Lao Me Thanda, South Indian Films and Ruckus Tangdi Quizzes – Results
he results of three quizzes held on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 160
2. Nishanth & Rahul – 110
3. Rajath & Santosh – 100
4. Arun Hiregange & Anil Raghavan – 90
5. Shenoy & Venkat – 40
6. Vinod & Ananth / Aditi & Neha – tied at 30
8. Rini & Ambar – 20
Uncle’s Fault: A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
QM: Arul Mani
1. Dr. Krishnan & Anil Raghavan – 29
2. Shenoy & Venkat – 23
3. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 21
4. Arun & Raju – 18.5
5. Vinod & Ananth – 13.5
6. Sana & Patrick / Nishanth & Srikanth – tied on 13
Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: S. Venkatesh & Vivek Karthikeyan
1. Ananth, Holla, Arun Hiregange – 145
2. Cheriyan, Arun, Rajagopal – 125
3. Arul Mani, Abhay, Maitrey – 117.5
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi, Sairam, Raj Tejas – 100
5. Santosh, Kaustuba, Vinod – 87.5
6. Shenoy, Abhishek, Goutham – 77.5
7. Vijay TSR, Sudarshan, Jayanth – 70
8. Rajath, Sohan, Ambar – 70
Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa, with inputs from Dibyojyoti Haldar
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
This is the fourth of our five ranking Specialist Open quizzes for the season
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115-1315hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1315-1400hrs
EVENT II
The Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
Open to all
Teams of two members
Written: 50 questions
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1400hrs
Duration: 1415hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The Families Quiz
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
We recognise siblings, couples, parents with children, and various combinations thereof as family teams. Cousins, elaborate family trees and other such dodges are not welcome.
Members are requested to persuade spouses/parents/ children/ siblings and to turn up. Please pass the word around as well.
Open to all
Teams of three members or less.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Registrations: 1515hrs
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1615-1730hrs
Please call 97312-14519 if you need more information.
Quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
LAO ME THANDA
KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
Censorship is for finks, but the nature of the quiz requires us to restrict entry to those who are above the age of 18.
RULES
Teams of two members
Open to all (Age 18 and above)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes for I, II and III places.
QM: Arul Mani
1300hrs-1400hrs
LUNCH-BREAK
EVENT II
UNCLE’S FAULT
A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
Open to teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
50 questions
1400hrs to 1500hrs
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
General Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1800hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMS: Venky and Kivi of Nexus.
Karan Arjun Quiz for Std III and IV, Ranking High School Quiz & Seek Under Porus, The Open History Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange
Std III
1. National Public School Rajajinagar (Shravasti Sarkar, Sandhya R, Nidhi Prakash, Tanvi F) – 130
2. National Academy For Learning (Madhavi N Rao, Aryaan S Anand, Rithvik Panchapakesan, Sumedh Niyogi) – 120 (2nd by tie-break)
3. National Hill View Public School (Vignesh Srikanth, Meghana Deepali Rao, Vaishnav V Rao, Sathya Krishna KR) – 120
4. CMR National Public School (Mohith, Divya, Dhanush, Lalitha) & Innisfree House School (Raghvan, Anirudh, Aditya, Abhishek) – 120 (joint 4th)
6. Aurobindo (Ganapathi, Hima Trisha M, Prakrith Keshav, Sowmyaa) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Parvathy, Soundarya, Srikar, Sanjana) – 115 (joint 6th)
8. Aurobindo (Anoushka, Ajay, Arjun, Harsha) – 110
Std IV
1. CMR National Public School (Ria Melanie Picardo, Arkaprovo Ghosh, K. Aparna, Jatin Raghav N) – 110
2. National Hill View Public School (Suraj, Shreyas, Karthik, Srinidhi) – 105
3. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Sathvik K Bharadwaj, Arjun M, Aniruddh HM, Raghunandan Sriram) – 95 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Tanya, Parikshith, Srinath, Sindhu) – 95
5. Mallya Aditi International School (Rishika, Nikhil, Sumer, Vidisha) & National Academy For Learning (Nacheketa, Prakriti, Raaga, Akul) – 85 (joint 5th)
7. Innisfree House School (Shradda, Varsha, Snehal, Aakansh) – 80
8. National Public School Rajajinagar (HS Shashank, Varun Shah, M Sreyas, Himanshu S Jog) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Ashwin Alarparthi, Navaneeth Raghunath, Kaushik Sengupta) – 75 (joint 8th)
Ranking Inter High School Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Sri Kumaran Public School (Athith K, Subham Nandy) – 75
2. Innisfree House School (Karansinha Patil, Rushati Mukherjee) – 65
3. St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Chirag Prince, Anirudh) – 60
4. National Public School Koramangala (Kavya, Nirmal) – 45
5. Frank Anthony Public School (Mollika M, Prashanth TK) – 40
6. MESKK (Krishna Kumar, Pavan MR) – 30
7. National Public School Rajajinagar (Krishna AK, Ameya Koushik) – 25
8. National Hill View Public School (Sethupati, Parantap) – 5
Seek Under Porus : The Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
1. MetaQuizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Sandip Sen, Varun Rajiv) – 175
2. QC+Mustafa (Hiranyappa, Debashree Mitra, Dibyendu Das, Vijay TSR) – 155
3. Dirty Ghetto Kids (Harry, Rahul, Nishanth and team)- 150
4. WALTWo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 135
5. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat, Shenoy) – 95
6. Deviprasad V, Rajagopal, Subrat – 80
7. Rahul Girish Kumar and Harikrishnan A – 67.5
8. Anirudh and team – 30
Quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
1000hrs to 1200hrs
Teams of FOUR members
Two teams per school for Std II and Std IV.
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange.
EVENT II
Ranking Inter High School Quiz.
1230hrs to 1430hrs
Teams of 2 members
Two teams per school
Open to Std VIII, IX and X
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per school
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
The third of our Specialist Open Quizzes
Seek Under Porus
The much-awaited Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
1500hrs to 1830hrs
Go Ogle 2010
We will run Go Ogle, our annual online quiz on 1st Jan 2010. This is the fifth edition of the quiz.
The questions will be posted at 1600hrs and will stay up, by popular demand, till 0700hrs on 2nd January 2010.
Go Ogle is a quiz that adds a few layers of meaning to the idea of working things out–a discovery you will make when you attempt the quiz.
The quiz will be posted at our community blog Daly Haal
http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes
This year’s prizes:
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1000/-
in book-coupons from Blossom Book Shop, Bangalore.
Open to solo contestants only, irrespective of age or location. No prior registration is required–however since the blog-community is open only to members, please make sure your membership has been approved before 1 Jan 2010. More details in the next paragraph.
If you are interested in signing up–please create a Livejournal account for yourself. Once you have completed this process–similar to opening an email account–you can send a request for inclusion in the community (please include your given name, the name you are using on Livejournal and the city that you wish to appear from) to arul.mani@gmail. com.
Junior College Team & Solo Quizzes, Speculative Fiction Quiz and Ganesh Nayak Open Quiz – Results
Results of quizzes held on Sunday 6 November 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Junior College Team Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Deeksha Centre for Learning (Anurup, Vivek, Rohit) – 139
2. Frank Anthony Public School (Arvind V., Gayathri Naveen, Nagaratna Patil) – 123
3. Christ Junior College (Bhargava V., Harish K.M., Bharath Shankar G.) – 95.5
4. Sri Kumarans Childrens Home (Arjun S, Sashank K, Sudarshan P.S.) – 81
5. Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College (Suraj, Deepak, Tiwari) – 77
6. National College (Richie Kushalappa, Vignesh A.G., Vijay Kumar V.) – 71
7. Christ Junior College (Mridul Agarwal, Koushik Sekar, Mohit Bohra) – 7
Junior COllege Solo Quiz, to decide the Junior Collegiate Solo Quizzing Champion for 2009
QM: Arul Mani
1. P.S. Sudarshan (Sri Kumarans Childrens Home) – 89
2. Anurup A.K. (Deeksha Centre for Learning) – 67
3. Deepak G. (Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College) – 61 (by tie-break)
4. Arvind (Frank Anthony Public School) – 61
5. Sashank (Sri Kumarans Childrens Home – CBSE) – 55
6. Suma S. (Christ Junior College) & Ameya (Christ Junior College) – 44
8. Suraj Prabhu (Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College) & Vivek (Deeksha Centre for Learning) – 42
Chronosynchlastic Infundibulum, a quiz on Speculative Fiction
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Chota MQ (Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv) – 23 (winner by tie-break)
2. MQ (Arul Mani & Santhosh Swaminathan) – 23
3. We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange) – 22.5
The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Gautam Shenoy, Siddharth Shanker, Jaidev Karunakaran and Anil Raghavan of Insert Cool Name Here
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santhosh Swaminathan) – 175
2. We Are Like This (W)only (Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 155
3. Keep Distance (Rahul S. Kottalgi & team) – 125
4. Goat Boys (Cheriyan Alexander & team) – 110
5. Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Lahar Appaiah, Dr. NVS Krishnan & team) – 105
6. NITK (Sandeep, Sriharsha, Aditya, Kaustubh) – 75
7. Neo Nexus (Venky, Ravi, Praveen VR, Kivi) – 60
8. Cunning Lingas (Bharat, Sumer, Tanmay, Lalith) – 40
Quizzes on Sunday 6 December 2009
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday, 6th December 2009, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Ranking Junior College Quizzes
Team Quiz
Open to PUC/Std. XI and XII only
Teams of three members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Unlimited entries per college
Max Rule: No more than two teams per college in the finals.
Solo Quiz
Open to PUC/Std. XI and XII only
Two contestants per college
Entry Fee: Rs. 25 per entrant.
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule
Team Quiz Prelims: 1000hrs
Solo Quiz Prelims: 1030hrs
Team Quiz Finals: 1100hrs-1200hrs
Solo Quiz Finals: 12noon to 1245hrs.
Prizes:
Team Quiz: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/- and Rs. 1500 plus prizes for all finalists
Solo Quiz: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 750/- and Rs. 500 plus prizes for all finalists
EVENT II
Chronosynchlastic Infundibulum
A written quiz on Speculative Fiction
50 questions
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule
1330hrs to 1500hrs
Those who’d like to know more about the quiz may send a mail with the subject-header WTF SF? to thejaswi.udupa @gmail.com
EVENT III
The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Free entry for school teams ( VIII-X)
QMs: Gautam Shenoy, Siddharth Shanker, Jaidev Karunakaran and Anil Raghavan of Insert Cool Name Here
Schedule
Registrations: 1500hrs
Prelims and Finals: 1530hrs-1830hrs
Prizes
Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/-, Rs. 700/- and Rs. 600/- for other finalists.
We will also hold The Karan-Arjun Quizzes for Stds III and IV and the National Open Quizzing Championships: Mega-Whats 2009 at the same venue on 13th December 2009, the following Sunday, at the same venue.
Ladies Open, Inter College and College Solo Quizzes – Results
Results of quizzes held on Sunday 11 October 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The Annual KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: Mitesh Agarwal
1. Neelam, Urmila, Hema – 145
2. Sujata, Riya – 95
3. Padmasree, Siri, Merin – 85 (3rd after tie-break)
4. Sneha, Poorva – 85
5. Janani, Jayameenakshi, Prathyusha – 75
6. Aditi, Neha – 75
7. Trisha, Sanjana, Ann – 55
Inter College Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. NLSIU (Varun Rajiv, Raghuram C., Eashan Ghosh) – 105
2. MSRIT (Rahul Jadhav, Sudarshan S.N., Srikanth Gautham) – 77 (2nd after tie-break)
3. NLSIU (Arvind, Pranav, Badri) – 77
4. MSRIT (Abhishek S., Umang S., Minkul Tekwani) – 50
5. RVCE (Nakul P. Sangolle, Chaitanya G. Hegde, Gautam N.D.) – 45
6. RVSIT (Amit R., Ashish S.R., Shankar M.S.) – 35
7. RVCE (Rahul Gupta, Vineet Raj, Sudarshan) – 20
8. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 15
College Solo Quiz, to decide the Collegiate Quizzing Champion for 2009
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh Swaminathan – 120
2. Nakul – 100
3. Varun Rajiv – 95
4. Pranav & Nishanth – 60
6. Sudarshan – 50
7. Rahul – 35
8. Chaitanya – 25
Solus Rex Semifinals on Sunday 8th November 2009 and Other News
Solus Rex Semi-finals III and IV — the details:
Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains
(Exclude fictional rivers, deserts and mountains)
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4: War Crafts
i.e. vehicles used in warfare
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 8th November 2009.
VENUE
66, First Floor, First Cross, Domlur Layout, Bangalore
(Near Domlur P.O. , Next door to Samsung Service Centre)
For directions, please call Siby Kuriakose (99001-22880).
SCHEDULE
Semi III: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Semi IV: 1145hrs-1245hrs
Prizes for all semifinalists. Plus prizes for the best questions received from other KQA members such as yourself. Send to arunhire@yahoo. com or deedas@yahoo. com.
Other News
- The next set of quizzing Sundays will come up in December. Please keep yourselves free on Sunday 13 December, and probably also on Sunday 6th December.
- If you haven’t already registered for MegaWhats, please do so now. IAT , our venue, can hold a maximum of 40 teams and places in the event are given only on a first-come, first-served basis.