Mega-Whats 2010 Rankings

202 teams wrote Mega-Whats this year, a small increase over last year.

QED (Chennai) win, with 76 points. A list of the top 100 teams is also provided. Adjudication has resulted in many small changes to scores–the two-pointer section seems to have posed some numerical challenge to people correcting.

If there are errors with names, or if you have questions, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com.

The Mega-Whats Face-off will take place as announced in June 2011, with a small modification: we will have two semis featuring the ten city-winners and the six teams that placed in the top ten without actually winning in their city followed by a final in which the top four teams from each semi will slug it out.

A special word of thanks to the Bangalore teams for putting up with cramped conditions without complaint. Seven teams wrote the quiz seated on the floor. Similar stories came in from Chennai and New Delhi.

We thank all the teams that participated, as also the the city-coords for this year’s quiz(Ashwan Lewis, Anurakshat Gupta, Dr. Vijaynath, Anuradha Yogesh, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee, Vivek ND, Vishwajeeth Narvekar, and Siby Kuriakose).

Thanks are also due to the quizzing communities that help make Mega-Whats possible: QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC Hyderabad, SEQC Goa, Kutub Quizzers ( New Delhi), BCQC Pune, BQC-Mumbai, Coimbatore Quizzing Circle, and the quizzing communities in Kerala and Kolkata.

We also thank the individuals who helped swing prizes and venues in various cities: Gopal Kidao (Chennai), Nitish Khadiya ( Hyderabad), Hrishi Varma (Thrissur), Ramanand J (Pune), Dr. Bhattacharya ( New Delhi), Rajiv and Tallulah D’Silva ( Panaji), Senthil Kumar (Coimbatore), Rajiv Rai and Vibhendu Tewari ( Mumbai) and Gautam Ghosh ( Kolkata). None of this would have been possible if not for their efforts.

	TEAM	CITY	CATEGORY	SCORE
1	QED Swaminathan, Gopal Kidao, Samanth, Jayakanthan	CHENNAI City Winners	OPEN	76
2	METAQUIZZIKS Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan	BANGALORE City Winners	OPEN	71
3	INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS Sreeram, Sankhya, Ramkumar, Vijay	CHENNAI	OPEN	60
4	WE ARE LIKE THIS WONLY Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Arun HIregange, Thejaswi Udupa	BANGALORE	OPEN	55
5	TRAVELLING PILSBURY Anil Kothuri, Sumo, Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tewari	MUMBAI City Winners	OPEN	53
6	BONG CONNECTION Shouvik Guha, Abhijit Banerjee, Ashoke Sanyal, Somnath Chanda	KOLKATA City Winners	OPEN	52 (8*)
7	QUESTIONABLE CHARACTERS Hiranyappa GS, Rajeev Gowda, Movin Miranda, Dibyendu Das	BANGALORE	OPEN	52 (4*)
8	SUV-LOVING CAPITALIST PRICKS Pravin Varma, Shubhankar Gokhale, Srinath Narayan, Abhinav Dasgupta	MUMBAI	OPEN	48 (7*)
9	MUSTAFA Debashree Mitra, NVS Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Ashok Krishnan	BANGALORE	OPEN	48 (6*, 20)
10	KEEP DISTANCE Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna, Nishanth Raman, Kaustuba V	BANGALORE	OPEN	48 (6*, 16)
11	INMANIACS Gautam Ghosh, Jayashree Mohanka, Malavika Banerjee, Anirudh Chari	KOLKATA	OPEN	47 (7*, 21)
12	QUARTER, HALF & FEEDING-BOTTLE Arun, Krishnamurthy, Rohit, Yagnyesh	CHENNAI	OPEN	47 (7*, 17)
13	SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Krishnamurthi, Alagasamy, Bhargava, Nitish Khadiya)	HYDERABAD City Winners	OPEN	46 (9*. 15)
14	Mukund Sridhar, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Vikram Joshi, Balakrishnan S.	MUMBAI	OPEN	46 (6*, 13)
15	OBAMA’S MEMORY BANKS Saranya Jaikumar, Navin Jaikumar, Ramkey, Shiv.	CHENNAI	OPEN	43 (7*, 16)
	TEAM	CITY	CATEGORY	SCORE
16	GUESSWORKS, INC. Manjith, Praveen VR, Roshith Mohan, Hrishi Varma	THRISSUR City Winners	OPEN	43 (6*, 15)
17	KARTIK BOSE FC Meghashyam, Anand, Atul, Anannya	MUMBAI	OPEN	42 (6*)
18	DAYDREAMERS Roshan, Sabyasachi Majumdar, S.Bhattacharya, Udatta Duarah	NEW DELHI City Winners	OPEN	42 (4*)
19	FENI VIDI VICI TWITCHY Ajachi Chakrabarti, Aniruddha Sengupta, Harsh Bhatkuly, Rajiv D’Silva	PANAJI City Winners	OPEN	41 (6*)
20	DHAKKAN CHARGERS Priyambad, Anil Kumar, GV, Ravi Mundoli	CHENNAI	OPEN	41 (5*)
21	THE HAMMURABIS Vinay Vasisht, Sutanu Mukherjee, Prakash Chandrashekar, Sumeer Kumar	BANGALORE	OPEN	40 (3*)
22	Kunal, Sid Sen, Sneha, Hari	NEW DELHI	OPEN	39 (6*)
23	AMRUTANJAN MUDWRESTLERS Govind Grewal, Souvik Basu, Ameya Sawant	MUMBAI	OPEN	37 (6*)
24	ZEROWHAT LAG GAYI Joy, Kedar, Avinash G, Avinash Mudaliar	NEW DELHI	OPEN	37 (3*)
25	HAMMER AND TONGS Anil, Kinshuk, Saunak, Aryapriya	KOLKATA	OPEN	34 (6*)
26	ANSWERING SERVICE Soubhadra C, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Charanpreet Singh, P. Srikant	KOLKATA	OPEN	34 (3*, 14)
27	REST HOUSE CROISSANTS Urmila Lakshmanan, Shiv Kannan, Shobhana, Vivek	BANGALORE	OPEN	33 (3*, 13)
28	INSERT UNCOOL NAME HERE Abid, Anil Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Shamanth Rao	THRISSUR	OPEN	33 (3*, 10)
29	MEGA WTF Ramanand J, Suraj, Harish Kumar BV, Suvajit Chakraborty	PUNE City Winners	OPEN	32 (5*, 13)
30	ALCOHOLICS UNITED Arun AS, Chandrakant Nair, Jithin Jacob, Viswas Viswam	THRISSUR	OPEN	32 (5*, 12)
31	LAJAWAB Lathish, Ani, Prasanna, Praveen	HYDERABAD	OPEN	32 (4*, 13)
32	POTOLDANGA THUNDER CLUB Prithwish Datta. Robin Dey, Panchajanya M, S. Mitra	KOLKATA	OPEN	32 (4*, 10)
33	I CAN HAS GOOGLE Sunil Chandrashekar, Ranjiv Rai, Nilay P, Abhijeet K.	KOLKATA	OPEN	31 (6*)
34	MORALLY QUESTIONABLE ENTERPRISE Balaji TK, Devi Prasad, Ashwin, Rajagopal PS.	CHENNAI	OPEN	31 (5*)
35	LOTUS EATERS Abinav, Ajay, Ninad, Shubhendu	NEW DELHI	OPEN	30 (5*)
36	EUREQA Suresh, Sreekanth G, Navin Rajaram, Satyajit Chetri	BANGALORE	OPEN	30 (3*)
37	HYPOGLYCAEMICS ANON Rashmin Gandhi, Sridhar Baratan, Sandeep Thirumalai, Akshay Nair	CHENNAI	OPEN	29 (6*, 12)
38	SUMANT & TEAM Smitha, Sumant, Titarsh, Raghu	CHENNAI	OPEN	29 (6*, 10)
39	THE AVANT GARDES Amit Garde, Radhika Garde, Mohit Karve	PUNE	OPEN	29 (3*)
40	EPIC (NIT TRICHY) Pramod, Nitish, Vivek, Akshay.	CHENNAI	COLLEGE	28 (4*)
41	Sudip K Dey, Shiladitya G, Bhaskar Datta, Bhavin Zaveri	KOLKATA	OPEN	28 (2*)
42	ABSOLUT QUIZZING Francis Rodrigues, Prasann Potdar, Mukund Krishnan	MUMBAI	OPEN	27 (6*, 13)
43	ANON +3 Apoorva, Nandita, Mani, MP	CHENNAI	OPEN	27 (6*, 12)
44	HOLY NEXUS Landmark Venky, Kivi, Rashmi Vallabhajyosula, Gautham Chundi	BANGALORE	OPEN	27 ( 4*)
45	ANOTHER RAJNIKANTH JOKE—SASTRA UNIV Sridhar, Pranav, Visaka, Sudharshan	CHENNAI	COLLEGE	26 (4*, 10)
46	DR. JOSEPH VIJAY SAAR ETC Aditya, Ashok, Raghuvansh, Anantha	CHENNAI	OPEN	26 (4*, 6)
47	LW & COB Sandeep, Harsha, Vybhavi, Vikram	BANGALORE	OPEN	25 (6*)
48	CROMAGNON CROOKS Suman De, Ravi Ananthan, Arvind Ashokan, Ayan Ghosh.	BANGALORE	OPEN	24 (4*)
49	NOT APPLICABLE Debjit Dasgupta, Anupam Sinha, Rohan Mishra, Navneet Bal.	HYDERABAD	OPEN	24 (5*, 7)
50	GOAT BOYS—MSRIT Abhishek, Umang, Maitrey, Vishnu	BANGALORE	COLLEGE	24 (4*)
	TEAM	CITY	CATEGORY	SCORE
51	PEEPLI’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT Anilesh, Paritosh, Abhinav Gandhi, Dhruv Mangal	NEW DELHI	OPEN	24 (2*)
52	NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS Goutham, Gudur, Holla, Appar	BANGALORE	OPEN	23 (6*, 8)
53	ARNOLD SHIVAJINAGAR ETC Debasish Mishra, Devang Ghia, Dushyant Mullur, Akshat Trivedi	MUMBAI	OPEN	23 (6*, 7)
54	MAINGATE TO BARKHAGATE Ravikiran Ramaswamy,Jayadev Bhaskaran, Swaroop, Aaslesh Y.	CHENNAI	OPEN	23 (4*, 5)
55	SAXXI (NALSAR) (Varun Agarwal, Abdul Akhtar)	KOLKATA	COLLEGE	23 (4*, 4)
56	Amrutanshu Mishra, Harsh Ketkar, Ishan Mahajan, Sarat Rao	KOLKATA	OPEN	22 (5*)
57	WE’LL WIKILEAK THE ANSWERS Mashi, Renuka, Arun, Ajay.	CHENNAI	OPEN	22 (4*)
58	MERA NAAM JOKA Arnav Sinha, VIkas Sahu, Jitaditya Narzari, Supriyo Saha	MUMBAI	OPEN	22 (2*)
59	FLIGHT OF THE VAAYU VAJRAS Abhishek, Karthik, Aditya	BANGALORE	OPEN	21 (5*)
60	2.5 MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Gautham, Rahul Gupta, Vineeth Raj, Sudarshan MA	BANGALORE	COLLEGE	21 (2*)
61	WHATEVER Tushar Krishnan, Saurabh Chadhary, Dhruv Sharma	NEW DELHI	OPEN	21 (1*)
62	DESPERATELY SEEKING QUALIFN Sanandan, Patrick, Ananth, Amar	CHENNAI	OPEN	20 ( 3*, 9)
63	KULLA SEKAR MAGGU MONK Abhishek, Bharath, Siddharth, Vivek	HYDERABAD	OPEN	20 (3*, 7)
64	Vinod & Ashwathy	BANGALORE	OPEN	20 (2*)
65	RIDE OF THE KOZHI CURRIES Keshav Athreya, Rammohan, Ashwin, Venkataramana	BANGALORE	OPEN	19 (5*, 2)
66	SAGUN VIKRAM SANGH Kapil, Udayan, Vivek	MUMBAI	OPEN	19 (4*, 5)
67	Shivaprakash, Shreyas, Mithraa and Gautham	CHENNAI	OPEN	19 (3*)
68	LAST ACTION HEROES Sumanta Gupta, Parthasarathi Ghatak, Richard Mistry, Samrat Dutta THREE MEN AND A BABY Vishnu Vijay, Shibin Azad, Saptarshi Purohit, Midhun D.E. SHAW Anang Rawat, Akhila Athresh, Narayanan Vijayraghavan	KOLKATA THRISSUR HYDERABAD	OPEN OPEN OPEN	19 (2, 9) 19 (2, 9) 19 (2*, 9)
71	Vikas, Debasish, Rajiv, Priyanka	KOLKATA	OPEN	19 (2*, 8)
72	Siri Srinivas, Darshan, Sharath, Srikanth	BANGALORE	OPEN	19 (1*, 7)
73	ST. JOSEPH’S BHS Siddarth Pai, Darren Lobo, Sahaj, Nihal	BANGALORE	COLLEGE	19 (1*, 6)
74	MEGAMINDS Vignesh, Shanmathi, Shreyas, Anirudh	CHENNAI	OPEN	18 (4*, 7)
75	SCHRODINGER’S FELINES Gautam Shenoy, Pallavi Mohanty, Vaibhav	BANGALORE	OPEN	18 (3*)
76	LATERAL THINKERS Supratim Chakladar, Kaushik Mukherjee, Indranil Mukherjee, Saswata C	KOLKATA	OPEN	18 (2*, 8)
77	404 Anirudh, Gaurav, Harish,Marco TEEN TIGADA KAAM BIGADA Surya, Bobby, Raghu	CHENNAI NEW DELHI	OPEN OPEN	18 (2, 7) 18 (2, 7)
79	URF PROFESSORS Siddharth Shrivastava, Kumar Tanwar, Lingaraj, Rohit Iyer	NEW DELHI	OPEN	18 (2*, 4)
80	GREAT EXPECTATIONS Julian D’Costa, Terence D’Costa, Ira D’Costa, Murlidharan VR	PANAJI	OPEN	18 (2*, 3)
81	THE NINCOMPOOPS Anjali Sengupta, Lucano Alvares, Joseph d’Sousa, Sachin Chatte	PANAJI	OPEN	17 (4*)
82	FEBUXOSTAT Anand Raja, Arjun A. Prabhakaran T, Lin Varghese	THRISSUR	COLLEGE	17 (3*, 6)
83	LADY BHAGA ETC NIT-TRICHY Raghavendran,Arjun, Adhitya, Karthic	CHENNAI	COLLEGE	17 ( 3*, 3)
84	QUIZZY-LEAKS Sheilen, Shiva, Arjun, Swamy	COIMBATORE City Winners	OPEN	16 (6*)
85	1337 Anjan S, Aditya Sankaran, Vidyuth Anand, Aravind R	COIMBATORE	OPEN	16 (4*)
86	HUM DO HAMARE DO Brajendu, Manav, Rakshit, Anjaney	NEW DELHI	OPEN	16 (2*)
87	WHAT’S IN A NAME Shreyo Sadhu, Shreemayee, Siddharth, Kartikeya LOGOS Sankar R, Rajib, Izhar, Koushik	KOLKATA KOLKATA	OPEN OPEN	16 (1, 6) 16 (1, 6)
89	QUIZZIGANS Athith K, Subham Nandy, Sai Krishna Peri GUESSWORKS Aditya Gupta, Aditya Vikram, Arpan S. Nikhil Dubey	BANGALORE NEW DELHI	SCHOOL OPEN	15 (3, 4) 15 (3, 4)
91	BOYE GECHE Arindam Datta, Anagh Mukherjee, Debanjan Bose, JIshu Das Mazumdar	KOLKATA	COLLEGE	15 (2*, 8)
92	SARDAR PATEL VIDYALAYA Akshit Goyal, Ayan Madan. Dhruv Saxena, Manas Tewari FIREWORKS Akshat, Parth, Digant, Prateek	NEW DELHI NEW DELHI	COLLEGE COLLEGE	15 (2, 7) 15 (2, 7)
94	Siddharth, Sai Visesh, Keshav, Ashwin	CHENNAI	OPEN	15 (2*, 3)
95	Senthil, Ashok, Yogesh Pai	COIMBATORE	OPEN	15 (1*, 5)
96	BADNAAM JAWAANI Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu, Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Rohit Rao	HYDERABAD	COLLEGE	15 (1*, 3)
97	VICTORIOUS SECRETS—BITS Anirudh, Akshay, Francis, Ronak	PANAJI	COLLEGE	14 (4*)
98	MYSORE I-CLUE-GALU Arun, Chandan, Kedar, Kenei TEAM NAME BATAO Bala, Sudhir, Mithun, Raghu	BANGALORE HYDERABAD	OPEN OPEN	14 (3, 4) 14 (3, 4)
100	BEYOND THE VALLEY OF BOTTLES Noufel Samad, Abdul Raouf, Rajasekhar, Jose Thomas THE THREE MOMOS Joydeep Nandi, Avadh Shah, Rohan Ranjan	THRISSUR KOLKATA	OPEN OPEN	14 (2, 5) 14 (2, 5)