Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments

232 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 12 cities this year.

Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.

Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) —Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and  a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.

This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work  put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of  Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.

The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 12 cities. The four other places in the semi-finals will go to the teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city.  These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi) and Mad O’ What (64/Mumbai). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011–Results

Q.E.D (Chennai) have won the Mega-Whats title for the third year running. They scored 85. The runner-up position was shared by MetaQuizziks (Bangalore)  and Insignificant Others (Chennai) on 78.  The top 80 scores (provisional) can be viewed here: TOP 80 MW2011

232 teams took part in all.

The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.

PANAJI

20 teams appeared

  1. OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M)            52
  2. COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash,  Ashin,  Akshay Surendra)      27
  3. SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal)     11

PUNE

19 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar)     57
  2. COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar)              33

 KOLKATA

12 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas)  75
  2. COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal)                          30
  3. SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu)  16

HYDERABAD

17 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava )                      69
  2. COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram)          35
  3. SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath)                                                  16

NEW DELHI

26 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi)  70
  2. COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
  3. SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev)             11

DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7th question using the score-comparison method.

CHENNAI

21 teams appeared.

  1. OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan)   85
  2. COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan)                   29
  3. SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

20 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi)           39
  2. COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
  3. SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath)         05

CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2nd question using the score-comparison method.

THRISSUR

12 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar)        60
  2. COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram,  Sruthi: 10
  3. SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09

MUMBAI

14 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu),  70
  2. COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya  37

 

BANGALORE

41 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh)  78
  2. COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team)       37
  3. SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team)  08

COIMBATORE

11 teams appeared

  1. OPEN:  TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS  (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
  2. COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj)        09
  3. SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram)    03

 

MYSORE

19 teams appeared

  1. OPEN: TWO AND A HALF MEN (Aarthi, Shyam, Hari) 24
  2. COLLEGE: SJCE (Abhishek CHauhan, Rajat VS, Kevin Paul, Adithya) 15
  3. SCHOOL: SADVIDYA HIGH SCHOOL (Manish, Jayadatta, Pranav, Rohan) 04

 

 

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment 

Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz

Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.

You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/298602.html

You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/278371.html
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/229294.html
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/2009/01/04/

and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/4262.html

A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.

Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.

December 24, 2011 | Filed Under News, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2011 – The Complete Quiz

The all-India (and some overseas!) results for Mega-Whats 2011 will be announced in a few days, but here’s the quiz for all those that might have missed it on the 11th. Or maybe those that want to spot their favourite “succulent karoo” questions once more.

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December 13, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes | 1 Comment 

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