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
- 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.
- 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.