.D.: 23.5
8. Kivi & Venky: 20.5
Persiflage – The annual Book Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. MetaQuizziks (Cherian, Swami, Mitesh, Kiran): 230
2. Lit Twits (Natasha, Ishier, Rajnish, Vivek): 157.5
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu, Dibyendu): 140
4. Holy Cows! (Vivek, Urmila, Satish, Nilam): 122.5
5. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Gautam Shenoy and team): 112.5
6. Aunt Margaret’s Lovers (Adi, Sneha, Nithin, Joshua): 100
7. Dr. Krishnan, Praveen, Ravi and KP: 72.5
8. IISc Lorises (Ulka, Siddhartha, Srinivas): 67.5
Quizzes on Sunday 11 October 2009
We will hold the following events starting at 10am on Sunday 11 October 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Solus Rex: Semifinals 1 & 2
Semi-final 1: Movies based on Comic books
Arul Mani
Ochintya Sharma
Subrat
Harry
Rajesh M.
Semi-final 2: Heavyweight Boxers
Thejaswi Udupa
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Sharath
Mitesh Agarwal
Rahul Girish Kumar
The Annual KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: KQA panel
Teams of three members — all women:)
No institutional/age restrictions
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
12 noon: Registrations
The event will conclude by 1330hrs
Prizes: Rs.3000/-, Rs. 2250 and Rs. 1500, plus coupons for the other finalists.
Ranking Intercollegiate Team and Solo events
Team event
Open to PUC/XI & XII, UG and PG teams
Teams of three members–no mixed teams
No more than two teams per college in the finals–any number can write the prelims
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes; Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/- and Rs. 1500/- plus coupons for other finalists.
QM: Arul Mani
Solo event
Open to PUC/XI & XII, UG and PG entrants
Unlimited entries –best 8 in the finals.
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per participant
The winner will be declared Collegiate Quizzing Champion for 2009.
Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 750 and Rs. 500/-, plus coupons for other finalists
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule
Team Prelims: 1400hrs
Team Finals: 1500hrs-1600hrs
Solo Prelims: 1630hrs
Solo Finals: 1730-1830hrs.