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.

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

You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/298602.html

You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/278371.html
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/229294.html
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/2009/01/04/

and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/4262.html

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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