ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 1 Results

It’s that time of the year again, when quizzers from across India descend upon the IAT Hall on Queen’s Road for KQA’s anniversary festival of quizzing, ASKQANCE.

MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 1

QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar.

We kicked off the quizzing with the first semi-final of the Mega-Whats Face Off with 8 teams from Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Goa fighting for the 4 places in the finals. Here are the final scores:

  1. Insignificant Others – 290 points.
  2. QED – 275 points.
  3. Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
  4. Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
  5. Swami and Friends – 190 points.
  6. Questionable Characters – 135 points.
  7. Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
  8. Tiruppur Tughlaqs – 85 points.

HOARSE LATITUDES – The Travel Quiz

QMs: Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal & Rajath Krishna

The prelims for the travel quiz was closely fought and 9 teams qualified for the finals with the difference between the 1st team and the 9th being just 4 points.

The finals also went on to be in a similar vein, with Hammer and Tongs, the team from Kolkata winning by a narrow margin and the difference between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams being just a point or two.

  1. Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
  2. Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
  3. We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
  4. QED – 251 points.
  5. Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
  6. Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
  7. Tough Luck – 132 points.
  8. Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
  9. Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.