Quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011

We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I
Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

Teams of two members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
This year we return to our original focus, so the questions in Abba Ke will cover the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s.

Prizes: for teams finishing I, II and III

Schedule:
Prelims: 1015hrs-1100hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs

Ochintya will start the prelims at 1015hrs as announced, and no questions will be repeated. We have a long Sunday of quizzing, and need to finish early.

EVENT II
Hubbub-a
The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar

Teams of two members
Open to all
Written Quiz on people, places, and local lore.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams finishing I, II and III.
Schedule: 1400hrs-1515hrs

EVENT III
The September Open Quiz
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.

Team of four members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists

Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals: 1700-1830hrs

Please note that questions will not be repeated/cycled through.

PS: Other KQA quizzing dates in the near future
29 October 2011: Vidyasagar Rajan College Quiz, and Ganesh Nayak Open
12 November 2011: High-School and PUC quizzes

October 2, 2011 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

No, I’m Chomsky, Food Glorious Food and Persiflage – Results

The results of three Open Quizzes held on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I
No, I’m Chomsky – The Without Americana Quiz

QM: Urmila Lakshmanan

1. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Rajagopal, Swaminathan & team) – 133
2. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 113
3. How Can We Slap (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan, Krishnan) – 94
4. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 79
5. No Questions Asked – 70
6. PVC – 64
7. Chennai Team (Sumeer, Pantan, Vinod, Sana) – 50
8. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Iftikar Burhanuddin, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 49

EVENT II
Food, Glorious food – The Annual Food Quiz

QM: Santosh Swaminathan

1. Arul Mani & Mitesh Agarwal – 26
2. Rajesh Mehar & team – 24.5
3. Lakshana & team – 22
4. Gautam Bharali & Ulka Kelkar – 21
5. We Eat This Much Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa & Ochintya Sharma) – 20.5
6. Harikrishnan & Manu Sudhakar / Arun Hiregange & Anustup Datta / Rahul S. Kottalgi & Swaminathan G. – all tied on 18

EVENT III
Persiflage – The Blossom Book House Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Metaquizziks (Swaminathan G., Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 315
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 275
3. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi & team) – 230
4. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 210
5. Resthouse Croissants – 140
6. Gautam + 3 (Gautam Bharali, Ulka Kelkar & team)- 105
7. Aneesh, Sinchana, Debashree, Srikrishna – 100
8. How Can We Slap (Aditya & team) – 65

September 20, 2011 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Quizzes on Sunday 11 September 2011

We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I
No, I’m Chomsky
The Without Americana Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1130-1300hrs

QM: Urmila Lakshmanan

EVENT II
Food, Glorious food
The Annual Food Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Written Quiz: 1400-1500hrs
QM: Santosh Swaminathan

EVENT III
Persiflage
The Blossom Book House Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs
QM: Arul Mani

September 2, 2011 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Lone Kid, Lone Cub, How Many ‘Woods – World Cinema, August Open, Canara Union Lone Wolf Quizzes – Results

The results of the five quizzes held on Saturday, 27 August 2011 and Sunday, 28 August 2011.

Event I
Lone Kid (Std V-VII solo)

QMs: Landmark Venky, Vivek Kartikeyan

1. Varun K (Frank Anthony Public School) – 100 (won by tie-break)
2. Hari Kartik (Bala Vidya Mandir, Chennai) – 100
3. Nakul Divekar (Frank Anthony Public School) – 95
4. Arjun Joshua (Frank Anthony Public School) – 70
5. Tennyson Galvin L. (St. John’s High School) / Amrit Sodhi (St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School European) – tied on 60
7. Kritin Udupa (Sri Kumaran Public School ICSE) – 50
8. Navya Suri (National Hill View Public School) – 30

Event II
Lone Cub (Std VIII-X solo)

QMs: Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa

1. Ritvik C. (Frank Anthony Public School) – 145
2. Bharat S. (Florence Public School) – 140
3. Pranav Ramamurthy (St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School) – 85
4. Amit S. Subrahmanya (National Hill View Public School) – 80
5. Sridhar V. (VVS Sardar Patel Patel High School) / Cyril Joe Baby (Christ Academy) – tied on 75
7. Akshat Tiwary (St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School) – 65
8. Prabhanjan P. Mannari (Carmel School) – 40

Event III
How Many ‘Woods – The World Cinema Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Santhosh Swaminathan & Rahal S. Kottalgi – 40
2. Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv – 38
3. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 30
4. Ochintya Sharma & Thejaswi Udupa – 24
5. Hrishi Varma & KP – 18
6. Raju & Sai / Movin Miranda & Sumeer Kumar – tied on 16
8. Sandeep Mathias & Shivjeet P – 13

Event IV
August Open Quiz

QM: Movin Miranda

1. We Are Like This Wonly – 208
2. Metaquizziks – 108
3. Keep Distance – 89
4. Questionable Characters – 87
5. How Can We Slap?! – 70
6. Holy Nexus – 33
7. CIDs From Kerala – 29
8. Mathias & Co. – 15

Event V
Canara Union Lone Wolf

QM: Navin Rajaram

1. Arul Mani – 140
2. Anustup Datta – 130
3. Santosh Swaminathan & Movin Miranda – tied on 100
5. Ochintya Sharma – 95
6. Thejaswi Udupa – 80
7. Rajagopal – 70
8. Arun Hiregange – 50

August 31, 2011 | Filed Under Inter School Quizzes, Lone Cub Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Quizzes on Saturday 27 August 2011

We will host four quizzes on Saturday, 27 August 2011, at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENTS I & II
We will hold a Lone Kid (Std V-VII solo) and a Lone Cub (Std VIII-X solo) during the morning session. Each school may field a maximum of three participants per category.

Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100hrs-1200hrs and 1200hrs-1300hrs

QMs: Landmark Venky, Vivek Kartikeyan, Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa

The Afternoon session will begin at 2pm. We have two Open Quizzes lined up.

EVENT III
How Many ‘Woods
The World Cinema Quiz

Written Format
Open to all
Teams of two
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team

QM: Arul Mani

Schedule: 1400hrs-1500hrs

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

EVENT IV
August Open Quiz

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

QM: Movin Miranda

Schedule:
Prelims 1530-1630hrs
Finals: 1700-1830hrs

Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/- plus prizes for all finalists.

August 25, 2011 | Filed Under Lone Cub Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Results of KQA’s Quiz for Families and Lone Wolf Quiz

The results of the quizzes held on Sunday 7th August 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Open Quiz for Families
QM: Rashmi Vallabhajyosula

1. Two and a Half Lorises (Siddharth, Ulka, Mandavi) – 85
2. Mukherjees (Sutanu & team) – 73
3. Rishika & Rajeev Gowda – 63
4. Deepa & Mani – 53
5. Sharmas (Ochintya, Sujata, Tuku) – 52.5
6. Koramangala Nexus (Venky & team) – 43.5
7. Two Men and a Baby – 43
8. Sumer, Arnav, Aarushi – 42

Lone Wolf Quiz
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar, Vineeth Surendranath, Siddhartha Sen and Ashwan Lewis

1. Arun Hiregange – 70 (1st by tie-break)
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 70 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Varun Rajiv – 70 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Arul Mani – 55
5. Santosh Swaminathan – 50
6. Sudarshan M.A. / Sumer Kumar – tied on 25
8. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 20

August 8, 2011 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off

Quizzes on Sunday 7 August 2011

We will hold two open quizzes this Sunday (7th August 2011) at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Both are events which could not be completed in the last season due to problems with getting a venue and will be held in the small hall on the first floor.

EVENT I
Open Quiz for Families

Teams of three members
Regn: Rs. 100/- per team
Couples, Grandparents/Parents with Grand-Children/Children or siblings constitute a family team
DO NOT pull cousin-stunts and do not give us exciting stories about new-found couple-hood.
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 900/-, plus prizes for all finalists

SCHEDULE

Regns: 1330hrs
Prelims/Finals: 1400hrs–1530hrs

QM: Rashmi Vallabhajyosula
PowerPoint Girl: Arul Mani

EVENT II
Lone Wolf Contest

Open to all solo contestants
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per entrant
Prizes for all finalists

SCHEDULE
Prelims: 1545hrs
Finals: 1700-1830hrs

QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, Vineeth Surendranath, Siddhartha Sen and Ashwan Lewis.

PS
We have two quizzing sessions coming up after this–27th August (School and College solo quizzes and an Open Quiz) and 11 September (three Open quizzes , including Persiflage, our annual literary quiz).

The Canara Union Lone Wolf will happen sometime in August. Navin Rajaram will conduct.

Mega-Whats 2011 will be held, as usual, on the Second Sunday in December (11/12/2011). Please note the date.

Another event, coyly code-named BladderBurst by the setters, will be held either in the last week of October, or the first week of November. More details soon.

Some copies of the 2003 and 2004 annuals are still available. Those who would like a copy must mail kqaquizzes@gmail.com.

August 4, 2011 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off

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

June 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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

June 25, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2011 — Day 1 Results

Dr. CP Venkatesh Memorial History of Ideas Quiz
QM: Arul Mani

Thanks to a brief downpour and the expected tardiness of the QM, we started the day a little later than scheduled. Around 44 teams participated in this quiz which was completely written and had a very close finish with only 1 point separating the top 3 teams and the 4th placed team losing out on “starred” questions.