Quizzes on Sunday 30 January 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday, 30 January 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I
Solus Rex Semifinals
Semi-Final 3 : Asian Festivals
Thejaswi Udupa
Santosh Swaminathan
Rajagopal P.S.
Maitrey Deshpande
Sohan
Semi-Final 4 : History of Manned Spaceflight
Anustup Datta
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Hrishi Varma
Praveen V.R.
Raouf
The Solus Rex semis will start at 1015 hrs and end by about 1pm.
Event II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
The Speculative Fiction Quiz
Written
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for the top three teams
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule: 1400-1530hrs
Event III
Graphick Rampage
The Comics Quiz
QM: Satyajit Chetri
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for the top three teams.
Schedule: 1530hrs-1830hrs
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz, Yell Iruve! and Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: The 17th Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
QMs: Kaustuba Venugopal and Gautam Shenoy
1. MSRIT (Abhishek, Srikant, Maitrey) – 85
2. RVCE (Chaitanya, Nakul, Gautam) – 80
3. RNSIT (Ashish, Amit, Shankar) – 75
4. RVCE (Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj, Rahul Gupta) – 55
5. NLS (Kartikeya, Rohan) – 35
6. NLS – 20
7. FAPS (Pranav, Jaydev) / IIITB (Sandeep Mathias) – tied on 5
EVENT II: Yell Iruve!, the quiz dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal’s growing appreciation of Kingdom Animalia
QM: Arul Mani
1. Anustup Datta / Kaustuba & Ashwan – tied on 17
3. Ochintya & Appu – 16
4. Sandeep Mathias & Maitrey – 14
5. Megha & Kiwi – 13
6. Amit R. & Ashish R.S. – 11
7. Sumeer & Dr. Krishnan – 10
8. Sudarshan M.A. & Vijay Ramesh – 9
Note: In the quiz dedicated to him, Mitesh Agarwal justified his billing by scoring 1 point along with his teammate Landmark Venky
EVENT III: The 21st Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky and Vivek Kartikeyan
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 201
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 178
3. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Praveen V.R., Hiranyappa, Sumeer) – 153
4. KD – 152
5. Rashmi, Aditi, Abid, Varuna – 109
6. Why So Curious?+eureQa! (Navin Rajaram, Ashwan, Kaustuba, G. Sreekanth) / Anti CIDs (Yogish Kamath, Thomas Jacob, Naveen Giles, Chandan) – tied on 99
8. Serendipity (Sinchana, Harsha, Raouf, Abhishek) – 66
Quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events:
EVENT I
The 17th Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
RULES
Open to XI/XII, Undergraduate and PG teams
Teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
Unlimited entries per institution in the prelims
Maximum of two teams from the same college in the finals
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/-, Rs. 1500/- plus prizes for all finalists.
From this year onwards, we will allow interested school teams to sit for college events.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1230hrs
QMs: Kaustuba Venugopal and Gautam Shenoy
EVENT II
Yell Iruve!
The quiz dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal’s growing appreciation of Kingdom Animalia
Written quiz
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Schedule: 1400hrs-1530hrs
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
EVENT III
The 21st Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes:
Rs. 1200/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 800, plus prizes for all finalists.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs to 1830hrs
QMs: Landmark Venky and Vivek Kartikeyan
We have another quizzing Sunday in January: three events on the 30th including Solus Rex Semi-Finals, Udupa’s long-name Speculative Fiction quiz, and one Specialist Open Quiz.
Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 3 & 4
The topics for the Solus Rex semi-finals 3 & 4, tentatively scheduled for 30th January 2011, are given below.
Semi-Final 3 : Asian Festivals
Thejaswi Udupa
Santosh Swaminathan
Rajagopal P.S.
Maitrey Deshpande
Sohan
Semi-Final 4 : History of Manned Spaceflight
Anustup Datta
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Hrishi Varma
Praveen V.R.
Raouf
