Quizzes on Sunday 30 March 2014

We will host our next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 30 at our usual venue – IAT, Queen’s Road. Please be on time, since we have four quizzes planned.

9:30 AM to 11:00 AM (including corrections) – a 60-minutes written general Quiz on 100 Years since World War 1 – the quiz has been set by Vikram Joshi from the Bombay Quiz Club and has already been held in multiple cities across India. Proctor: Hrishikesh Varma

11:15 AM to 1:45 PM – KQA Cricket Quiz Prelims and Finals – for teams of 4 or less – QMs – Manish Achuth and Sohan Maheshwar

2:30 PM to 3:45 PM – Tech That! KQA Tech Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – QM Thejaswi Udupa

4:00 PM to 7:30 PM – March Open Quiz – for teams of 4 or less – this quiz will be in a Ruckus Tangdi format, where teams will be formed on the spot randomly – so, do come even if you don’t have a team! QMs: Sai Ganesh, Hari Shenoy, Varun Shenoy, Shashank PS, Sohan Maheshwar

 

Quizzes on Sunday 9 March 2014

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be holding its next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at our regular venue – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

10 AM onwards – Bangalore leg of the Asha Open Quiz

Bay Area Quiz Club will be conducting an Open Quiz as a fund raiser for the organization Asha. Asha raises funds to provide for projects dealing with educating underprivileged children in India. All funds raised via registration fees for this quiz will be sent to Asha Silicon Valley (SV) to help them fund their projects. This is the third year of our quiz and our questions from the past quizzes have been well received by the quizzing world. If you need to know more about Asha Silicon Valley or Asha in general, please follow this link (http://www.ashanet.org/siliconvalley/).

Details of the quiz
– Teams of two
– 45 question written prelims
– 8 teams make it to the final
– 64 question final
– Registration fee; minimum registration fee Rs 100/team. Teams wishing to pay a higher fee are welcome to do so; all money collected will go to Asha Silicon Valley
Proctor: Rajagopal PS

2:30 PM onwards – Chronosynclastic Infundibulum – the Speculative Fiction Quiz
Written quiz for teams of 2
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
Prizes for Top 3
QM: Thejaswi Udupa

4:00 PM onwards – Bizkashi – the KQA Business Quiz
Teams of 4 or less
Prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
QMs: Karthik Shashidhar and Venkatesh Srinivasan