Solus Rex 2019 on December 21st
Advance notice for Solus Rex, the KQA’s love-it-or-hate-it-but-you-can’t-ignore-it solo quiz that is back with QMs Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa, but in a new avatar!
Solus Rex is a quiz for solo participants that is open to all, and will ring out 2019 with a one day back-to-back-to-back extravaganza that starts at 2:00 PM on 21st December, 2019: 40q prelim, 40q semi-final for top 16 qualifiers, and 40q finals for the top 8 survivors.
But what is a Solus competition without devious (and sometimes head-scratching) topics? 50% of these questions shall be general in nature, but the remaining half shall be spread across the following four topics:
- Metaphors
- Indian Flora
- History through music
- Under the ground (literally anything under the ground – from graves to gold mines)
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru. [map]
ASKQANCE 2019 – QMs, SCHEDULES, PRIZES
Askqance, the KQA’s annual quiz fest, is just a week away! Three days of quizzing goodness – here are all the details.
The venue for all quizzes (except Sai-tanic verses) is the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road. (Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/pLoJ3Eo4k6weBoZLA)
Friday, June 28th
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer – a showdown between the top 16 quizzers in India, as determined by Mahaquizzer 2018.
QMs: Movin Miranda, Nagaratna Patil, Navin Rajaram and Praveen VR.
230 PM: MegaWhats – a showndown between the top 16 quizzers quiz teams in India, as determined by MegaWhats 2019.
QMs: Preetham Upadhya, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Rajagopal PS and Vivek Karthikeyan.
Audience is always welcome for MahaMahaquizzer and MegaWhats.
9 PM: The Sai-Tanic Verses (Quiz Night at the Courtyard)
Yes, AsKQAnce now has a nightlife! Come to the Courtyard in Shantinagar for a fun quiz at a great venue to wine and dine – it’s like dinner theatre, only a quiz.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Venue: The Courtyard in Shantinagar. (Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/XQ7eanLRTMLkyWu6A )
QM: Sai Ganesh + team.
Note on parking: Very limited parking available at the venue, so ideal to park either near St. Joseph’s college or at the Shantinagar Bus Stand parking lot and walk up.
Saturday, June 29th
10 AM: Persiflage – the books quiz
High brow, low brow, middle brow… books and the people behind them. A few alternative titles: Rifle Pages, Book Lagi Hai, Tome Deaf, Readheads, Sheet Happens, Shelf Aware… sigh, #LitAF (millennials, please attend). Rest assured, the QMs are hard at work with the questions rather than the title.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Krittika Adhikary, Thejaswi Udupa.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
330 PM: Son of Lumiere – the movies quiz
The 11th edition of a movie quiz that just keeps getting better, like your favourite Indiana Jones Carry On the 11th movie in the MCU the reputation of Harvey We… FINE WINE. It keeps getting better like fine wine. The biggest and best movie quiz in the biz. Ask anyone.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Sujata Sharma, Varun Rajiv.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
Sunday, June 30th
10AM: By Hooke or by Crookes – the Sci/Tech quiz
Science, as in the science of everyday things. Technology, as in how the USB is inserted the wrong way up. Anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, anti-evolution crusaders and makers of mythological nukes are all welcome. No PhD required.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: CIDs from Kerala.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
230 PM: Gridlock – the Crossword Quiz
A take-to-lunch quiz that requires solving a printed grid containing approximately 30 clues. Most clues will have a predominant quizzing component and/or a cryptic clue. Winners determined on the number of correct answers. Ties, if any, will be broken by time taken.
An open quiz for teams of 2… well, the prizes are for two people, at any rate.
QMs: Venkatesh S, Venkataraman R
Prizes: 2K, 1.5K, 1K
330PM: Sesame – the General Quiz
A general quiz. The general quiz of the calendar, even. After all, specialisation is for insects.
An open quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Mollika, Santosh Swaminathan.
Prizes: 8K, 6K, 4K + coupons for all finalists.
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Results of quizzes held on March 3
Solus Rex Semifinals by Thejaswi Udupa and Arun Hiregange
Here are the top 10 who make it to the finals of Solus Rex
1. Ravi Mundoli – 275 points
2. Hrishikesh Varma – 256 points
3. Anustup Datta – 249 points
4. Sachin Deshpande – 248 points
5. Ashwin Kumar – 211 points
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 194 points
7. Rohit Suresh – 193 points
7. Pranav R – 193 points
9. Ajay Parasuraman – 191 points
10. Varun Rajiv – 190 points
KQA History Quiz by Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajat Gururaj
I – CIDs From Kerala (Ravi Mundoli, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, Hrishi Varma) – 339 points
II – Remembrance of Things Past (Debashree Mitra, Manu Sudhakar, Rajagopal PS, Venky Srinivasan) – 272 points
III – KD (Rajat, Nishanth Raman, Rahul Jadhav) – 245 points
IV -SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Prithwiraj) – 196
V- Peter Panchali (Sachin Deshpande, Siddarth Pai, Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair) – 157 points
VI – MQ (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, YOTA, Santosh J Swaminathan) – 148
VII – Cabal (Kishore Rajendra, Shishira+2) – 87 points
VIII – Gang of Four (Dr Krishnan,
Pop Ki Kamai, the KQA Pop Culture Quiz by Sai Ganesh and Debasish Mishra
I – The Boney Kapoors (Anuradha, Vishnu, Sahil, Raju) – 115 points
II – MQ (Varun Rajiv, Santosh J Swaminathan, Mitesh Agarwal, YOTA) and We Put the Culture in Pop Culture (Ravi Mundoli, Priyambad Pattanayak, Venky Srinivasan, Manu Sudhakar) – 110 points
Other finalists, in no particular order:
Death & Taxes (Asawari Ghatage, Abhishek Ahluwalia, Ajay Parasuraman, Aparna Suresh)
CIDs From Kerala (Jinson Chacko, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, Hrishi Varma)
SJC Quizzers (Nagaratna Patil, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Arul Mani)
Peter Panchali (Sachin Deshpande, Siddarth Pai, Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair)
Mayank Mujumdhar, Mukunth Raghavan, Aditya Morarka, Saurabh S
Dramedy of the Commons (Arun Ramanathan, JP, Rajat Gururaj, Satish)
Sumeer, Avantika, Kunal
Open Quizzes on Sunday, March 3, 2019
The KQA will be conducting three quizzes – two of them open to all – on 3rd March (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (https://goo.gl/maps/KuhSpXYbGAo on Google maps)
930AM: Solus Rex Semi-Finals by Thejaswi Udupa and Arun Hiregange.
After putting the general public through their paces back in November 2018, the top 16 masochists qualifiers are in the crosshairs of the QMs with rounds of both general quizzing and specialist topics to determine the finalists. It’ll be a hoot to watch!
Quiz for pre-determined qualifiers – audience welcome.
1230PM: The KQA History Quiz by Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajat Gururaj
We will leave ‘what is history?’ to historians like E.H. Carr, but the issue of ‘what is history quiz?’ can be more readily answered by our QMs. A history quiz for and about all ages.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
3.30 PM: Pop Ki Kamai by Sai Ganesh
The 9th edition of the pop culture quiz by Sai ‘city’s finest QM’ Ganesh is here! The annual quiz on movies, music, comics, TV, theatre, internet, and an ominous ‘…other forms of pop culture.’
The format may have a few complications that are Sai ‘well-received’ Ganesh’s stock-in-trade, but it is basically a direct finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
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XXXVI Canara Union Lone Wolf on Sunday, August 26, 2018
KQA rises again from its post-Askqance stupor and will shake off its hibernation sickness with the 36th edition of the legendary Canara Union Lone Wolf quiz on 26th August (Sunday).
QM Navin Rajaram will put solo participants through their paces in this general quiz.
It will start at 10 AM on Sunday, 26th August.
The venue is the Canara Union in Malleswaram. (Location: https://goo.gl/maps/Wk8TVTqd2F82)
It is a prelims/finals open general quiz for solo participants.
Note 1: The venue is NOT Ujjivan in Koramangala. Also, the pin on Facebook is not accurate – please use the Google pin for navigation.
Note 2: The KQA yearbook for 2017-18 – launched in July 2018 – will be available at the venue at ₹500/copy.
A limited number will be brought to the venue – if you’re interested in purchasing a copy, please message 9902444486 to ensure availability of your copy.
Please call 8884125047 in case you have trouble finding the place.
ASKQANCE 2018 – Results
The Woodstock of quizzing saw a total of 8 quizzes being held over three days, with old and new names turning up in the winners and finalists’ lists. Here are the full results:
1. Mahamahaquizzer, the showdown between the top 16 finishers of Mahaquizzer.
I – Vinoo Sanjay – 295 points
II – Manu Sudhakar – 260 points
III – Jayakanthan R – 241 points
IV – Arul Mani – 240 points
V – Samanth Subramanian – 235 points
V – Rahul Kottalgi – 235 points
VII – Anustup Datta – 220 points
VIII – Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
2. MegaWhats, the National open quizzing championship.
I – Preetham Upadhya, Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 201 points
II – Swaminathan Ganesh, Gopal Kidao, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 164 points
III – Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 160 points
IV – Vinoo Sanjay, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma (Matunga Manram) – 159 points
V – Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari (Traveling Pillsbury) – 153 points
VI – Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Naveen Jayakumar (Memory Bank) – 152 points
VII – Anannya Deb, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Suraj Menon, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 147 points
VIII – Ramkey, Goach, Shafeeq, Alok (Sheikh Yerboutis) – 101 points
3. Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the Arts Quiz at asKQAnce
I – Rahul Kottalgi, Anirudh Chari, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 208 points
II – Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 200 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 142 points
IV – Mario Fernando, Vijaysarathy, Sreeram, Sankhya (Insignificant Others) – 130 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar (Memory Blank) – 84 points
VI – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 75 points
VII – Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 65 points
VIII – Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Rohit Rao, Hari Nair – 60 points
4. Son of Lumiere, the movie quiz at asKQAnce.
I – Balaji Thirumalai, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 291 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde (Matunga Manram) – 247 points
III – Jinson Chacko, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Chandrakant Nair (CIDs from Kerala) – 189 points
IV – Kushan Patel, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 188 points
V – Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar – 187 points
VI – Abhinav Dasgupta, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 125 points
VII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Rajagopal PS, Arun Ramanathan (Mission 2018) – 92 points
VIII – Anagh Mukherjee, Prithwish Dutta, Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh (Caveat Attemptor) – 90 points
5. GS Hiranyappa Memorial History-Geography Quiz at asKQAnce 2018
I – Kunal Sawardekar, Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 305 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 250 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 235 points
III – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 235 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli (Memory Blank) – 225 points
V – Kunal Savarkar, Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani (Hammer and Tongs) – 225 points
VII – Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh (QED) – 217 points
VIII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We are Like This Wonly) – 140 points
6. Sesame, the General Open quiz at Askqance
I – Swaminathan Ganesh, Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao (QED) – 356 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 326 points
III – Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 302 points
IV – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 301 points
V – Jayashree Mohanka, Sreyashi Dastidar, Debashree Mitra, Preyoshi Ganguly (ShriDevis) – 293 points
VI – Sreshth Shah, P Srikanth, Partha Ghatak, Arindam Dutta (Last Action Heroes) – 267 points
VII – Debanjan Bose, Rohit Rao, Sachin Deshpande, Siddharth Pai (Peter Panchali) – 250 points
VIII – Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Abhinav Dasgupta (Traveling Pillsbury) – 201 points
Congrats all.
Results of quizzes held on May 27, June 10 and WQC Bangalore
Here are the results of the Bangalore leg of the World Quizzing Championship held on June 2
Overall winners
I – Ashwin Kumar – 105 (113–8)
II – Arul Mani – 103 (111–8)
III – Thejaswi Udupa – 102 (112–10)
IV – Debashree Mitra – 100 (109–9)
V – Arun Hiregange – 95 (103–8)
VI – Santosh Swaminathan – 91 (101–10)
VII – Varun Rajiv – 89 (96–7)
VIII – Rajagopal PS – 83 (92–9)
Category Winners
Culture – Ashwin Kumar, Arul Mani
Entertainment – Arun Hiregange
History – Arul Mani, Debashree Mitra
Media – Varun Rajiv
Lifestyle – Arul Mani
Science – Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange
Sports – Arun Hiregange
World – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa
Congratulations to all the top scorers!
Here are the results of quizzes held on May 27.
Comikaze, the KQA Comics Quiz
QMs: Debanjan Bose and Siddharth Pai
I – Varun Rajiv and Ashwin Kumar – 26 points
II – Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa – 24.5 points
III – Sohan Maheshwar and Gautam Shenoy – 23.5 points
The Abominable Open Quiz, a quiz on the Himalayas
QM: Ashwin Kumar
I – Thejaswi Udupa – 30 points
II – Sachin Deshpande and Debanjan Bose – 29.5 points
III – Varun Rajiv and Santosh Swaminathan – 24 points
The May Open Quiz
QMs: Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramana than
I – Varun Rajiv, Ashwin Kumar, Santosh Swaminathan – 130 points
II – EM Bhargava, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ajay Parasuraman, Atul Mathew – 95 points
III – Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Ochintya Sharma – 45 points
Congratulations to all the winners.
Results of quizzes held on June 10:
After nearly 300 questions spread over three quizzing days across the season, Chandrakant Nair gets crowned as the new Solus Rex champion, getting his nose ahead of Ashwin Kumar in his breakthrough year. Boy wonder Preetham Upadhya comes third. Here are the scores.
I – Chandrakant Nair – 296 points
II – Ashwin Kumar – 291 points
III – Preetham Upadhya – 247 points
IV – Manu Sudhakar – 220 points
V – Santosh Swaminathan – 205 points
VI – Debashree Mitra – 183 points
VII – Varun Rajiv – 155 points
VIII – Keshav Atreya – 150 points
Results of Artefacts Quiz conducted by Vivek Karthikeyan:
I – Navin Rajaram and Manu Sudhakar – 34 points
II : Avinash T and Praveen VR (and) Venky Srinivasan and Tanmay Prusty – 28 (Tie)
Results of History Quiz by Urmila:
I – SRS, Debashree, Ajay Parasuraman, Tanmay Prusty
II – SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Avinash, Prithwiraj)
III- Anush, Nishant, Maitrey Pranav R
Congratulations to all the winners!
AsKQAnce 2018 – Schedule
AsKQAnce 2018, KQA’s annual quiz fest – the Woodstock of quizzing (it’s fun?), the Burj Khalifa of buildings (it’s big?), the Pacific of oceans (it’ll be peaceful?), the Silk Board of traffic jams (lots of people?), the Manoj Prabhakar of 90s all-rounders (er… what?), the Tesla Model 3 of heightened expectations (maybe not), the original iPhone launch event of #hype (please stop), the… uh, Thejaswi Udupa of Twitter (…) – is just one month away!
Here’s the final schedule:
Friday, June 29th
1030 AM: MahaMahaquizzer
A showdown between the Top 16 (well, #17 and #18 made it after some dropouts) of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Avinash Thirumalai, Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar.
230 PM: MegaWhats (semi finals and finals)
For the 16 qualifiers from MegaWhats 2018.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan.
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien
An open quiz on the Arts, for teams of 4.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3 PM: Son of Lumiere
An open quiz on Movies, for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz
An open quiz on History/Geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS
230 PM: Sesame
The Open general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
The venue for all three days is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road.
So book your tickets, make your plans, and just come off!
Results of quizzes held on May 6th, 2018
Here are the results of today’s quizzes at KQA.
A. The Indian MELA Quiz by Hem Maradia and Siddhant Rao
I – Preetham Upadhya, Ayush Murthy – 42 points
II – Anustup Datta, Alagarsamy – 38 points
III – Debanjan Bose, Hari – 33 points
B. The Lone Wolf Quiz, by Navin Rajaram
I – Hrishikesh Varma – 216 points
II – Thejaswi Udupa – 178 points
III – Rajagopal PS – 166 points
Congratulations to all the winners!
Open quizzes on Sunday, 6th May, 2018
The KQA will be hosting two open quizzes on 6th May (Sunday) at Ujjivan in Koramangala.
11 AM: The India MELA quiz by Hem Maradia – a quiz on Indian Music Art Literature and Entertainment. It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
230 PM: The KQA Lone Wolf Quiz by Navin Rajaram. A general quiz for solo participants by Navin Rajaram, who has conducted many highly enjoyable quizzes for the KQA in the past. It is a prelims/finals quiz for individuals. Open to all.
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