Go Ogle 2010
We will run Go Ogle, our annual online quiz on 1st Jan 2010. This is the fifth edition of the quiz.
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.
Mega-Whats 2009: All-India Top 100 Teams
Rank | Team | City | Score | Stars | Points Off Star Questions | Annotation |
1 | QED (Gopal Kidao, Samanth S, Swaminathan, Jayakanthan) | CHENNAI (City Winners) | 67 | 4 | 14 | Original Score 69. Points deducted for Soyuz and Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
2 | WALTWo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) | BANGALORE (City Winners) | 61 | 2 | 11 | Original Score 62. Point deducted for Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
3 | Travelling Pillsburies (Rajen Prabhu, Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tewari) | MUMBAI (City Winners) | 58 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 58. Points added for Vesperus. Points deducted for Mannar |
4 | Telangana Is an Oily Song (Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah) | NEW DELHI (City Winners) | 57 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 56. Change due to counting error. Cracked Succulent Karoo! |
5 | Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay TSR) | BANGALORE | 53 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 55. Points wrongly given for Golden Horn and Asteroids. |
6 | Thinker Toiler Lawyer & Guy ( Ramanan, Shiv, Goach and Ramkey) | CHENNAI | 52 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 52. Up to 53 after counting error was remedied. Point deducted for Bund Road brings them back to 52. |
7 | Inmaniacs(Malavika Banerjee,Gautam Ghosh, Shounak Chakraverti, Anirudh Chari) | KOLKATA (City Winners) | 51 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 52. Points deducted for Vespa Lynd. Team retains Kolkata title on stars. |
8 | Tabula Rosetta (Bala, Vikram, Anand Shivashankar, Pradeep R. ) | MUMBAI | 51 | 5 | 13 | Original score 52. Point deducted for The Life of Others |
9 | Byapok Batha (Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Deepanjan Deb) | KOLKATA | 51 | 4 | 13 | Original score 51. Lost points for Soyuz. Gained points for Vesperus. |
10 | Blank Slate (Sarath, Diwakar Pingle, Raamesh, Arvind. K) | MUMBAI | 49 | 7 | 17 | No change. |
11 | Memory Bank (Saranya Jayakumar, P.B. Jayakumar, Navin Jayakumar, Gautam Padmanabhan) | CHENNAI | 49 | 6 | 16 | Original Score 51. Lost points for Soyuz and “Quark for Muster Mark”. |
12 | Octette (Anil Vaswani, Vimala Jagannath, Tathagatha Chatterjee, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka) | KOLKATA | 48 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 49. Lost points for Soyuz. |
13 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Shamanth Madhava Rao, Manu Sudhakar, Nagesh and Anil Raghavan) | THRISSUR (City Winners) | 47 | 5 | 13 | No change. Anal people have done corrections in Thrissur. |
14 | Chak De Bhatta (Joy, Kunal, Dr. Bhattacharya, Praveen) | NEW DELHI | 46 | 4 | 12 | Original Score 44. Counting Error. |
15 | Something Something (Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv) | BANGALORE | 46 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 43. Error in counting. Cracked Theme! |
16 | Answering Service (Soubhadra, Charanpreet, Supratik, Sanjoy) | KOLKATA | 45 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 46. Counting Error. |
17 | No Enthu Da (Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik) | BANGALORE | 45 | 2 | 10 | No change |
18 | Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh | CHENNAI | 44 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 45. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
19 | Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry) | BANGALORE | 43 | 3 | 12 | Original Score 45. Points wrongly given for Banyan Tree and for Aeschylus (41) |
20 | Questionable Characters (Vikram Sreeram, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda, Hiranyappa G.S. | BANGALORE | 42 | 6 | 15 | Original Score 41. Points not given for Shofer. |
21 | SHARED a)Kiddo, Lalith, Fing and Anil and b) Swami and Friends ( J.Krishnamurthi, Alagar Swami, Lakshmi J.K., Bhargava E.M.) | a) CHENNAI b) HYDERABAD (City Winners) | 42 | 4 | 10 | a) Original Score 43. Point deducted for Soyuz and b) Point deducted for Jana Zatopek |
22 | Not Awarded–see above | |||||
23 | Jesus Wept ( Meghashyam, Mahesh, Mukund, Prasann) | MUMBAI | 41 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 42. Point deducted for ‘Soyuz fell in India’. |
24 | Jai Santosh Ki Maa (Amit Varma, Kaushik Chatterjee, Rishi Iyengar, Annanya Deb) | MUMBAI | 40 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 41. Counting Error. |
25 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG ( Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, D. Sundar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta | GOA (City Winners) | 39 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 37. Points given for Vesperus and Kiss Our Chuddies. |
26 | Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Venkat and Gautam Shenoy) | BANGALORE | 38 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 39. Counting Error. |
27 | Nitish Khadiya, Lathish, Praveen, Navneet | HYDERABAD | 38 | 3 | 8 | No change. |
28 | No Idea, Still (Ashwin Koneti, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil) | BANGALORE | 38 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 36. Points not given for Oort’s and Hershey. |
29 | Tail Bone Enders (Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles, Vinod Rajamani) | BANGALORE | 37 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
30 | Mehul, Srinath T.B, Roshith Mohan, Abid E.H | MUMBAI | 37 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
31 | Last Action Heroes (S. Dutta, S. Gupta, R. Mistry, P.S. Ghatak) | KOLKATA | 37 | 0 | 5 | No change |
32 | Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Suraj, Suvajit, Yasho T, Yash Marathe) | PUNE (City Winners) | 36 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 38. Points wrongly given for RBI Banyan Tree and Talaimannar. |
33 | Mera Naam Joka (Vikas Sahu, Arnav Sinha, Jitaditya Narzary, Suchi | MUMBAI | 36 | 1 | 8 | No change |
34 | What Maga? (Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba, Vivek Kartikeyan) | BANGALORE | 35 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 36. Point deducted for Mannar. |
35 | Rahul Gaur, Tushar Kaul, Akshay Sehgal, Paranjoth Singh | MUMBAI | 35 | 3 | 10 | No change |
36 | Desi Dhamaka (Tallulah D’Silva, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan, Anjali Sengupta) | GOA | 35 | 2 | 6 | No change |
37 | Lazarus Effect ( Dr. Murali Mohan, S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar) | BANGALORE | 34 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 33. Counting Error. |
38 | Potoldanga Thunder Club (Panchjanya, Robin Dey, Rahul Basu, Prithwish Datta) | KOLKATA | 34 | 1 | 7 | No change |
39 | Fidda ( Govind Grewal, Shambhu Shankar, Aniruddha Dutta, Dhananjay Shettigar) | MUMBAI | 33 | 4 | 11 | No change |
40 | Why Did We Bother (Amit Garde, Dharmakirti Wakankar, Trilok Khairnar, Gaurav Kapoor) | PUNE | 33 | 2 | 9 | Original Score 34. Counting Error. |
41 | Sukha Hara (Harish, Kunal, Salil, Ramanand. J) | PUNE | 32 | 1 | 8 | No change. |
42 | Questionable Characters II (Debjit, Anupam, Rohan, Vemana) | HYDERABAD | 32 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 33. Points wrongly given for ‘Claude Levi’ |
43 | Not the Last Ones (Sumit R. Abhijit. N, Suchintan C., Suvam P.) | KOLKATA | 31 | 2 | 10 | No change. |
44 | Ahead of Points (Sanandan, Amar, Ananth, Vinod) | CHENNAI | 31 | 2 | 9 | No change. |
45 | SHARED a) Tea, Coffee and Snacks (Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kalyan Dey) and b) Whatever (Yaggy, Matti, Arun Ramanathan, Renuka) | a) KOLKATA b) CHENNAI | 31 | 1 | 7 | a) Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. b) no change |
46 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
47 | Gloriously Legitimate (Sandeep, Chinmoy, Aditya Sridhar, Sriharsha Bhat) | BANGALORE | 31 | 1 | 4 | No change. |
48 | Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra) | NEW DELHI | 31 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
49 | Dreamz (Capt. Chandrakant Nair, Viswas Viswam, Jyothi EK, Midhun Zachariah) | THRISSUR | 30 | 0 | 4 | No change. Cracked Shiroi Lily! |
50 | Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Ashwin Prabhu, Balaji T.K | CHENNAI | 29 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 30.Point deducted for Soyuz. |
51 | Gunpowder! Yumm!! (Aditya, Praveen, Supratim, Parth) | KOLKATA | 28 | 2 | 7 | Original Score 27. Counting Error. |
52 | Jana Telangana Mana Adayaka Jayahe! (Shanmati, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra V., AkshayNair) | CHENNAI | 28 | 1 | 7 | Original Score 27. Point deducted for Soyuz. Counting Error. |
53 | Mat-Rag (Deepak, Raghu, Nishant, Aneesh) | NEW DELHI | 28 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 29. Point deducted for Ansari (!), 55 D. |
54 | RTDT ( Ritubroto, Tanaji, Dhruv, Tanmay) | 28 | 0 | 6 | No change. | |
55 | ????(Atul, Janardhan, Dushyanth, Arnab) | MUMBAI | 27 | 1 | 5 | No change |
56 | Numero Uno (Shrikant, Luis Dias, Anil Rodrigues, Sachin Chatte) | GOA | 27 | 1 | 4 | Original score 20. Counting Error. |
57 | Bottle Green Whales (Chirag Mutgi, Sidharth Kuruvila,Vipin, Paramananda) | BANGALORE | 27 | 0 | 6 | Original Score 24. Counting Error. |
58 | Joka Conquistadors (Karan Kalia, Nihansh, Amrutanshu, Harsh Ketkar) | KOLKATA | 27 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
59 | MAM Returns (S. Chakladar, I. Mukherjee, N.Sankar, Shouvik Das) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 7 | No change. |
60 | Tall, Dark, Handsome and Sunil (Ram Shankar,Debopam, Sunil Chandrashekar, Guruprasad Shenoy) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 5 | No change |
61 | No Hope in Hell.Com (Vinay, Vcat, Gaurav, Sameer) | PUNE | 26 | 1 | 3 | No change |
62 | Srikant, Sameer, Majji, Gayathri | HYDERABAD | 26 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
63 | Boye Geche! (Debanjan B, Anagh M, Shayak C., Jishu D.H.) | KOLKATA | 25 | 1 | 6 | Original Score 23. Counting Error. |
64 | Quadrophenia(Rohit, Harish, Gaurav, Anirudh) | CHENNAI | 25 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 22. Points not given for Hershey and Greenland, Counting Error. |
65 | Trailblazers (Vardhan, Uday, Ratna, Manish) | BANGALORE | 24 | 1 | 6 | No change. |
66 | It’s Complicated (Pravin Varma, Ayyappa Kumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Supriy Singh) | NEW DELHI | 24 | 0 | 3 | No change. |
67 | Shared between a) Pan Galactic Quiz Blasters (Arka Banerji, Niranka Banerjee, Kaustuv Gupta) and b) Mere Do Anmol Watan (Raghu, Balaji, Navin, Sudhir) | a) KOLKATA and b) HYDERABAD | 23 | 2 | 6 | a) Original Score 22. Counting Error. b) No change |
68 | Not Awarded–See Above. | No change | ||||
69 | Advitiya (Naveen B.A, Raghu Pant, Anupam Jain, Surya JVS) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 24. Pooint deducted for Soyuz. |
70 | Anshul, Abhinav, Nikhil, Akul | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
71 | Zizzyphus Kahan Hai?( Gandhi, Katoch, Mangal, Pande) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
72 | Lotus Eaters (Abhinav, Mayank, Shubhendu, | PUNE | 22 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 25. Points deducted for Soyuz, Oliver Cromwell under a different number, and Levi Claude Strauss. |
73 | Who’s Soda’s Daddy? (Sharath K Jose, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) | BANGALORE | 22 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
74 | SHARED BETWEEN a) Sheki’s Groupies (Ahimanyu, Udit, Abhisek, Abhinav) and b) Radix (Devarshi Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta) | a) NEW DELHI and b) KOLKATA | 22 | 0 | 4 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) Original Score 21. Counting Error. |
75 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
76 | Pingu’s PomPoms feat. Tonic (Abhishek, Anucheth, Karthik, Rohit) | BANGALORE | 22 | 0 | 3 | Point deducted for Vostok-Rakesh Sharma. |
77 | Shared between a) Piyush Ahuja, Gagandeep Singh, Shankaran Anand, Anshuman Fotedar and b) Once Upon a Time in GEC (RGK, Rajasekar, Arun A.S. , Chandu Lenin) | a) NEW DELHI and b) THRISSUR | 21 | 2 | 8 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) No change |
78 | Quizzer’s Utopia (Sanjay, Mithun, Sunny, Priyanka) | KOLKATA | 21 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 23. Point deducted for Soyuz and Meteorites in 52 B (for Meteoroids) |
79 | Paranormal Activity (Shriram, Shankhayan, Azeez, Kush) | NEW DELHI | 21 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 22. Counting Error. |
80 | Guess Me! Guess Me Not! (Dr. Jinu Mathew, S.K. Mohanty, Vikash Khandelwal, Epshita Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 21 | 0 | 4 | No change. |
81 | 3 Strikes and You’re Out (Hari, Rabi, Divyam) | NEW DELHI | 20 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 17. Counting Error. |
82 | Reds ‘N’ Guns (Noufel Samad, Vikas Plakkot, Jithin Raghavan, Jose Thomas) | THRISSUR | 20 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
83 | Appl Pi (Bhargava, Pradeep, Murari) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
84 | Salmagundi (Venkatesh) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 1 | No change. Solo Entry! |
85 | Two Non-Smoking Barrels (Jishnu, Sid) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 7 | No change |
86 | Mega Answers (Nihal, Navneet, Prashanth) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
87 | Bum-Boo ( Dhananjay, Apratim, Parth) | NEW DELHI | 19 | 0 | 1 | 22. Points wrongly given on 26 and 54b. Counting Error. |
88 | Shared Between a) No Team Name (Bharath, Ram Prakash, Gnanaskandan) , b) The Lizzard Kings (Ankit, Arun, Nilohit) and c) On the Fly (Pras, Subbareddy, Srini, Abhyu | a)HYDERABAD, b) PUNE and c) HYDERABAD | 19 | 0 | 3 | a) Original Score 17. Counting Error, b) No change and c) Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
89 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
90 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
91 | Amnesiac Quizzers Inc. ( Nipun V, Shafeeq. S, Ijaz Aslam, Edward Davis) | THRISSUR | 19 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
92 | Tetra Pack (Saidy, Naveen, Sushant, Srivats) | CHENNAI | 18 | 2 | 5 | No change. |
93 | Dog, Pig, Sheep and ET (Ashok, Thiru, Keki, Okal) | BANGALORE | 18 | 1 | 3 | No change |
94 | 3 Doc 1 Tech (Harikrishnan, Vijaynath V., Sarin. P, Sowmya Sarin) | THRISSUR | 18 | 0 | 7 | No change. |
95 | Ensemble (Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 20. Counting Error. |
96 | ICQC ( K. Saha, S.Reddy, S. Bhatnagar, S. Sinha) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 3 | No change |
97 | 42 ( Paritosh Rai, Anilesh) | NEW DELHI | 18 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
98 | Quizito Ergo Sum ( K. Pramod, Reeju Datta, Harshit Khare, Prashant Kr. Sinha) | NEW DELHI | 17 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
99 | Shared Between a) The Magnificent Four ( Sunil S, Paul C, Mahesh Prabhu, Sachin Pai K) and b) Quizzigans ( Athith K., Subham, Aditya Menon) | a) GOA and b) BANGALORE, SCHOOL WINNER | 17 | 1 | 4 | No change |
100 | Not Awarded–See Above. |
Mega-Whats 2009 – Bangalore Results
A total of 188 teams from across the country took part in Mega-Whats 2009.
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.
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz – Results
Results of the quiz held on the morning of Sunday 13 December 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
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
Junior College Team & Solo Quizzes, Speculative Fiction Quiz and Ganesh Nayak Open Quiz – Results
Results of quizzes held on Sunday 6 November 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Junior College Team Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Deeksha Centre for Learning (Anurup, Vivek, Rohit) – 139
2. Frank Anthony Public School (Arvind V., Gayathri Naveen, Nagaratna Patil) – 123
3. Christ Junior College (Bhargava V., Harish K.M., Bharath Shankar G.) – 95.5
4. Sri Kumarans Childrens Home (Arjun S, Sashank K, Sudarshan P.S.) – 81
5. Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College (Suraj, Deepak, Tiwari) – 77
6. National College (Richie Kushalappa, Vignesh A.G., Vijay Kumar V.) – 71
7. Christ Junior College (Mridul Agarwal, Koushik Sekar, Mohit Bohra) – 7
Junior COllege Solo Quiz, to decide the Junior Collegiate Solo Quizzing Champion for 2009
QM: Arul Mani
1. P.S. Sudarshan (Sri Kumarans Childrens Home) – 89
2. Anurup A.K. (Deeksha Centre for Learning) – 67
3. Deepak G. (Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College) – 61 (by tie-break)
4. Arvind (Frank Anthony Public School) – 61
5. Sashank (Sri Kumarans Childrens Home – CBSE) – 55
6. Suma S. (Christ Junior College) & Ameya (Christ Junior College) – 44
8. Suraj Prabhu (Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College) & Vivek (Deeksha Centre for Learning) – 42
Chronosynchlastic Infundibulum, a quiz on Speculative Fiction
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Chota MQ (Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv) – 23 (winner by tie-break)
2. MQ (Arul Mani & Santhosh Swaminathan) – 23
3. We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange) – 22.5
The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Gautam Shenoy, Siddharth Shanker, Jaidev Karunakaran and Anil Raghavan of Insert Cool Name Here
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santhosh Swaminathan) – 175
2. We Are Like This (W)only (Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 155
3. Keep Distance (Rahul S. Kottalgi & team) – 125
4. Goat Boys (Cheriyan Alexander & team) – 110
5. Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Lahar Appaiah, Dr. NVS Krishnan & team) – 105
6. NITK (Sandeep, Sriharsha, Aditya, Kaustubh) – 75
7. Neo Nexus (Venky, Ravi, Praveen VR, Kivi) – 60
8. Cunning Lingas (Bharat, Sumer, Tanmay, Lalith) – 40
Quizzes on Sunday 13 December 2009
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday, 13 December 2009, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
The Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz
- Open to Post-Graduate, Under-Graduate and Pre-University teams
- Teams of three members
- Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
- Unlimited entries in prelims and two teams per college max in the finals
QMs: Venkatesh. S, Vivek Karthikeyan and Arun Hiregange
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/-, Rs. 1500/- and prizes for all other finalists.
Schedule: 10am to 1pm
The best PUC team and the best all-women’s team will win a prize each.
Event II
MEGA-WHATS 2009
The National Open Quizzing Championships
in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, New Delhi and Kolkata.
Entry by prior registration
All registered teams will need to pay an entry fee of Rs. 50/- before start
Please report at 1400hrs sharp
All participating teams to be seated by 1430hrs
Two prizes: Best School team and Best Open Team.
The All-India winner will receive The KQA Mega-Whats Rolling Trophy at the 27th Anniversary Celebrations in June 2010.
Mega-Whats 2009: Registrations and Venues
MEGA-WHATS 2009: VENUES
Please note that no more registrations will be accepted over the email. DO get in touch with the quiz community in your city/or the nominated quizmaster to register. They will allow further registrations based on available seating.
Please note that an entry fee will be charged in some cities to offset venue charges and equipment hire.
BANGALORE
Institution of Agricultural Technologists
Queen’s Road
Bangalore
QM: Arul Mani (97312-14519)
CHENNAI
PS Senior Secondary School
No. 33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai 600004.
HYDERABAD
Vasavi Hall AC Auditorium,3rd Floor, Vasavi Complex, Opp Sensation Theatre, Khairtabad, Hyderabad
Directions: From Khairatabad while going towards Lakdi ka Pul, right opposite the Sensation theatre near IIMC.
For directions, contact Nitish Khadiya ( 9885679460)
QM: Venkatesh S. (0-98457-19332)
NEW DELHI
2LT1
IIT-Delhi
QM: Ashwan Lewis (98185-28426)
MUMBAI
IIT-Bombay
Powai
QM: Mitesh Agarwal (0-98452-59423)
GOA
Corporation of the City of Panaji Hall,
2nd Floor, Opp. Cafe Central, Panaji.
QM: Siby Kuriakose (0-99001-22880)
KOLKATA
ISBM
For directions to the venue in Kolkata, please call Gautam Ghosh (098300 44093) or Rudrodeep (98363-44694)
PUNE
Symbiosis Law School Auditorium,
Symbiosis Law School,
Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune – 411004
QM: Vishwajeeth Narvekar
THRISSUR
Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School,
Sree Ramakrishna Ashram Lane,
Punkunnam,
Thrissur- 680002
QM: Hrishi Varma (9995103806)
REGISTRATIONS
BANGALORE
- MWBAN01: Doc, Chandra, Raghu and Amarnath
- MWBAN02: Saarthak Narsipur, Pranav Kaushik and team
- MWBAN03: V. Chandrashekar and team
- MWBAN04: Thanuj Kumar and team
- MWBAN05: Debashree, Vijayraghavan, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah
- MWBAN06: Prathyusha J, Jayameenakshi V. and team (S)
- MWBAN07: Athith, Subham, Aditya Menon and Varsha (S)
- MWBAN08: Pranav, Abhishek Shetty, Shashank H R, Bharath (S)
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MWBAN09: Ajay Bharadwaj Rao,Akash, Charan and Kaarthikeyan.
- MWBAN10: Team Nexus/Vivek Karthikeyan and team.
- MWBAN11: Umang, Abhishek, Minkul & Tom
- MWBAN12: Keep Distance/Nishanth, Rahul, Rajath.
- MWBAN13: Rajat Upadhyaya, Jayant Upadhyaya, Ganesh N
- MWBAN14: Vinod Hariharan & Team
- MWBAN15: Suraj Nair and team
- MWBAN16: Sandeep, Aditya, Kaustubh, Sriharsha
- MWBAN17:Yogish Kamath, Vishal Palla, Aakash Katdare
- MWBAN18: Vivek, Prashant Bhat, Sridhar, Pallavi
- MWBAN19: Aadisht , Aswath , Karthik , Mukund Sridhar
- MWBAN20: Nikhil Chary, Puneeth Nagaraj and team
- MWBAN21:We Are Like This Wonly: Tups, Udupa, Ochintya, Appu
- MWBAN22:Anand, Ravi, Arun, Ratnesh.
- MWBAN23: Prabha Bhat and team
- MWBAN24: Kedar Sastry, Kumar G V, Vinay R M
- MWBAN25: Nandakumar Munuswamy, Vivek Choudhary, Sulfy Salim, Girish Menon
- MWBAN26: Sunil Nagaraj, Ashwin Koneti & Team.
- MWBAN27:Andrew Kelly,Arko Dasgupta, Suhrid Ghosh, Viswesh R
- MWBAN28: Chandan Nikhil, Arun Kumar and team.
- MWBAN29: Ashok.T , Jagadish.P,Anirudh.Y,Vinay.S
- MWBAN30: Vinay.A, Sai.Pranith, Akarsh.L, Chethan.J. Sharma
- MWBAN31: Kaustuba Venugopal, Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan ,Vivek Karthikeyan
- MWBAN32: Sid Sen, Abhishek K, Varun Rajiv
- MWBAN33: Praveen Gopal Krishnan and team
- MWBAN34: Sidarth Kuruvila, Paramananda P., Vipin, Chirag.
- MWBAN35: Aditya S, Shashank, Sohan Maheshwari
- MWBAN36: Tanmay Prusti, Lalith Krishnan, Sumeer Kumar
- MWBAN37: Sreekanta, Yogesh and Team
- MWBAN38: Pranay Shetty, Vivek Subramanian, Sudarshan, Pavan
- MWBAN39: Abhishek Caleb, Vineeth, Rajneesh, Surya
- MWBAN40: QCs: Dibyendu Das, GS Hiranyappa, Vinay Das
- MWBAN41: Devadas, Naveen , Praveen, Amit Didolkar
- MWBAN42: Suraj Prabhu and team
- MWBAN43: Nakul, Chaitanya, Ponappa, Sharath Jose
- MWBAN44: Vardhan Walavalkar, Uday Mahajan, Manish Gupta
- MWBAN45: Abhishek Varughese, Akash B.P.,Anirudh P.V., Navaneeth Krishnan T.P
- MWBAN46: Varun Shenoy, Rohit Acharya and team
- MWBAN47: Ashok,Thrivikraman, Keerthikiran,Anand Iyer
- MWBAN48: Vikram, Vybhavi, Raghu
- MWBAN49: Prashanth, Nihal and Naren
- MWBAN50: Abhishek, Rohit, Karthik and Shitendra of Tonic
- MWBAN51: Salmagundi–Venkatesh Parthasarathy and team.
Registrations for Bangalore are closed.
CHENNAI
- MWCHE01: Karthik, Sylvian, Vinod, Ananth
- MWCHE02: Ananthashankar, Sanandan, Murthy, Vijay.
- MWCHE03: Harish, Aniruddh, Gaurav, Rohit
- MWCHE04: Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Aswin Prabhu, Balaji T.K
- MWCHE05: Renuka, Venkatesh, Yagnyeshwaran, Arun
- MWCHE06: Praneet Ruperts, Vasanth Kumar, Vignesh.V, Vinod
- MWCHE07: Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh Ramasubramanian
- MWCHE08: Shiv, VV Ramanan, Krishnamurti.G, Ramkey
- MWCHE09: Suresh and team
- MWCHE10: Memory Bank: Navin Jayakumar and team
- MWCHE11: Krishna.S,Gopinath.M and Karthik B.
- MWCHE12: Adithya Shrikrishna, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Arjun J, Shyam Sundarraman
- MWCHE13:Adithya, Vishal V, Sarvesh Ashok, Venkatasubramaniam
- MWCHE14: V Sreenivas, Dhruva Bhat, Sriram S, Prashant Srinivasan
- MWCHE15:Sayekiran Ravindran. Srivats Suresh Kumar, Naveen Srinivasan, Vaidyanathan R
- MWCHE16: Sarada Anne and team
- MWCHE17: Gowtham Kanda, Nitish Krishna, Vivek Parthasarathy, Varun Agarwal
- MWCHE18: Badri, Hari, Prashant.
- MWCHE19: Gopal Kidao, R. Jayakanthan, G. Swaminathan, Samanth Subramanian
- MWCHE20: Sandeep Mark Thirumalai, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra Venkataramani, Akshay Nair
- MWCHE21: Deepak, Mario, Mathew
- MWCHE22: Shreyas V P, Akshay Ramachandran, Anish Shenai, S.Abhinav
- MWCHE23: Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli, Srinivasan Rajagopal, Lalith Krishnan
- MWCHE24: Vijay M, Manikantan MVL , Aparna, Govind Paliath
- MWCHE25: Adithya, Visha, Sarvesh Ashok, Venkatasubramaniam
- MWCHE26: Sreenivas, Dhruva Bhat, Sriram S, Prashant Srinivasan
GOA
- MWGOA01: Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly and Aniruddha Sen Gupta
- MWGOA02: Adish Talwadkar, Ameya Ajinkya Mardolkar, Amit Shet, Anant Lawande
- MWGOA03: Joshan , Ajachi Chakrabarthi, Sreedhar Ramachandran, Aditya S
- MWGOA04: Tallulah D’Silva, Anjali SenGupta, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan
- MWGOA05: Suraj Kamat, Shelton Madeira, Siddesh Desai, Abhishek Naik
- MWGOA06: P. Jyoti Kiran, Siddhesh SilimKhan, Tulsidas Pai Raghavendra, Malcolm Edgar Barreto
HYDERABAD
- MWHYD01: Anupam Sinha, Rohan Mishra, Debjit Das Gupta
- MWHYD02: Alagarsamy, JK Lakshmi,J Krishnamurthi and EM Bharga
- MWHYD03: Sureshraj Bakthavatchalam and team
- MWHYD04: Abhishek, Santosh and Phani Ramakishore
- MWHYD05: Venkata Ravi Teja Mujje, Venkata Ram Tej Bharat, Uday Kumar Jadhav
- MWHYD06: Bharath, Ramprakash, Gnana
- MWHYD07: Rohit Arora, Sudhir Kaveti, Venkatesh Gupta, Sandeep Mocherla
- MWHYD08: Syed Mustafa Hashmi, K. Rohit, Bose Babu
- MWHYD09: Ebenezer George, Sridhar Reddy, Atul Bhogle
- MWHYD10: Vikas Khurana, Pradeep Behera and team
- MWHYD11: Amardeep, Kaushik, Devina,Alaukik.
- MWHYD12: Vaibhav Aiyar, Mohammed Rahmath and team
- MWHYD13: Mahesh Jonnalagadda and team.
- MWHYD14: Syed Murtuza Hashmi, Sai Shashank Reddy, P. Arun Sreyes
- MWHYD15: . Ashwin Sudhir, Sankalp Mulye, Shovik Banerjee, Suhas Rao
- MWHYD16: Sameer Bora, Srinivas Majji, Renu Singh
- MWHYD17: Lathish, Nitish Khadiya & Praveen
- MWHYD18: Aditya Jalan, Kaushik Sridhar, Pruthiviraj Haral, Tushar Anand
- MWHYD19: Balaji, Raghuram, Navin, Sudhir
- MWHYD20: Leelendhu, Sashank and team (S)
- MWHYD21: Prashanth, Ravikiran and Rahul, Abdul.
- MWHYD22: A Krishna Akhil, P Rohan Naidu AND TEAM
- MWHYD23: Aditya, Arun, Aditya Vikram.
KOLKATA
- MWKOL01: Sankar Roy, Rudradeep Bhattacharya, Rajib Roy, Biswanath Biswas
- MWKOL02: Vimala Jagannath, Anil Vaswani, Soumyadip Choudhury, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka
- MWKOL03: Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Somnath Chanda
- MWKOL04: Devarshi Ghosh, Santanu Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta
- MWKOL05: Mithun Biswas, Sagnik Chakraborty, Priyanka Mukherjee, Sanjay Chakraborty
- MWKOL06: Samrat Dutta, Partha Sarathi Ghatak, Sumanta Gupta, Richard Mistry.
- MWKOL07: Saswata Chakraborty, Kaushik Mukherjee, Mithun Pal, Ujjal Sarbadhyaksha
- MWKOL08: Sanjoy Mukherjee, Soubhadra Chakraborty, Charanpreet Singh, Supratik Chaudhuri
- MWKOL09: Abhishek Das, Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Sudip Kalyan Dey
- MWKOL10: Debanjan, Jishn, Arindam, Anagh.
- MWKOL11: Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee
- MWKOL12: Harshvardan Ketkar, Nihansh Bhat, Karan Kalia, Amrutanshu Mishra
- MWKOL13: Suvojit Sarkar,Arnab Roy,Soumya Barai, Sudipto Mitra
- MWKOL14: Prithwish Datta, Robin Dey
- MWKOL15: Siddharth Varshney, Adamya Chandra, Aditya Kumar, Naveen Kumar Gupta
- MWKOL16: Kunal Mandal, Siddhartha Roy, Soumyarup Dasgupta, Gairik Dutta
- MWKOL17: Sreekanth Reddy P, Kaushik Saha, Shobhit Bhatnagar
Saagar Sinha - MWKOL18: Sanmoy & team
- MWKOL19: Supratim Chaklada, Indraneel Mukherjee, Nikhil Sarkar, Souvik Das
MUMBAI
- MWMUM01: S.Balakrishnan, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Vikram Joshi, Anand Shivashankar.
- MWMUM02: Govind Grewal, Souvik Basu, Dhananjay Shettigar, Aniruddha Dutta
- MWMUM03: Ramakrishnan R, Pratik Pandey, Sandeep Pandey, Deepak Nair
- MWMUM04: Pravin Varma and team
- MWMUM05: Abid E H, Mehul Jatania, Roshith Mohan, Srinath T B
- MWMUM06: Sumukh Herlekar and team.
- MWMUM07: Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tewari, Sumant Srivathsan, Rajen Prabhu
- MWMUM08: Diwakar Pingle, Janardhan R, Dushyanth JV, Atul Mathew
- MWMUM09: Arnav Sinha, Sidharth Mohata, Supriyo Saha, Vikas
- MWMUM10: Amit, Rishi, Anannya and Kaushik.
- MWMUM11: Shantesh Akerkar, Tarvinder Singh, Tarun Shetty
NEW DELHI
- MWDEL01: Parth , Digant, Utkarsh, Prateek
- MWDEL02: Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra
- MWDEL03: B.A.Naveen, Anupam Jain, Raghu Pant, JVS Suryanarayana
- MWDEL04: Varun, Anup, Abhisek and Debratna
- MWDEL05: Vishesh Jain, Aditya Mitra, Dhananjay Goel, Apratim Mukhopadhyay
- MWDEL06: Wasi Manazir, Haroon Rasheed, Imran Ahmed, Arshad
- MWDEL07: Deepak Taneja, Lalit Taneja and team.
- MWDEL08: Abhinav Gandhi, Abhinav Katoch, Dhruv Mangal, Soumya Pande
- MWDEL09: Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah
- MWDEL10: Lokesh, Robin Barla, Sreejith M and Ankit Shrivastava
- MWDEL11: Gaurav Setty, Hasan Nabeel, Mukund Marodia, Nitish Thakur (S)
- MWDEL12: Shardendu Gautam, Anmol Vashisht, Abhinaav Singh, Kartikeya Mann
- MWDEL13: Akhilesh Oberoi, Amaan Shreyas, B.Aravind, Sarvesh Kant Thakur
- MWDEL14: Apratim Chandra Singh, Arnav SharmA, KS Roshan Menon, Divyanshu Gandhi
- MWDEL15: Anurag Sahay, Aribhit Mishra, Anand Khare, Aditya Grover
- MWDEL16: Suman Doogar, Irfan Ahmed and team.
- MWDEL17: Praveen Dass, Dr S Bhattacharya, Joy Bhattacharjya, Kunal Malhotra
- MWDEL18: Nishant Mathew, Anish Mathew, Deepak Raghu,Raghu Reddy
- MWDEL19: Deeptanshu Sekhri, Puneet Bhardwaj, Saurabh Arora, Shalabh Pradhan
- MWDEL20: Hari Parameswaran, Rabi Shankar Saha and team
- MWDEL21: Sarthak Batra, Siddharth Sabharwal, Amaan Shreyas, Akhilesh Oberoi
- MWDEL22: J.Ajey Karthik, Namya Mahajan, Nayan Agarwal, Sarthak Khuntia (S)
- MWDEL23: Aritra Gupta, Azeez Gupta, Shankhyan Dutta, Shriram
PUNE
- MWPUN01: Debajyoti, Anant, Animesh, Sudip
- MWPUN02: Amit Garde, Meghashyam Shirodkar, Prasann Potdar, Samrat Sengupta
- MWPUN03: Suraj Memon, Suvajit Chakraborty, Yash Marathe, Yashovardhan Tamaskar
- MWPUN04: Anup Jha, Ashish Kumar Tripathi., Raj Kumar Rai, Ramesh S Konar
- MWPUN05: Siddharth Singh, Jigar Shah, Pawan Kamat, Amol Jangam.
- MWPUN06: Nikhil Mittal and team
- MWPUN07: Rohan Danait, Satyavrat Wagle, Sanket Bhilare, Rohit Sahasrabudhe
- MWPUN08: Niranjan Pedanekar, B.V.Harish Kumar, Salil Bijur, J. Ramanand
- MWPUN09: Mihir Rege, Aditya Karve, Alok Kulkarni, Siddharth Jadhav
- MWPUN10: Vikram, Subhodeep, Sachin, Raghav
- MWPUN 11:Arun Krishnamoorthy, Nilhit Pratap Singh
Ankit Khandelwal
- MWPUN12: .Saransh Verma, Nikhil Motlag, Vaneendra Bhargav, Jaipal D.
- MWPUN13: Sameer Deshpande and team.
THRISSUR
- MWTHR01: Noufel , Vikas P, Jose Thomas , Jithin Raghavan
- MWTHR02: Arun.A.S, Rahul Girish Kumar, Chandu Lenin, Rajasekhar.R
- MWTHR03: Akarsh Valsan, Deepak T, Akshay, Vysakh V. (S)
- MWTHR04: Shibin Azad and team
- MWTHR05: Manu Sudhakar, Shamanth Rao, Anil Raghavan, S.Nages
- MWTHR06: Howard Davis, Nipun V, Shefeeq S, Ijaz Aslam I
- MWTHR07: Sarin, Vijayanath, Harikrishnan and Faizal
- MWTHR08: Nakul Haridas, Mayug M.M, Vishal K, Manu Suraj (s)
- MWTHR09: Arjun K and team (S)
- MWTHR10: Shivshankar Ranjith, Noel Anto,Ramakrishnan M.N , Nitin K.S
- MWTHR11: Jaya Nagarajan,Sairam Sanath Kumar,Sachin S.Iyer, Abhijeet Balakrishnan
- MWTHR12: Edward Davis,Nipun V,Shefeeq S, Ijaz Aslam I
- MWTHR13: Avinash Antony, Advaith Mohan, Vishnu MJ
MWHYD10:
MWHYD10:
Quizzes on Sunday 6 December 2009
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday, 6th December 2009, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Ranking Junior College Quizzes
Team Quiz
Open to PUC/Std. XI and XII only
Teams of three members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Unlimited entries per college
Max Rule: No more than two teams per college in the finals.
Solo Quiz
Open to PUC/Std. XI and XII only
Two contestants per college
Entry Fee: Rs. 25 per entrant.
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule
Team Quiz Prelims: 1000hrs
Solo Quiz Prelims: 1030hrs
Team Quiz Finals: 1100hrs-1200hrs
Solo Quiz Finals: 12noon to 1245hrs.
Prizes:
Team Quiz: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/- and Rs. 1500 plus prizes for all finalists
Solo Quiz: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 750/- and Rs. 500 plus prizes for all finalists
EVENT II
Chronosynchlastic Infundibulum
A written quiz on Speculative Fiction
50 questions
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule
1330hrs to 1500hrs
Those who’d like to know more about the quiz may send a mail with the subject-header WTF SF? to thejaswi.udupa @gmail.com
EVENT III
The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Free entry for school teams ( VIII-X)
QMs: Gautam Shenoy, Siddharth Shanker, Jaidev Karunakaran and Anil Raghavan of Insert Cool Name Here
Schedule
Registrations: 1500hrs
Prelims and Finals: 1530hrs-1830hrs
Prizes
Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/-, Rs. 700/- and Rs. 600/- for other finalists.
We will also hold The Karan-Arjun Quizzes for Stds III and IV and the National Open Quizzing Championships: Mega-Whats 2009 at the same venue on 13th December 2009, the following Sunday, at the same venue.
Solus Rex 2009 Semifinals – Results
Solus Rex Semifinals
QMs: Dibyendu Das & Arun Hiregange
Semi-final 1: Movies based on Comic books
Harish Ramanujam urf Harry – 165
Ochintya Sharma – 160
Arul Mani – 145
Rajesh M. – 45
Semi-final 2: Heavyweight Boxers
Rahul S. Kottalgi – 305
Mitesh Agarwal – 165
Thejaswi Udupa – 130
Sharath – 125
Rahul Girish Kumar – 50
Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains
Debashree Mitra – 170
Vivek Karthikeyan – 130
Sudarshan M.A. – 115
Venkatesh S. – 85
Rajagopal – 80
Semi-final 4: War Crafts
Anustup Datta – 245
Praveen V.R. – 195
Tanmay Prusty – 125
The Solux Rex 2009 Finalists therefore are:
Harry
Rahul
Debashree
Anustup
Ochintya (best loser on two counts: smallest margin of defeat and highest ratio of score to average of total scored points :) )
– Thanks to Sujata Sharma, Dibyojyoti Haldar, Jayakanthan, Avinash Mudaliar, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S. and Thejaswi Udupa for questions sent in.
– Sujata Sharma, Jayakanthan and Dibyojyoti Haldar win coupons for best questions sent in for Topics 1 & 2.
– Sujata Sharma and Dibyojyoti Haldar win coupons for best questions sent in for Topics 3 & 4.
– Best question prize winners and the semi-finalists for topics 3 & 4 can collect coupons from Arul Mani.
Ladies Open, Inter College and College Solo Quizzes – Results
Results of quizzes held on Sunday 11 October 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The Annual KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: Mitesh Agarwal
1. Neelam, Urmila, Hema – 145
2. Sujata, Riya – 95
3. Padmasree, Siri, Merin – 85 (3rd after tie-break)
4. Sneha, Poorva – 85
5. Janani, Jayameenakshi, Prathyusha – 75
6. Aditi, Neha – 75
7. Trisha, Sanjana, Ann – 55
Inter College Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. NLSIU (Varun Rajiv, Raghuram C., Eashan Ghosh) – 105
2. MSRIT (Rahul Jadhav, Sudarshan S.N., Srikanth Gautham) – 77 (2nd after tie-break)
3. NLSIU (Arvind, Pranav, Badri) – 77
4. MSRIT (Abhishek S., Umang S., Minkul Tekwani) – 50
5. RVCE (Nakul P. Sangolle, Chaitanya G. Hegde, Gautam N.D.) – 45
6. RVSIT (Amit R., Ashish S.R., Shankar M.S.) – 35
7. RVCE (Rahul Gupta, Vineet Raj, Sudarshan) – 20
8. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 15
College Solo Quiz, to decide the Collegiate Quizzing Champion for 2009
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh Swaminathan – 120
2. Nakul – 100
3. Varun Rajiv – 95
4. Pranav & Nishanth – 60
6. Sudarshan – 50
7. Rahul – 35
8. Chaitanya – 25