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:
- Insignificant Others – 290 points.
- QED – 275 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
- Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
- Swami and Friends – 190 points.
- Questionable Characters – 135 points.
- Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
- 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.
- Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
- Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
- QED – 251 points.
- Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
- Tough Luck – 132 points.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
- Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.