Quizzes on Saturday 4 February 2012
We will hold three Open quizzes on Saturday, 4 February 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
Lao Me Thanda
The annual quiz on Love, Sex and other associated disorders.
QM: Arul Mani
RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Open to all, but we’d like the participants to each be above 18.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1030hrs onwards
Finals: 1130-1300hrs
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
EVENT II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Open written quiz on speculative fiction.
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.
Schedule:
1400-1530hrs
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
EVENT III
Cannabis Indica
The Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
RULES:
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1600-1700hrs
Finals: 1730-1900hrs
Prizes for the first three places.
Quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
The first event is the Solus Rex contest in an all-new format.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das
Rules:
Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1330hrs
Prizes for all finalists
The second event on the 15th is a Ruckus Tangdi Quiz featuring unused questions from the recently held MindSweep 2012.
QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani
Rules
Open to team of four members.
Team compositions will be rudely altered.
Teams get ranking points only if they field all members during registration.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Schedule:
Prelims: 1500hrs
Finals: 1615-1830hrs
Prizes for all finalists
Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz
Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.
You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.
Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.
College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
College Lone Wolf
1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5
PU Lone Wolf
1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8
EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9
EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third
Quizzes on Saturday 12 November 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
Rules
Open to solo entrants who are currently either PUC/XI & XII or Undergraduate/PG students
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per head
Common Prelims, followed by separate finals
Unlimited entries, but no more than two from an institution in the finals.
Prizes for all finalists.
Schedule
Prelims: 1030-1115hrs
PU Lone Wolf Finals: 1145-1230hrs
College Lone Wolf Finals: 1230-1315hrs
EVENT II
Sense a Femur
The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
Rules
Written, 40 questions
No bicycling!
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for the top three teams
Schedule
1400-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Who or what is an AJM?
What the duck is an Open House quiz?
How can you have an Open Quiz without prelims?
What about my team?
Is this some woolly, hippie, liberal nonsense?
For answers to these, and some of the other mysteries of life, please meet
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal, Arul Mani, Varun Shenoy and Abhishek Upadhya.
Rules
Prior registration essential
To register, please RSVP at http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/eb8j8jjh6kck776hg
Please take your seats by 1515hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head, pay on the spot.
High Tea at 1830
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial, Comics, Ganesh Nayak Memorial Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzing events held on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth
1. NITK (Samarth, Srinivas, Chaitanya) – 114
2. RNSIT (Amit, Ashish) – 88
3. IIMB (Vishwas, Kalai, Katoch) – 79
4. FAPS (Jeydev, Mollika, Pranav) – 68
5. RVCE (Abhineet, Pallavi, Sreenivas) – 51
6. NLS (Pranav, Srikanth, Vikram) – 50
7. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 48
8. RNSIT (Nitin, Rohit, Abhin) – 39
Event II. Cartoons Quiz
QM: Sandeep Mathias
1. Sana & Sumeer – 27
2. Santosh & Sohan – 20
3. Pranav & Mollika – 18
4. Ajay & Ananth – 16
5. Raju & TKB – 11.5
6. Nakul & Nishanth – 10
7. Amit & Suraj – 7
8. Dibyendu & Nambirajan – 6
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin “The Machine” Rajaram
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 327
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 300
3. Alagarsamy, TK Balaji, Rajagopal, Latish – 295
4. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Sandeep Mathias and team) – 207
5. Uncool Is the New Cool (Shamanth, Sudarshan, Lakshana, Chitra) – 170
6. Shura (Ashwan, Ramesh, Shiv, Urmila) – 150
7. Dharmendra, Raghu, Mukka, Ganja – 148
8. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jitin Jacob & team) – 95
Quizzes on Saturday 29 October 2011
We will hold three quizzing events on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events:
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
RULES
Teams of three members
Open to teams from XI/XII/PUC, Undergraduate and PG institutions
No mixed teams
Colleges can send any number of teams–only the best two will qualify for the finals.
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for all finalists
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth.
Schedule
Registrations: 1015hrs-1030hrs
Prelims: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Finals: 1145hrs-1330hrs
Event II. Cartoons Quiz-Written
QM: Sandeep Matthias
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top three teams.
Schedule
1415hrs-1515hrs
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Conducted by Team Nexus: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin Rajaram
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-per team
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1645hrs-1830hrs
We will hold another set of KQA events in the second week of November 2011.
Mega-Whats 2011, the National Open Quizzing Championships, will be held on Sunday, 11 December 2011. We have limited seating at the Bangalore venue. Please register early to ensure seating–send team name, names of all four members and one contact number in a mail with the subject header Mega-Whats 2011-Bangalore to kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
ABBA Ke Zamane Mein, Hubbub-a, Ruckus Tangdi – Results
The results of 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
1. Alagarsamy & Rajagopal – 200 (won by sudden-death tie-break)
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 200
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 165
4. Nishanth & Rajath – 115
5. Suresh Ramasubramaniam & Iftikhar Burhanuddin – 110
6. Venkatesh S. & Ashwan Lewis – 85
7. Urmila & Shiv – 80
8. Rossellini – Posalini – 70
EVENT II: Hubbub-a, The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar
1. Arul Mani & Arun Hiregange – 33.5
2. Nishanth & Rajath – 32
3. Rajat & Jayant – 31
4. Venkatesh S. & Vivek Karthikeyan – 29.5
5. Aditya & Co. – 29
6. Padmashri R & Sudarshan MA / Amicus Curious – tied on 28
8. Ochintya Sharma & Dr. NVS Krishnan – 25.5
EVENT III: Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.
1. SRS, Keshav, Ram, Arul – 385
2. Ajay, Rohan, Suraj, Appu – 215
3. Srikari, Vikram, Sachin, Santosh – 205
4. Sumer, Rajat, Raouf, Suhit – 180
5. Aditya, Anirudh, Rajath, Trisha – 140
6. Tanmay, Hrishi, Nishanth, Navin – 130
7. Danny, Hemant, Venky, Farhan – 120
8. Dhammo, Ifti & team – 90
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
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
