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 |
World Quizzing Championships 2011 – Bangalore results
Here are the results of the WQC2011 in Bangalore
1st Place – Arul Mani – 141
2nd Place – Rahul Kottalgi – 121
3rd Place – Tejaswi Udupa – 113 (Arun Hiregange also scored 113 but the tie was broken because Tejaswi Udupa had the highest score in two categories.)
Ladies winner – Ulka Kelkar – 63
College winner – Samarth – 84
School winner – Pranav R – 31
Category winners
Science – Tejaswi Udupa – 21
Entertainment – Rahul Kottalgi – 16
Culture – Arul Mani – 26
Lifestyle – Santosh Swaminathan – 20
History – Arul Mani – 22
Media – Arul Mani and Arun Hiregange – 23
Sports – Manish – 16
World – Arul Mani, Rahul Kottalgi and Tejaswi Udupa – 18
UPDATE: The world top 30 scores have been put up on the WQC2011 site.
Mahaquizzer 2011 Topic distribution
While we wait for the official results for Mahaquizzer to be announced, here’s the distribution of topics among the 150 questions asked this year.
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Mahaquizzer 2011 – Chennai venue has been shifted
Those registered for Mahaquizzer 2011 at Chennai, please note the new venue:
Department of Management Studies (DoMS),
IIT-Madras.
The department is located close to Gajendra Circle and is adjacent to the Café Coffee Day inside the campus
Coordinator: Gopal Kidao (98401 26727)
KQA Proctor: Rajagopal (98800 61309)
Quizzes on Saturday 2 April 2011
We will hold two quizzing events on Saturday 2nd April 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists.
EVENT I
The Norwegian Open Solo Quiz
Written quiz with 6 sections
240 questions in 90 minutes
Entry Fee: Rs.100/- (free for school students)
Prior registration essential
Please send a mail stating name and category to kqaquizzes@gmail.com to register.
Registrations close at 12 noon, Friday 1 April 2011.
For more details,log on to http://www.norgesquizforbund.no/
Schedule:
Registrations: 1000hrs-1015hrs
Section I: 1015-1100hrs
Break for corrections: 1100-1130hrs
Section II: 1130-1215hrs
Break for corrections:1215-1245hrs
Prizes:
Open: Rs. 1000, Rs. 750 and Rs.500
Women: Rs. 1000, Rs. 750 and Rs.500
College: Rs. 1000, Rs. 750 and Rs.500
School: Rs. 1000, Rs. 750 and Rs.500
Plus prizes of Rs. 250 each for each category winner.
The quiz is set by the Norwegian Quiz Association and will be conducted in several quizzing cities across the world.
Bangalore Proctor: Ashwan Lewis
EVENT II
The MetaQuizziks XXI Anniversary Quiz for Unseeded Open Teams
Rules
Teams of 4 members
Open to all unseeded teams
The top 8 teams in the rankings cannot participate-list follows
Entry: Rs.50/- per team
Schedule
Prelims: 1330hrs-1430hrs
Finals: 1500hrs-1700hrs
Prizes
Rs. 4000/-, Rs. 3000/-,Rs.2000/- and Rs. 1000/- for all finalists.
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan, Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Viayakumar and Arul Mani.
Please note that all events will start as scheduled–we have to vacate the hall at 1700hrs.
Solus Rex Semis, Chronosynclastic Infundibulum and Graphick Rampage – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday, 30 January 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I: Solus Rex Semifinals
QMs: Dibyendu Das & Arun Hiregange
Semi-Final 3 : Asian Festivals
1. Thejaswi Udupa – 170
2. Rajagopal P.S. – 140
3. Santosh Swaminathan – 50
4. Sohan – 30
Semi-Final 4 : History of Manned Spaceflight
1. Praveen V.R. – 135
2. Raouf / Anustup Datta – tied on 95
4. Hrishi Varma – 75
So, the Solus Rex finals lineup will be:
- Arul Mani
- Sudarshan M.A.
- Thejaswi Udupa
- Praveen V.R.
- Mitesh Agarwal (best runner-up)
Event II: Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, The Speculative Fiction Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Arun & Gautam Shenoy – 26.5
2. Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv – 24.5
3. Satyajit Chetri & Ashwan Lewis – 24
4. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange / Goutham & Holla – tied on 18
5. Raju and His Hunchman (Rajagopal & Landmark Venky) – 16.5
6. Sandeep Mathias & Siddarth Pai – 15
7. The Silsila Squad (Hrishi & Raouf) – 14.5
8. Santosh Swaminathan & Dibyo – 14
Event III: Graphick Rampage, The Comics Quiz
QM: Satyajit Chetri
1. Santosh Swaminathan & Thejaswi Udupa – 68.5
2. Sohan & Varun Rajiv – 44.5
3. Dibyo & Ashwan Lewis – 31.5
4. Tups & Appu – 28.5
5. Hrishi & Raouf – 21
6. Arun & Shenoy – 19.5
7. Sandeep Mathias & Siddarth Pai – 16.5
8. Yogesh & team – 12.5
Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 3 & 4
The topics for the Solus Rex semi-finals 3 & 4, tentatively scheduled for 30th January 2011, are given below.
Semi-Final 3 : Asian Festivals
Thejaswi Udupa
Santosh Swaminathan
Rajagopal P.S.
Maitrey Deshpande
Sohan
Semi-Final 4 : History of Manned Spaceflight
Anustup Datta
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Hrishi Varma
Praveen V.R.
Raouf
Quizzes on Sunday 28 November 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists
EVENT I
Solus Rex Semifinals
The lineups and topics for the first two semifinals are given below.
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
Qualifiers unable to make it on the 28th will be allowed to sit for the second set of semis IF another qualifier from the second set drops out.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Prizes: Rs. 500 for the winner and Rs. 250 for the other semi-finalists.
TIME: 1000hrs-1230hrs
EVENT II
The postponed Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur, if the QM’s femur holds up.
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Ranking Specialist Open Quiz
CD to DC- the last 201 years by UL and KS.
From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy- The way we were and the way we are.
Quizmasters: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan.
Teams of four members.
Open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs
Prizes
Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 1 & 2
The lineups of the four semi-finals and topics for the first two are given below. They were derived by arranging scores in boustrophedon order, with tied scores resolved first using *-ed questions and then using alphabetical order of first names.
The first two semi-finals will be held on Sunday 28th Nov 2010.
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
Semi-Final 3
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 18
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 15
11. Rajagopal P.S. – 12.5
14. Maitrey Deshpande – 12
19. Sohan – 11
Semi-Final 4
4. Anustup Datta – 17
5. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 16
12. Hrishi Varma – 12.5
13. Praveen V.R. – 12.5
20. Raouf – 10.5
