Askqance - The KQA Silver Jubilee Quiz Festival

ASKQANCE 25th Anniversary

The Karnataka Quiz Association celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this year.  ASKQANCE 2008, our anniversary quiz festival will now feature nine quizzes to be held over two days.

This year’s ASKQANCE is supported by TVS Tyres who also celebrate their 25th anniversary.

The Dates:

The Venues:

Saturday 28th June

Old Hall, St. Joseph’s Boys High School
Museum Road
Bangalore

Sunday 29th June

Purandara Bhavan
(Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha)
8th Main Road
(Near Indiranagar Club)

The Quizzes

Quizzes on Saturday, 28th June

KQA Intercollegiate Championships
(featuring two separate finals for junior college and collegiate teams)
3-member teams
No entry fee
No mixed teams allowed
Registration: 09:30a.m.
Start: 10:00a.m. sharp
Junior Finals: 11:00a.m.-12:00 noon
College Finals: 1200 noon -1:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000 to be won.
QMs: Ochintya Sharma, Rajeev Gowda and Thejaswi Udupa

Hubbubb-a!
The Third edition of the Bangalore Quiz
2-member teams
Open to all
Entry fee: Rs. 50/-
Start: 1:30 p.m
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani

Open Entertainment Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 200/-
Start: 3:00p.m.
Finals: 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 20,000/- to be won
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Madhav Nair

Informals
Venkatesh and Vivek Karthikeyan will coordinate an Informal Sports
Quiz beginning at 1:00p.m. The best five individual entries in this written
contest will win prizes.

Quizzes on Sunday, 29th June (at Purandara Bhavan)

Cognito
High School Quiz Championships
Teams of 2 members
A maximum of 6 teams per school
No entry fee
Prelims: 10 a.m
QM: Dibyendu Das

High School Solo Championship
Start: 12:30 p.m
QM: Mitesh Agarwal

Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000/-

Rajagopal PS will coordinate an Informal Science Quiz, open to all, starting at 1100hrs. Prizes for the best five individual entries.

Sesame - The Open Quiz

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prelims: 2p.m.

TVS Tyres Ride Smart Round: 3:30pm

Finals: 4:15p.m.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
Prizes totalling Rs. 25,000/-

KQA Silver Jubilee Ceremonies
6:00 p.m

All prizes and certificates will be given out during the ceremonies.

A map to help those who need directions to Purandara Bhavan for the quizzes on 29th June:

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.

The September Open Quiz

KQA Ranking Open Quiz

Venue: Daly Memorial Hall

Date: 22 September 2007

Open to teams of four members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals:1630hrs

Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/-. Other finalists will also get prizes.

QM: Gautam Shenoy

The teams placing 1-2-3 will respectively conduct the Finals, Semifinals and Prelims of the next KQA open (unseeded) quiz

KQA Unseeded Open Quiz: 5 Aug 2007

An Open Unseeded Quiz will be held immediately after the School Quizzes on Sunday, 5 August 2007 at Daly Memorial Hall, Nrupatunga Road.

As per the amended KQA rules, the teams that placed 3-2-1 at the Anniversary Quiz will conduct prelims, semis and finals respectively at this quiz.

Members from the teams QFI-Chennai, Kutub Quizzers and Questionable Characters will therefore not participate.

Schedule:

Registrations 1400hrs

Prelims: 1430hrs (conducted by Questionable Characters)

Semis: 1530hrs (set by Kutub Quizzers)

Finals: 1700hrs-1900hrs (set by QFI-Chennai)