Mahaquizzer 2010 city-wise winners

These are the city-wise winners of Mahaquizzer 2010 held on 30th May 2010.

1) BANGALORE
City Winner Anustup Datta – 76
School Winner Atith K. – 27
College Winner Santosh J. S. – 50
Ladies Winner Debashree Mitra – 68
2) BHUBANESWAR
City Winner Ratnakar Sadasyula – 44
School Winner No Participant
College Winner Ankit Patnaik – 27
Ladies Winner Ayesha Patnaik – 20
3) CHENNAI
City Winner Samanth Subramanian – 76
School Winner Jayadev Bhaskaran – 44
College Winner C. Sridhar – 37
Ladies Winner Sarada Anne – 26
4) COIMBATORE
City Winner Brijesh Nair – 65
School Winner Arnav Chandrashekhar – 18
College Winner Akshay Thatte – 29
Ladies Winner Ranjana Ninan – 32
5) DELHI
City Winner Dr. S. Bhattacharya – 75
School Winner Parth Singh
College Winner & Ladies Winner Krittika Adhikary – 59
6) GUWAHATI
City Winner Abhijit Hazarika – 33
School Winner Sandipan Goswami – 25
College Winner Bhrigu Talukdar – 31
Ladies Winner Pranami Tamuli – 22
7) HYDERABAD
City Winner Nitish Khadiya – 58
School Winner Rohan Naidu – 23
College Winner Aditya Gadre – 45
Ladies Winner Lakshmi J K – 45
8 ) KOLKATA
City Winner Shouvik Guha – 88
School Winner Anurag Sarkar – 30
College Winner Pritwish Dutta – 49
Ladies Winner Jayshree J Mohanka – 83
9) MUMBAI
City Winner Mukund Sridhar – 84
School Winner No Participant
College Winner Abhijeet Badrike – 40
Ladies Winner Nirupama Sivaraman – 29
10) MYSORE
City Winner Hari Shenoy – 29
School Winner S. Abhinandan – 15
College Winner Rahul Khatri – 18
Ladies Winner Mrs. Prema D’Silva – 14
11) PANAJI
City Winner Aniruddha Sen Gupta – 71
School Winner Julian D’Costa – 27
College Winner Utsab Saha – 32
Ladies Winner Anjali Sen Gupta – 27
12) PUNE
City Winner J Ramanand – 68
School Winner Roopak Karalkar – 22
College Winner Sukrit Munjal – 32
Ladies Winner Meghna Sreenivasan – 11
13) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
City Winner Manu Sudhakar – 64
School Winner Nikhil George – 24
College Winner Ranjeeth – 29
Ladies Winner L. Ananda Nidhi – 21
14) THRISSUR
City Winner Ravi Mundoli – 73
School Winner Abhijeet Balakrishnan – 19
College Winner Abdul Raouf – 34
Ladies Winner Krishna Prasad – 10

Mahaquizzer 2010 ladies, college and school top 25 results

These are the top 25 ranks in the School, College and Ladies categories in Mahaquizzer 2010 held on 30th May 2010.

School Rank Name Center Score
1 Jayadev Bhaskaran Chennai 44
2 Parth Singh Delhi 32
3 Anurag Sarkar Kolkata 30
4 Julian D’Costa Panaji 27
Atith K. Bangalore
6 Sandipan Goswami Guwahati 25
7 Nikhil George Trivandrum 24
8 Sangeeth S. Varma Trivandrum 23
Rohan Naidu Hyderabad
Arjun Krishna Lal Trivandrum
11 Roopak Karalkar Pune 22
Apratim Mukhopadhyay Delhi
Shashwat N. Sinai Salgaonkar Panaji
14 Venkatadri Keshav Chennai 20
15 Abhijeet Balakrishnan Thrissur 19
Atharv Joshi Panaji
Amaan Shreyas Delhi
N. Abdul Najeeb Trivandrum
19 Swaroop I R Chennai 18
Jeydev C S Bangalore
Anas Ahmad Alvi Delhi
Ravikiran Ramaswamy Chennai
Rithwik K Thrissur
Arnav Chandrasekhar Coimbatore
Arjun Murali Coimbatore
College Rank Name Center Score
1 Krittika Adhikary Delhi 59
2 Santosh J S Bangalore 50
3 Prithwish Datta Kolkata 48
Anshuman Pal Kolkata
5 Sriharsha Bhat Bangalore 47
Sudarshan M A Bangalore
7 Sharat Nambissan Delhi 45
8 Satyaki Bhattacharya Delhi 44
Anurag Singh Bangalore
Aditya Gadre Hyderabad
11 Aryapriya Ganguly Delhi 42
12 Abhinav Gandhi Delhi 41
13 Vivek Krishnan Hyderabad 40
Abhijeet Badrike Mumbai
15 Robin Dey Kolkata 39
Aditya Sridhar Bangalore
17 C. Sridhar Chennai 37
Rahul Bhaskar Delhi
19 Siddarth Ravichandran Chennai 36
Chinmay Kamat Mumbai
Roshan Shankar Delhi
22 Abhishek Nayak Bangalore 34
Abdul Raouf K. P. Thrissur
Ishaan Chugh Delhi
25 Srisha Haridas Bangalore 33
Gopalkrishna S. Mahale Mumbai
Samarth R. Bangalore
Ladies Rank Name Center Score
1 Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka Kolkata 83
2 Debashree Mitra Bangalore 68
3 Krittika Adhikary Delhi 59
4 Vimala Jagannath Kolkata 48
5 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula Bangalore 47
6 Lakshmi J K Hyderabad 45
7 Lakshana Bangalore 36
8 Hanisha Vaswani Delhi 32
Urmila Lakshmanan Bangalore
10 Ranjana Ninan Coimbatore 31
11 Nirupama Sivaraman Mumbai 29
12 Sneha Vaidyanathan Bangalore 27
Anjali Sen Gupta Panaji
14 Sarada Anne Chennai 26
15 Vidya S Mumbai 24
16 Pranami Tamuli Guwahati 22
17 L Anandha Nidhi Trivandrum 21
18 Ayesha Pattnaik Bhubaneshwar 20
19 Geetha S. N. Trivandrum 17
20 Ranjani K. Trivandrum 16
Viola Rodrigues Panaji
22 Dr. Ambali Chandrasekhar Coimbatore 15
23 Savitri K. Rane Panaji 14
Tanya Mehta Delhi
Aishwarya R. G. Coimbatore
Prema D’Silva Mysore

Mahaquizzer 2010 top 100 and international results

After re-correction of all scores above 31, these quizzers emerged as the top 100 in India. Also listed are the ardent quizzers in New York, Portland, Derby and elsewhere who took Mahaquizzer 2010 in the International category.

If there was a prize for the most inventive answer, it would have been awarded to this gem:

Fill in the blanks in this line from a famous speech – “Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is These Romans Are Crazy“.

All India Top 100 Scores

Rank Name Center Score * ** */** Notes
1 Shouvik Guha Kolkata 88 6 2 8 City Winner
2 Mukund Sridhar Mumbai 84 2 3 5 City Winner
3 Rajiv Rai Mumbai 83 4 3 7
4 Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka Kolkata 83 4 2 6 Ladies Winner
5 Samanth Subramanian Chennai 76 1 3 4 City Winner
6 Anustup Datta Bangalore 76 4 0 4 City Winner
7 Swaminathan G Chennai 76 2 1 3
8 Dr. Bhattacharya S Delhi 75 2 2 4 City Winner
9 Sreeram B Chennai 75 3 1 4
10 Ravi Mundoli Thrissur 73 4 1 5 City Winner
11 Sumant Srivathsan Mumbai 72 5 1 6
12 Aniruddha Sen Gupta Panaji 71 2 2 4
13 Sankhya Chennai 71 3 1 4
14 Jayakanthan R Chennai 71 1 1 2
15 Ramanand J Pune 69 1 1 2 City Winner
16 Debashree Mitra Bangalore 68 2 3 5 Ladies Winner
17 Vikram Joshi Mumbai 67 1 3 4
18 Brijesh Nair Coimbatore 66 2 3 5 City Winner
19 Kunal Sawardekar Pune 65 4 3 7
20 Vinoo Sanjay Mumbai 65 3 3 6
21 Abhijit Banerjee Kolkata 65 4 2 6
22 Anannya Deb Mumbai 65 4 1 5
23 Ramanan V V Chennai 65 2 0 2
24 Manu Sudhakar Trivandrum 64 3 2 5 City Winner
25 Gopal Kidao Chennai 64 2 0 2
26 Srinivasan Rajagopal Chennai 63 0 0 0
27 Vibhendu Tewari Mumbai 62 4 1 5
28 Suresh Ramasubramanian Chennai 62 1 1 2
29 Rajeev Gowda Bangalore 61 2 3 5
30 Kiran Vijayakumar Chennai 61 2 1 3
31 Navin Jayakumar Chennai 61 0 2 2
32 Kinshuk Biswas Kolkata 60 4 2 6
33 Gautam Ghosh Kolkata 60 4 1 5
34 Harikrishnan Menon Thrissur 60 0 2 2
35 Krittika Adhikary Delhi 59 3 1 4 College/Ladies Winner
36 Dr. Soubhadra Chakrabarty Kolkata 59 2 1 3
37 Sudip Kalyan Dey Kolkata 59 2 0 2
38 Anirudh Chari Kolkata 58 4 2 6
39 Nitish Khadiya Hyderabad 58 2 2 4 City Winner
40 Supratik Chaudhuri Kolkata 58 3 1 4
41 Balakrishnan S Mumbai 58 1 2 3
42 Harish Ramanujam Bangalore 57 2 1 3
43 Salil Bijur Pune 55 2 2 4
44 Krishnamurthi Rao R Hyderabad 55 1 2 3
45 Raghu Gopalan Bangalore 54 4 1 5
46 Rahul Girish Kumar Thrissur 54 2 1 3
47 Rohan Nogueira Bangalore 53 2 3 5
48 Suraj Menon Pune 53 1 2 3
49 Manoj Kumar T K Trivandrum 53 1 1 2
Rahul Kottalgi S Bangalore 53 1 1 2
51 Cheriyan Alexander Bangalore 52 3 2 5
52 Karthik Shashidhar Bangalore 52 1 1 2
Alagarsamy A P Bangalore 52 1 1 2
54 Vijay Sarathy Chennai 52 1 0 1
55 Abhinav Dasgupta Kolkata 50 4 1 5
56 Praveen V R Bangalore 50 1 3 4
57 Santosh J S Bangalore 50 1 1 2 College Winner
58 Prasanna Potdar Mumbai 49 2 1 3
59 Ajith Prabhakar Trivandrum 49 1 1 2
60 Prithwish Datta Kolkata 48 5 1 6 College Winner
61 Alok Prasanna Kumar Bangalore 48 2 2 4
Ajay Jaisinghani Delhi 48 2 2 4
63 Anshuman Pal Kolkata 48 1 2 3
64 Vimala Jagannath Kolkata 48 1 1 2
65 Govind Grewal Mumbai 47 4 0 4
66 Sriharsha Bhat Bangalore 47 3 0 3
Shiladitya Ganguli Kolkata 47 3 0 3
68 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula Bangalore 47 1 1 2
69 Sudarshan M A Bangalore 47 2 0 2
70 Meghashyam Shirodkar P Mumbai 47 0 1 1
71 Hrishikesh Varma Thrissur 47 1 0 1
Anil Kumar K Chennai 47 1 0 1
Aravind Vijaya Sarathy Chennai 47 1 0 1
74 Devarshi Ghosh Kolkata 46 4 1 5
75 Rajen Prabhu Mumbai 46 0 0 0
76 Lakshmi J K Hyderabad 45 1 2 3 Ladies Winner
Rajagopal P S Bangalore 45 1 2 3
78 Aditya Gadre Hyderabad 45 2 1 3 College Winner
Sharat Nambissan Delhi 45 2 1 3
80 Krishnan N V S Bangalore 45 0 2 2
81 Uday Mahajan Bangalore 45 1 1 2
Anil Kothuri Delhi 45 1 1 2
83 Rajiv D’Silva Panaji 45 1 0 1
84 Ashwin Hegde Mumbai 44 2 1 3
Shubhendu Saha Delhi 44 2 1 3
86 Ratnakar Sadasyula Bhubaneswar 44 2 1 3 City Winner
87 Satyaki Bhattacharya Delhi 44 2 0 2
88 Jayadev Bhaskaran Chennai 44 0 1 1 School Winner
Anurag Singh Bangalore 44 0 1 1
90 Mukund Krishnan Mumbai 43 2 1 3
91 Chandrakant Nair Thrissur 42 0 1 1
92 Arun Ramanathan Chennai 42 1 0 1
Aryapriya Ganguly Delhi 42 1 0 1
94 Deviprasad V Chennai 42 0 0 0
95 Anang Rawat Hyderabad 41 2 2 4
96 Abhinav Gandhi Delhi 41 1 1 2
97 Subrat Mohanty Bangalore 41 0 0 0
98 Debasish Mukherjee Kolkata 40 5 2 7
99 Debasish Misra Mumbai 40 3 2 5
100 Abhijeet Badrike Mumbai 40 3 1 4 College Winner

International Scores

Derby

Pat Gibson (England) : 89
Chris Jones (England) : 71
Anne Hegerty (Scotland) : 70
Mark Kerr (England) : 65
Nick Mills (England) : 64
Rob Hannah (Scotland) : 59
Barry Simmons (Scotland) : 57
Diane Hallagan (England) : 55
Martin Croke (England) : 54
Scott Dawson (England) : 52
Gary Grant (Scotland) : 50

Portland

Manjith K : 46, with 1*, 3**

Somewhere in the air between San Francisco and Frankfurt

Arnab Bhattacharya : 47, with 0*, 2**

New York

Vikram Rajan : 62, with 2*, 2**

Clemson, SC

Raghuvansh Ramaswamy : 70, with 2*, 3**

Solus Rex Finals, Yell! Iruve and Lone Wolf – Results

The results of three quizzes on Sunday 9th May 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Solus Rex Finals on Indian Scientists & Mathematicians + Fictional Detectives

QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange

1. Anustup Datta – 370
2. Ochintya Sharma – 267.5
3. Harish R. – 220
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 195

Yell Iruve! – A quiz featuring plants, animals, insects and other life forms

QM: Arul Mani

1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 28
2. Vivek Karthikeyan & Megha Shenoy – 23
3. Ochintya Sharma & Arun Hiregange – 21
4. Sumeer & Dr. Krishnan – 18
5. Aditya & Hussein – 17
6. Harry & Santosh – 16
7. Mitesh Agarwal & Venkatesh S. / Ajay & Ashwan – both on 14

KQA Lone Wolf

QMs: An all-women team led by Urmila Lakshmanan

1. Arul Mani – 89
2. Anustup Datta – 79
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 69
4. Arun Hiregange – 58
5. Rajagopal – 39
6. Aravind – 25
7. Mitesh Agarwal – 24
8. Gautam Shenoy – 14

Quizzes on Sunday 25 April 2010

The Synergy Sports Quiz prelims will be held on Sunday, 25th April at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Please note that this event will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.

The quiz is for individuals and prior registration is essential. If you have had any problems registering , please contact Mitesh Agarwal (mitesh.agarwal@ gmail.com) .

The schedule:
1130-1200hrs.

Participants must report at the venue by 1045hrs with valid ID and entry ticket.

Three KQA quizzes will also be held at the same venue during the day.

EVENT I
Open Sports Quiz

QM; Varun Rajiv

Rules
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/-

Schedule
Prelims 1000hrs sharp
Finals: 1200 to 1330hrs

LUNCH-BREAK: 1330-1430hrs

EVENT II
The Non-Fiction Quiz

Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-
Written , with 50 questions

1430hrs-1530hrs

QM: Arul Mani
Prizes: Rs.1500, Rs. 1000 and Rs. 750/-

EVENT III
BIZKASHI
The Annual Business Quiz

Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-

Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500.

Prelims: 1530-1615hrs
Finals: 1645-1830hrs

QM: Arul Mani

IMPORTANT
Please note that the above events will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.


Solus Rex 2009 Semifinals – Results

Solus Rex Semifinals

QMs: Dibyendu Das & Arun Hiregange

Semi-final 1: Movies based on Comic books

Harish Ramanujam urf Harry – 165
Ochintya Sharma – 160
Arul Mani – 145
Rajesh M. – 45

Semi-final 2: Heavyweight Boxers

Rahul S. Kottalgi – 305
Mitesh Agarwal – 165
Thejaswi Udupa – 130
Sharath – 125
Rahul Girish Kumar – 50

Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains

Debashree Mitra – 170
Vivek Karthikeyan – 130
Sudarshan M.A. – 115
Venkatesh S. – 85
Rajagopal – 80

Semi-final 4: War Crafts

Anustup Datta – 245
Praveen V.R. – 195
Tanmay Prusty – 125

The Solux Rex 2009 Finalists therefore are:
Harry
Rahul
Debashree
Anustup
Ochintya (best loser on two counts: smallest margin of defeat and highest ratio of score to average of total scored points :) )

- Thanks to Sujata Sharma, Dibyojyoti Haldar, Jayakanthan, Avinash Mudaliar, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S. and Thejaswi Udupa for questions sent in.
- Sujata Sharma, Jayakanthan and Dibyojyoti Haldar win coupons for best questions sent in for Topics 1 & 2.
- Sujata Sharma and Dibyojyoti Haldar win coupons for best questions sent in for Topics 3 & 4.
- Best question prize winners and the semi-finalists for topics 3 & 4 can collect coupons from Arul Mani.

Solus Rex Semifinals on Sunday 8th November 2009 and Other News

Solus Rex Semi-finals III and IV — the details:

Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains
(Exclude fictional rivers, deserts and mountains)

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.

VENUE
66, First Floor, First Cross, Domlur Layout, Bangalore
(Near Domlur P.O. , Next door to Samsung Service Centre)

For directions, please call Siby Kuriakose (99001-22880).

SCHEDULE

Semi III: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Semi IV:  1145hrs-1245hrs

Prizes for all semifinalists. Plus prizes for the best questions received from other KQA members such as yourself. Send to arunhire@yahoo. com or deedas@yahoo. com.

Other News

  1. The next set of quizzing Sundays will come up in December. Please keep yourselves free on Sunday 13 December, and probably also on Sunday 6th December.
  2. If you haven’t already registered for MegaWhats, please do so now. IAT , our venue, can hold a maximum of 40 teams and places in the event are given only on a first-come, first-served basis.

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.

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.

Solus Rex Topics: 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

These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 11th October 2009.

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