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

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.

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 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

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

One hundred and twelve individuals signed up to participate. Fifteen competitors completed the quiz.

The Winner : Arun Hiregange  68

The Runner-up : Thejaswi Udupa  65

Other scores

3. Jayakanthan R. 52.5
4. Siddhartha Sen  38
5. Hrishikesh Varma 29
6. Vivek Krishnan and Archiman Dutta: 28
8. Balakrishnan 26.5
9. Varun Shenoy 26
10. Sandeep Mathias 23.5
11. Abhijeet 21
12. Atul Mathew  and Arun Kumar 09
14. Atith Kuduvalli 8.5
15. Pranav VC: 02

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.

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.

The Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz

QMs: Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S, Arun Hiregange

1. NLSIU (Varun Rajiv & team) – 210
2. BMSCE (Santhosh JS) – 207.5
3. RVCE (Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) – 197.5
4. NITK-S (Sandeep Albert Mathias, Bhargava Urala K) – 172.5
5. MSRIT – 125
6. RVCE (Chaitanya, Nakul, Gautam) – 105
7. IIM-B (Jishnu Batabyar, Siddhartha Sen) – 100
8. IIT-M (Vinay Hegde) – 60