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

October 6, 2007 | Filed Under News | 1 Comment 

High School Rankings for 2007-2008

These are the provisional high school rankings for the quizzing season 2007-2008. They list the top 16 school teams in Bangalore based on their performances in the three inter high school quizzes conducted over this season.
Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh win the 2007 championship for their school NPS-Indiranagar with two first-place finishes across the season. They won the KQA 24th Anniversary quiz as well as the Anand Memorial Quiz. Sathwik and Diwakar of Sri Kumaran’s (ICSE) came into the Anand Memorial Quiz with a score of 27 points but were unable to add any significant score to their total on their third outing, thus losing the annual championship by a mere 2 points. Suraj Prabhu led the Carmel School team to good finishes consistently across the season to thus achieve the third place in the rankings.

We were a trifle disappointed to find that schools which have traditionally been among the competitors for the top three rankings– such as St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bishop Cotton Boys and NPS-Rajajinagar–were unable to make much headway this year. We hope to see better performances from these schools, as also increased participation from other schools in Bangalore.

I:NPS-Indiranagar A (Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh) 15+0+15=30
II: Sri Kumaran’s ICSE (Sathwik & Diwakar) : 15+12+1 = 28
III: Carmel School (Kate Roshan/Mrinal Parekh & Suraj Prabhu) 7+10+10=27
IV: Sri Kumaran’s SSLC (Srimukh and team) : 7+12=19 (from two outings)
V: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan Bharadwaj & Mayank Kowshik) 5+12+2=19 (from three outings)
VI: Presidency R.T. Nagar (Akshay Surendra & Ganesh B.) 10+5=15
VII: NPS Indiranagar B (Arjun & Shriyan) 0+0+7=7
VIII: St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Ananth B.R. and team) 0+0+5=5
IX: Aurobindo Public School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 3+1+0=4
X: NPS (CMR) 3+0+0=3
XI: Presidency Nandini Layout (Pranav & Rohit) 2+0+0=2
XII: NPS Koramangala team A: 3
XII: NPS Koramangala team B: 2
XIV: DPS North (Vishwajit Kolathur & Aniruddh Wodeyar) 1+0+0=1
XV: Sri Kumaran’s B ( Arjun & Siddharth) 1/2 & Sudarshan Vidya Mandir 1/2

The results based on which these rankings were decided are given below:

KQA 24th Anniversary Quiz placings

I: NPS-Indiranagar ( Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh) 15
II: Sri Kumaran’s Public School (Sathwik Ashok & Diwakar) 12
III:Presidency R.T. Nagar (Akshay Surendra & Ganesh B.) 10
IV: Carmel School (Kate Roshan & Suraj Prabhu) 7
V: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan Bharadwaj & Mayank Kowshik) 5
VI: Aurobindo Public School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 3
VII: Presidency Nandini Layout (Pranav & Rohit) 2
VIII: DPS North (Vishwajit Kolathur & Aniruddh Wodeyar) 1

KQA Ranking High School Quiz (August 5th 2007)

I: Kumaran’s ICSE ( Sathwik & Diwakar) 15
II: Kumaran’s CBSE ( Pavan & Mayank) 12
III: Carmel School ( Suraj and Mrinal) 10
IV: Kumaran’s SSLC (Deepak & Srimukh) 7
V: Presidency School (Akshay & Ganesh) 5
VI: NPS (CMR) 3
VII: NPS Koramangala 2
VIII: Aurobindo School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 1

Anand Memorial Quiz
26 August 2007

I: NPS Indiranagar (Sowmya & Dipika) 15
II: Sri Kumaran’s (Srimukh and team) 12
III: Carmel School (Suraj & Mrinal) 10
IV: NPS Indiranagar (Arjun & Shriyan) 7
V: St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Ananth and team) 5
VI: NPS Koramangala 3
VII: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan & Mayank) 2
VIII: Sri Kumaran’s ICSE (Sathwik & Diwakar) 1
IX: Sri Kumaran’s ( Arjun & Siddharth) 1/2

The points system used: I place: 15 points , II: 12, III:10, IV:7, V:5, VI: 3, VII:2 and VIII:1.

These rankings are provisional. Contestants wishing to challenge the rankings may write into Arul Mani (arul.mani@gmail.com). If no challenge is received within the next week, these rankings will be taken as final. Trophies and certificates for the first three rankings will be given out at the KQA 25th anniversary celebrations in June 2008.

September 2, 2007 | Filed Under News, School Rankings | Leave a Comment 

Open Rankings as on 14 October 2007

Current Rankings

  1. WaltWo : 7+7.5+12=26.5
  2. Metaquizziks : 3+5+10=18
  3. Corrosion of Conformity : 15+2.5=17.5
  4. QFI Chennai : 15
  5. Questionable Characters : 10+3.5=13.5
  6. No Questions Asked :5+0.5+7=12.5
  7. Kutub Quizzers :12
  8. Sista : 6+3=9
  9. Varun Rajiv and Team : 5
  10. Yaake!, Barisal Guns & Sgt. Heffner’s :2
  11. Nisha & the Thambies :1.5
  12. Insert Cool Name Here and Mustafa : 1

Based on placings from the September Open Quiz, Persiflage and the KQA 24th Anniversary Quiz, details given below.

The placings for the Science Quiz, the History/Culture quiz, the Movie Quiz and Dibyo’s Open Quiz have not yet been added.

KQA 24th Anniversary Open Quiz

  1. QFI Chennai: 15
  2. Kutub Quizzers:12
  3. Questionable Characters: 10
  4. WaltWo:7
  5. No Questions Asked:5
  6. Metaquizziks:3
  7. Barisal Guns:2
  8. Insert Cool Name Here: 1
  9. Mustafa:1

From Book Quiz

I: WaltWO: 7.5
II: Sista: 6
III: Metaquizziks:5
IV: Questionable Characters: 3.5
V: Corrosion of Conformity:2.5
VI: Nisha & the Thambies:1.5
VII: Yaake:1
VIII: No Questions Asked: 0.5

September Open Quiz (Gautam Shenoy)

I: Corrosion of Conformity:15

II: WaltWo: 12

III: MQ: 10

IV: No Questions Asked: 7

V: Varun Rajiv and team: 5

VI: Sista: 3

VII: Sgt. Heffner’s: 2

VIII: Yaake! :1

July 5, 2007 | Filed Under News, Open Team Rankings | Leave a Comment 

KQA XXIV ANNIVERSARY

We organise a quiz-festival titled ASKQANCE in June every year as part of our anniversary celebrations. This year’s edition was held on Sunday, 24 June, at Guru Nanak Bhavan. Three quizzes were conducted in the School and Open categories.

Dibyendu Das conducted Cognito, a general quiz for high school students. 171 teams took part. The quiz was eventually won by an all-girl team from NPS-Indiranagar (Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh). Sri Kumaran’s Public School and Presidency School RT Nagar took second and third spots.

Mitesh Agarwal and Thejaswi Udupa hosted Splitscreen, a Sport & Entertainment Quiz. The QFI-Chennai contingent managed a 1-2 finish after a long but closely-fought contest. 95 teams wrote the prelims.

The third quiz held as part of ASKQANCE was Sesame, an open quiz for teams of 4 members. QFI- Chennai (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth and Sumo) led from the start but had to hold off a spirited last-round challenge from Kutub Quizzers-New Delhi (Udatta Duarah, Dr. Bhattacharya, Kunal Malhotra and Bala) to take first place. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Vinay, Hiranyappa G.S., and Avinash) finished third.

The award ceremony for Mahaquizzer 2007 was held during ASKQANCE 2007. Prof. Cheriyan Alexander put together a short docu on Wing Commander Mulky’s life for the ceremony. Mrs. Mulky then handed the Wg. Cdr. Mulky Award for Quizzing Excellence to Samanth Subramanian, this year’s Mahaquizzer winner.

Detailed results are put up separately.

July 5, 2007 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

Texas Instruments’ Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz

KQA has partnered with the Texas Instruments Foundation since 2003  in conducting the Jack Kilby Science & Technology quiz for students of Std. VIII,IX and X. The fifth edition of the quiz will be held in Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi. Ochintya Sharma will ask the questions.

The dates:

Chennai: 26 October 2007

New Delhi:  first week of November (exact date will be announced shortly)

Bangalore: 11 November 2007

The Chennai and Delhi winners will battle it out with the Bangalore winners on 11 November 2007.

The other details will be put up here shortly

June 10, 2007 | Filed Under Inter School Quizzes, News | 8 Comments 

Mahaquizzer 2007 - The All India Rankings

  1. Samanth Subramanian (Chennai) 71 (3*) wins Mahaquizzer 2007
  2. **Saranya Jayakumar (Chennai) 68 (10*)
  3. Swaminathan G (Chennai) 68 (6*)
  4. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata) 67 (4*)
  5. Anustup Datta (Bangalore) 67 (3 *)
  6. Shouvik Guha (Kolkata) 66 (6*)
  7. **Debashree Mitra (Bangalore) 65 (3*)
  8. Rajiv Rai (Mumbai) 64 (5*)
  9. Gopal Kidao (Chennai) 64 (4*)
  10. Vinoo Sanjay (Chennai) 61 (4 *)
  11. Archana Gupta (New Delhi) 60 (3*)
  12. Mukund S (Bangalore) 58 (3*)
  13. Vikram Joshi (Bangalore) 57 (3*)
  14. Anirudh Chari (Kolkata) 56 (3*)
  15. Kunal Savarkar (New Delhi) 54 (3*)
  16. S. Bhattacharya (New Delhi) 53 (4*)
  17. Arun Hiregange (Bangalore) 53 (3*)
  18. Gautam Ghosh (Kolkata) 52 (4*)
  19. Ravi Mundoli (Hyderabad) 52 (3*)
  20. Harikrishnan Menon (Thiruv’m) 52 (2 *)
  21. Krishnamurti G (Chennai) 51 (3*)
  22. Ramanand J (Pune) 50 (2*)
  23. Navin Jayakumar (Chennai) 49 (2*)
  24. **Binu Thomas (Thiruv’m) 48 (4*)
  25. Jayakanthan R (Chennai) 48 (2*)
  26. Sreeram B 47 (Chennai) (4* incl. 1**)
  27. **Sandeep N (Pune) 47 (4*- all single-stars)
  28. Manu Sudhakar (Thiruv’m) 46 (8*)
  29. Siddhartha Shanker (Bangalore) 46 (3*)
  30. Jaidev Karunakaran (Bangalore) 46 (2*)
  31. Vinod (IREVNA-Chennai) 46 (1*)
  32. Cheriyan Alexander (Bangalore) 45 (5*)
  33. Vibhendu Tewari (Mumbai) 45 (3*)
  34. Sumanth Srivatsan (Mumbai) 45 (2* incl. 1**)
  35. Jay Srinivasan (Thiruv’m) 45 (2*)
  36. Rajeev Gowda (New Delhi) 45 (1*)
  37. Arvind Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 43 (2*)
  38. Srinivasan Rajagopal (Chennai) 43 (0*)
  39. Anand Sivashankar (Mumbai) 42 (3*)
  40. **Vaibhav Devanathan (Mumbai) 42 (2*)
  41. Sameer Bora (Hyderabad) 42 (1*)
  42. Balakrishnan S (Mumbai) 41 (3*)
  43. **Vasudha Reddy (New Delhi) 41 (2*)
  44. Priyambad Pattanayak (Hyderabad) 40 (0*)
  45. Ajith Prabhakar (Mumbai) 39 (4*)
  46. Anurakshat Gupta, Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore) & Meghashyam Shirodkar (Pune) 39 (1*)
  47. Not awarded-see above
  48. Not awarded-see above
  49. Brijesh Nair (New Delhi) & Harshavardhan Ketkar (Pune) 38 (2 * incl.1**)
  50. Not awarded-see above
  51. Kinshuk Biswas (Kolkata) 38 (1*)
  52. Amit Pandeya (Mumbai) 38 (0*)
  53. Rahul S.K (Bangalore) 37 (0*)
  54. Sreekanth G (Bhubaneshwar) 36 (2*)
  55. Praveen V.R (Bangalore) 36 (1**)
  56. Rajagopal P.S (Chennai) 36 (1*)
  57. Abhijit Banerjee (Kolkata) 35 (6*)
  58. Abhinav Dasgupta (Kolkata) 35 (4*)
  59. Arnab Bhattacharya 35 (3*)
  60. Kunal Malhotra ( New Delhi) 35 (2*)
  61. Anang Rawat ( New Delhi) 35 (1*)
  62. Dharmendra D (Bangalore) 35 (0*)
  63. **Vimala Jagannath (Kolkata) 34 (3*)
  64. **Anshuman Pal (Kolkata) 34 (2*, both double-stars)
  65. Hrishikesh Varma (Thiruv’m) & Siddharth Vij (Mumbai) ) 34 (2*)
  66. Not awarded-see above
  67. S.P. Rajen (Chennai) 34 (1**)
  68. Prashanth (Chennai) & Rashmi Vallabhajyosula (Bangalore) 34 (1*)
  69. Not awarded-see above
  70. Thomas Jacob (Bangalore) & Tathagatha Chatterjee (New Delhi) 34 (0*)
  71. Not awarded-see above
  72. Govind Grewal (Mumbai) 33 (3*)
  73. Satyaki Prasad 33 (2**)
  74. Gautam Das (Thiruv’m) 33 (2* incl.1**)
  75. Arun Raghavan (Bangalore) 32 (2* incl. 1**)
  76. Bhavya Khanna 32 (1**)
  77. Anil Kothuri (New Delhi), Sandeep Achar (Bangalore), Thrivikraman P.S (Chennai) & Arka Bannerjee 32 (1*)
  78. Not awarded-see above
  79. Not awarded-see above
  80. Not awarded-see above
  81. Vivek Krishnan (Chennai) 32 (0*)
  82. Ajay Jaisinghani (New Delhi) 31 (3*)
  83. Sandip Sen (Bangalore) 31 (1**)
  84. Ameya Sawant (Mumbai) & Anil Kumar (Chennai) 31 (1*)
  85. Not awarded-see above
  86. Ramkey (Chennai) & Ashwin Koneti (Bangalore) 31 (0*)
  87. Sriharsha Bhat, Sumeer Kumar (Bangalore) & Ashwin Sudhir 30 (2*)
  88. Not awarded —see above
  89. Not awarded —see above
  90. Arpit Gupta, Ishaan Chugh (New Delhi) & Raghavendra H (Bangalore) 30 (2**)
  91. Not awarded —see above
  92. Not awarded —see above
  93. Bhargava, Chandu Lenin (Hyderabad), Sarin, Anil Raghavan (Thiruv’m), Amit Varma (Mumbai) & Sankaran C. (Bangalore) 30 (1*)
  94. Not awarded —see above
  95. Not awarded —see above
  96. Not awarded —see above
  97. Not awarded —see above
  98. Not awarded —see above
  99. Balaji, Srini Majji (Hyderabad) & Rohan Khanna (New Delhi) 30 (0 stars)

A (**) against the name indicates category winner in that cityThe highest score recorded by a lady entrant was 68 (Saranya Jayakumar—Chennai). Three out of the top 10 are women.

Anshuman Pal of Kolkata made 34 — the best performance so far by a school student. Sriharsha Bhat, a high-school entrant from Bangalore, made 30.

The best turn-outs, centrewise, were recorded in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar and Mumbai. 78 entrants took the quiz in Bangalore, while Bhubaneshwar and Mumbai recorded 58 and 57 participants respectively.

June 2, 2007 | Filed Under News | 2 Comments 

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