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Mahaquizzer 2010 city-wise winners

kqaquizzes — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:04:01 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:09:06 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:52:27 +0000

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.

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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

kqaquizzes — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:28:02 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:16:17 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:22:54 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:29:53 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:33:20 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:56:20 +0000

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

kqaquizzes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:22:34 +0000

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.