MindSweep 2012 – Results in brief

The inaugural edition of MindSweep was held in 25 venues across 8 countries. We thus had 350 quizzers from Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Norway, USA, the United Kingdom and India taking part.

The contest was won by Pat Gibson (UK) who scored 110 points out of a possible 200. Kevin Ashman (UK) finished second with 101 points. Mark Grant (UK) took third place on the same score.

The top scores from each of the other participating countries are as follows:

USA: Dan Melia (82)
Norway: Lars Heggland (69)
Germany: Sebastian Klussmann (43)
Malaysia: Movin Miranda (74)
Singapore: Caleb Liu (52)
Sri Lanka: Samanth Subramaniam (78). Lathike Niriella made 42.
India: Swaminathan G. (76)

And now, for the champions in each category.

The Arts: Kevin Ashman (16/20)
Literature: Mark Grant and Josh Kosman (12/20)
Cinema: Mark Grant (15/20)
Music: Josh Kosman (13/20)
Sports & Leisure: Pat Gibson (16/20)
Business: Mitesh Agarwal (15/20)
Science: Chris Quinn (14/20)
Food & Drink: Santosh Swaminathan (13/20)
Social Sciences: Sankhya Krishnan(11/20)*
Connects: Pat Gibson (10/20)

The Bangalore leg of the event was won by Arun Hiregange (67). Thejaswi Udupa (61) and Anustup Datta (57) finished second and third respectively.

A full list of the international rankings will be put up shortly.

*Corrected following receipt of Chennai scores

Quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012

We will hold two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

The first event is the Solus Rex contest in an all-new format.

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das

Rules:
Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-

Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1330hrs

Prizes for all finalists

The second event on the 15th is a Ruckus Tangdi Quiz featuring unused questions from the recently held MindSweep 2012.

QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani

Rules
Open to team of four members.
Team compositions will be rudely altered.
Teams get ranking points only if they field all members during registration.

Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

Schedule:
Prelims: 1500hrs
Finals: 1615-1830hrs

Prizes for all finalists

MindSweep 2012 Venues

MindSweep 2012 will take place at the following venues across India at 10am on the 8th of January 2012.

AHMEDABAD
CR 4, Heritage (Old) Campus,
IIM Ahmedabad
Directions: Enter through the main gate of the Heritage (Old) Campus. Walk towards the main building complex and take the stairs on the right to go towards the library. Pass the library (on the left) to reach classroom 4 (CR4)
Procotor: Abhiram

BENGALURU
Suchitra Cinema & Cultural Academy
No.36, 9th main ,
B V Karanth Road,
Banashankari II Stage
Proctor: Arul Mani

BHUBANESHWAR
Orissa Engineering College
(Administrative Campus),
460 Sahid Nagar,
Bhubaneshwar
Proctor: Abanis Nayak

CHENNAI
Chemistry Lecture Theater,
Humanities and Social Sciences Block
Indian Institute of Technology – Chennai
Map of IIT – Chennai
Proctor: Kiran Vijayakumar

GOA
Zuari Hall,
The International Centre Goa,
Dona Paula
Proctor: Tallulah D’Silva

HYDERABAD
IIPH Hostel – (Indian Institute for Public Health)
Kavuri Hills (Madhapur)
Hyderabad
Directions from Madhapur Police Station:

Proctor: T P Devarajan

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

COIMBATORE
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu
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

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

PUNE
Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT),
Plot 15, Rajiv Gandhi InfoTech Park, Hinjawadi, Phase 1
Nearby Landmarks: 1 km from Infosys Circle and next door to Cognizant
Tech. Solutions and I2IT
Pune – 411057
Proctor: J Ramanand

THRISSUR
St. Thomas College, Thrissur
Proctor: Dr. Vijaynath V

MindSweep International Venues

UK — Coventry

Contact: Chris@worldquizzing.com

United States
Cornelius Pass Roadhouse
4045 N.W. Cornelius Pass Rd.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Portland, Oregon
Proctor: Saurabh Jain
Contact Manjith: 503-913-2711

San Francisco
UCSF
Contact: Mark.Ryder@ucsf.edu
Proctor: Yoshimi Fukuoka

Philadelphia
Proctor: Arun Banana Singh Raghavan (arraghav@gmail.com)

Stanford University
Conference Room, Durand Building,Stanford University
Street Address :
680 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Contact:
Email Arun Simha : asimha_qm@yahoo.com
Proctor: Rohit Varicatt: – 650-798-4373

Two more venues in the US
New York
Venue- ING DIRECT Cafe
New York 968 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Proctor: Pradeep (Konga)

AUSTIN
University of Texas at Austin
Contact: AustinLovesMindsweep@gmail.com
Proctor: Sunil Kowlgi

Germany
Contact:  Sebastian Klussmann
Email: skquiz@gmx.de

Norway
Proctor: Knut Heggland
email knut.heggland@gmail.com

Sri Lanka
Proctor: Ruwan Senanayake
Email: ruwan.p.sen@gmail.com
Venue:
Civil Aviation Authority Training Academy,
No. 78, Galle Road Colombo 3 (opposite Cinnamon Grand Hotel)

Malaysia
Proctor: Nigel Jones
Kuala Lumpur venue for Mindsweep
SLC Pusat Bahasa Istimewa
1262, Block A2 Leisure Commerce Square 9,
Jalan PJS 8/9 46150 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia
Contact : Nigel Jones (+6012 3721014)

Singapore
Proctor: Caleb Liu
Call: 96222242
Bayshore Park, Pearl Tower, 22-03.

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

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.

Oasis Lone Wolf Quiz 2011 – Bangalore Results

Sl. NAME TOTAL STARS
OPEN

1 Arul Mani 93 7
2 Thejaswi Udupa 82.5 8
3 Anustup Datta 82.5 6
4 Arun Hiregange 78 5
5 Rahul S. Kottalgi 73 7
6 Movin Miranda 69.5 6
7 Santosh V Swaminathan 67 5
8 Sumeer Kumar 62 5
9 Alagarsamy 54 5
10 Ochintya Sharma 54 3
11 Navin Rajaram 47 5
12 Raghu Gopalan 46 3
13 Sudarshan M A 45 5
14 Hrishikesh Varma 41 3
15 Venkatesh Srinivasan 38 3
16 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula 31.5 2
17 Ulka Kelkar 31.5 0
18 Ajay Parasuraman 27.5 4
19 Nishanth R C 23 1
20 Mayur Srinivasan 18 0
21 Harold D’Souza 13.5 0
22 Vibhav 13 0
23 V Chandrashekar 12 0
24 Prakash Bagri 6.5 0
25 Amrit Sodhi 2 0
26 Miteshkumar Jain 1 0

COLLEGE

1 Samarth Rangavittal 37 2
2 Sandeep Mathias 34 4
3 Pranav S Ramamurthy 17.5 1
4 Jeydev C S 16 0
5 Pranav Kuttaiah 15.5 0
6 Vijay Ramesh 12 0
7 Akshay Tiwari 11.5 0
8 Nanjundeshwara N 2 0
9 Hayden D’Souza 1 0
10 S Srivastav 1 0

Lone Wolf Quiz on Sunday 28 August 2011

We will hold the first Lone Wolf contest of the 2011 season on Sunday, 28 August 2011, at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram.

This is a solo quizzing contest is open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Written Prelims followed by Finals for 8 qualifiers
Prizes for all finalists

Schedule
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1200hrs-1400hrs

QM: Navin Rajaram

Venue:

Results of KQA’s Quiz for Families and Lone Wolf Quiz

The results of the quizzes held on Sunday 7th August 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Open Quiz for Families
QM: Rashmi Vallabhajyosula

1. Two and a Half Lorises (Siddharth, Ulka, Mandavi) – 85
2. Mukherjees (Sutanu & team) – 73
3. Rishika & Rajeev Gowda – 63
4. Deepa & Mani – 53
5. Sharmas (Ochintya, Sujata, Tuku) – 52.5
6. Koramangala Nexus (Venky & team) – 43.5
7. Two Men and a Baby – 43
8. Sumer, Arnav, Aarushi – 42

Lone Wolf Quiz
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar, Vineeth Surendranath, Siddhartha Sen and Ashwan Lewis

1. Arun Hiregange – 70 (1st by tie-break)
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 70 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Varun Rajiv – 70 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Arul Mani – 55
5. Santosh Swaminathan – 50
6. Sudarshan M.A. / Sumer Kumar – tied on 25
8. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 20

Mahaquizzer 2011 City-wise winners

These are the city-wise winners of Mahaquizzer 2011 held on 29th May 2011

BANGALORE
City winner Arul Mani 86
Ladies Winner Debashree Mitra 63
School Winner Naren M Nath 22
College Winner Varun Rajiv 49
BHUBANESHWAR
City winner Ratnakar Sadasyula 37
Ladies Winner Ayesha Pattnaik 19
College Winner Anurag Dash 22
CHENNAI
City winner Swaminathan G 81
Ladies Winner Saranya Jaykumar 69
School Winner R Sibi 12
College Winner Jayadev Bhaskaran 41
COIMBATORE
City winner Srikant P 78
Ladies Winner Dr. Ambali Chandrasekhar 10
School Winner Arnav Chandrasekhar 13
College Winner Srikant P 78
DELHI
City winner Samanth Subramaniam 78
Ladies Winner Hanisha Vaswani 27
School Winner Anunay Kulshrestha 28
College Winner Siddarth Bannerjee 54
GOA
City winner Aniruddha Sen Gupta 70
Ladies Winner Ira Almeida D’Costa / Anjali Sen Gupta 15
School Winner Julian D’Costa 36
College Winner Nachiketa Adhikari 31
GUWAHATI
City winner Jidaditya Nagari 34
Ladies Winner Pranami Jamuli 24
School Winner Priyansu 16
College Winner Nayanjyothi Medhi 26
HYDERABAD
City winner Lathish V 72
Ladies Winner JK Lakshmi 48
School Winner Syed Murtuza Hashmi 14
College Winner Rahul Girish Kumar 39
KOLKATA
City winner Shouvik Guha 78
Ladies Winner Jayshree Mohanka 76
School Winner Rohin Dastidar 7
College Winner Pritwish Dutta 36
MUMBAI
City winner Rajiv Rai 75
Ladies Winner Preyoshi Ganguly 29
College Winner Pranav Shetty 27
MYSORE
City winner Anand R Aiyer 36
Ladies Winner Aarti Shyamsunder 22
School Winner Karthik S 5
College Winner Pavan R 20
PUNE
City winner Ramanand J 62
College Winner Aniket Khasgiwale 41
THRISSUR
City winner Anil Raghavan 36
School Winner Nandu Ashok 15
College Winner Preetish M 23
TRIVANDRUM
City winner Manu Sudhakar 67
Ladies Winner Bhavya Mohan 9
School Winner Nikhil Gorge 24
College Winner Ranjeet F J 24

Mahaquizzer 2011 Top 100 and International results

Here are the top 100 all India scores after final adjudication. As usual, we also list a number of international quizzers that participated non-competitively.

All India top 100 scores

Rank Name Centre Score * ** */** Comment
1 Arul Mani Bangalore 86 3 4 7 City Winner
2 Anustup Datta Bangalore 84 5 2 7
3 Swaminathan Chennai 81 2 4 6 City Winner
4 Shouvik Guha Kolkata 78 6 2 8 City Winner
5 Srikant Parameswaran Coimbatore 78 4 3 7 College/City Winner
6 Samanth Subramanian Delhi 78 3 2 5 City Winner
7 Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka Kolkata 76 4 2 6 Ladies Winner
8 Rajiv Rai Mumbai 75 0 0 0 City Winner
9 Harikrishnan Menon Mumbai 73 0 0 0
10 Lathish V. Hyderabad 72 3 2 5 City Winner
11 Aniruddha Sen Gupta Goa 70 3 1 4 City Winner
12 Saranya Jayakumar Chennai 69 3 5 8 Ladies Winner
13 Manu Sudhakar Trivandrum 67 3 3 6 City Winner
14 Sumant Srivatsan Mumbai 67 3 0 3
15 Vinoo Sanjay Mumbai 67 2 0 2
16 Thejaswi Udupa Bangalore 65 2 2 4
17 Arun Hiregange Bangalore 65 4 0 4
Mukund Sridhar Mumbai 65 4 0 4
19 Navin Jayakumar Chennai 64 1 2 3
20 Anannya Deb Mumbai 64 0 0 0
21 Debashree Mitra Bangalore 63 2 2 4 Ladies Winner
22 Gautam Ghosh Kolkata 63 3 1 4
23 Jayakanthan R. Chennai 62 3 2 5
24 Ramanand J. Pune 62 2 0 2 City Winner
25 Dr S. Bhattacharya Kolkata 61 3 4 7
26 Sankhya Chennai 61 2 1 3
27 Sanjoy Mukherjee Kolkata 61 3 0 3
28 Anirudh Chari Kolkata 60 3 1 4
29 Nagesh V. Hyderabad 60 3 0 3
30 Gopal Kidao Chennai 60 1 1 2
31 Amrit Pritom Chetia Delhi 59 2 2 4
32 Cheriyan Alexander Bangalore 58 1 2 3
33 Balakrishnan S Mumbai 58 2 1 3
34 Santosh Joseph Swaminathan Bangalore 58 2 0 2
35 Anurakshat Gupta Delhi 58 1 0 1
36 Raghu Gopalan Bangalore 58 0 0 0
37 Suraj Menon Pune 56 1 0 1
38 Vibhendu Tiwari Mumbai 55 3 1 4
39 Soubhadra Chakrabarty Kolkata 55 3 0 3
40 Siddhartha Banerjee Delhi 54 2 2 4 College Winner
41 Vikram Joshi Mumbai 52 2 0 2
42 Govind Grewal Mumbai 52 0 0 0
43 Sudip Kalyan Dey Kolkata 51 2 2 4
Kiran Vijayakumar Chennai 51 2 2 4
45 Nitish Khadiya Hyderabad 50 2 0 2
46 Lakshana Kripash Bangalore 49 2 1 3
47 Varun Rajiv Bangalore 49 3 0 3 College Winner
48 Abhinav Dasgupta Mumbai 48 3 1 4
49 Lakshmi J. K. Hyderabad 48 2 1 3 Ladies Winner
Nikhil Sonde Mumbai 48 2 1 3
51 Jaideep Shankar Jagannathan Delhi 48 2 0 2
Pravin Varma Mumbai 48 2 0 2
53 Aryapriya Ganguly Kolkata 47 2 2 4
54 Ajay Jaisinghani Delhi 47 2 1 3
55 Abhijit Banerjee Kolkata 47 1 1 2
56 Krishnamurthy J. Hyderabad 47 2 0 2
57 Nilay Puntambekar Bangalore 46 2 2 4
58 Sumeer Kumar Bangalore 46 2 0 2
59 Prasann Potdar Mumbai 46 1 1 2
60 Anil Kothuri Mumbai 46 0 1 1
61 Rajath Krishna Bangalore 45 1 2 3
62 Shamanth Rao Bangalore 44 2 1 3
63 Sreekanth Hyderabad 44 1 1 2
64 Kinshuk Biswas Kolkata 43 3 1 4
65 Ajachi Chakrabarti Delhi 43 3 0 3
66 Sumo Mumbai 43 1 1 2
67 Rohan Nogueira Bangalore 43 2 0 2
68 V R Praveen Bangalore 42 1 1 2
69 Sid Sen Delhi 41 1 4 5
70 Karthik Shashidhar Bangalore 41 1 1 2
71 Aniket Khasgiwale Pune 41 1 0 1
Jayadev Bhaskaran Chennai 41 1 0 1 College Winner
73 Rajiv D’silva Goa 40 1 0 1
Parthasarathi Ghatak Kolkata 40 1 0 1
A P Alagarsamy Chennai 40 1 0 1
76 Aditya Gadre Mumbai 40 0 0 0
77 Rahul Girish Kumar Hyderabad 39 2 1 3 College Winner
78 Sharat Nambisan Delhi 39 1 1 2
79 V V Ramanan Chennai 39 2 0 2
R Tamizhmarai Chennai 39 2 0 2
81 Navin Rajaram Bangalore 39 0 0 0
82 Ulka Kelkar Bangalore 38 2 0 2
Siddharth Vij Hyderabad 38 2 0 2
84 Shiladitya Ganguli Kolkata 38 1 0 1
85 Dibyendu Das Bangalore 37 1 1 2
Vimala Jagannath 37 1 1 2
87 Samarth Rangavittal Bangalore 37 1 0 1
88 Ratnakar Sadasyula Bhubaneshwar 37 0 0 0 City Winner
Chandrachud Basavaraj Mumbai 37 0 0 0
90 Hrishikesh Varma Bangalore 36 2 1 3
91 Prithwish Datta Kolkata 36 0 2 2 College Winner
92 Abdul Raouf Bangalore 36 1 1 2
93 Anil Kumar Chennai 36 2 0 2
Supratim Chakladar Kolkata 36 2 0 2
95 Anil Raghavan Thrissur 36 0 1 1 City Winner
96 Venkatesh Srinivasan Bangalore 36 1 0 1
Anand Ravi Iyer Mysore 36 1 0 1 City Winner
Anand Sivashankar Mumbai 36 1 0 1
99 Julian D’costa Goa 36 0 0 0 School Winner
100 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula Bangalore 36 0 0 0
Srinath Mumbai 36 0 0 0



International scores

S.No Country Participant Name Score
1 UK Pat Gibson 95
2 USA Raghuvansh Ramaswamy 93
3 UK Iwan Thomas 69
4 UK Chris Jones 65
5 UK Barry Simmons 64
6 UK Diane Hallagan 63
7 UK Scott Dawson 62
8 UK Martin Croke 61
9 UK Gareth Kingston 57
10 Germany Arnab Bhattacharya 42
11 USA Supratik Chaudhuri 40
12 Germany Sowmya Ramaswamy 26


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