Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments
232 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 12 cities this year.
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, 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, 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 12 cities. The four other places in the semi-finals will go to the 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), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi) and Mad O’ What (64/Mumbai). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011
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
232 teams took part in all.
The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.
PANAJI
20 teams appeared
- OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M) 52
- COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash, Ashin, Akshay Surendra) 27
- SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal) 11
PUNE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar) 57
- COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar) 33
KOLKATA
12 teams appeared
- OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) 75
- COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal) 30
- SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu) 16
HYDERABAD
17 teams appeared
- OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava ) 69
- COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram) 35
- SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath) 16
NEW DELHI
26 teams appeared
- OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi) 70
- COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
- 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.
- OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan) 85
- COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan) 29
- SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
20 teams appeared
- OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi) 39
- COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
- 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
- OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar) 60
- COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram, Sruthi: 10
- SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09
MUMBAI
14 teams appeared
- OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu), 70
- COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya 37
BANGALORE
41 teams appeared
- OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh) 78
- COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team) 37
- SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team) 08
COIMBATORE
11 teams appeared
- OPEN: TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
- COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj) 09
- SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram) 03
MYSORE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: TWO AND A HALF MEN (Aarthi, Shyam, Hari) 24
- COLLEGE: SJCE (Abhishek CHauhan, Rajat VS, Kevin Paul, Adithya) 15
- SCHOOL: SADVIDYA HIGH SCHOOL (Manish, Jayadatta, Pranav, Rohan) 04
Mega-Whats 2011 – The Complete Quiz
The all-India (and some overseas!) results for Mega-Whats 2011 will be announced in a few days, but here’s the quiz for all those that might have missed it on the 11th. Or maybe those that want to spot their favourite “succulent karoo” questions once more.
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ASKQANCE 2011 — Day 3 Results
Kibitz Simple, the Sports Quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa & Venkatesh Srinivasan
- Sriram & Sankhya – 200 points
- Chennai Vennai – 155 points
- Obama Satyabama – 135 points
- QED – 120 points
- NED – 120 points
- Traveling Pilsburys – 85 points
- Middle Eastern Anger – 80 points
- Subcontinental Oafs – 75 points
Wing Commander G. R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was awarded to the All-India Mahaquizzer winner for 2011, Dr. Arul Mani.
Mr. G. S. Hiranyappa, a stalwart quizzer of the Karnataka Quiz Association was honoured and presented with a shawl by Mr. Ochintya Sharma, the KQA president. Mr. Hiranyappa who also celebrates his birthday today, graciously accepted the honour and self-deprecatingly claimed that all one needed to gain respectability was to grow older and sport gray hair.
Sesame, Open! Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
- Insignificant Others – 155 points
- We Are Like This Wonly – 150 points
- QED – 145 points
- Insert Cool Name Here – 130 points
- Metaquizziks – 95 points
- Unteam – 80 points
- Traveling Pilsburys – 70 points
- Team 2 – 40 points
Mega-Whats Face-Off
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar & Arul Mani
The top 4 teams from each of the semi-finals held on the 25th competed in the finals. The winner was awarded the KQA Founder’s Trophy.
- Insignificant Others (Chennai) – 251 points
- We Are Like This Wonly (Bangalore) – 221 points
- QED (Chennai) – 191 points
- Keep Distance (Bangalore) – 180 points
- Guessworks (Thrissur) – 176 points
- Traveling Pilsburys (Mumbai) – 150 points
- Metaquizziks (Bangalore) 130 points
- Questionable Characters (Bangalore) – 76 points
ASKQANCE 2011 — Day 2 Results
By Hooke or by Crookes – Open Science Quiz
QMs: Vivek Karthikeyan and Rajagopal P.S.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 115 points
- Metaquizziks – 100 points
- QED – 97 points
- Questionable Characters – 86.5
- The Buckyball Stops Here – 74.5
- Never Mind the Sex Pistols – 39 points
- What Pray… – 31 points
- Insignificant Others – 29 points
Mega-Whats Semi-Finals I
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar
- Metaquizziks (Bangalore) – 183 points
- WALTWo (Bangalore) – 168 points
- Keep Distance (Bangalore) – 123 points
- Guessworks (Thrissur) – 113 points
- Feni Vidi Vici (Goa) – 109 points
- Bong Connection (Kolkata) – 72 points
- SUV Loving Capitalist Pricks (Mumbai) – 65 points
- Quizzy Leaks (Coimbatore) – 39 points
Mega-Whats Semi-Finals II
- Insignificant Others (Chennai) – 281 points
- QED (Chennai) – 270 points
- Traveling Pilsburies (Mumbai) – 270 points
- Questionable Characters (Bangalore) – 214 points
- Swami and Friends (Hyderabad) – 186 points
- Mega WTF (Pune) – 179 points
- Modern Mughals (New Delhi) – 150 points
- Mustafa (Bangalore – 134 points
Son of Lumiere – Open Film Quiz
QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange
- Rahul K & Santosh J S – 160 points
- Rajiv Rai & Vibhendu T – 145 points
- Gopal K & TKB – 135 + 3 points
- Mitesh A & Varun R – 135 + 2 points
- Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar – 125 points
- Samanth & Jayakanthan – 120 points
- Ramanand & Sudarshan – 85 points
- Rajen Prabhu & Anil K – 70 points
Mega-Whats 2010: KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship
This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship.
The quiz will be held across ten cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Coimbatore and Kolkata
The details:
Date: Sunday, 12 December 2010
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani
1. General quiz, open to all.
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2010 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Tuesday 7th December 2010. Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.
11. Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.
13. The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.
14. We will rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.
16. The city-winners will face off in June 2011 as part of the KQA 28th Anniversary.
For more details, please call 97312-14519
VENUES
Bangalore
First Floor, Institute of Agricultural Technologists
Queen’s Road
Bangalore
Contact: Mitesh Agarwal (98452-59423)
Chennai
PS Senior Secondary school,
# 33, Alarmelmangapuram,
Mylapore,Chennai 600004
Contact: Jayakanthan (94444-43347)
Coimbatore
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu Coimbatore
Contact: Arjun (09944709086)
Hyderabad
Landmark Store,
Road No 12,
Banjara Hills
Hyderabad.
Contact: Nitish Khadiya (91-98856-79460)
Kolkata
Unitedworld School of Business
Infinity Benchmark Tower
10th floor, Plot G1, Block EP&GP
Sector-V, Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091
Contact: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee (91-98363-44694)
Mumbai
Hall, 6th floor, Management College,
IES MCRC “Vishwakarma” M.D. Lotlikar Vidya Sankul,
791, S. K. Marg,
Bandra Reclamation (Opp Lilavati hospital),
Mumbai – 400 050
Contact: Vibhendu (9820410952)
Panaji
The International Centre – Goa,
Dona Paula, Panaji.
Pune
Seminar Hall II
(Next to main Auditorium),
College of Engineering, Pune (COEP),
Shivajinagar, Pune-5
Contact: Mohit Karve (9890777964)
Thrissur
Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute,
Near Shakthan Thampuran Bus Stand,Thrissur 680005
Contact: Arun AS (09895859164)
ASKQANCE 2010 – Results
The KQA celebrated the 27th Anniversary of its founding with ASKQANCE 2010 – a two-day festival of Open Quizzing. Here are the results:
Day One (19th June 2010)
Event I
By Hooke or by Crookes: Open Science Quiz
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Vivek Kartikeyan.
1. QED (Swami, Samanth, JK)
2. Who Rekha? (Rajagopal, Rajiv Rai, Lakshmi, Gopal Kidao)
3. Ramanan, Sankhya, Vijay, Sreeram
4. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar, Arul Mani)
5. Neo Nexus (Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Kaustuba Venugopal, Venky, Ashwan Lewis)
6. We Are Like This Wonly (Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta & Gautam Ghosh)
7. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Avinash Mudaliar, Anil Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar)
8. Try Why Ya (Abhishek, Srikanth, Akhil)
Event II
Hoarse Latitudes: Open Travel Quiz
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das.
1. Swami & Samanth – 131
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 121
3. Dharmendra & Vikram Joshi – 111
4. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka & Dr. Bhattacharya – 107
5. Ochintya Sharma & Arun Hiregange – 106
6. Rajagopal & Alagarsamy – 88
7. Rajiv Rai & Gopal Kidao – 81
8. Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar – 77
Event III
Son of Lumiere: Open Movie Quiz
QMs: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange.
1. Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv – 170
2. Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar – 165
3. Samanth & JK – 150
4. TK Balaji & Gopal Kidao – 145
5. Rahul S Kottalgi & Nishanth R – 135
6. Santosh Swaminathan & Kaustuba Venugopal – 105
7. Ochintya Sharma & Thejaswi Udupa – 85
8. Dharmendra & Movin Miranda – 80
Day Two (20th June 2010)
Event IV
Kibitz Simple: Open Sports and Leisure Quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S.
1. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 151
2. Rajiv Rai & Sumant Srivathsan – 135
3. Swami & Samanth – 124
4. Suvajit & Yash – 114
5. Wimpy & Baada – 101
6. Anil & Alagarsamy – 80
7. Ochintya Sharma & Movin Miranda – 66
8. Rohit & Yaggy – 65
Event V
Sesame: The Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Feni Vidi Vici Vivek (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Vivek Krishnan, Chirag Mutgi) – 170
2. QED (Jayakanthan, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth) – 165
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta & Ochintya Sharma) – 160
4. Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Ajay, Arvind, Balaji, Roshan) – 150
5. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar, Rajagopal PS) – 140
6. Travelling Pillsburys (Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tiwari, Sumant Srivathsan, Vikram Joshi) – 125
7. InManiacs (Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Gautam Ghosh, Sarat Rao, Anirudh Chari) & Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul Kottalgi, Nishanth R, Harry) – both tied on 120
Event VI
KQA Founders’ Trophy Quiz: Face-off between Mega-Whats city-winners
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar.
1. QED (Chennai) – 128.5
2. WALTWo (Bangalore) – 104.5
3. Travelling Pillsburies (Mumbai) – 94
4. InManiacs (Kolkata) – 91.5
5. Telangana Is An Oily Song (New Delhi) – 77.5
6. Swami and Friends (Hyderabad) – 72
7. Feni Vidi Vici (Goa) – 61.5
8. Insert Uncool Name Here (Thrissur) – 58.5
9. Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Pune) – 20
ASKQANCE 2010
The KQA will celebrate the 27th Anniversary of its founding with ASKQANCE 2010–a two-day festival of Open Quizzing. Somebody we wrote to called it The Woodstock of Quizzing. We are flattered, but will nevertheless try and stick to schedule.
The programme:
19th and 20th June, at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Day One (19th June 2010)
Event I
By Hooke or by Crookes
Open Science Quiz
Rules
1. Teams of four members
2. Entry free for school teams
3. Other teams pay Rs. 100/-
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Vivek Kartikeyan.
Schedule: 0930hrs to 1230hrs
Teams that arrive late for the prelims will be allowed to take part in the next quiz.
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event II
Hoarse Latitudes
Open Travel Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das.
Schedule : 1300-1545 hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event III
Son of Lumiere
Open Movie Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange.
Schedule: 1615hrs-2000hrs.
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Day Two (20th June 2010)
Event IV
Kibitz Simple
Open Sports and Leisure Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
Teams arriving late can take part in the next quiz.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S.
Schedule: 1000hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event V
Sesame
The Open Quiz
Rules
General Open Quiz
Teams of four members
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs.100/-
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule:1400— 1630hrs
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event VI
KQA Founders’ Trophy Quiz
Face-off between Mega-Whats city-winners
The contenders:
QED Chennai,
WALTWo Bangalore,
Travelling Pillsburies Mumbai,
Telangana Is An Oily Song New Delhi,
InManiacs Kolkata,
Insert Uncool Name Here Thrissur,
Swami and Friends Hyderabad,
Feni Vidi Vici Goa,
Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole Pune
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar.
Schedule: 1700hrs-1900hrs
Prizes: Rs. 6000/-, Rs. 5000/-, Rs. 4000/-
Mega-Whats 2009: All-India Top 100 Teams
Rank | Team | City | Score | Stars | Points Off Star Questions | Annotation |
1 | QED (Gopal Kidao, Samanth S, Swaminathan, Jayakanthan) | CHENNAI (City Winners) | 67 | 4 | 14 | Original Score 69. Points deducted for Soyuz and Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
2 | WALTWo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) | BANGALORE (City Winners) | 61 | 2 | 11 | Original Score 62. Point deducted for Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
3 | Travelling Pillsburies (Rajen Prabhu, Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tewari) | MUMBAI (City Winners) | 58 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 58. Points added for Vesperus. Points deducted for Mannar |
4 | Telangana Is an Oily Song (Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah) | NEW DELHI (City Winners) | 57 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 56. Change due to counting error. Cracked Succulent Karoo! |
5 | Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay TSR) | BANGALORE | 53 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 55. Points wrongly given for Golden Horn and Asteroids. |
6 | Thinker Toiler Lawyer & Guy ( Ramanan, Shiv, Goach and Ramkey) | CHENNAI | 52 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 52. Up to 53 after counting error was remedied. Point deducted for Bund Road brings them back to 52. |
7 | Inmaniacs(Malavika Banerjee,Gautam Ghosh, Shounak Chakraverti, Anirudh Chari) | KOLKATA (City Winners) | 51 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 52. Points deducted for Vespa Lynd. Team retains Kolkata title on stars. |
8 | Tabula Rosetta (Bala, Vikram, Anand Shivashankar, Pradeep R. ) | MUMBAI | 51 | 5 | 13 | Original score 52. Point deducted for The Life of Others |
9 | Byapok Batha (Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Deepanjan Deb) | KOLKATA | 51 | 4 | 13 | Original score 51. Lost points for Soyuz. Gained points for Vesperus. |
10 | Blank Slate (Sarath, Diwakar Pingle, Raamesh, Arvind. K) | MUMBAI | 49 | 7 | 17 | No change. |
11 | Memory Bank (Saranya Jayakumar, P.B. Jayakumar, Navin Jayakumar, Gautam Padmanabhan) | CHENNAI | 49 | 6 | 16 | Original Score 51. Lost points for Soyuz and “Quark for Muster Mark”. |
12 | Octette (Anil Vaswani, Vimala Jagannath, Tathagatha Chatterjee, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka) | KOLKATA | 48 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 49. Lost points for Soyuz. |
13 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Shamanth Madhava Rao, Manu Sudhakar, Nagesh and Anil Raghavan) | THRISSUR (City Winners) | 47 | 5 | 13 | No change. Anal people have done corrections in Thrissur. |
14 | Chak De Bhatta (Joy, Kunal, Dr. Bhattacharya, Praveen) | NEW DELHI | 46 | 4 | 12 | Original Score 44. Counting Error. |
15 | Something Something (Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv) | BANGALORE | 46 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 43. Error in counting. Cracked Theme! |
16 | Answering Service (Soubhadra, Charanpreet, Supratik, Sanjoy) | KOLKATA | 45 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 46. Counting Error. |
17 | No Enthu Da (Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik) | BANGALORE | 45 | 2 | 10 | No change |
18 | Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh | CHENNAI | 44 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 45. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
19 | Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry) | BANGALORE | 43 | 3 | 12 | Original Score 45. Points wrongly given for Banyan Tree and for Aeschylus (41) |
20 | Questionable Characters (Vikram Sreeram, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda, Hiranyappa G.S. | BANGALORE | 42 | 6 | 15 | Original Score 41. Points not given for Shofer. |
21 | SHARED a)Kiddo, Lalith, Fing and Anil and b) Swami and Friends ( J.Krishnamurthi, Alagar Swami, Lakshmi J.K., Bhargava E.M.) | a) CHENNAI b) HYDERABAD (City Winners) | 42 | 4 | 10 | a) Original Score 43. Point deducted for Soyuz and b) Point deducted for Jana Zatopek |
22 | Not Awarded–see above | |||||
23 | Jesus Wept ( Meghashyam, Mahesh, Mukund, Prasann) | MUMBAI | 41 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 42. Point deducted for ‘Soyuz fell in India’. |
24 | Jai Santosh Ki Maa (Amit Varma, Kaushik Chatterjee, Rishi Iyengar, Annanya Deb) | MUMBAI | 40 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 41. Counting Error. |
25 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG ( Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, D. Sundar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta | GOA (City Winners) | 39 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 37. Points given for Vesperus and Kiss Our Chuddies. |
26 | Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Venkat and Gautam Shenoy) | BANGALORE | 38 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 39. Counting Error. |
27 | Nitish Khadiya, Lathish, Praveen, Navneet | HYDERABAD | 38 | 3 | 8 | No change. |
28 | No Idea, Still (Ashwin Koneti, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil) | BANGALORE | 38 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 36. Points not given for Oort’s and Hershey. |
29 | Tail Bone Enders (Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles, Vinod Rajamani) | BANGALORE | 37 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
30 | Mehul, Srinath T.B, Roshith Mohan, Abid E.H | MUMBAI | 37 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
31 | Last Action Heroes (S. Dutta, S. Gupta, R. Mistry, P.S. Ghatak) | KOLKATA | 37 | 0 | 5 | No change |
32 | Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Suraj, Suvajit, Yasho T, Yash Marathe) | PUNE (City Winners) | 36 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 38. Points wrongly given for RBI Banyan Tree and Talaimannar. |
33 | Mera Naam Joka (Vikas Sahu, Arnav Sinha, Jitaditya Narzary, Suchi | MUMBAI | 36 | 1 | 8 | No change |
34 | What Maga? (Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba, Vivek Kartikeyan) | BANGALORE | 35 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 36. Point deducted for Mannar. |
35 | Rahul Gaur, Tushar Kaul, Akshay Sehgal, Paranjoth Singh | MUMBAI | 35 | 3 | 10 | No change |
36 | Desi Dhamaka (Tallulah D’Silva, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan, Anjali Sengupta) | GOA | 35 | 2 | 6 | No change |
37 | Lazarus Effect ( Dr. Murali Mohan, S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar) | BANGALORE | 34 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 33. Counting Error. |
38 | Potoldanga Thunder Club (Panchjanya, Robin Dey, Rahul Basu, Prithwish Datta) | KOLKATA | 34 | 1 | 7 | No change |
39 | Fidda ( Govind Grewal, Shambhu Shankar, Aniruddha Dutta, Dhananjay Shettigar) | MUMBAI | 33 | 4 | 11 | No change |
40 | Why Did We Bother (Amit Garde, Dharmakirti Wakankar, Trilok Khairnar, Gaurav Kapoor) | PUNE | 33 | 2 | 9 | Original Score 34. Counting Error. |
41 | Sukha Hara (Harish, Kunal, Salil, Ramanand. J) | PUNE | 32 | 1 | 8 | No change. |
42 | Questionable Characters II (Debjit, Anupam, Rohan, Vemana) | HYDERABAD | 32 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 33. Points wrongly given for ‘Claude Levi’ |
43 | Not the Last Ones (Sumit R. Abhijit. N, Suchintan C., Suvam P.) | KOLKATA | 31 | 2 | 10 | No change. |
44 | Ahead of Points (Sanandan, Amar, Ananth, Vinod) | CHENNAI | 31 | 2 | 9 | No change. |
45 | SHARED a) Tea, Coffee and Snacks (Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kalyan Dey) and b) Whatever (Yaggy, Matti, Arun Ramanathan, Renuka) | a) KOLKATA b) CHENNAI | 31 | 1 | 7 | a) Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. b) no change |
46 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
47 | Gloriously Legitimate (Sandeep, Chinmoy, Aditya Sridhar, Sriharsha Bhat) | BANGALORE | 31 | 1 | 4 | No change. |
48 | Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra) | NEW DELHI | 31 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
49 | Dreamz (Capt. Chandrakant Nair, Viswas Viswam, Jyothi EK, Midhun Zachariah) | THRISSUR | 30 | 0 | 4 | No change. Cracked Shiroi Lily! |
50 | Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Ashwin Prabhu, Balaji T.K | CHENNAI | 29 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 30.Point deducted for Soyuz. |
51 | Gunpowder! Yumm!! (Aditya, Praveen, Supratim, Parth) | KOLKATA | 28 | 2 | 7 | Original Score 27. Counting Error. |
52 | Jana Telangana Mana Adayaka Jayahe! (Shanmati, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra V., AkshayNair) | CHENNAI | 28 | 1 | 7 | Original Score 27. Point deducted for Soyuz. Counting Error. |
53 | Mat-Rag (Deepak, Raghu, Nishant, Aneesh) | NEW DELHI | 28 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 29. Point deducted for Ansari (!), 55 D. |
54 | RTDT ( Ritubroto, Tanaji, Dhruv, Tanmay) | 28 | 0 | 6 | No change. | |
55 | ????(Atul, Janardhan, Dushyanth, Arnab) | MUMBAI | 27 | 1 | 5 | No change |
56 | Numero Uno (Shrikant, Luis Dias, Anil Rodrigues, Sachin Chatte) | GOA | 27 | 1 | 4 | Original score 20. Counting Error. |
57 | Bottle Green Whales (Chirag Mutgi, Sidharth Kuruvila,Vipin, Paramananda) | BANGALORE | 27 | 0 | 6 | Original Score 24. Counting Error. |
58 | Joka Conquistadors (Karan Kalia, Nihansh, Amrutanshu, Harsh Ketkar) | KOLKATA | 27 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
59 | MAM Returns (S. Chakladar, I. Mukherjee, N.Sankar, Shouvik Das) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 7 | No change. |
60 | Tall, Dark, Handsome and Sunil (Ram Shankar,Debopam, Sunil Chandrashekar, Guruprasad Shenoy) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 5 | No change |
61 | No Hope in Hell.Com (Vinay, Vcat, Gaurav, Sameer) | PUNE | 26 | 1 | 3 | No change |
62 | Srikant, Sameer, Majji, Gayathri | HYDERABAD | 26 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
63 | Boye Geche! (Debanjan B, Anagh M, Shayak C., Jishu D.H.) | KOLKATA | 25 | 1 | 6 | Original Score 23. Counting Error. |
64 | Quadrophenia(Rohit, Harish, Gaurav, Anirudh) | CHENNAI | 25 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 22. Points not given for Hershey and Greenland, Counting Error. |
65 | Trailblazers (Vardhan, Uday, Ratna, Manish) | BANGALORE | 24 | 1 | 6 | No change. |
66 | It’s Complicated (Pravin Varma, Ayyappa Kumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Supriy Singh) | NEW DELHI | 24 | 0 | 3 | No change. |
67 | Shared between a) Pan Galactic Quiz Blasters (Arka Banerji, Niranka Banerjee, Kaustuv Gupta) and b) Mere Do Anmol Watan (Raghu, Balaji, Navin, Sudhir) | a) KOLKATA and b) HYDERABAD | 23 | 2 | 6 | a) Original Score 22. Counting Error. b) No change |
68 | Not Awarded–See Above. | No change | ||||
69 | Advitiya (Naveen B.A, Raghu Pant, Anupam Jain, Surya JVS) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 24. Pooint deducted for Soyuz. |
70 | Anshul, Abhinav, Nikhil, Akul | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
71 | Zizzyphus Kahan Hai?( Gandhi, Katoch, Mangal, Pande) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
72 | Lotus Eaters (Abhinav, Mayank, Shubhendu, | PUNE | 22 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 25. Points deducted for Soyuz, Oliver Cromwell under a different number, and Levi Claude Strauss. |
73 | Who’s Soda’s Daddy? (Sharath K Jose, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) | BANGALORE | 22 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
74 | SHARED BETWEEN a) Sheki’s Groupies (Ahimanyu, Udit, Abhisek, Abhinav) and b) Radix (Devarshi Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta) | a) NEW DELHI and b) KOLKATA | 22 | 0 | 4 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) Original Score 21. Counting Error. |
75 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
76 | Pingu’s PomPoms feat. Tonic (Abhishek, Anucheth, Karthik, Rohit) | BANGALORE | 22 | 0 | 3 | Point deducted for Vostok-Rakesh Sharma. |
77 | Shared between a) Piyush Ahuja, Gagandeep Singh, Shankaran Anand, Anshuman Fotedar and b) Once Upon a Time in GEC (RGK, Rajasekar, Arun A.S. , Chandu Lenin) | a) NEW DELHI and b) THRISSUR | 21 | 2 | 8 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) No change |
78 | Quizzer’s Utopia (Sanjay, Mithun, Sunny, Priyanka) | KOLKATA | 21 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 23. Point deducted for Soyuz and Meteorites in 52 B (for Meteoroids) |
79 | Paranormal Activity (Shriram, Shankhayan, Azeez, Kush) | NEW DELHI | 21 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 22. Counting Error. |
80 | Guess Me! Guess Me Not! (Dr. Jinu Mathew, S.K. Mohanty, Vikash Khandelwal, Epshita Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 21 | 0 | 4 | No change. |
81 | 3 Strikes and You’re Out (Hari, Rabi, Divyam) | NEW DELHI | 20 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 17. Counting Error. |
82 | Reds ‘N’ Guns (Noufel Samad, Vikas Plakkot, Jithin Raghavan, Jose Thomas) | THRISSUR | 20 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
83 | Appl Pi (Bhargava, Pradeep, Murari) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
84 | Salmagundi (Venkatesh) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 1 | No change. Solo Entry! |
85 | Two Non-Smoking Barrels (Jishnu, Sid) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 7 | No change |
86 | Mega Answers (Nihal, Navneet, Prashanth) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
87 | Bum-Boo ( Dhananjay, Apratim, Parth) | NEW DELHI | 19 | 0 | 1 | 22. Points wrongly given on 26 and 54b. Counting Error. |
88 | Shared Between a) No Team Name (Bharath, Ram Prakash, Gnanaskandan) , b) The Lizzard Kings (Ankit, Arun, Nilohit) and c) On the Fly (Pras, Subbareddy, Srini, Abhyu | a)HYDERABAD, b) PUNE and c) HYDERABAD | 19 | 0 | 3 | a) Original Score 17. Counting Error, b) No change and c) Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
89 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
90 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
91 | Amnesiac Quizzers Inc. ( Nipun V, Shafeeq. S, Ijaz Aslam, Edward Davis) | THRISSUR | 19 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
92 | Tetra Pack (Saidy, Naveen, Sushant, Srivats) | CHENNAI | 18 | 2 | 5 | No change. |
93 | Dog, Pig, Sheep and ET (Ashok, Thiru, Keki, Okal) | BANGALORE | 18 | 1 | 3 | No change |
94 | 3 Doc 1 Tech (Harikrishnan, Vijaynath V., Sarin. P, Sowmya Sarin) | THRISSUR | 18 | 0 | 7 | No change. |
95 | Ensemble (Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 20. Counting Error. |
96 | ICQC ( K. Saha, S.Reddy, S. Bhatnagar, S. Sinha) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 3 | No change |
97 | 42 ( Paritosh Rai, Anilesh) | NEW DELHI | 18 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
98 | Quizito Ergo Sum ( K. Pramod, Reeju Datta, Harshit Khare, Prashant Kr. Sinha) | NEW DELHI | 17 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
99 | Shared Between a) The Magnificent Four ( Sunil S, Paul C, Mahesh Prabhu, Sachin Pai K) and b) Quizzigans ( Athith K., Subham, Aditya Menon) | a) GOA and b) BANGALORE, SCHOOL WINNER | 17 | 1 | 4 | No change |
100 | Not Awarded–See Above. |
Mega-Whats 2009 – Bangalore Results
A total of 188 teams from across the country took part in Mega-Whats 2009.
37 teams took the quiz from Bangalore (including three school teams). The Bangalore round was won by We Are Like This (W)only with a score of 62 points.
The provisional All-India winner, subject to adjudication, is QED (Chennai) with a score of 69.
The top scores in Bangalore are as follows:
1. We Are Like This (W)only: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa (62)
2. Mustafa: Debashree Mitra, Dr. NVS Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah and Vijay TSR (54)
3. Something Something: Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv (46)
4. No Enthu Da: Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik (45)
5. Keep Distance: Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry (43)
6. Questionable Characters: GS Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda and Vikram Sreeram (42)
7. Schrodinger’ s Felines: Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Gautam Shenoy and Venkat (38)
8. No Idea, Still: Ashwin, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil (38)
9. Tail Bone Enders: Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles and Vinod Rajamani (37)
10. What Maga: Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba and Vivek Kartikeyan (35)
11. Lazarus Effect: Dr. Murali Mohan, Dr. S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar (34)
The Best School Team prize went to Quizzigans (Atith Kuduvalli, Subham, Aditya Menon) of Sri Kumaran Children’s Home: 17 points
We hope to put up a list of the top 100 teams in India in about ten days time.