Quizzes on Saturday 4 February 2012

We will hold three Open quizzes on Saturday, 4 February 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

EVENT I
Lao Me Thanda
The annual quiz on Love, Sex and other associated disorders.

QM: Arul Mani

RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Open to all, but we’d like the participants to each be above 18.

Schedule:
Prelims: 1030hrs onwards
Finals: 1130-1300hrs

Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

EVENT II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Open written quiz on speculative fiction.

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.

Schedule:
1400-1530hrs

Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

EVENT III
Cannabis Indica
The Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.

QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma

RULES:
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.

Schedule:
Prelims: 1600-1700hrs
Finals: 1730-1900hrs

Prizes for the first three places.

January 31, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

MindSweep 2012 – Full Results

These are the full results for MindSweep 2012 ordered by rank.

In case of a tied total, the lowest category score was compared and then the score in the Connect category. If the tie was still unbroken after this, a joint rank was awarded.

The full scores including points for each category are in this spreadsheet.

UPDATE (15/01/2012): Two participants’ scores were left out accidentally and have been added to the rankings now. Please note that ranks 264 and below have now changed as also ranks 88-94.
UPDATE (17/01/2012): We received some corrections to scores. Please note your rank may have changed.

Rank Name Country Total
1 Pat Gibson UK 110
2 Kevin Ashman UK 101
3 Mark Grant UK 101
4 Dan Melia USA 82
5 Samanth Subramaniam Sri Lanka 78
5 Josh Kosman USA 78
7 Mark Ryder USA 78
8 Swaminathan G. India 76
9 Andy Tucker UK 76
10 Movin Miranda Malaysia 74
11 Jayakanthan R. India 71
12 Lars Heggland Norway 69
13 Barry Simmons UK 68
14 Chris Quinn UK 68
15 Shouvik Guha India 67
16 Arun Hiregange India 67
17 Kathryn Johnson UK 66
18 Nick Mills UK 66
19 Eric Wildsmith UK 65
20 Mitesh Agarwal India 64
21 Gareth Kingston UK 63
22 Steve Chernicoff USA 63
23 Thejaswi Udupa India 61
23 Jayashree Mohanka India 61
25 Aniruddha Sen Gupta India 60
26 Chris Jones UK 60
27 Mark Kerr UK 60
28 Gopal Kidao India 59
29 Sankhya Krishnan India 58
30 Vikram Rajan USA 57
31 Anustup Datta India 57
32 Tore Dahl Norway 57
33 Rajiv Rai India 56
34 Iain Thoms UK 56
35 Santosh Swaminathan India 56
36 Diane Hallagan UK 55
37 Vikram Joshi India 54
38 Knut Heggland Norway 54
39 Tom Blair USA 54
40 Neil Macaskill UK 53
41 Caleb Liu Singapore 52
42 Rajagopal P.S. India 51
43 Sumant India 51
43 Siddhartha Banerjee USA 51
45 Ian Oriss UK 50
46 Anirudh Chari India 50
47 Vinod Krishnan India 49
48 Aryapriya Ganguly India 49
49 Sreeram B. India 49
50 Andrew Teale UK 49
51 Jake Jacobs Singapore 48
52 Nikhil Sonde India 48
52 Vinoo Sanjay India 48
54 Govind Grewal India 47
55 Vijay Sarathy India 46
56 Yogesh Pai India 45
57 Harish Mopur USA 45
58 Suresh Ramasubramanian India 44
59 Ken Owen UK 44
60 Ravikant Avva India 44
61 Sebastian Klussmann Germany 43
62 Tony Hightower USA 43
63 Stewart McCartney UK 43
64 Siddhartha Shanker India 42
65 Hari Parameswaran India 42
65 Lathikke Niriella Sri Lanka 42
67 Soubhadra Chakrabarti India 42
68 Anurakshat Gupta India 41
69 Neil Phillips UK 41
70 Hrishikesh Varma India 41
71 Lakshana India 41
71 Anshuman Pal USA 41
73 Ajay Jaisinghani India 40
74 Aditya Gadre India 40
75 Margaret Seiler USA 40
75 Dinesh Krithivasan USA 40
77 Harikrishnan Menon India 39
78 Alagarsamy A.P. India 39
79 Ashwan Lewis India 39
80 Michael McPartland UK 38
81 Ajachi Chakraborti India 38
82 Gautam Ghosh India 37
83 Jaidev Karunakaran India 37
84 George M Paily India 37
85 Ochintya Sharma India 37
86 Ian Griffiths UK 37
87 Sumeer Kumar India 36
88 Neil Bruce Malaysia 36
88 Praveen VR India 36
90 Mario Fernando India 36
91 Samarth Rangavittal India 36
92 Rajiv D’Silva India 36
93 Ashwin India 35
94 Karen Skjånes Norway 35
95 Kinshuk Biswas India 35
95 Ravi Mundoli India 35
97 Sudip Dey India 34
97 Atul Mathew India 34
99 Aravind Vijayasarathy India 34
100 Samrat Sengupta USA 34
100 Jean USA 34
102 Haripriya Mukundarajan USA 33
103 Anand Shivshankar India 32
104 Aniket Khasgiwale India 32
105 Tanmay Prusty India 31
106 Sandip Sen India 31
106 Colin Kidd UK 31
108 Bhargava E.M. India 31
109 Ulka Kelkar India 30
110 Pratik Gupte India 30
110 Arun Ramanathan India 30
112 Dharmendra Open 30
112 Peter Mayer Singapore 30
112 Salil Murthy Singapore 30
112 Roshan Shankar USA 30
116 Navin Rajaram India 29
117 Bharath Ram Bashyam India 29
118 Tanya Procyshyn Singapore 29
119 Vinod Hariharan India 29
119 Abhinav Kishore India 29
121 Pramath Varma India 28
121 Manjith Kumar USA 28
121 Arun Simha USA 28
124 J K Lakshmi India 28
125 D Ghosh India 27
125 Ebb Saxton UK 27
127 Sebastian Jacoby Germany 27
127 Anil Kothuri India 27
127 Pravin Varma India 27
127 Anannya Deb India 27
131 Balakrishnan S India 26
132 Anurag Sarkar India 26
133 Sujay Mathias India 26
133 Hari S Nair India 26
133 Debanjan Bose India 26
133 Geo Thomas India 26
133 Debashish Misra India 26
133 Vivek Karthikeyan India 26
139 Abhinav Dasgupta India 25
139 Toril Opsahl Norway 25
141 Venkatesh Srinivasan India 25
142 Gaurav Sabnis USA 25
143 Ants Siim Estonia 25
143 Aditya Subramanian India 25
143 Jithin Jacob India 25
143 Siddarth Krishnakumar India 25
143 Pulasthi Rupasinha Sri Lanka 25
143 Prashanth S. India 25
149 Anil Raghavan India 24
149 Marg Howe UK 24
151 Anand Shankar India 24
151 Aravindabharathi R. India 24
151 Siddhartha V India 24
154 Prasanna India 23
154 Dick Cribb UK 23
156 Aniketh Talwai India 23
156 Eskil Åsmul Norway 23
156 Hasini Minuwanpitiya Sri Lanka 23
159 Rithwik.K India 22
159 Sukrit Munjal India 22
159 Sanandan K. India 22
162 Subin G India 22
163 Andy Östreich Germany 22
163 Sarin P India 22
165 Kaushik Ramajayam USA 21
166 Akshay Palwe India 21
166 Mihir Jayaraman India 21
166 Sunil Nagaraj USA 21
166 Jinson Chacko India 21
166 Ashwin Prabhu USA 21
171 Amarnadh Sadasivuni India 20
171 Ashwin Kelkar India 20
173 Karthik Shashidhar India 20
173 Mark Antony Sri Lanka 20
173 Ramakrishnan M. India 20
176 Apratim Mukhopadhyay India 20
176 Sanskar Jain India 20
176 G A Sreevatsadhara Sarma India 20
176 Yogishchandra Kamath India 20
180 Ashwin B India 19
181 Aditya S India 19
181 Lars Andre Gundersen Norway 19
181 Jan Gunnar Fredriksen Norway 19
181 Sutanu Mukherjee India 19
181 Tamizhmarai R. India 19
186 Supratim Chakladar India 18
187 Milan Gupta India 18
187 Leo Thomas India 18
187 Dhruv Sharma India 18
187 Kaustuv Gupta India 18
187 Chirag Mutgi India 18
187 Varun Setlur USA 18
187 Adish Talwadker India 18
194 Sambit Mishra India 17
194 Ashish Goel USA 17
194 Aditya Samuel Verghese India 17
194 Shashwat Salgaoncar India 17
198 Amith JM India 17
198 Siddharth Dani India 17
198 Abhijeet.B India 17
198 Nipunika Wijeratne Sri Lanka 17
198 Venkatesh A USA 17
203 Purushottam Gupta India 16
204 Chandrasekhar Kotillil India 16
204 Rohan Nag India 16
204 Vegard Eikemo Sande Norway 16
204 Moumika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka 16
204 Satya Simha USA 16
204 Supratim Sengupta India 16
210 Wasi Manazir India 15
210 Gayani Minuwanpitiya Sri Lanka 15
212 Abhishek Mitra India 15
212 Christoph Schirra Germany 15
212 Nishanth R C India 15
212 Abhishek Upadhya India 15
212 Arun.A.S India 15
212 Ivar Areklett Norway 15
212 Gaurav Chittor USA 15
212 Kumar Vaibhav Tanwar India 15
212 B. Anurag India 15
221 Aditya Sriram India 14
222 Ajay Kumar KS India 14
222 Balaji India 14
222 Jitamitra Mahapatra India 14
222 Sankar Roy India 14
222 Surinderjeet Singh USA 14
222 Arun Prasad R. India 14
222 Apurva India 14
222 Udit Anand India 14
222 Satya Mathur India 14
231 Anunay Kulshrestha India 13
231 Kaushik Saha India 13
231 Nayan Medhi India 13
231 Shreyas G India 13
231 Madushka Sandaruwan Sri Lanka 13
231 Ranuka Dharmarathe Sri Lanka 13
231 Harshit Sinha India 13
231 Vidyuth Anand India 13
231 Shresth Shah India 13
240 Jesse Vinay India 12
241 Nikhil Dubey India 12
242 Sonali India 12
242 Sundesh Shetty India 12
242 Rajat Upadhyaya India 12
242 Venkatasubramanian TC India 12
242 Sridhar V India 12
242 Sandeep Hari India 12
242 Preetish M India 12
242 Noufel Samed India 12
242 Shibin Azad India 12
242 Amila Sumanapala Sri Lanka 12
242 Kundapur Varun Shenoy India 12
242 Amit Shet India 12
242 Paul Gatward India 12
242 Nitish Wagle India 12
242 Sunil Sardessai India 12
257 Ankita Mittal India 11
257 Sandeep Kumar Tripathy India 11
257 Ankita Mittal India 11
260 Kamal Rathi India 11
260 Guruprasad Sri Lanka 11
260 Kasun Pathirage Sri Lanka 11
260 Praneeth India 11
264 Tushant Mittal India 10
265 Gautam Kotian India 10
265 Shreya Rao India 10
265 Aditya Ragul India 10
265 Akila H. India 10
269 Sumukh Herlekar India 9
269 Dr. Wasantha Dissanayake Sri Lanka 9
269 Kee Choon Lee Malaysia 9
272 Doreen Brandt Germany 9
272 Kumar Abhishek India 9
272 Sarthak Dash India 9
272 Prabhanjan Mannari India 9
272 Ramnarayan P India 9
272 Ashok Menon India 9
272 Palitha Perera Sri Lanka 9
272 Sibi R. India 9
272 Vikas Prasad India 9
272 Harshit Kukreja India 9
272 Anjali Sen Gupta India 9
283 Lingaraj Petla India 8
283 Indranil Adak India 8
283 Ravi Bhat India 8
283 Vipin Nair India 8
283 Nuwan Heenatigala Sri Lanka 8
283 Harish Venkatachari USA 8
283 Prashant Sinha India 8
283 B. Aravind India 8
283 Jatan Rodrigues India 8
292 Shruti India 7
293 Sumanth P India 7
293 Anlaug Frydenlund Norway 7
295 Boris Scheurell Germany 7
295 Sania Narulkar India 7
295 Nitin Pillai India 7
295 Nikhil Jadhav India 7
295 Vishwas India 7
295 Santosh S Mishra India 7
295 Omkar Amrutanshu India 7
295 Jayathra Liyanagama Sri Lanka 7
295 Vaidyanathan Krishnamurthy USA 7
295 Vignesh India 7
295 Rahul Lath USA 7
295 Vaibhav Kathuria India 7
295 Mohit Verma India 7
308 Sushant Chaudhary India 6
309 Dhruv Bhatnagar India 6
309 Sankalp Jain India 6
309 Vikash Kumar Sinha India 6
309 Bivash Rath Attreya India 6
309 Rajib Roy India 6
309 Jagadish Sahu India 6
309 Akila Abeysinghe Sri Lanka 6
309 Lakshmi Radhakrishnan Sri Lanka 6
309 Satya Nalam USA 6
309 Aditya Ghatage India 6
319 Bauddheya Baliarsingh India 5
320 Siddharth Gujarathi India 5
320 Rajeev Indiranagaraju USA 5
320 Akshat Jain USA 5
320 Vikas Srivastava India 5
320 Shanav Kakkar India 5
320 Anant Lawande India 5
326 Abinash Khandual India 4
326 Awanit Anand India 4
326 Ishan Bose India 4
326 Piyush Kedia India 4
326 Shiva Prabhakaran India 4
326 Pavan Kulkarni India 4
326 Satish India 4
326 Chamikara Weregama Sri Lanka 4
326 Sanura Hapuarachci Sri Lanka 4
326 Ashutosh Varma India 4
326 Ankit Soni India 4
326 Shreyam Parth Krishna India 4
338 Vignesh KR India 3
339 Akhilesh. B India 3
339 Arup Bagla India 3
339 Sampad Pattanaik India 3
339 V Kannan India 3
339 Shubham Tiwari India 3
339 Chinmay Naik India 3
339 Sunil India 3
346 Siddharth Kamdar India 2
346 Abhishek Pruseth India 2
346 Amruta P. Nayak India 2
346 Golak Sarangi India 2
346 Moditha Sandanayake Sri Lanka 2
346 Vivek Subramaniam USA 2
346 Agastya Keni India 2
346 Eeshaan Vernekar India 2
346 Surya Narayan India 2
346 Udit Bhatia India 2
356 Prasad Gunawardena Sri Lanka 1
357 S.Mahler Germany 1
357 Priti Ranjan Maharana India 1
357 Nusrat Ali Khan India 1
357 Akash Mitra India 1
357 Arun Rachamadugu USA 1
357 Renjith T.R. USA 1
357 Guruprasad Raghav India 1
364 Maniar Razaahmed N India 0
364 Kaiser A Maniar India 0
364 Priyadarshi Singh India 0
364 Dr Kartikeyan India 0
364 Varuna Gunawardena Sri Lanka 0
364 Lakshmi Sridhar USA 0
January 13, 2012 | Filed Under MindSweep, News | Leave a Comment 

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

January 12, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, MindSweep, News | Leave a Comment 

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

January 12, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments

250 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 13 cities this year. We are still awaiting couriers from a couple of cities and so are able to announce only a list of the top 80 teams. This will be updated to become the top 100 as soon as the delayed couriers arrive.

Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Guwahati, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.

Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) –Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Dilip Sarma in Guwahati, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and  a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.

This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work  put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of  Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.

The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 13 cities. The three other places in the semi-finals will go to the first three teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city.  These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011

The next edition of Mega-Whats, in December 2012, will be set by Kiran Vijayakumar and Arun Hiregange.

Best!

Arul Mani

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011–Results

Q.E.D (Chennai) have won the Mega-Whats title for the third year running. They scored 85. The runner-up position was shared by MetaQuizziks (Bangalore)  and Insignificant Others (Chennai) on 78.  The top 80 scores (provisional) can be viewed here: TOP 80 MW2011

The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.

PANAJI

20 teams appeared

  1. OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M)            52
  2. COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash,  Ashin,  Akshay Surendra)      27
  3. SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal)     11

PUNE

19 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar)     57
  2. COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar)              33

 KOLKATA

12 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas)  75
  2. COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal)                          30
  3. SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu)  16

HYDERABAD

17 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava )                      69
  2. COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram)          35
  3. SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath)                                                  16

NEW DELHI

26 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi)  70
  2. COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
  3. SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev)             11

DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7th question using the score-comparison method.

CHENNAI

21 teams appeared.

  1. OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan)   85
  2. COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan)                   29
  3. SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

20 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi)           39
  2. COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
  3. SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath)         05

CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2nd question using the score-comparison method.

THRISSUR

12 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar)        60
  2. COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram,  Sruthi: 10
  3. SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09

MUMBAI

14 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu),  70
  2. COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya  37

 

BANGALORE

41 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh)  78
  2. COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team)       37
  3. SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team)  08

COIMBATORE

11 teams appeared

  1. OPEN:  TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS  (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
  2. COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj)        09
  3. SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram)    03

 

 

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz

Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.

You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/298602.html

You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/278371.html
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/229294.html
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/2009/01/04/

and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/4262.html

A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.

Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.

December 24, 2011 | Filed Under News, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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

November 30, 2011 | Filed Under Inter College Quizzes, Junior College Quizzes, Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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.

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Mega-Whats 2011

UPDATE - View the full quiz 

The third edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship will be held on Sunday, 11 December 2011.

The quiz will be held across thirteen cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have confirmations from Chennai, Guwahati, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Mysore, New Delhi, Pune, Thrissur, and Thiruvananthapuram.

The Bangalore edition will be held at the First Floor Hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Since this hall is much smaller (accommodates 35 teams, and by accommodate we mean squeeze in), and since we had people squatting on the floor last year, please register in advance to ensure good seating.

An entry form is provided here–scroll to the end of the page: http://kqaquizzes.org/megawhats/

The details:

For more details, please call Arul Mani at 097312-14519

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