College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results

The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf

QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.

College Lone Wolf

1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5

PU Lone Wolf

1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8

EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz

QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani

1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9

EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz

Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third

November 30, 2011 | Filed Under Inter College Quizzes, Junior College Quizzes, Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011 – Venues

Mega-Whats 2011 will take place at the following venues across India at 3pm on the 11th of December 2011.

UPDATE: Please note a correction to the Hyderabad and Pune venues

BENGALURU
Institute of Agricultural Technologists,
Queens Road

CHENNAI
Department of Management Studies
Landmark : Next to Cafe Coffee Day near Gajendra Circle
Indian Institute of Technology -Chennai
Chennai – 600 036
Proctor: Kiran Vijayakumar

GOA
The International Centre Goa,
Dona Paula
Proctor: Siby Kuriakose

GUWAHATI
Assam State Zoo
Proctor: To be announced

HYDERABAD
Landmark Bookstore,
Road # 12, Banjara Hills
(Next to Ohri’s Restaurant)
Proctor: T Devarajan

KOLKATA
Usha Martin Academy,
PS Shrijan Tech Park,
5th Floor, DN52, Sector 5,
Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 91
Proctor: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee

KOVAI
PSG Institute of Management,
Avinashi Road
Proctor: Anuradha Yogesh

MUMBAI
Pinstorm, Ground Floor,
Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road),
North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W)
Proctor: V V Krishnan

MYSORE
SDM Institute of Management Development,
Chamundi Hill Road
Proctor: Varun Shenoy

NEW DELHI
2LT 1
IIT – Delhi
Proctor: Kaustuba Venugopal

PUNE
Room No. 13, Mechanical Engg. Department
College of Engineering Pune,
Shivajinagar,
Pune – 411007
Proctor: Vishwajeeth Narvekar

THRISSUR
Seminar Hall,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur
Proctor: Dr. Vijaynath V

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Seminar Hall
Mar Ivanios College
Proctor: Prof. Vijayakumar

November 29, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mind-Sweep 2012 – KQA’s International Solo Championship

UPDATE: To register for MindSweep, please use the form at: http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep

It is with pleasure that we announce the inaugural edition of KQA’s International Solo Quizzing Championship, titled MindSweep.

We have centres in the United Kingdom, the United States, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Norway, and Germany.  A full list of international venues will go up by the end of the week.

Mindsweep will be held in India/Asia on the morning of  Sunday 8 January 2012 . Please check with local coordinators about start-time for international venues–in Europe/North America , the event is scheduled for the evening of 7th January 2012.

Confirmed centres in India:

Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thrissur, Mumbai, Goa, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, and New Delhi, Coimbatore and Ahmedabad.

The quiz will require participants to answer 200 questions–in two sessions of 60 minutes each with a 30 minute break between sessions for corrections.

The quiz is split into 10 sections of 20 questions each and is set by Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.

  1. The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
  2. Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
  3. Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
  4. Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
  5. Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
  6. Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
  7. Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society. Film-writing
  8. Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
  9. Food & Drink: From all over the world.
  10. Connections

More details soon.

November 16, 2011 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011

UPDATE - View the full quiz 

The third edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship will be held on Sunday, 11 December 2011.

The quiz will be held across thirteen cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have confirmations from Chennai, Guwahati, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Mysore, New Delhi, Pune, Thrissur, and Thiruvananthapuram.

The Bangalore edition will be held at the First Floor Hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Since this hall is much smaller (accommodates 35 teams, and by accommodate we mean squeeze in), and since we had people squatting on the floor last year, please register in advance to ensure good seating.

An entry form is provided here–scroll to the end of the page: http://kqaquizzes.org/megawhats/

The details:

For more details, please call Arul Mani at 097312-14519

November 16, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011 – Registrations

The following is a list of participants registered for Mega-Whats 2011 updated as of 6 December 2011. For more information on the event please go to: http://kqaquizzes.org/megawhats

UPDATE: Online registrations are now closed. You can still register on-the-spot at the venue.

BENGALURU

  1. MWBAN01      RVCE (Vijay Ramesh, Trisha & team)
  2. MWBAN02      Metaquizziks
  3. MWBAN03      LSD
  4. MWBAN05      We Are Like This Wonly
  5. MWBAN06      Fat Boys and Little Men
  6. MWBAN07      Disqualified
  7. MWBAN08      Yeddy’s Buddies, The Reddys
  8. MWBAN09      Rossellini – Pasolini
  9. MWBAN10      KD
  10. MWBAN11      How Can She Slap
  11. MWBAN12      Holy Nexus
  12. MWBAN13      CIDs From Kerala
  13. MWBAN14      Moo Jig Maa
  14. MWBAN15      Charudut, Nithesh & Team
  15. MWBAN16      Questionable Characters
  16. MWBAN17      God Shave the Queen
  17. MWBAN18      The Unusual Suspects
  18. MWBAN19      Rest House Croissants
  19. MWBAN20      Rajat, Jayant & Team
  20. MWBAN21      Jairaj, Ashwin & Team
  21. MWBAN22      St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Vikram, Akshay & team)
  22. MWBAN23      Frank Anthony’s Public School (Jeydev & team)
  23. MWBAN24      Nandakumar D & Team
  24. MWBAN25      Page3Floor3
  25. MWBAN26      LTTE
  26. MWBAN27      4.5 Lorises
  27. MWBAN28      Got MiLF?
  28. MWBAN29      NALSAR University of Law
  29. MWBAN30      V.V.S.Sardar Patel High School
  30. MWBAN31      Blender’s Peda
  31. MWBAN32      Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  32. MWBAN33      Kevin, Pat, Ronny & Tore
  33. MWBAN34      Kristu Jayanti College
  34. MWBAN35      Tejeshwar & team

    35. WAIT LIST

  35. MWBAN36      EWIT(Mohammed F & team)
  36. MWBAN37      Sri Kumaran PU College (Pranav VC & team)
  37. MWBAN38      NITK (Pranav J & team)
  38. MWBAN39      Rajini – Might help me win this quiz
  39. MWBAN40      Omnipresent Obbattus
  40. MWBAN41      RVCE (Navneeth C V & Team)
  41. MWBAN42      Almost There
  42. MWBAN43      Srihari & team
  43. MWBAN44      Wimpy & team
  44. MWBAN45      MSRIT (Nakul Shetty & team)
  45. MWBAN46      Ramblers
  46. MWBAN47      We quiz MilF-getters just for practice
  47. MWBAN48      Jitaditya N, Harsha, Nikhil & Sandeep P
  48. MWBAN49      Vinay Nair, Siddarth K & Mohammed R
  49. MWBAN50      Banana Republicans (QF)
  50. MWBAN51      LogicaOne
  51. MWBAN52      Quizards
  52. MWBAN53      Tweakers And Swindlers
  53. MWBAN54      Rahul & Sowjanya
  54. MWBAN55      The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  55. MWBAN56      Quizziqual

CHENNAI

  1. MWCHE01      SBOA school CBSE
  2. MWCHE02      Insignificant Others
  3. MWCHE03      Tommy and Friends
  4. MWCHE04      Satyabhama’s Chargers
  5. MWCHE05      Pass the Ketchup
  6. MWCHE06      QED
  7. MWCHE07      Hari & team
  8. MWCHE08      SASTRA
  9. MWCHE09      Trollmasters
  10. MWCHE10      NIT Trichy (Nitish K, Mithraa & team)
  11. MWCHE11      redington
  12. MWCHE12      Memory Bank
  13. MWCHE13      Curiosity is our birth right.
  14. MWCHE14      hyderabad nawabs and chennai kolaveris
  15. MWCHE15      Saraswati
  16. MWCHE16      Siddharth M, Jagdheesh S, Nikhil S, Harish V
  17. MWCHE17      Haari, Saathiesh, Soundaar
  18. MWCHE18      Venkat, Abhinav, Anupam & Karthik
  19. MWCHE19      Shreyas Padmanabhan, Aravid Ramachandran & team
  20. MWCHE20      Invincibles
  21. MWCHE21      The Knights Who say ‘Pass’
  22. MWCHE22      CCCC
  23. MWCHE23      In Google and Wikipedia We Trust
  24. MWCHE24      Why this Kolaveri
  25. MWCHE25      Just Like That

KOVAI

  1. MWKOV01      Kakapo’s Revenge
  2. MWKOV02      Holy Cross (Karthik Krishna & team)
  3. MWKOV03      Tiruppur Thugs and 2 Bystanders
  4. MWKOV04      Sastra
  5. MWKOV05      Mookambigai College (Madhumidha & team)

GOA

  1. MWGOA01      Aryaans
  2. MWGOA02      A Team
  3. MWGOA03      Our Lady of the Rosary High School, Dona-Paula (Samrah, Maithili & team)
  4. MWGOA04      The Benchwarmers
  5. MWGOA05      Navy Children School (Albert J, Anand & team)
  6. MWGOA06      Sharada Mandir School (Dhawal P, Mohnish S & team)
  7. MWGOA07      Feni Vidi Vici Veni
  8. MWGOA08      Watts In The Name !!!??
  9. MWGOA09      Victorious Secrets
  10. MWGOA10      THE VIKINGS
  11. MWGOA11      Mushtifund High School
  12. MWGOA12      Incredible 4
  13. MWGOA13      the infinite four

GUWAHATI

  1. MWGUW01      Assam Engineering College
  2. MWGUW02      SUJI HALF PLATE SOCIETY
  3. MWGUW03      Flushing Meadows
  4. MWGUW04      Shrimanta Shankar Academy (Abhilash & team)
  5. MWGUW05      FANTASTIC FOUR
  6. MWGUW06      Army Public School, Narangi (Arunav & team)
  7. MWGUW07      Shrimanta Shankar Academy (Suvam & team)
  8. MWGUW08      Pass
  9. MWGUW09      Gauhati Commerce College (Ankit, Pratik & Bhaskar)
  10. MWGUW10      Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti
  11. MWGUW11      Gurukul Grammar School ( F4 )
  12. MWGUW12      Mnemonics
  13. MWGUW13      Gauhati Commerce College (Arunav, Uddupta & team)
  14. MWGUW14      Holy Home
  15. MWGUW15      J.B college (Priyam, Manash & team)
  16. MWGUW16      The Smiling Assassins

HYDERABAD

  1. MWHYD01      Krishna, Pratik, Rohan
  2. MWHYD02      Quizzing Irregulars
  3. MWHYD03      Bharat Mata Ki Jai!!!!
  4. MWHYD04      Swami and Friends
  5. MWHYD05      Ratna Kumar, Rajini & team
  6. MWHYD06      Daydream believers
  7. MWHYD07      CMEC (Preetham, Mahesh & team)
  8. MWHYD08      Shaving Ryan’s Private Part 2
  9. MWHYD09      Abhimanyu, Sabarisan, Dinesh
  10. MWHYD10      Madhu, Bhargav and team
  11. MWHYD11      Not Applicable
  12. MWHYD12      INFYnity
  13. MWHYD13      Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Public School Jubilee Hills (Anirudh P & team)
  14. MWHYD14      Holy Beards
  15. MWHYD15      Paranoid Androids
  16. MWHYD16      Gitanjali Senior School (P Vasishta, Aakash & team)
  17. MWHYD17      clairvoyancer
  18. MWHYD18      Bhanu, Kumar, Vijay & Kiran
  19. MWHYD19      Aam Aadmi
  20. MWHYD20      Kulla Sekar Maggu Monk

    21. WAIT LIST

  21. MWHYD21      Vitam College
  22. MWHYD22      Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Public School Jublee Hills (Abhinav G & team)
  23. MWHYD23      bonaparte’s
  24. MWHYD24      Bhavans Vivekananda Degree College (Gurtejbir S & team)
  25. MWHYD25      Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School (Srikanth R, Shiva Sai & team)
  26. MWHYD26      Four Degrees Below Zero

KOLKATA

  1. MWKOL01      LOGOS
  2. MWKOL02      Hammer and Tongs
  3. MWKOL03      Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
  4. MWKOL04      3 Tenthies and a ninth- Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
  5. MWKOL05      IEM
  6. MWKOL06      Q&A
  7. MWKOL07      fiction
  8. MWKOL08      Comeback Heroz
  9. MWKOL09      ALTER EGOS
  10. MWKOL10      Felix and Jimmy go to White Castle
  11. MWKOL11      Potoldanga Thunder Club
  12. MWKOL12      The Puncture in the Tyre
  13. MWKOL13      We Are Not Ramleela
  14. MWKOL14      Nalsar University of Law (Abdaal Akhtar)
  15. MWKOL15      The Devil of Gahana
  16. MWKOL16      Cathedral Mission High School (Asif Iqbal, Mayank Tandon & Zeeshan Zaki)
  17. MWKOL17      Pronil Roy, Yash Mehta, Rohan Dostidar & Soham Basu
  18. MWKOL18      Tea, Coffee, Snacks

MUMBAI

  1. MWMUM01      Vikram, Mukund & team
  2. MWMUM02      Travelling Pillsbury
  3. MWMUM03      Chauthe Pe Chautha
  4. MWMUM04      IIT Bombay (Nuruddin Bahar & Team)
  5. MWMUM05      IIT Bombay (Pranav S & Team)
  6. MWMUM06      Just for Fun
  7. MWMUM07      NMIMS
  8. MWMUM08      Debasish Misra & team
  9. MWMUM09      Buzzer Checkers
  10. MWMUM10      Uncle’s Momos
  11. MWMUM11      Arjun, Divya & team
  12. MWMUM12      midtown madness

    13. WAIT LIST

  13. MWMUM13      Klueless
  14. MWMUM14      New Horizon Public School, Airoli
  15. MWMUM15      JBIMS,Mumbai
  16. MWMUM16      Tigers Wood
  17. MWMUM17      Factoid Busters
  18. MWMUM18      Team no:17
  19. MWMUM19      Quizzing Quartets
  20. MWMUM20      Pragaetihasik Jeevashm
  21. MWMUM21      LP is our Leader
  22. MWMUM22      Spartans

MYSORE

  1. MWMYS01      Department of Studies in Physics, Mysore University
  2. MWMYS02      SJCE Mysore
  3. MWMYS03      Maharaja Junior College (Samarth, Sagar & team)
  4. MWMYS04      Aarti S & Subramanian S H
  5. MWMYS05      Eddy & Chaddi Bros Inc
  6. MWMYS06      FF
  7. MWMYS07      NIE (Adithya, Ravikiran & Team)
  8. MWMYS08      Fourth Dimension
  9. MWMYS09      What’s In A Name

NEW DELHI

  1. MWDEL01      LBSIM
  2. MWDEL02      IIT Delhi (Shiva D & team)
  3. MWDEL03      Brajendu B & Team
  4. MWDEL04      Hari P, Sid & Doc B
  5. MWDEL05      NATIONAL POWER TRAINING INSTITUTE, BADARPUR
  6. MWDEL06      Apratim, Jyotesh & team
  7. MWDEL07      Chandan Kumar, Shashi Bhushan & team
  8. MWDEL08      Nikhil Jha & team
  9. MWDEL09      IIT Kharagpur
  10. MWDEL10      Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
  11. MWDEL11      St.Stephens/IIT Guwahati
  12. MWDEL12      TNT Tears
  13. MWDEL13      Tugh-Luq
  14. MWDEL14      FMS Delhi (Nikhil Dubey & team)
  15. MWDEL15      Adittya Mubayi and Team
  16. MWDEL16      The Three Musketeers
  17. MWDEL17      THE AWESOME FOURSOME
  18. MWDEL18      Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan (Kaustuv Sahdeo & team)
  19. MWDEL19      Chetan Soni, Dhruv Goel & team
  20. MWDEL20      Don Quizzote
  21. MWDEL21      AlphaQ
  22. MWDEL22      IIT Delhi (Harshit Sinha & team)
  23. MWDEL23      Delhi Public School Rohini (Kartik J & team)
  24. MWDEL24      Still Questionable in Delhi
  25. MWDEL25      Delhi Public School, Rohini (Pranay, Rishabh & team)
  26. MWDEL26      Guneet M, Yuvraj P, Archit C & Akshay S
  27. MWDEL27      FMS (The God of Small Thongs)
  28. MWDEL28      Delhi Public School, Faridabad (Himanshu M & team)

PUNE

  1. MWPUN01      Armed Forces Medical College (Kshitij, Saikat & team)
  2. MWPUN02      Barr-barians
  3. MWPUN03      SIBM Pune (Hari S N & team)
  4. MWPUN04      Ranajeet S & team
  5. MWPUN05      NASS
  6. MWPUN06      Barr Chala United
  7. MWPUN07      Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies (UG)
  8. MWPUN08      Wooden Spooners
  9. MWPUN09      Sushruth, Aparna & Vivek
  10. MWPUN10      MIT Pune
  11. MWPUN11      SIIB, Pune
  12. MWPUN12      COEP

THRISSUR

  1. MWTHR01      Gafoor ke dosths
  2. MWTHR02      S, M, L & XL !!
  3. MWTHR03      Muhammed Bava, Vineeth, Roshan & Faisal
  4. MWTHR04      Quiz All Over the Face!
  5. MWTHR05      Insert uncool name here
  6. MWTHR06      Nuts & Nerds
  7. MWTHR07      Govt Law College ,Ernakulam (Feny Joy, Rishikesh & team)
  8. MWTHR08      Bony Raju, Francis Kurien T & team

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

  1. MWTVM01      Who The Eff are Man United?
  2. MWTVM02      Saintgits college of Engineering
  3. MWTVM03      EL SHADDAI
  4. MWTVM04      The Lost Generation
  5. MWTVM05      Manoj KC &Team
  6. MWTVM06      COLLEGE OF ENG. TVM (Abhishek BS & Team)
  7. MWTVM07      moolah…periya…err!
  8. MWTVM08      Loyola School (Harikrishnan & team)
  9. MWTVM09      Fallen Angels
  10. MWTVM10      Why this Kolaveri da Arul?
  11. MWTVM11      Thirondoram Thyeppans
  12. MWTVM12      666
November 10, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment 

Quizzes on Saturday 12 November 2011

We will hold three quizzes on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I
College and PU Lone Wolf

QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.

Rules

Open to solo entrants who are currently either PUC/XI & XII or Undergraduate/PG students
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per head
Common Prelims, followed by separate finals
Unlimited entries, but no more than two from an institution in the finals.

Prizes for all finalists.

Schedule
Prelims: 1030-1115hrs
PU Lone Wolf Finals: 1145-1230hrs
College Lone Wolf Finals: 1230-1315hrs

EVENT II
Sense a Femur
The Annual Humour Quiz

QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani

Rules

Written, 40 questions
No bicycling!
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for the top three teams

Schedule
1400-1500hrs

EVENT III
The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz

Who or what is an AJM?
What the duck is an Open House quiz?
How can you have an Open Quiz without prelims?
What about my team?
Is this some woolly, hippie, liberal nonsense?

For answers to these, and some of the other mysteries of life, please meet
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal, Arul Mani, Varun Shenoy and Abhishek Upadhya.

Rules

Prior registration essential
To register, please RSVP at http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/eb8j8jjh6kck776hg
Please take your seats by 1515hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head, pay on the spot.
High Tea at 1830

November 7, 2011 | Filed Under Inter College Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment