Askqance - The KQA Silver Jubilee Quiz Festival
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:
- Saturday 28th June 2008
- Sunday 29th June 2008
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
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/-
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
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)