Solus Rex Semifinals on Sunday 8th November 2009 and Other News
Solus Rex Semi-finals III and IV — the details:
Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains
(Exclude fictional rivers, deserts and mountains)
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4: War Crafts
i.e. vehicles used in warfare
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 8th November 2009.
VENUE
66, First Floor, First Cross, Domlur Layout, Bangalore
(Near Domlur P.O. , Next door to Samsung Service Centre)
For directions, please call Siby Kuriakose (99001-22880).
SCHEDULE
Semi III: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Semi IV: 1145hrs-1245hrs
Prizes for all semifinalists. Plus prizes for the best questions received from other KQA members such as yourself. Send to arunhire@yahoo. com or deedas@yahoo. com.
Other News
- The next set of quizzing Sundays will come up in December. Please keep yourselves free on Sunday 13 December, and probably also on Sunday 6th December.
- If you haven’t already registered for MegaWhats, please do so now. IAT , our venue, can hold a maximum of 40 teams and places in the event are given only on a first-come, first-served basis.
Solus Rex Topics: Semifinals 3 & 4
Semi-final 3: Rivers, Deserts and Mountains (real-life ones)
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4: War Crafts i.e. vehicles used in warfare
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 8th November 2009.
Science Quiz, Hubbub-a! and Persiflage – Results
Results of the three open quizzes held on Sunday, 20 September 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
KQA Open Science Quiz
QM: Rajagopal P.S.
1. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Arul, Kiran, Swami): 39.5
2. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Gautam Shenoy and team): 36
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu, Dibyendu): 33.5
4. Ad Hoc Quartet (Ravi Mundoli, Priyanka, Hussein, Nambirajan): 32.5
5. Pugwash Movement (G R Raamesh, Sarat Rao, Ashwin Kelkar, S Balakrishnan): 29
6. Rajat, Praveen, Ravi, Jayant: 23
7. Geek-a-boo: 22.5 and K.D.: 22.5
Hubbub-a! – The annual Bengaloor-bage Quiz
QM: Prof. Rajeev Gowda
1. Tarle Nann Makkalu (Wimpy, Udupa): 42.5
2. True Value for Mani (Appu, Arul): 39.5
3. Tande Thayi Aashirwada: 30.5
4. 1/2 a Cool Name: 28
5. Rajat & Jayant: 27
6. Cattle Class (Ramesh, Nidhi): 24.5
7. K.D.: 23.5
8. Kivi & Venky: 20.5
Persiflage – The annual Book Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. MetaQuizziks (Cherian, Swami, Mitesh, Kiran): 230
2. Lit Twits (Natasha, Ishier, Rajnish, Vivek): 157.5
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu, Dibyendu): 140
4. Holy Cows! (Vivek, Urmila, Satish, Nilam): 122.5
5. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Gautam Shenoy and team): 112.5
6. Aunt Margaret’s Lovers (Adi, Sneha, Nithin, Joshua): 100
7. Dr. Krishnan, Praveen, Ravi and KP: 72.5
8. IISc Lorises (Ulka, Siddhartha, Srinivas): 67.5
Quizzes on Sunday 11 October 2009
We will hold the following events starting at 10am on Sunday 11 October 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Solus Rex: Semifinals 1 & 2
Semi-final 1: Movies based on Comic books
Arul Mani
Ochintya Sharma
Subrat
Harry
Rajesh M.
Semi-final 2: Heavyweight Boxers
Thejaswi Udupa
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Sharath
Mitesh Agarwal
Rahul Girish Kumar
The Annual KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: KQA panel
Teams of three members — all women:)
No institutional/age restrictions
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
12 noon: Registrations
The event will conclude by 1330hrs
Prizes: Rs.3000/-, Rs. 2250 and Rs. 1500, plus coupons for the other finalists.
Ranking Intercollegiate Team and Solo events
Team event
Open to PUC/XI & XII, UG and PG teams
Teams of three members–no mixed teams
No more than two teams per college in the finals–any number can write the prelims
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes; Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/- and Rs. 1500/- plus coupons for other finalists.
QM: Arul Mani
Solo event
Open to PUC/XI & XII, UG and PG entrants
Unlimited entries –best 8 in the finals.
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per participant
The winner will be declared Collegiate Quizzing Champion for 2009.
Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 750 and Rs. 500/-, plus coupons for other finalists
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule
Team Prelims: 1400hrs
Team Finals: 1500hrs-1600hrs
Solo Prelims: 1630hrs
Solo Finals: 1730-1830hrs.
Solus Rex Topics: Semifinals 1 & 2
Semi-final 1: Movies based on Comic books
Arul Mani
Ochintya Sharma
Subrat
Harry
Rajesh M.
Semi-final 2: Heavyweight Boxers
Thejaswi Udupa
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Sharath
Mitesh Agarwal
Rahul Girish Kumar
These semifinals are scheduled for Sunday 11th October 2009.
Abba Ke Zamane Mein, Tap Uncouth and Unseeded Open Quiz – Results
Results of Abba Ke Zamane Mein, the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s Quiz
QMs: Ochintya Sharma & Arul Mani
1. Pradeep Ramarathnam & Vibhendu Tiwari – 170
2. Rajeev Gowda & Urmila – 141
3. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 136
4. Dibyendu Das & Vijay TSR – 120
5. Mitesh Agarwal & Arun Hiregange – 109
6. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Nishanth – 72
7. Shiv & Ramesh – 68
8. PMSCE – 48
Results of Tap Uncouth, a quiz dedicated to song, dance and performance and yes, to tappankooth
QMs: Joshua Muyiwa & Arul Mani
1. Pradeep Ramarathnam & Vibhendu Tiwari – 28.5
2. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 25.5
3. Venkatesh & Shiv – 25
4. Anil Raghavan & Gautham Shenoy – 24
5. Anustup Datta & Ochintya Sharma – 19.5
6. Shobhana & Urmila – 18
7. Santosh Swaminathan & Mitesh Agarwal – 17.5
8. Ashwin & Rajagopal – 17
Results of the season’s first Unseeded Open
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar & Arul Mani
1. Microorgasms (Subrat, Harry, Mithun & Sai) – 250
2. AJM (Pradeep Ramarathnam, Shashank, Rajagopal, Hussein Poonawala) – 240
3. PMSCE (Rajath, Sohan, Abhishek Krishnan, Santosh Swaminathan) – 230
4. Lalith, Bharat, Tanmay Prusty, Vinodh and 4 Random Guys – both on 200
6. Hammurabi (Sameer, Vinay & team) – 190
7. Nexus (Venkatesh S., Vivek Karthikeyan, Nagesh, Gautam) – 145
8. Gafoor Friends (Praveen V.R. & team) – 125
Quizzes on Sunday 20 September 2009
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday, 20 September 2009 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore. These are the basic details– more by next week.
EVENT I
KQA Open Science Quiz
QMs: Ashwan Lewis and Rajagopal P.S.
Open to all
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Free entry for school teams
This quiz will count for rankings under the specialist category.
Schedule
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100hrs-1300hrs
EVENT II
Hubbub-a!
The annual Bengaloor-bage Quiz
QM: Prof. Rajeev Gowda
Written quiz of 50 questions
Open to all
Teams of 2 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Free entry for school teams
Schedule
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Persiflage
The annual Book Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
Open to all
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Free entry for school teams
This quiz will count for rankings under the specialist category.
Schedule
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs-1830hrs
For more information, please call 97312-14519.
Quizzes on Sunday 6 September 2009
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 6th September 2009 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The details:
EVENT I
ABBA KE ZAMANE MEIN
The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s Quiz
When we floated the idea of the quiz, somebody said “What can be more pissing off than current affairs from thirty years ago?” Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani will respond to that challenge with one hundred questions over three hours.
Open to all; teams of TWO members; entry fee: Rs. 50/- per team.
Registrations: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals:1100hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes
I: Rs. 1500/-
II: Rs. 1000/-
III: Rs. 500/-
Lunch-break: 1300-1400hrs
EVENT II
TAP UNCOUTH
A written quiz dedicated to song, dance, performance and yes, to tappankooth.
QMs: Joshua Muyiwa and Arul Mani
Open to all; teams of TWO members; entry fee: Rs. 50/- per team.
Registrations: 1345hrs
Quiz: 1400-1500hrs
Prizes
I: Rs. 1500/-
II: Rs. 1000/-
III: Rs. 500/-
EVENT III
Unseeded Open Quiz I
The quiz once memorably described by a certain stalwart as ‘seedless, weedless and completely needless’ will now be held thrice a year–this one, another in November, and the MetaQuizziks 20th Anniversary Unseeded Open in March.
Members of the following teams cannot take part: QED, MQ, WALTWO, Mustafa, Expats, Swami & Friends, No Questions Asked, and Pranesh Plus Three. In addition, the teams that achieved top three positions in the Film Quiz at ASKQANCE 2009 are also excluded.
This quiz is open only to quizzers who are ordinarily resident in Karnataka. Teams with doubtful antecedents may be subjected to a rapid-fire GK round based on Banaswadi and its environs.
QM: Mitesh Agarwal (Inputs from Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani)
Open to almost everybody; teams of FOUR members; entry fee: Rs. 50/- per team; free entry for school teams.
Registrations: 1500hrs
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1830hrs.
Prizes
I: Rs. 3000/-
II: Rs. 2000/-
III: Rs. 1000/-
and Rs. 600/- for the other qualifiers.
The schedule will be managed by Venky and Mitesh.
For more details, please call 97312-14519 or mail.
Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz and Solus Rex Prelims Results
Results of Canara Union Lone Wolf quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Manjith K.
1. Arul Mani – 110 (winner by tie-break)
2. Anustup Datta – 110
3. Arun Hiregange – 80
4. Harry – 70
5. Debashree Mitra – 55
6. Movin Miranda – 45
7. Mitesh Agarwal – 30
8. Subrat – 15
Qualifiers for Solus Rex 2009
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
1. Arul Mani – 24
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 20.5
3. Rajagopal – 17
4. Praveen V.R. – 16.5
5. Anustup Datta – 15
6. Debashree Mitra – 14
7. Movin Miranda – 14
8. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 13
9. Ochintya Sharma – 12.5
10. Subrat – 12
11. Arun Raghavan – 10.5
12. Sharath – 10.5
13. Venkatesh S. – 10.5
14. Harish Rao – 10
15. Tanmay Prusty – 10
16. Vivek Karthikeyan – 10
17. Mitesh Agarwal – 9.5
18. Harry – 8.5
19. Rajesh M. – 8
20. Rahul Girish Kumar – 7.5
21. Sudarshan M.A. – 7
22. Prajwal N. – 6.5
* Those tied on the same score were ordered in alphabetical order of first name
* Semi-final line-ups were determined by ordering this list tennis style i.e. 1&8, 9&16, 17 in one group; 2&7, 10&15, 18 in one group and so on
* Arun Raghavan and Movin Miranda had to withdraw from the semi-finals because they live outside India
Semi-final 1:
Arul Mani
Ochintya Sharma
Subrat
Harry
Rajesh M.
Semi-final 2:
Thejaswi Udupa
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Sharath
Mitesh Agarwal
Rahul Girish Kumar
Semi-final 3:
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4:
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
The first pair of semi-finals will be conducted in October and the second pair in November. Information about format and dates will be sent out in a few weeks.
Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz and Solux Rex Prelims on Sunday 23 August 2009
The 27th edition of the Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz will be held on
Sunday 23 August 2009.
Venue
Canara Union, 8th Main Malleswaram
Rules
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- (free for school-students)
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Manjith K.
Prizes:
Rs. 500, Rs. 400 and Rs. 300/- plus prizes for all finalists.
In addition,
The preliminaries for the sixth edition of Solus Rex, KQA’s solo quiz loosely based on the Mastermind format, will also be held at the same venue.
20 qualifiers from the preliminary round will sit for semifinals over
October and November, followed by a finals in December, featuring the
winners of the four semifinals and the runner-up with the highest score.
Rules
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Schedule
Registrations: 1000hrs onwards
Solus Rex Prelims: 1030hrs
Lone Wolf Prelims: 1100hrs
Solus Rex results and draw: 1200hrs
Lone Wolf Finals: 1200hrs-1330hrs
All events will start and end as scheduled.
For other details, please contact Arul Mani at 97312-14519 (after 1500hrs every day if you are calling).
There will be two quizzing Sundays on 6th and 20th September at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists. Events planned include Persiflage–the KQA Book Quiz, an Unseeded Open Quiz, and two ranking Open Quizzes. The scheduled school/middle school and college events are postponed to a future date owing to the swine-flu panic.
Copies of the KQA yearbooks will be available for sale at the venue.
