Quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010

We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I

Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV

1000hrs to 1200hrs

Teams of FOUR members
Two teams per school for Std II and Std IV.

QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange.

EVENT II

Ranking Inter High School Quiz.

1230hrs to 1430hrs

Teams of 2 members
Two teams per school
Open to Std VIII, IX and X
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per school
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

QM: Arul Mani

EVENT III
The third of our Specialist Open Quizzes

Seek Under Porus
The much-awaited Open History Quiz

QMs: Manjith and Praveen

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

1500hrs to 1830hrs

Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz – Results

Results of the quiz held on the morning of Sunday 13 December 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

The Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz

QMs: Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S, Arun Hiregange

1. NLSIU (Varun Rajiv & team) – 210
2. BMSCE (Santhosh JS) – 207.5
3. RVCE (Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) – 197.5
4. NITK-S (Sandeep Albert Mathias, Bhargava Urala K) – 172.5
5. MSRIT – 125
6. RVCE (Chaitanya, Nakul, Gautam) – 105
7. IIM-B (Jishnu Batabyar, Siddhartha Sen) – 100
8. IIT-M (Vinay Hegde) – 60

Quizzes on Sunday 13 December 2009

We will hold two quizzes on Sunday, 13 December 2009, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I

The Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz

  1. Open to Post-Graduate, Under-Graduate and Pre-University teams
  2. Teams of three members
  3. Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
  4. Unlimited entries in prelims and two teams per college max in the finals

QMs:  Venkatesh. S, Vivek Karthikeyan and Arun Hiregange

Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/-, Rs. 1500/- and prizes for all other finalists.

Schedule: 10am to 1pm

The best PUC team and the best all-women’s team will win a prize each.

Event II

MEGA-WHATS 2009
The National Open Quizzing Championships

in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, New Delhi and Kolkata.

Entry by prior registration
All registered teams will need to pay an entry fee of Rs. 50/- before start
Please report at 1400hrs sharp
All participating teams to be seated by 1430hrs

Two prizes: Best School team and Best Open Team.

The All-India winner will receive The KQA Mega-Whats Rolling Trophy at the 27th Anniversary Celebrations in June 2010.

Ladies Open, Inter College and College Solo Quizzes – Results

Results of quizzes held on Sunday 11 October 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

The Annual KQA Ladies Open Quiz

QM: Mitesh Agarwal

1. Neelam, Urmila, Hema – 145
2. Sujata, Riya – 95
3. Padmasree, Siri, Merin – 85 (3rd after tie-break)
4. Sneha, Poorva – 85
5. Janani, Jayameenakshi, Prathyusha – 75
6. Aditi, Neha – 75
7. Trisha, Sanjana, Ann – 55

Inter College Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. NLSIU (Varun Rajiv, Raghuram C., Eashan Ghosh) – 105
2. MSRIT (Rahul Jadhav, Sudarshan S.N., Srikanth Gautham) – 77 (2nd after tie-break)
3. NLSIU (Arvind, Pranav, Badri) – 77
4. MSRIT (Abhishek S., Umang S., Minkul Tekwani) – 50
5. RVCE (Nakul P. Sangolle, Chaitanya G. Hegde, Gautam N.D.) – 45
6. RVSIT (Amit R., Ashish S.R., Shankar M.S.) – 35
7. RVCE (Rahul Gupta, Vineet Raj, Sudarshan) – 20
8. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 15

College Solo Quiz, to decide the Collegiate Quizzing Champion for 2009

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

1. Santosh Swaminathan – 120
2. Nakul – 100
3. Varun Rajiv – 95
4. Pranav & Nishanth – 60
6. Sudarshan – 50
7. Rahul – 35
8. Chaitanya – 25

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.

Askqance – The KQA Silver Jubilee Quiz Festival

ASKQANCE 25th Anniversary

The Karnataka Quiz Association celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this year.  ASKQANCE 2008, our anniversary quiz festival will now feature nine quizzes to be held over two days.

This year’s ASKQANCE is supported by TVS Tyres who also celebrate their 25th anniversary.

The Dates:

The Venues:

Saturday 28th June

Old Hall, St. Joseph’s Boys High School
Museum Road
Bangalore

Sunday 29th June

Purandara Bhavan
(Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha)
8th Main Road
(Near Indiranagar Club)

The Quizzes

Quizzes on Saturday, 28th June

KQA Intercollegiate Championships
(featuring two separate finals for junior college and collegiate teams)
3-member teams
No entry fee
No mixed teams allowed
Registration: 09:30a.m.
Start: 10:00a.m. sharp
Junior Finals: 11:00a.m.-12:00 noon
College Finals: 1200 noon -1:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000 to be won.
QMs: Ochintya Sharma, Rajeev Gowda and Thejaswi Udupa

Hubbubb-a!
The Third edition of the Bangalore Quiz
2-member teams
Open to all
Entry fee: Rs. 50/-
Start: 1:30 p.m
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani

Open Entertainment Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 200/-
Start: 3:00p.m.
Finals: 4:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 20,000/- to be won
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Madhav Nair

Informals
Venkatesh and Vivek Karthikeyan will coordinate an Informal Sports
Quiz beginning at 1:00p.m. The best five individual entries in this written
contest will win prizes.

Quizzes on Sunday, 29th June (at Purandara Bhavan)

Cognito
High School Quiz Championships
Teams of 2 members
A maximum of 6 teams per school
No entry fee
Prelims: 10 a.m
QM: Dibyendu Das

High School Solo Championship
Start: 12:30 p.m
QM: Mitesh Agarwal

Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000/-

Rajagopal PS will coordinate an Informal Science Quiz, open to all, starting at 1100hrs. Prizes for the best five individual entries.

Sesame – The Open Quiz

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prelims: 2p.m.

TVS Tyres Ride Smart Round: 3:30pm

Finals: 4:15p.m.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
Prizes totalling Rs. 25,000/-

KQA Silver Jubilee Ceremonies
6:00 p.m

All prizes and certificates will be given out during the ceremonies.

A map to help those who need directions to Purandara Bhavan for the quizzes on 29th June: