Results of the Music Quiz, Artifacts Quiz and the January Open
The following are the results of the quizzes held on Janauary 20th, 2013 at the TERI auditorium in Domlur.
The Annual Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
- Varun R, Santosh S, Ochintya S & Mitesh A/Arun Hiregange – 175 points
- Satyajit Chetri, Madhav Nair, Dhritiman & team – 100 points
- Navin R, Venkatesh S, Supreeth S & Ashwan L – 100 points
- Chirag M, Gaurav L, Vinay & team – 75 points
- Anustup D, Gopal Kidao & team – 65 points
- Praveen VR, Vipin, Abdul Raouf & team – 50 points
- Shoelace – 35 points
- Rajagopal PS, Karthik S, Sohan M & Nishanth – 25 points
The Artifacts and Useless Objects Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
- Anustup D & Thejaswi Udupa – 33 points
- Santosh S & Varun Rajiv – 28 points
- MIEL – 27.5 points
- Navin R and Ashwan L – 26.5 points
- Mitesh A & Gopal Kidao – 16.5 points
- Praveen VR & Hrishi Varma – 12 points
- Rajagopal PS & Rohit S – 11.5 points
- Venkatesh S & Supreeth S – 11 points
The January Open Quiz
QM: Navin Rajaram
- We Are Like This Wonly – Ochintya S, Anustup D, Thejaswi U & Arun H – 270 points
- Metaquizziks – Mitesh A, Varun R & Santosh S – 260 points
- Nexus Baggage – Venkatesh S, Gopal K, Vivek Karthikeyan & Ashwan L – 185 points
- No Hopers – Rajagopal PS, Rohit S, Ajay P & Nishanth – 175 points
- CIDs from Kerala – Hrishi V, Praveen VR, Jitin J & Abdul Raouf – 150 points
- Suraj, Krishna Prasad, Ijaz & Shefeeq – 125 points
- Dr. Krishnan, Arjun, Sandeep & Swamy – 90 points
- Schrödinger’s Felines – Gautam Shenoy, Venkat, Pillai – 30 points
Quizzes on Sunday, 20 January 2013
We will hold three Open quizzes on Sunday, 20 January 2013.
UPDATE: The venue for this Sunday’s quiz has been changed to The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) at Domlur.
The address is:
4th Main, 2nd Cross,
Domlur II Stage
Bangalore- 560071
Here is the Google Maps link – http://goo.gl/maps/vVaOp
The venue is a really short walk from the Domlur Bus Stand. If you are coming from the city, take a left at the traffic signal at Domlur Bus Stand, and take the first right (2nd Cross) and walk roughly 100 metres. You will find TERI at the junction of this road with 4th Main, Domlur.
Once again, the venue is NOT IAT, and NOT Rotary House on Lavelle Road.
The events scheduled are:
KQA’s Annual Open Music Quiz by Thejaswi Udupa.
A Written Quiz on Artifacts and Useless Objects by Arul Mani
The January Open Quiz by Navin Rajaram.
The Open Music Quiz
Schedule:
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100hrs-1300hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
The Artifacts Quiz
Schedule: 1345hrs-1500hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
The January Open Quiz
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals: 1700hrs-1900hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
We have two quizzing Sundays coming up in February–quizzes planned include Lao Me Thanda, Yell Iruve, the Food Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan, a Lone Wolf Quiz, Chronosynclastic Infiundibulum by Udupa, and the annual History Quiz–Seek Under Porus– by Manjith and Praveen V.R.
Mega Whats 2012 Questions and Answers
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Mega Whats 2012 Scores
The table below has the complete results for Mega Whats 2012. You can view the quiz here: kqaquizzes.org/2013/01/11/mega-whats-2012-questions-and-answers/
No. | Team | Score | Category | Centre | Comments |
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1 | Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan) | 79 | Open | Bangalore | City Winner |
2 | QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan) | 78 | Open | Chennai | City Winner |
3 | Doctor Lawyer Trader Failure (Navin Jayakumar, Shiv, Anil, Ravi Mundoli) | 70 | Open | Chennai | Semi-finalist |
4 | Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani) | 70 | Open | Kolkata | City Winner |
5 | The Travelling Pillsburys (Anil Kothuri, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari, Vikram Joshi) | 67 | Open | Mumbai | City Winner |
6 | We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Movin Miranda, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta) | 63 | Open | Bangalore | Semi-finalist |
7 | Insignificant Others | 63 | Open | Chennai | Lost to WALTWo on tie-break |
8 | Mega WTFs (Avaneendra, Ramanand, Aditya Gadre, Kunal S) | 60 | Open | Pune | City Winner |
9 | Navel Gyan (Archana, Aryapriya, Hari, Amrit) | 60 | Open | Delhi | City Winner |
10 | Maami and Friends (Ani, Bhargava, Prasanna, Ravikant) | 59 | Open | Hyderabad | City Winner |
11 | East Meets West (Leslie, Shubendu, Mukund, Abhinav) | 59 | Open | Delhi | |
12 | Marathi Manhoos (Suresh, Vinod, Rashmi, Yash) | 57 | Open | Bangalore | |
13 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, Waggly (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, V. R. Muralidharan) | 56 | Open | Goa | City Winner |
14 | Quizcraft (Aditya Mubayi, Kunal Savarkar, Rahul Kottalgi) | 56 | Open | Delhi | |
15 | Nexus Baggage (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan) | 54 | Open | Bangalore | |
16 | Kovai Kapemaaries (Ashwin, Yogesh, Senthil, Gautam Ghosh) | 53 | Open | Coimbatore | City Winner |
17 | Answering Service (Srikant, Sudipto, Charanpreet, Sanjoy) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
18 | Inmaniacs (Abhijit Banerjee, Devdan Mitra, Joy Bhattacharya, Anirudh Chari) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
19 | Swami & Friends (Alagar Samy, J Krishnamurthi, Vivek, Nitish Khadiya) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
20 | Quizzing Irregulars (Dr Sri Nagesh, Sudhir Pai, Balaji, Raghuram) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
21 | Alcoholic United F.C. (Arun AS, Ajith Prabhakar, Chandrakant Nair, Justin) | 50 | Open | Trivandrum | City Winner |
22 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Manu Sudhakar) | 50 | Open | Thrissur | City Winner |
23 | Bala is the New Saheb (Abhinav Dasgupta, Srinath Bhashyam, Pravin Verma, Balakrishnan S.) | 50 | Open | Mumbai | |
24 | Questionable Characters - DELHI (Vinod, Avinash, Tathagata) | 50 | Open | Delhi | |
25 | Ze Didigiri DumDums (Atul Mathew, Anannya Deb, Kaushik, Suchishree) | 48 | Open | Mumbai | |
26 | Punjabis By Nature | 47 | Open | Chennai | |
27 | The Questionables (Hemant Morparia, Balakrishna, Rushi Ananthan, Rachel Lopez) | 47 | Open | Mumbai | |
28 | We Are Legion (Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Pratik Gupte, Rohan Naidu, Aditya Vikram) | 46 | College | Hyderabad | |
29 | Two & Half Men | 45 | Open | Chennai | |
30 | Doctor and his Patient | 45 | Open | Guwahati | City Winner |
31 | Mega-What-Ifs (Anubhav, Jagdeep, Govind Grewal, Vinoo Sanjay) | 45 | Open | Mumbai | |
32 | Vijay, Roshith, Sahitha | 45 | Open | Delhi | |
33 | None of Sardaar (Supratim, Abhiram, Arkadev, Kumar Vaibhav) | 44 | Open | Delhi | |
34 | MIneSweeper WTF! (Govind, Amit P, Frances, Souvik) | 43 | Open | Mumbai | |
35 | CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, VR, Jithin, Raouf) | 42 | Open | Bangalore | |
36 | Bohemian Philistines (Jyotesh, Apratim, Wasi, Prateek) | 41 | College | Delhi | |
37 | Maa ka Moloko (Debasish, Aniket, Sumeet, Nikhil) | 41 | Open | Mumbai | |
38 | Sabyasachi Majumdar, Piyush Singh, Kunal Malhotra, Arka | 41 | Open | Delhi | |
39 | Chennai Sober Kings | 40 | College | Chennai | |
40 | Questionable Characters (DD, Mathias, Ajay, Siva) | 40 | Open | Bangalore | |
41 | Aaj Kuch Chazzy Karte Hain (Prithwish Datta, Siddhant Agarwal, Arindam Dottoh, Arpan Guha) | 40 | Open | Kolkata | |
42 | Four Men In A Quiz (Subrat, Harry, Pranesh, Kesavan) | 39 | Open | Bangalore | |
43 | Bawana Quiz Club (Agrima, Ayan, Eeshan, Yuganka) | 37 | College | Delhi | |
44 | Rosellini, Posalini, Thangachi, Azhugamani (Keshav, Shivram, Govind, Arjun) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
45 | Pai R Us (Siddarth, Vedanth, Rohit, Sreepathi) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
46 | Africadalli Lingo Leela (Logik, Sudarshan, Rahul, Sarin) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
47 | Battle of the Waters in the Loo (Kamal Rathi, Abdaal Akhtar, Tanmay Prusty, Omkar Amrutanshu) | 37 | Open | Bhubaneswar | City Winner |
48 | Mustafa (Chandrashekar, Dr. Krishnan, Vijay, Supreeth) | 36 | Open | Bangalore | |
49 | God is Dirac (Sreshth Shah, Dhruv Sharma, Ajachi, Anjali Sengupta) | 36 | Open | Delhi | |
50 | Discreetly Charming Bourgeoisie (Amit Garde, Radhika, Hareesh, Trilok) | 35 | Open | Pune | |
51 | Whatte Wow! | 34 | Open | Chennai | |
52 | Logos (Rudradeep, Rajib, Nayanjyoti, Sunny) | 34 | Open | Kolkata | |
53 | The Incredible Bulk (Abhishek Sahoo, Anurag Singh, Karthik Rajeshwaran, Sumantra Mukherjee) | 34 | Open | Mumbai | |
54 | Megabots | 33 | Open | Chennai | |
55 | Inglorious Kweezers (Nikhil, Ratnakar, Jose, Nakul) | 33 | Open | Hyderabad | |
56 | Hum Do Hamare Do (Manav, Varun, Aaarun, Brajendu) | 33 | Open | Delhi | |
57 | Where's Tiru - NITK Surathkal (Preeti, Soumya, Aniruddha Tiru) | 31 | College | Bangalore | |
58 | The Young and the Bald (Atharv Joshi, Julian D'Costa, Shaswat Salgaoncar, Sunil Sardessai) | 31 | Open | Goa | |
59 | Thirondoram Thyeppams (Saptarshi Purohit, Vishnu Vijay, Abhilash BS, Alby John) | 31 | Open | Trivandrum | |
60 | Mauka Dekh Aur Chauka Maar (Rajat, Nilotpal, Surya, Raghu) | 31 | Open | Delhi | |
61 | Avial Pursuit | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
62 | Stoners With Boners | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
63 | How Can She Slap? (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan Maheshwar, Abhishek Krishnan) | 30 | Open | Bangalore | |
64 | Milli-Whats (Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Ashwin Murali, Naveen) | 29 | Open | Coimbatore | |
65 | Qutopia | 29 | Open | Thrissur | |
66 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Sumit, Shubham, Sudhakar, sanjit) | 28 | College | Delhi | |
67 | Sri Sathya Sai Bakery (Sai, Jyotirmay, Hari, Shashank) | 28 | Open | Bangalore | |
68 | Bawana Boys (Abhinav, Dhruv, Mangal) | 28 | Open | Delhi | |
69 | C.V.R. The Late Cummer! (Aniket, Suraj) | 27 | College | Pune | |
70 | Underdogs (Vinay, Vinay, Anand, Siddarth) | 27 | Open | Bangalore | |
71 | Shadybaayz (Anjan, Lokesh, Akshay, Yash) | 27 | Open | Coimbatore | |
72 | The Lobotomists (Nirban Basu, Niladri Bhowmick, Sreyashi Biswas, Avradeep Datta) | 26 | College | Kolkata | |
73 | Subterrenenan Homesick Aliens (Gowtham, Shiva, Nishant, Aditya Grover) | 26 | College | Delhi | |
74 | Terra-Whats (Balu John, Shivakumari, Sridhar J, Niranjan S) | 26 | Open | Trivandrum | |
75 | Succulent Karadantu | 26 | Open | Chennai | |
76 | Sin & Tonic (Ram, Srikrishna, Yamuna) | 26 | Open | Bangalore | |
77 | Keshav, Nikhil, Siddharth | 25 | College | Chennai | |
78 | NLSIU (Kartikeya, Akshay, Rohan) | 25 | College | Bangalore | |
79 | Gigawhats (Mahesh, Mayur, Sridhar, Venkatesh) | 25 | Open | Bangalore | |
80 | Babu Black Sheep (Sharath Babu, Sonal Saldanha, Roshan Kate, Askshath) | 24 | College | Bangalore | |
81 | Qu Qlux Qlan | 24 | Open | Guwahati | |
82 | Some Obscure 80s Movie Reference (Deepak Thomas, Leo Francis, Prasanth John, Vishnu Vinayan) | 24 | Open | Trivandrum | |
83 | Quizbul-Mujahiddeen (Ankit Pattnaik, Anjan Mahapatra, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, Swateek Jena) | 24 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
84 | Plan B From Outer Space (Rohan, Rohit) | 23 | College | Bangalore | |
85 | Sarkar, Two Pronouns & a Verb (Mitesh Mahato, Finehao Pinto, Kshitij Jyoti, Saikat Sarkar) | 23 | College | Pune | |
86 | Rohan, Rohit, Alok, Vibhav | 23 | College | Pune | |
87 | Vis Quizzica | 23 | Open | Chennai | |
88 | Schrodinger's Felines (Pillai, Venkat, Shenoy) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
89 | Elvis and the Levis (Abhay, Rahul, Srikanth, Umang) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
90 | What's In a Team Name (Ranajeet, Rohan, Debanjan, Abhishek) | 23 | Open | Pune | |
91 | Running On Empty (Shafeeq, Ijaz, Yashin) | 22 | Open | Bangalore | |
92 | Chaps On a Lark Together (Sumanth, Rajiv, Santosh, Rishica) | 21 | Open | Bangalore | |
93 | Three Bad Mathematicians | 20 | College | Chennai | |
94 | GNLU (Prateek, Rohit, Nihal, Chirag) | 20 | College | Bangalore | |
95 | Point Blank - GEC Thrissur (Abhijit Balakrishnan, Ashok Menon, Bharat, Sreeram) | 20 | College | Thrissur | |
96 | Kurtis | 20 | Open | Chennai | |
97 | The Power of Two + One (Ravi, Sulfy, Girish) | 20 | Open | Bangalore | |
98 | Rajat, Jayant, Hemant | 19 | Open | Bangalore | |
99 | Na Honey Na Penny | 19 | Open | Hyderabad | |
100 | Thanks for all the Fish ( Pradyoth John, Geetha S.N.) | 19 | Open | Mumbai | |
101 | Kartik, Kavin, Arjun Murali, Gowtham Sriram | 18 | College | Coimbatore | |
102 | Teletubbies (Ritvik, Venkat, Mollika) | 18 | School | Bangalore | |
103 | And Then There Were Two | 17 | College | Chennai | |
104 | Allen, Nagaratna, Poorva, Sachin | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
105 | The Expendables - IISc (Sriram, Sriram, Aditya, Terrence) | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
106 | Sherlock & Watson (Devwrat, Martik) | 17 | College | Chandigarh | City Winner |
107 | Galli Ke Bache (Mukund, Fardeen, Vartik) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
108 | Onights (Kratu, Akshat, Bishal, Ankush) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
109 | Yeddy's Buddies the Reddies (Mani, Kripa Karan) | 17 | Open | Bangalore | |
110 | Neeraj, Abhishek, Prem, Aashish | 16 | College | Bangalore | |
111 | CETianz (Ananthu Ravi, Bony Raju, Arathy Anil, Adarsh K) | 16 | College | Trivandrum | |
112 | 51 Shades of Gray (Wasim, Parantap, Nishant) | 16 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
113 | Why You Ask? (Venkataramana, Sandeep, Madhurya, Unni) | 16 | Open | Bangalore | |
114 | Prof and Studs | 16 | Open | Thrissur | |
115 | Magis (Aditchandra, Prahlad, Vignesh, Ganesh) | 16 | School | Trivandrum | |
116 | Why So Serious? (Arunabha, Ashwin, Pranav, Praneeth) | 15 | College | Bangalore | |
117 | IIT Guwahati (Argha Sen, Saswati Dutta, Sriram and Kartikeya) | 15 | College | Guwahati | |
118 | The Dirty Dozen, except we're 4 (Saikat, Abhinav, Khetan, Mishra) | 15 | College | Pune | |
119 | In Last Place (Achuth, Basil, Gooth, Sajad) | 15 | College | Trivandrum | |
120 | Whatever! (Rahul, Saurabh) | 15 | College | Delhi | |
121 | Pritheesh, Bharat, Aditya, Ashwin | 15 | Open | Chennai | |
122 | Ye Kya Bakchodi Hai (Bhaskar Sharma, Maharnab Hazarika, Sonika Dhingra and Deepjyoti Deka) | 15 | Open | Guwahati | |
123 | Blank (Shubham Tiwari, Viola Rodrigues) | 15 | Open | Goa | |
124 | Old Hobbits Die Hard (Archit, Arnav, Udit) | 15 | Open | Delhi | |
125 | Team Singularity (Sangeeth, Bharath, Jithin, Vamsee Krishna) | 15 | School | Trivandrum | |
126 | Auto (Nishant, Arvind, Akshay, Irfan) | 14 | College | Bangalore | |
127 | 50 Cells of Grey (Satwik Raut, Kalpit Mohanty, Bivash Rath, Akash Choudhury) | 14 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
128 | The Metasuitic Macaques (Akshay Rege, Namrata Pai, Nitish Fatarpekar, Rahul Padgaonkar) | 13 | College | Goa | |
129 | IISER-M (Abhishek Mishra, Prabhanjan B) | 13 | College | Chandigarh | |
130 | Pun Da Cheese (Devajyoti, Arunkumar, Sabrinath, Alvi) | 13 | Open | Bangalore | |
131 | The Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Souvik, Prajwal) | 13 | Open | Pune | |
132 | SJBHS | 13 | School | Bangalore | |
133 | Pitch Please! | 12 | College | Bangalore | |
134 | Kalinga Kulangara (Sampad Pattanaik, Debashish Pradhan, Rashmi, Shakti) | 12 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
135 | Quiz Mafia | 12 | College | Thrissur | |
136 | The Quizzessential Underdogs | 12 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
137 | Kumaraguru College of Technology (Nivethan, Jiju, Sriram, Vishwanathan) | 11 | College | Coimbatore | |
138 | Untitled (Siddharth, Yash) | 11 | College | Hyderabad | |
139 | Untitled (Jeswin, Madhusudhan, Bhargav, Sasipriya) | 11 | Open | Hyderabad | |
140 | Mission Impossible | 11 | Open | Thrissur | |
141 | Does Grey Matter? (Novoneel, Kunal, Tushant, Anirudh) | 11 | School | Hyderabad | |
142 | The Twosome | 10 | Open | Bangalore | |
143 | Ashim Saikia and Krishanu Bhargav | 10 | Open | Guwahati | |
144 | Four Boys (Harsh Hegde, Leander Paes, Sahil Ramchandani, Zibane Paes) | 10 | School | Goa | |
145 | Jurassic Sparks (Ashwin Mascarenhas, Ayush Kanyal, Chaitanya Naik, C. H. Siddhant) | 10 | School | Goa | |
146 | 4 Angry Men | 10 | School | Bangalore | |
147 | Blitzkrieg (Kaushik, Samuel, Amruta, Rajshri) | 9 | College | Coimbatore | |
148 | ? (Vasishta, Balaji, Ravi, Ashok) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
149 | Looney Tunes (Nilesh, Saurav) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
150 | Dream 4 (Mahesh, Anand, Mahendra Balu, Jeethu) | 9 | School | Trivandrum | |
151 | And In The Last Place | 9 | School | Bangalore | |
152 | Team Nova | 8 | College | Thrissur | |
153 | Novizio (Ravikant, Prateek, Rohit, Aniket) | 7 | College | Pune | |
154 | Kurious Kolaveri Kuizzers | 7 | Open | Chennai | |
155 | We Rock!!! (Arpita Nath, Vibhu Joshi) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
156 | Why So Serious? (Dev D, Anurag) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
157 | Infy Irregulars (Sumanth, Tejal, Harshit) | 7 | Open | Hyderabad | |
158 | People of Kovai - SBOA school (Vishnu, Tony, Subash, Sathya Mukesh) | 7 | School | Coimbatore | |
159 | Priya Marie Biscuit (Pariya Desai, Mary Williams) | 7 | School | Chandigarh | |
160 | Zhizhu (Srikanth, Ashish, Manoaj) | 6 | College | Chandigarh | |
161 | Whats Vaku (Udit, Ashutosh, Kush) | 6 | College | Delhi | |
162 | Last Minutes | 6 | Open | Bangalore | |
163 | Frozen Minds Team (Kuldeep Singh, Hitesh Kambaj) | 6 | Open | Chandigarh | |
164 | Whats App?? (Rashmi Jain, Arpit Porwal, Diksha Jain) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
165 | Gurpreet & Abhijit Ke Chaske (Gurpreet, Abhijeet) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
166 | The Devils of Gahanna (Amit Bikram) | 5 | Open | Hyderabad | |
167 | Jeevan & Co. (Jeevan Naik, Kishor Naik, Rohil Paes, Savio Paes) | 4 | Open | Goa | |
168 | Vizard (Shivam, Vatsal, Teja) | 3 | College | Delhi | |
169 | Gatecrasher (Asif Kalam) | 3 | Open | Trivandrum | |
170 | Yasha - KCTBS (Sri Hari, Mohan, Sathish, Adithya) | 2 | College | Coimbatore | |
171 | The Apocalyptic Crypti (Saumya, Neha, Garima, Priyanka) | 2 | College | Chandigarh | |
172 | Spartans | 2 | School | Bangalore | |
173 | Parul and Shiva | 2 | School | Chandigarh | |
174 | Geniuses (Abhay, Akshay, Shambu, Siddhant) | 1 | School | Goa | |
175 | Sushil, Brijesh | 0 | Open | Chandigarh |