Mysore Quizzes: The Results

High School Quiz

50 teams took part in the School Quiz held at the SDM-IMD auditorium in Mysore. The quiz was conducted by Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy.

The results:

  1. Ganesh A and Venkatram Belvadi of Acharya Vidya Kula won the quiz
  2. II: Haridev and Vaishak of Sadvidya
  3. III: Prakrithi and Madhuri Sampath of Sadvidya
  4. IV:Sushruth and Deepak of Sadvidya
  5. IV: Laksh Kumar and Pruthvi Bharadwaj of Acharya Vidya Kula
  6. VI: Manohar and Ishaana of JSS Public School
  7. VII: Aakarsh and Pareekshith of St. Joseph’s Central High School

Intercollegiate Quiz

Forty teams took part in the Intercollegiate quiz. The quiz was conducted by Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai.

The results

I: MSRIT – Rahul, Santosh and Srikanth

II: SJCE-Mysore: Ashwini B.M, Nickil Somanna and Vikas

III: NLSUI – Badrinarayan and Manish

IV:RVCE –Nakul P.S

V:NIE – Nikhil Kaundinya, Chaitanya AK and Swikrath GK

VI: SDM-IMD – Anil Jagadish, Ramakrishna and Tejasvi Nathan

VI: NIE – Arun Kumar, Arjun and Pavan HS

VIII: Sadvidya PU College – Sachin Phatak, Mohith NP and Shashank Das

Open Quiz

25 teams took part in the Open Quiz. The quiz was conducted by Arul Mani.

I: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa

II: Venkatesh, Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha and Nagesh

III: Avinash Thirumalai, Siby Kuriakose, Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy

IV; Sandeep Achar, Thanuj and Naren

V: Shashishekhar, Vikas, Kaustubh and Ravi Shekar aka The Mysoreans

VI: Rahul, Srikanth, Nakul and Santosh

VII: Anil Jagadish and team (SDM-IMD)

VII: Rajesh Haldipur, Sundareshan, Manoj and Sandeep

KQA Open Quiz on 20 July

Praveen and Manjith ( formerly of NIT-Kozhikode) will conduct a ranking Open Quiz on Sunday 20 July 2008 at the coffee-shop BrewHaHa in Koramangala.

The quiz starts at 1100hrs sharp. Please be on time–we have to wind up by 2pm.

Rules

  1. Teams of 4
  2. Open to all
  3. Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
  4. Prelims: 1100hrs sharp
  5. Finals: 1145hrs sharp
  6. Prizes for all finalists

The Venue: BrewHaHa is about two doors away from Jyoti Nivas College.

http://www.brewhaha.in for more details

KQA Quizzes in Mysore

We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday 13 July in Mysore as part
of our Silver Jubilee Season.

The venue is sponsored by the SDM Institute of Management Development,
Mysore.

The details

Date: Sunday 13 July 2008
Venue: Yoga Hall, SDM-IMD , Mysore

Events:

High School Quiz

Open to teams of two members
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1000hrs sharp
QM: Varun Shenoy

Intercollegiate Quiz

Open to teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1230hrs

QM: Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai

Open Quiz

Teams of four members
No entry fee
Prelims: 1530hrs sharp

QM: Arul Mani

Teams are requested to report at the venue at least 30 minutes before
the event starts. No prior registration is required. For more details
call Varun (9964666528) /Arul Mani (9731214519).

To reach the venue:
SDM IMD is on Chamundi Hill road. Please carry identification–this is required since the Chief Minister is addressing a gathering at another venue on the same campus.

ASKQANCE 2008 Results

We would like to thank all of you for helping to make ASKQANCE 2008 a
success. A special word of thanks goes out to our sponsors, TVS Tyres,
for their support.

For the record, the collegiate quizzes attracted a total of 110 teams
with the top spots being taken by SVCE (Chennai) and NLSIU-A
(Bangalore) BMSCE finished third. . The Junior College event was won
by SBM Jain College, with NPS-Indiranagar and FAPS taking 2nd and 3rd
spots.

The Bangalore Quiz was won by Rajeev Gowda and Anustup Datta.
G.S.Hiranyappa and Chandrashekhar teamed up to take the second place.
Previous winners Thejaswi Udupa and Karthik Shashidhar finished third.

The entertainment quiz attracted 45 teams. The Chennai outfit
Treebeard (JK, Gopal, Sumo and team) won the quiz, followed by
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Satyajit Chetri, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul
Mani) in second place. The third place was taken by Bang Hoes (Udatta
and team).

120 teams wrote the High School quiz prelims.The event was dominated
by teams from the various branches of the Sri Kumaran’s institutions
with their ICSE team eventually winning the quiz. NPS Rajajinagar
finished second.

Sriram from NPS-R’nagar won the solo title, followed by Arvind (FAPS)
in second place and Athith from Kumaran’s ICSE in third place.

60 teams took the Open Quiz prelims. Special prizes for best school
and best college were claimed by Sishu Griha and NPS-Indirangar
respectively.

The TVS Ride Smart Round for teams placing 9-16 in the prelims was won
by Questionable Characters, followed by Metaquizziks in second place.
Other qualifiers included Raju and His Henchmen,Guessworks,Mustafa,
Takemytrip.com, Nexus, and Namesake. All eight qualifiers received prizes.

The Finals were a truly national affair–5 out of the 8 places were
taken by non-Bangalore teams. The quiz was eventually won by We Are
Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and
Thejaswi Udupa). Arul and His Technicoloured Kurta (from Chennai- JK,
Sumo, Vinod and Sreeram) finished Second, losing top spot by a narrow
margin of 10 points. QED-Chennai (Samanth, Swami, Gopal Kidao and
Rajiv Rai) shook off a slumbersome start to finish Third. The other
finalists included Revenge of the Sith (New Delhi - Dr. Bhattacharya
and team), Insert Cool Name Here, Swami and Friends (Hyderabad), No
Questions Asked and a team from Mumbai (Amit Varma, Udatta and others)

The Informal Sports Quiz was won by Vinod (36 points), followed by
Harish (24.5) and Manish (22) in second and third spots. The
quizmasters decided to limit the prizes to three because only about a
dozen of the fifty people who took the quiz returned their sheets:)

The results for the Informal Science Quiz set by PS Rajagopal for
ASKQANCE are as follows:

Samanth - 17
Sriharsha V Bhat - 11
Ajay Parasuram - 7
Suraj R Nair (FAPS) - 3

Both informals are available for download at http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Thanks are due to the quizmasters Rajeev Gowda, Ochintya Sharma,
Thejaswi Udupa,Kiran Vijayakumar, Madhav Nair,Vivek Karthikeyan,
Venkatesh, Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal, Rajagopal PS and Arun
Hiregange
for the effort they made to ensure that the quizzes were
both challenging and interesting.

Mahaquizzer 2008 - Winners

Winners of each category from the 9 cities where Mahaquizzer was conducted this year below.

Bangalore

Category

Name

Score

Open

Arul Mani

99

College

Shamanth Rao

55

School

Suraj Prabhu

12

Ladies

Rashmi V

35

Bhubhaneshwar

Category

Name

Score

Open

Sambit Mishra

41

College

Nishit Ganatra

19

School

Adarsh Mishra

11

Ladies

Neelu Tripathy

3

Chennai

Category

Name

Score

Open

G Swaminathan

73

College

Ram Kumar

45

School

-

-

Ladies

Saranya Jayakumar

67

Delhi

Category

Name

Score

Open

Dr. S Bhattacharya

74

College

Abhik Ghosh

63

School

Ishaan Chugh

32

Ladies

Vasudha Reddy

50

Hyderabad

Category

Name

Score

Open

Ravi Mundoli

60

College

Vivek Krishnan

37

School

-

-

Ladies

Sarada Anne

23

Kolkata

Category

Name

Score

Open

Shauvik Guha

88

College

Prithwish Datta

37

School

Anshuman Pal

56

Ladies

Jayashree Mohanka

81

Mumbai

Category

Name

Score

Open

Rajiv Rai

81

College

Abhishek Nagaraj

39

School

Harshit Malik

17

Ladies

Rachel Lopez

26

Pune

Category

Name

Score

Open

J Ramanand

69

College

Maitreyi Gupta

29

School

Nandan Gokhale

25

Ladies

Maitreyi Gupta

29

Trivandrum

Category

Name

Score

Open

Kiran Vijayakumar

72

College

Manu Sudhakar

55

School

Rakesh R S

9

Ladies

Prabha K S

10

Mahaquizzer 2008 - All India Rankings

The top 100 quizzers at Mahaquizzer 2008 are listed below. A bold name indicates a city winner, and names in italics indicate category winners.

Rank Name Centre Score * **
1 Arul Mani Bangalore 99 9 2
2 Shauvik Guha Kolkata 88 6 3
3 Anustup Datta Bangalore 85 8 3
4 Rajiv Rai Mumbai 81 8 4
5 Jayashree J Mohanka Kolkata 81 6 2
6 Dr. S. Bhattacharya Delhi 74 7 2
7 Adittya Nath Mubayi Delhi 73 8 1
8 G Swaminathan Chennai 73 3 2
9 Kiran Vijayakumar Trivandrum 72 7 2
10 Mukund Sridhar Mumbai 72 2 1
11 J Ramanand Pune 69 2 2
12 Abhijit Banerjee Kolkata 68 4 3
13 R Jayakanthan Chennai 68 4 0
14 Sanjoy Mukherjee Kolkata 67 7 1
15 Rishi Iyengar Mumbai 67 6 1
Saranya Jayakumar Chennai 67 6 1
17 Gautam Ghosh Trivandrum 66 5 5
18 B Sreeram Chennai 65 3 4
19 Sumant Srivathsan Mumbai 64 4 0
20 Vikram Joshi Bangalore 64 3 0
21 Abhik Ghosh Delhi 63 3 1
22 Vibhendu Tewari Mumbai 62 5 1
23 Srinivasan Rajagopal Chennai 61 3 2
24 Siddhartha Shankar Bangalore 60 2 1
25 Ravi Mundoli Hyderabad 60 1 2
26 Harikrishnan Menon Mumbai 59 3 1
27 Vinod Ganesh Chennai 59 1 1
28 S Balakrishnan Mumbai 58 2 3
29 Anshuman Pal Kolkata 56 5 1
Anil Kothuri Delhi 56 5 1
31 Kunal Savarkar Delhi 55 5 1
32 Shamanth M Bangalore 55 3 1
33 Manu Sudhakar Trivandrum 55 3 0
34 Ajith Prabhakar Mumbai 54 4 1
35 Govind Grewal Mumbai 54 3 1
36 Vivek Nityananda Bangalore 54 1 0
37 Alok Prasanna Kumar Bangalore 54 0 1
38 Dibyendu Das Bangalore 53 6 0
39 Anirudh Chari Kolkata 53 5 2
40 Jaideep Shankar Jagannathan Delhi 53 5 1
41 Prasann Poddar Mumbai 53 3 1
42 Samrat Sengupta Pune 52 2 0
43 Sandip Sen Mumbai 51 4 2
44 A P Alagarswamy Chennai 50 4 1
45 Vasudha Reddy Delhi 50 4 0
46 Sandeep Achar Bangalore 50 3 2
47 Anand Sivashankar Mumbai 50 1 1
48 Udatta Bikram Duarah Mumbai 49 4 1
Ajay Jaisinghani Delhi 49 4 1
50 Amit Pandeya Mumbai 49 3 0
51 Karthik Shashidhar Bangalore 49 2 0
52 Rahul K Bangalore 49 1 0
53 Deviprasad V Chennai 48 4 1
54 S P Rajen Chennai 48 2 2
55 Mukund Krishnan Mumbai 46 4 0
56 Meghashyam Prabodh Shirodkar Pune 46 1 2
57 Sameer Bora Hyderabad 46 0 1
58 J Krishnamurthi Hyderabad 45 1 2
59 Ram Kumar Chennai 45 1 0
Dharmendra Bangalore 45 1 0
61 Varun Rajiv Bangalore 44 2 0
62 Hritik Sampat Bangalore 44 1 0
63 Karthik Amrutesh Bangalore 43 3 1
64 Sudip Kalyan Dey Kolkata 43 2 1
65 Vinod Rajamani Bangalore 43 1 1
66 Cheriyan Alexander Bangalore 42 3 2
67 Anil Kumar K Hyderabad 41 3 1
68 Sambit Mishra Bhubaneshwar 41 3 0
69 Anang Rawat Delhi 41 1 0
70 Gaurav Banerjee Bhubaneshwar 40 2 0
71 Amit Varma Mumbai 40 1 0
72 Raghu Gopalan Bangalore 39 3 1
73 Satyaki Bhattacharya Kolkata 39 3 0
74 Abhishek Nagaraj Mumbai 39 2 1
75 Devarshi Ghosh Kolkata 38 3 0
Ramkey Chennai 38 3 0
77 D J Pingle Hyderabad 38 2 1
Ashwin Kelkar Bangalore 38 2 1
79 Dibyojyoti Haldar Bangalore 38 2 0
80 B V Harish Kumar Pune 38 1 1
81 Anshuman Fotedar Delhi 38 1 0
Abhishek Krishnan Bangalore 38 1 0
83 Tathagata Chatterjee Delhi 37 3 1
84 Sharat Nambissan K.P. Delhi 37 2 0
85 Prithwish Datta Kolkata 37 1 0
Rahul Girish Kumar Hyderabad 37 1 0
Vivek Krishnan Hyderabad 37 1 0
88 Jeevesh Jain Kolkata 36 4 0
89 Shashwat Bhattacharya Kolkata 36 2 0
90 Siddharth Ravichandran Mumbai 36 1 0
Ameya Samant Mumbai 36 1 0
Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee Delhi 36 1 0
93 Vivek Karthikeyan Bangalore 36 0 1
94 R Vijay Hyderabad 36 0 0
Venkateswara Rao Mandela Bangalore 36 0 0
96 Shubhendu Saha Delhi 35 3 1
97 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula Bangalore 35 3 0
98 Kunal Malhotra Delhi 35 2 1
99 Abhinav Kishore Delhi 35 2 0
100 Ashwin Chennai 35 1 0

Mahaquizzer 2008

Details of Mahaquizzer 2008
Update: You can now download the Question paper and the Answer key (and older Mahaquizzers) from our Quizzes page.

Mahaquizzer, KQA’s annual solo championship, will be held on Sunday, 18 May 2008. This year’s quiz is set by Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Avinash Thirumalai and Arun Hiregange.

The contest will be held simultaneously in nine cities: Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.

Four prizes will be given out in each city: Best Quizzer, Best Lady Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer.

The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2008. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence.

Mahaquizzer is a unique contest, requiring the participant to answer 150 questions, drawn from as wide a spread as possible, in 90 minutes. It is open to all and entry is free. Those interested in participating must mail Mahaquizzer@gmail.com or kqaquizzes@gmail.com, mentioning which city you would like to appear from in the subject line.

If you would like more information , or if you have problems registering, please call us at 097312-14519.

Please do try and register by Wednesday 14 May 2008. City coordinators will allow on-the-spot entries if seating is available, but in the event of a space-crunch, first preference will be given to those who had registered before the deadline.

You can have a look at previous editions of the quiz here: http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Individuals who have registered online have been sent confirmatory emails. A city-wise list is put up at http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/96395.html

No more online registrations will be accepted. People who haven’t registered by email must contact their City Coordinator. We would like to accommodate every interested quizzer, but this will depend on the seating available in each venue. City Coordinators will use this criterion to decide about accommodating late/on-the-spot entries.

All the details:

Mahaquizzer 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Reporting Time: 0930hrs
Schedule: 1000hrs-1130hrs

The Venues:

Bangalore
New Block
Cathedral Composite Junior College and High School
Richmond Road
Bangalore

Coordinator: Ochintya Sharma (91-99725-92053)

Chennai
Veta Learning Center
9, Madley Road
T Nagar

Coordinator: Joshua (91-99162-64323)

Delhi
2LT-2,
IIT-Delhi

Coordinator: Ashwan Lewis (91-98185-28426)

Pune
Dewang Mehta Auditorium, “Bhageerath”,
Persistent Systems Ltd,
(Behind Dominos Pizza)
Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune - 411016

Coordinator: Vishwajeeth Narvekar (91-98201-09984)

Kolkata
International School of Business & Media (ISB&M)
EN-22, Sector-V
Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091
(near Capgemini Campus and WEBEL Gate)

Coordinator: Dhivakar Janarthanan (91-98862-84140)

Mumbai
Landmark Bookstore
Infiniti Mall, No.619, New Link Road
Oshiwara, Lokhandwala
Andheri West
Mumbai - 400 053

Coordinator: Avinash Thirumalai (91-98860-60297)

Bhubaneshwar
TCS Learning Center, Koel Campus, Patia

Coordinator: Abhishek Kar (91-99371-90000)

Thiruvananthapuram
Govt. Engineering College
Barton Hill
Thiruvananthapuram

Coordinator: Arun Hiregange (91-98452-03004)

Hyderabad
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73

Coordinator: Satyajit Chetri (91-99591-89943)

The KQA would like to thank The Cathedral High School and Composite Junior College, Bangalore, VETA Chennai, Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd. Hyderabad, GEC Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, TCS Bhubaneshwar,
Persistent Systems, Pune, IIT-Delhi, ISBM Kolkata and The Landmark Bookshop Mumbai for graciously providing Mahaquizzer venues.

We thank Superhits 93.5 SFM for their support in Bhubaneshwar.

We also place on record our gratitude to the various quizzing communities who have supported us in organising Mahaquizzer 2008:
QFI-Chennai, K-Circle Hyderabad, Hyderabad Quiz Club, Kerala Quizzers, The Bombay Quiz Club, The Boat Club Quiz Club Pune, the quizzing community in Bhubaneshwar, and Kutub Quizzers, New Delhi.

MQ meeting: 30 December 2007

The next MQ meeting will be held at 3 pm on Sunday, 30 December 2007, at the Sun Microsystems office, Prestige Obelisk Building, Kasturba Road.

Topic: Musical Instruments

All are welcome!

Those interested in attending must however bring 10 questions on Musical Instruments in PowerPoint format/as an MS-Word document.

Please confirm your participation with Mitesh Agarwal. A text message with your name to 91-98452-59423 should do the trick. Prior confirmation is useful because the security desk at the Sun office insists on a list of names being provided.

The session will close by 7pm.

The Texas Instruments Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz

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The Texas Instruments Foundation announces the 5th edition of the Jack
Kilby Science and Technology Quiz!

* No entry fee.
* High school students of class 8, 9 and 10 are eligible.
* Each school can register multiple teams of 2 students each.
* Not more than two teams from the same school will qualify for the
regional finals.
* The decision of the quiz master is final and binding.

The dates

CHENNAI
Friday, October 26, 2007
09:30 am - 01:00 pm
Kumararaja Muttaiah Hall, R. A. Puram
Contact +91 99400 28541 to register

DELHI
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
09:30 am - 01:00 pm +91 80 2509 9115
Kamani Auditorium, 1, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register

BANGALORE
Sunday, November 11, 2007
12:00 pm - 03:00 pm
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register

The regional round in Bangalore will be followed by a National Final
where the three regional winners will vie for top spot.

NATIONAL FINAL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
4 pm onwards
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore

Go to http://www.tiif.org/Registration_Process.htm for information on
how to register.

Ochintya Sharma, President, KQA, will host the quiz.

Prizes
Regional winners get Robotic kits, Telescopes, Binoculars,
Microscopes, High-end TI Calculators, Book coupons and Trophies among
other prizes.

The National winners stand to win prizes worth more than Rs. One Lakh!

SPECIAL PRIZES for the best all-girls team!

More details at http://www.tiif.org/About_JKQuiz.htm

KQA Events: 14 October 2007

We will hold three events on 14 October 2007 at Daly Memorial Hall, Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore, opposite RBI.

Events

  1. Graphick Rampage–KQA’s Comics Quiz (starts at 1000hrs)
  2. Solus Rex: Semifinal II (starts at 1215hrs)
  3. Unseeded Open Quiz (starts at 1300hrs)

The Rules

Graphick Rampage is open to teams of two members; Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team; 8 teams qualify.

QM: Satyajit Chetri

Solus Rex (semifinal II)

Topic: Africa in the 20th Century

50 questions on the topic, 10 general questions.

Unseeded Open Quiz

Please note that we’re starting the quiz at 1300hrs. The quiz will be completed by 1600hrs–those who wish to take part in the Vista Quiz at IIM-Bangalore may thus get there in time to take part.

Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-; teams of 4 members; 12 teams qualify for the semis, followed by 8 teams in the finals.

Prelims: set by Metaquizziks

Semis: set by We Are Like This Wonly

Finals: set by Corrosion of Conformity

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