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.

In case of a tied total, the lowest category score was compared and then the score in the Connect category. If the tie was still unbroken after this, a joint rank was awarded.

The full scores including points for each category are in this spreadsheet.

UPDATE (15/01/2012): Two participants’ scores were left out accidentally and have been added to the rankings now. Please note that ranks 264 and below have now changed as also ranks 88-94.
UPDATE (17/01/2012): We received some corrections to scores. Please note your rank may have changed.

The contest was won by Pat Gibson (UK) who scored 110 points out of a possible 200. Kevin Ashman (UK) finished second with 101 points. Mark Grant (UK) took third place on the same score.

The top scores from each of the other participating countries are as follows:

USA: Dan Melia (82)
Norway: Lars Heggland (69)
Germany: Sebastian Klussmann (43)
Malaysia: Movin Miranda (74)
Singapore: Caleb Liu (52)
Sri Lanka: Samanth Subramaniam (78). Lathike Niriella made 42.
India: Swaminathan G. (76)

And now, for the champions in each category.

The Arts: Kevin Ashman (16/20)
Literature: Mark Grant and Josh Kosman (12/20)
Cinema: Mark Grant (15/20)
Music: Josh Kosman (13/20)
Sports & Leisure: Pat Gibson (16/20)
Business: Mitesh Agarwal (15/20)
Science: Chris Quinn (14/20)
Food & Drink: Santosh Swaminathan (13/20)
Social Sciences: Sankhya Krishnan(11/20)*
Connects: Pat Gibson (10/20)

The Bangalore leg of the event was won by Arun Hiregange (67). Thejaswi Udupa (61) and Anustup Datta (57) finished second and third respectively.

A full list of the international rankings will be put up shortly.

*Corrected following receipt of Chennai scores

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Part I – Answers

Part II – Questions

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Part II – Answers

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

AHMEDABAD
CR 4, Heritage (Old) Campus,
IIM Ahmedabad
Directions: Enter through the main gate of the Heritage (Old) Campus. Walk towards the main building complex and take the stairs on the right to go towards the library. Pass the library (on the left) to reach classroom 4 (CR4)
Procotor: Abhiram

BENGALURU
Suchitra Cinema & Cultural Academy
No.36, 9th main ,
B V Karanth Road,
Banashankari II Stage
Proctor: Arul Mani

BHUBANESHWAR
Orissa Engineering College
(Administrative Campus),
460 Sahid Nagar,
Bhubaneshwar
Proctor: Abanis Nayak

CHENNAI
Chemistry Lecture Theater,
Humanities and Social Sciences Block
Indian Institute of Technology – Chennai
Map of IIT – Chennai
Proctor: Kiran Vijayakumar

GOA
Zuari Hall,
The International Centre Goa,
Dona Paula
Proctor: Tallulah D’Silva

HYDERABAD
IIPH Hostel – (Indian Institute for Public Health)
Kavuri Hills (Madhapur)
Hyderabad
Directions from Madhapur Police Station:

• Go approximately 0.5 km along the lane opposite the Police Station. Pass ‘PBEL’, ‘Of Course’, and the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad (IIPHH).
• Turn right opposite Akshaya Arcade.
• Keep straight on the road till the road ends at a cream-coloured 4-storey building next to Durgam Cheruvu. This building, the IIPHH hostel, is the destination.
• Go up to the top floor to the Recreation Room: The lift will take you to the penultimate floor.

Proctor: T P Devarajan

KOLKATA
Usha Martin Academy,
5th Floor,
PS Shrijan Tech Park,
Sector 5,
Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 91
Proctor: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee

COIMBATORE
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu
Avinashi Road
Proctor: Anuradha Yogesh

MUMBAI
Pinstorm, Ground Floor,
Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road),
North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W)
Proctor: V V Krishnan

NEW DELHI
2LT 1
IIT – Delhi
Proctor: Kaustuba Venugopal

PUNE
Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT),
Plot 15, Rajiv Gandhi InfoTech Park, Hinjawadi, Phase 1
Nearby Landmarks: 1 km from Infosys Circle and next door to Cognizant
Tech. Solutions and I2IT
Pune – 411057
Proctor: J Ramanand

THRISSUR
St. Thomas College, Thrissur
Proctor: Dr. Vijaynath V

MindSweep International Venues

UK — Coventry

Contact: Chris@worldquizzing.com

United States
Cornelius Pass Roadhouse
4045 N.W. Cornelius Pass Rd.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Portland, Oregon
Proctor: Saurabh Jain
Contact Manjith: 503-913-2711

San Francisco
UCSF
Contact: Mark.Ryder@ucsf.edu
Proctor: Yoshimi Fukuoka

Philadelphia
Proctor: Arun Banana Singh Raghavan (arraghav@gmail.com)

Stanford University
Conference Room, Durand Building,Stanford University
Street Address :
680 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Contact:
Email Arun Simha : asimha_qm@yahoo.com
Proctor: Rohit Varicatt: – 650-798-4373

Two more venues in the US
New York
Venue- ING DIRECT Cafe
New York 968 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Proctor: Pradeep (Konga)

AUSTIN
University of Texas at Austin
Contact: AustinLovesMindsweep@gmail.com
Proctor: Sunil Kowlgi

Germany
Contact:  Sebastian Klussmann
Email: skquiz@gmx.de

Norway
Proctor: Knut Heggland
email knut.heggland@gmail.com

Sri Lanka
Proctor: Ruwan Senanayake
Email: ruwan.p.sen@gmail.com
Venue:
Civil Aviation Authority Training Academy,
No. 78, Galle Road Colombo 3 (opposite Cinnamon Grand Hotel)

Malaysia
Proctor: Nigel Jones
Kuala Lumpur venue for Mindsweep
SLC Pusat Bahasa Istimewa
1262, Block A2 Leisure Commerce Square 9,
Jalan PJS 8/9 46150 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia
Contact : Nigel Jones (+6012 3721014)

Singapore
Proctor: Caleb Liu
Call: 96222242
Bayshore Park, Pearl Tower, 22-03.

Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Guwahati, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.

Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) –Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Dilip Sarma in Guwahati, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and  a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.

This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work  put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of  Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.

The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 13 cities. The three other places in the semi-finals will go to the first three teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city.  These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011

The next edition of Mega-Whats, in December 2012, will be set by Kiran Vijayakumar and Arun Hiregange.

Best!

Arul Mani

The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.

PANAJI

20 teams appeared

1. OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M)            52
2. COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash,  Ashin,  Akshay Surendra)      27
3. SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal)     11

PUNE

19 teams appeared

1. OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar)     57
2. COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar)              33

 KOLKATA

12 teams appeared

1. OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas)  75
2. COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal)                          30
3. SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu)  16

HYDERABAD

17 teams appeared

1. OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava )                      69
2. COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram)          35
3. SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath)                                                  16

NEW DELHI

26 teams appeared

1. OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi)  70
2. COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
3. SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev)             11

DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7^th question using the score-comparison method.

CHENNAI

21 teams appeared.

1. OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan)   85
2. COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan)                   29
3. SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

20 teams appeared

1. OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi)           39
2. COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
3. SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath)         05

CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2^nd question using the score-comparison method.

THRISSUR

12 teams appeared

1. OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar)        60
2. COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram,  Sruthi: 10
3. SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09

MUMBAI

14 teams appeared

1. OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu),  70
2. COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya  37

BANGALORE

41 teams appeared

1. OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh)  78
2. COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team)       37
3. SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team)  08

COIMBATORE

11 teams appeared

1. OPEN:  TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS  (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
2. COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj)        09
3. SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram)    03

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.