Mysore Quizzes: The Results

High School Quiz

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

KQA Open Quiz on 20 July

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

KQA Quizzes in Mysore

We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday 13 July in Mysore as part
of our Silver Jubilee Season.

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.

ASKQANCE 2008 Results

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.