ASKQANCE 2010
The KQA will celebrate the 27th Anniversary of its founding with ASKQANCE 2010–a two-day festival of Open Quizzing. Somebody we wrote to called it The Woodstock of Quizzing. We are flattered, but will nevertheless try and stick to schedule.
The programme:
19th and 20th June, at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Day One (19th June 2010)
Event I
By Hooke or by Crookes
Open Science Quiz
Rules
1. Teams of four members
2. Entry free for school teams
3. Other teams pay Rs. 100/-
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Vivek Kartikeyan.
Schedule: 0930hrs to 1230hrs
Teams that arrive late for the prelims will be allowed to take part in the next quiz.
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event II
Hoarse Latitudes
Open Travel Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das.
Schedule : 1300-1545 hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event III
Son of Lumiere
Open Movie Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange.
Schedule: 1615hrs-2000hrs.
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Day Two (20th June 2010)
Event IV
Kibitz Simple
Open Sports and Leisure Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
Teams arriving late can take part in the next quiz.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S.
Schedule: 1000hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event V
Sesame
The Open Quiz
Rules
General Open Quiz
Teams of four members
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs.100/-
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule:1400— 1630hrs
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event VI
KQA Founders’ Trophy Quiz
Face-off between Mega-Whats city-winners
The contenders:
QED Chennai,
WALTWo Bangalore,
Travelling Pillsburies Mumbai,
Telangana Is An Oily Song New Delhi,
InManiacs Kolkata,
Insert Uncool Name Here Thrissur,
Swami and Friends Hyderabad,
Feni Vidi Vici Goa,
Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole Pune
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar.
Schedule: 1700hrs-1900hrs
Prizes: Rs. 6000/-, Rs. 5000/-, Rs. 4000/-
Solus Rex Finals, Yell! Iruve and Lone Wolf – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 9th May 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Solus Rex Finals on Indian Scientists & Mathematicians + Fictional Detectives
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
1. Anustup Datta – 370
2. Ochintya Sharma – 267.5
3. Harish R. – 220
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 195
Yell Iruve! – A quiz featuring plants, animals, insects and other life forms
QM: Arul Mani
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 28
2. Vivek Karthikeyan & Megha Shenoy – 23
3. Ochintya Sharma & Arun Hiregange – 21
4. Sumeer & Dr. Krishnan – 18
5. Aditya & Hussein – 17
6. Harry & Santosh – 16
7. Mitesh Agarwal & Venkatesh S. / Ajay & Ashwan – both on 14
KQA Lone Wolf
QMs: An all-women team led by Urmila Lakshmanan
1. Arul Mani – 89
2. Anustup Datta – 79
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 69
4. Arun Hiregange – 58
5. Rajagopal – 39
6. Aravind – 25
7. Mitesh Agarwal – 24
8. Gautam Shenoy – 14
Open Sports Quiz, Non-Fiction Quiz, BIZKASHI – Results
The results of the three open quizzes held on Sunday 25th April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Open Sports Quiz
QMs: Varun Rajiv & Ishaan Ghosh
1. Motley Crew – 156
2. Ramkey, Sairam, Vijay TSR, Debashish – 137
3. Nishanth, Jose, Hussain, Adi – 130
4. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Venkatesh S, Arun Hiregange) – 122
5. KD (Rahul, Harry & team) – 117
6. Geek & Team – 107
7. The Royal Reds (Gautam ND, Sudarshan MA, Varun, Vineet Raj) – 82
8. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Dibyendu Das, Vinay Das & team) – 60
The Non-Fiction Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Medium Mussolinis (Jayakanthan & Alagar Swamy) – 30
2. Venkatesh & Ravi Mundoli – 28
3. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 22
4. Thejaswi Udupa & Mitesh Agarwal – 20
5. Eashaan & Santosh – 19
6. Nishanth & Rahul – 18
7. Aaman Lamba & Sai Ganesh / Sidarth & Ashwan – both on 17
BIZKASHI, The Annual Business Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Varun Rajiv, Abhishek Krishnan – 95
2. Santosh J.S., Harry – 90
3. Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal – 80
4. Ajay Kasargod, Jayakanthan – 75
5. Venkatesh S., Tanmay Prusty – 70
6. Alagar Swamy, Prasad Shetty – 65
7. Ashwan Lewis, Sidharth Kuruvila – 55
8. Fat and Happy (Abhinav, Anirudh S.) – 15
Ideas Quiz and MQ Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz – Results
The results of the two open quizzes held on Sunday 11th April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The Dr. C.P. Venkatesh Memorial Quiz in The History of Ideas.
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander and Arul Mani.
1. Dr. Krishnan & Vardhan W. – 55
2. AppDupa (Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 45
3. Triskaidekaphobia (Tanmay Prusty, Sumer Agarwal) – 35
4. Ashwan, Yogish – 30
5. Harry, King of the Philistines – 15
6. Santosh J.S. / No Idea (Rahul & team) – tied on 10
8. Nexus (Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha Shenoy) – 5
The Metaquizziks XXth Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz.
QMs: Varun Rajiv and Arul Mani.
1. Subrat, Ashwan, Vijay – 80
2. Sai, Aditi, Sneha, Varun – 65 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Rajasekhar, Rahul Girish Kumar – 65 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Seedless Groundnuts (Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram, Abhishek, Akhil) / Ajay, Urmila, Shiv, Nilaw – tied on 65
6. Who’s Soda’s Daddy (Siri, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) – 45
7. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat) – 30
8. Goat Boyz (Chaitanya, Nakul, Abhishek, Umang) – -10
