50 teams took part in the School Quiz held at the SDM-IMD auditorium in Mysore. The quiz was conducted by Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy.

The results:

1. Ganesh A and Venkatram Belvadi of Acharya Vidya Kula won the quiz
2. II: Haridev and Vaishak of Sadvidya
3. III: Prakrithi and Madhuri Sampath of Sadvidya
4. IV:Sushruth and Deepak of Sadvidya
5. IV: Laksh Kumar and Pruthvi Bharadwaj of Acharya Vidya Kula
6. VI: Manohar and Ishaana of JSS Public School
7. VII: Aakarsh and Pareekshith of St. Joseph’s Central High School

Intercollegiate Quiz

Forty teams took part in the Intercollegiate quiz. The quiz was conducted by Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai.

The results

I: MSRIT – Rahul, Santosh and Srikanth

II: SJCE-Mysore: Ashwini B.M, Nickil Somanna and Vikas

III: NLSUI – Badrinarayan and Manish

IV:RVCE –Nakul P.S

V:NIE – Nikhil Kaundinya, Chaitanya AK and Swikrath GK

VI: SDM-IMD – Anil Jagadish, Ramakrishna and Tejasvi Nathan

VI: NIE – Arun Kumar, Arjun and Pavan HS

VIII: Sadvidya PU College – Sachin Phatak, Mohith NP and Shashank Das

Open Quiz

25 teams took part in the Open Quiz. The quiz was conducted by Arul Mani.

I: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa

II: Venkatesh, Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha and Nagesh

III: Avinash Thirumalai, Siby Kuriakose, Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy

IV; Sandeep Achar, Thanuj and Naren

V: Shashishekhar, Vikas, Kaustubh and Ravi Shekar aka The Mysoreans

VI: Rahul, Srikanth, Nakul and Santosh

VII: Anil Jagadish and team (SDM-IMD)

VII: Rajesh Haldipur, Sundareshan, Manoj and Sandeep

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Praveen and Manjith ( formerly of NIT-Kozhikode) will conduct a ranking Open Quiz on Sunday 20 July 2008 at the coffee-shop BrewHaHa in Koramangala.

The quiz starts at 1100hrs sharp. Please be on time–we have to wind up by 2pm.

Rules

1. Teams of 4
2. Open to all
3. Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
4. Prelims: 1100hrs sharp
5. Finals: 1145hrs sharp
6. Prizes for all finalists

The Venue: BrewHaHa is about two doors away from Jyoti Nivas College.

http://www.brewhaha.in for more details

The venue is sponsored by the SDM Institute of Management Development,
Mysore.

The details

Date: Sunday 13 July 2008
Venue: Yoga Hall, SDM-IMD , Mysore

Events:

High School Quiz

Open to teams of two members
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1000hrs sharp
QM: Varun Shenoy

Intercollegiate Quiz

Open to teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1230hrs

QM: Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai

Open Quiz

Teams of four members
No entry fee
Prelims: 1530hrs sharp

QM: Arul Mani

Teams are requested to report at the venue at least 30 minutes before
the event starts. No prior registration is required. For more details
call Varun (9964666528) /Arul Mani (9731214519).

To reach the venue:
SDM IMD is on Chamundi Hill road. Please carry identification–this is required since the Chief Minister is addressing a gathering at another venue on the same campus.

We would like to thank all of you for helping to make ASKQANCE 2008 a
success. A special word of thanks goes out to our sponsors, TVS Tyres,
for their support.

For the record, the collegiate quizzes attracted a total of 110 teams
with the top spots being taken by SVCE (Chennai) and NLSIU-A
(Bangalore) BMSCE finished third. . The Junior College event was won
by SBM Jain College, with NPS-Indiranagar and FAPS taking 2nd and 3rd
spots.

The Bangalore Quiz was won by Rajeev Gowda and Anustup Datta.
G.S.Hiranyappa and Chandrashekhar teamed up to take the second place.
Previous winners Thejaswi Udupa and Karthik Shashidhar finished third.

The entertainment quiz attracted 45 teams. The Chennai outfit
Treebeard (JK, Gopal, Sumo and team) won the quiz, followed by
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Satyajit Chetri, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul
Mani) in second place. The third place was taken by Bang Hoes (Udatta
and team).

120 teams wrote the High School quiz prelims.The event was dominated
by teams from the various branches of the Sri Kumaran’s institutions
with their ICSE team eventually winning the quiz. NPS Rajajinagar
finished second.

Sriram from NPS-R’nagar won the solo title, followed by Arvind (FAPS)
in second place and Athith from Kumaran’s ICSE in third place.

60 teams took the Open Quiz prelims. Special prizes for best school
and best college were claimed by Sishu Griha and NPS-Indirangar
respectively.

The TVS Ride Smart Round for teams placing 9-16 in the prelims was won
by Questionable Characters, followed by Metaquizziks in second place.
Other qualifiers included Raju and His Henchmen,Guessworks,Mustafa,
Takemytrip.com, Nexus, and Namesake. All eight qualifiers received prizes.

The Finals were a truly national affair–5 out of the 8 places were
taken by non-Bangalore teams. The quiz was eventually won by We Are
Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and
Thejaswi Udupa). Arul and His Technicoloured Kurta (from Chennai- JK,
Sumo, Vinod and Sreeram) finished Second, losing top spot by a narrow
margin of 10 points. QED-Chennai (Samanth, Swami, Gopal Kidao and
Rajiv Rai) shook off a slumbersome start to finish Third. The other
finalists included Revenge of the Sith (New Delhi - Dr. Bhattacharya
and team), Insert Cool Name Here, Swami and Friends (Hyderabad), No
Questions Asked and a team from Mumbai (Amit Varma, Udatta and others)

The Informal Sports Quiz was won by Vinod (36 points), followed by
Harish (24.5) and Manish (22) in second and third spots. The
quizmasters decided to limit the prizes to three because only about a
dozen of the fifty people who took the quiz returned their sheets:)

The results for the Informal Science Quiz set by PS Rajagopal for
ASKQANCE are as follows:

Samanth - 17
Sriharsha V Bhat - 11
Ajay Parasuram - 7
Suraj R Nair (FAPS) - 3

Both informals are available for download at http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Thanks are due to the quizmasters Rajeev Gowda, Ochintya Sharma,
Thejaswi Udupa,Kiran Vijayakumar, Madhav Nair,Vivek Karthikeyan,
Venkatesh, Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal, Rajagopal PS and Arun
Hiregange for the effort they made to ensure that the quizzes were
both challenging and interesting.

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The Karnataka Quiz Association celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this year.  ASKQANCE 2008, our anniversary quiz festival will now feature nine quizzes to be held over two days.

This year’s ASKQANCE is supported by TVS Tyres who also celebrate their 25th anniversary.

The Dates:

• Saturday 28th June 2008
• Sunday 29th June 2008

The Venues:

Saturday 28th June

Old Hall, St. Joseph’s Boys High School
Museum Road
Bangalore

Sunday 29th June

Purandara Bhavan
(Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha)
8th Main Road
(Near Indiranagar Club)

The Quizzes

Quizzes on Saturday, 28th June

KQA Intercollegiate Championships
(featuring two separate finals for junior college and collegiate teams)
3-member teams
No entry fee
No mixed teams allowed
Registration: 09:30a.m.
Start: 10:00a.m. sharp
Junior Finals: 11:00a.m.-12:00 noon
College Finals: 1200 noon -1:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000 to be won.
QMs: Ochintya Sharma, Rajeev Gowda and Thejaswi Udupa

Hubbubb-a!
The Third edition of the Bangalore Quiz
2-member teams
Open to all
Entry fee: Rs. 50/-
Start: 1:30 p.m
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani

Open Entertainment Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 200/-
Start: 3:00p.m.
Finals: 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 20,000/- to be won
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Madhav Nair

Quizzes on Sunday, 29th June (at Purandara Bhavan)

Cognito
High School Quiz Championships
Teams of 2 members
A maximum of 6 teams per school
No entry fee
Prelims: 10 a.m
QM: Dibyendu Das

High School Solo Championship
Start: 12:30 p.m
QM: Mitesh Agarwal

Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000/-

Sesame - The Open Quiz

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prelims: 2p.m.

TVS Tyres Ride Smart Round: 3:30pm

Finals: 4:15p.m.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
Prizes totalling Rs. 25,000/-

KQA Silver Jubilee Ceremonies
6:00 p.m

All prizes and certificates will be given out during the ceremonies.

A map to help those who need directions to Purandara Bhavan for the quizzes on 29th June:

Bangalore

Bhubhaneshwar

Chennai

Delhi

Hyderabad

Kolkata

Mumbai

Pune

Trivandrum

Mahaquizzer, KQA’s annual solo championship, will be held on Sunday, 18 May 2008. This year’s quiz is set by Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Avinash Thirumalai and Arun Hiregange.

The contest will be held simultaneously in nine cities: Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.

Four prizes will be given out in each city: Best Quizzer, Best Lady Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer.

The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2008. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence.

Mahaquizzer is a unique contest, requiring the participant to answer 150 questions, drawn from as wide a spread as possible, in 90 minutes. It is open to all and entry is free. Those interested in participating must mail Mahaquizzer@gmail.com or kqaquizzes@gmail.com, mentioning which city you would like to appear from in the subject line.

If you would like more information , or if you have problems registering, please call us at 097312-14519.

Please do try and register by Wednesday 14 May 2008. City coordinators will allow on-the-spot entries if seating is available, but in the event of a space-crunch, first preference will be given to those who had registered before the deadline.

You can have a look at previous editions of the quiz here: http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Individuals who have registered online have been sent confirmatory emails. A city-wise list is put up at http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/96395.html

No more online registrations will be accepted. People who haven’t registered by email must contact their City Coordinator. We would like to accommodate every interested quizzer, but this will depend on the seating available in each venue. City Coordinators will use this criterion to decide about accommodating late/on-the-spot entries.

All the details:

Mahaquizzer 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Reporting Time: 0930hrs
Schedule: 1000hrs-1130hrs

The Venues:

Bangalore
New Block
Cathedral Composite Junior College and High School
Richmond Road
Bangalore

Coordinator: Ochintya Sharma (91-99725-92053)

Chennai
Veta Learning Center
9, Madley Road
T Nagar

Coordinator: Joshua (91-99162-64323)

Delhi
2LT-2,
IIT-Delhi

Coordinator: Ashwan Lewis (91-98185-28426)

Pune
Dewang Mehta Auditorium, “Bhageerath”,
Persistent Systems Ltd,
(Behind Dominos Pizza)
Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune - 411016

Coordinator: Vishwajeeth Narvekar (91-98201-09984)

Kolkata
International School of Business & Media (ISB&M)
EN-22, Sector-V
Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091
(near Capgemini Campus and WEBEL Gate)

Coordinator: Dhivakar Janarthanan (91-98862-84140)

Mumbai
Landmark Bookstore
Infiniti Mall, No.619, New Link Road
Oshiwara, Lokhandwala
Andheri West
Mumbai - 400 053

Coordinator: Avinash Thirumalai (91-98860-60297)

Bhubaneshwar
TCS Learning Center, Koel Campus, Patia

Coordinator: Abhishek Kar (91-99371-90000)

Thiruvananthapuram
Govt. Engineering College
Barton Hill
Thiruvananthapuram

Coordinator: Arun Hiregange (91-98452-03004)

Hyderabad
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73

Coordinator: Satyajit Chetri (91-99591-89943)

The KQA would like to thank The Cathedral High School and Composite Junior College, Bangalore, VETA Chennai, Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd. Hyderabad, GEC Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, TCS Bhubaneshwar,
Persistent Systems, Pune, IIT-Delhi, ISBM Kolkata and The Landmark Bookshop Mumbai for graciously providing Mahaquizzer venues.

We thank Superhits 93.5 SFM for their support in Bhubaneshwar.

We also place on record our gratitude to the various quizzing communities who have supported us in organising Mahaquizzer 2008:
QFI-Chennai, K-Circle Hyderabad, Hyderabad Quiz Club, Kerala Quizzers, The Bombay Quiz Club, The Boat Club Quiz Club Pune, the quizzing community in Bhubaneshwar, and Kutub Quizzers, New Delhi.

Topic: Musical Instruments

All are welcome!

Those interested in attending must however bring 10 questions on Musical Instruments in PowerPoint format/as an MS-Word document.

Please confirm your participation with Mitesh Agarwal. A text message with your name to 91-98452-59423 should do the trick. Prior confirmation is useful because the security desk at the Sun office insists on a list of names being provided.

The session will close by 7pm.

Venue: Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram

QM: Jayakanthan R (QFI-Chennai)

Prelims: 1030hrs

Entry Fee: Rs. 25/-