Mega-Whats 2014 – All India Results
A total of 130 teams from 12 centres across India took Mega-Whats 2014. These are the toppers in each category:
Open: MetaQuizziks (Borun, Santosh, Ashwin, Mitesh) from Bangalore – 87
College: Kasturba Nagar Kasamusa (Jayadev, Swaroop, Anand, Siddharth) from Chennai – 59
School: The Good For Nothings (Anand PS, Saeel Pai, R Samyak, Vedang Acharya) from Panjim – 29
These are all the scores, with city winners in each category indicated. The top 10 city winners and remaining 6 top scores qualify for the finals.
Not to be forgotten, our heartfelt thanks to all the city quiz associations that helped us hold Mega-Whats this year.
The Dubai quiz club also arranged to take Mega-Whats 2014 over their weekend, scores have been added separately below.
| No. | Team Name | City | Score | Category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MetaQuizziks (Borun, Santosh, Ashwin, Mitesh) | Bangalore | 87 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| 2 | QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal, Jayakanthan) | Chennai | 81 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| 3 | Insignificant Others (Sankhya, Sreeram, Vijay, Ramanan) | Chennai | 80 | Open (Qualified) | ||
| We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup, Thejaswi, Ochintya, Sumanth) | Bangalore | 80 | Open (Qualified) | |||
| 5 | Aardvarks (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Aryapriya, Avinash, Ramya) | Pune | 72 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| Hastily Put Together (Vikram Joshi, Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu and Bala) | Mumbai | 72 | Open (City Winner) | |||
| 7 | Mega-WTF (Gadre, Ramanand, Suraj, Kunal) | Pune | 70 | Open (Qualified) | ||
| 8 | Mustafa (Debashree, Lahar, Vijay, Vinod) | Bangalore | 67 | Open (Qualified) | ||
| 9 | Feni Vedi Vici and return of VG (Vidyadhar Gadgil, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, Annie Sen Gupta) | Panjim | 66 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| Memory Bank (Saranya, Navin, Pravin, Anil) | Chennai | 66 | Open (Qualified) | |||
| Forecasting Couch (Keshav, Ajay, Sumeer, SRS) | Bangalore | 66 | Open (Qualified) | |||
| 12 | Samy, Mamy, Barmy & Army (Alagar, Lakshmi, Bhargava, Khadiya) | Hyderabad | 65 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| 13 | Hammer and Tongs (Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani) | Kolkata | 61 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| Super Mario & Bros (Rohit, Mario, Pranav, Sudharshan) | Chennai | 61 | Open | |||
| 15 | Voulez-Vous Quizzer Avec Moi? (Annanya Deb, Shubhankar Gokhale, S. Venkatraghavan, Abhinav Dasgupta) | Mumbai | 60 | Open | ||
| Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh, Abhijit Banerjee, Sudip Kalyan Roy, Anirudh Chari) | Kolkata | 60 | Open | |||
| CIDs From Kerala (Captain, VR, Jithin, Hrishi) | Bangalore | 60 | Open | |||
| 18 | Kasturba Nagar Kasamusa (Jayadev, Swaroop, Anand, Siddharth) | Chennai | 59 | College (All-India College winner) | ||
| 19 | Swalpa Adjust Maadi (Balaji, Devi Prasad, Rajagopal, Arun) | Chennai | 56 | Open | ||
| 20 | We Made It (Abhishek Kapoor, Apratim Mukhopadhyay, Jyotesh Singh, Prateek Vijayvargia) | Delhi | 55 | Open & College (City Winner) | ||
| Collected Works of Nexus Baggage (Venky, JK, Navin, Kivi) | Bangalore | 55 | Open | |||
| 22 | SJC Quizzers (Arul, Mollika,Sripradha) | Bangalore | 54 | Open | ||
| 23 | Family and Friend (Kaushik Chatterjee, Suchishree Chatterjee, Shaayak Chatterjee, Rushi Anandan) | Mumbai | 53 | Open | ||
| Quiz Zara Zara (Dr. S. Bhatta, Priyamvada, Kazi, Amrit) | Delhi | 53 | Open | |||
| 25 | Salil, Maitreya, Nishanth, Abhishek | Bangalore | 52 | Open | ||
| 26 | ICNH (Manu Sudhakar, Anil Raghavan) | Thrissur | 50 | Open (City Winner) | ||
| Pilanian Eruption (Srisha, Utsab, KC, Eswar) | Pune | 50 | Open | |||
| PMWP - Pussy Money Weed Peace (Mustafa Hashmi, Aditya Vikram, Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil) | Hyderabad | 50 | Open | |||
| Tughluq (Udatta, Ajay, Ninad, Abhinav) | Delhi | 50 | Open | |||
| Samaadhi's Minions (Murthy, Achyut Sanjay, Krittika Adhikary, Kiran) | Delhi | 50 | Open | |||
| 31 | Just In Time (Arun, Abhijit, Rushabh, Ashok) | Thrissur | 48 | Open | ||
| 32 | Undappori (Abid, Ravi, Roshith) | Mumbai | 47 | Open | ||
| NITK (Ashwin, Pranav, Karthik, Soumya) | Bangalore | 47 | College (City Winner) | |||
| 34 | Quad Core Quizzers (Amit Pandya, Debashish, Karthik Ganesh, Sachin) | Mumbai | 46 | Open | ||
| 35 | Rag Tag (Ameya Samant, Suresh Kumar, Nikhil Sonde, Devang Ghia) | Mumbai | 45 | Open | ||
| In It To Win It (Anjan, Lokeshwaran, Kartik, Arjun Murali) | Coimbatore | 45 | Open (City Winner) | |||
| 37 | Psychoceramics (Kshitij, Safal, Anurakshat, Maitreyi) | Pune | 44 | Open | ||
| Every Doctor Has His Day (Dr. Sudhir Pai, Ajit V Rao, Dr. Mathew David, Anirudh) | Bangalore | 44 | Open | |||
| 39 | Post Quiz Bowwow (Samrat, Arnold, Avaneendra, Navin) | Pune | 43 | Open | ||
| Some Real Devotees of Kinetic Energies (Dr. Sandeep Shankar, Somnath Chanda, Sumanta Gupta, SRD) | Kolkata | 43 | Open | |||
| Khaali Peeli (Sarada Anne, Prasanna, Debjit, Anupam) | Hyderabad | 43 | Open | |||
| The Village People (Tanmay, Preyoshi, Sreekanth, Sid Sen) | Delhi | 43 | Open | |||
| 43 | Twain (Prithwish, Sivajit, Kaushik, Vishnu) | Mumbai | 42 | Open | ||
| Quattro (Sachin, Viswesh, Allen, Keshav) | Bangalore | 42 | Open | |||
| 45 | No Mata What You Call Us (Aditya, Bala, Gokul, Prashanth) | Delhi | 39 | College | ||
| Balwantrai Ke Kuttey (Jitaditya, Bhaskar, Sandipan, Atul) | Delhi | 39 | Open | |||
| 47 | Sex Pistols (Veenu, Ashwin, Ananth, Rahul) | Panjim | 38 | Open | ||
| 48 | What's in a name? (Viola Rodrigues, Rhyes D'Souza, Shubham Tiwari, Shashwat Salgocar) | Panjim | 36 | Open | ||
| This is also an important matter | Guwahati | 36 | Open (City Winner) | |||
| Team of 4 (Kamal, Jitamitra, Saswat, Hari) | Bhubaneswar | 36 | Open (City Winner) | |||
| 51 | Docs and Sons (Dr. Unnikrishnan Menon, Dr. Binu Raju George, Niranjan Nair, Suraj Menon) | Thrissur | 34 | Open | ||
| Rohan, Omkar, Payas, Vibhav | Pune | 34 | Open | |||
| Doctor, Lawyer, Artist, PseudoEngineer (Sameer, Lokesh, Murtuza, Sukruth) | Hyderabad | 34 | College (City Winner) | |||
| Team Infy | Chennai | 34 | Open | |||
| Rishi, Nikhil, Kunal, Siddhanth | Chennai | 34 | College | |||
| No Clue (Mayur, Mahesh, Arjun) | Bangalore | 34 | Open | |||
| 57 | Samaadhi's Disciples (Ankur Kaul, Anand Rao, Vinayak) | Mumbai | 33 | College (City Winner) | ||
| M & the Chip Monks (Maya, Srikanth, Sumanth) | Bangalore | 33 | Open | |||
| 59 | Tirupur Tughlaqs (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Prathaban) | Coimbatore | 32 | Open | ||
| 60 | Banda! Bindaas (Omkar, Jyoti Prakash, Sampad, Debashish) | Bhubaneswar | 31 | College (City Winner) | ||
| 42 (Ananya, Utkarsh, Pradyoth, Shyam) | Bangalore | 31 | Open | |||
| Surprise Butt-Sex!! (Vishnu, Avaneendra, Balaji) | Bangalore | 31 | College | |||
| 63 | Abki Baari Matahari (Vivek, Abhishek, Anurag, Sumantra) | Mumbai | 30 | Open | ||
| Akhil's Team (Akhil, Gayatri, Rahul, Aditya) | Delhi | 30 | Open | |||
| 65 | The Good For Nothings (Anand PS, Saeel Pai, R Samyak, Vedang Acharya) | Panjim | 29 | School (All-India School Winner) | ||
| Moshir, Kartik, Hans George, Abhishek Shetty | Bangalore | 29 | College | |||
| Yaako Doubt (Aditya, Bhargava, Pranjali) | Bangalore | 29 | Open | |||
| 68 | Made in China | Chennai | 28 | College | ||
| 69 | The Powerpuff Boys (Lucky Kaul, Yash, Siddharth B Rao, Arjun) | Hyderabad | 27 | School (City Winner) | ||
| Kozhikoddan Vazhapazham (Jinson, Sreejesh, Vishnu, Nandakumar) | Delhi | 27 | Open | |||
| 71 | 3G (Ramesh, Soundar, Shwetha) | Bangalore | 26 | Open | ||
| 72 | Beltola Kingdom Blues | Guwahati | 25 | Open | ||
| You Tell Me (Barghav, Tanay) | Bangalore | 25 | School (City Winner) | |||
| 74 | Megawhatevers (Aditi, Gokul, Anway, Anurag) | Pune | 23 | Open | ||
| Swedish House Maamiyars | Chennai | 23 | College | |||
| Bajaunga!!! (Adarsh, Akshat, Pranav, Ritesh) | Bhubaneswar | 23 | School (City Winner) | |||
| 77 | Aak Pak Karepak (Pratyush, Akash, Kali) | Mumbai | 22 | Open | ||
| Achint, Sri, KB, Arpit | Bangalore | 22 | Open | |||
| 79 | Manjit, Nikhil, Vineet, Nishit | Mumbai | 21 | Open | ||
| One Short of Majority | Chennai | 21 | Open | |||
| Full Enthu Da (Chaitanya, Keerthan, Rohan, Sumanth) | Bangalore | 21 | Open | |||
| 82 | Most Wanted (Sriram, Aditya, Prasad, Adarsh) | Mumbai | 20 | Open | ||
| RBI (Harita, Siddharth, Saugata) | Mumbai | 20 | Open | |||
| Trivially Challenged (Nihal George, Chirag, Ishan, Prateek) | Bangalore | 20 | Open | |||
| 85 | The Fashionably Late Comers (Tanmay, Khadpe, Mohnish, Kunal) | Panjim | 19 | School | ||
| Legion of Doom (Adwait, Shivam, Shashwat, Sudarshan) | Mumbai | 19 | School (City Winner) | |||
| Babu Blacksheep (Chaitanya, Sharath Babu, Varun Reddy) | Bangalore | 19 | Open | |||
| 88 | Sudarshan, Shakeel, Amlan Nasoom | Guwahati | 18 | College (City Winner) | ||
| Pati, Patni aur Woe (Hemant, Haripriya, Vishwas) | Bangalore | 18 | Open | |||
| 90 | Inquizitive (Aditya Trivedi, Arpit Jain, Hindol Hazra, Surbhi Verma) | Mumbai | 17 | School | ||
| Why So Studious?? | Chennai | 17 | College | |||
| 92 | Vishnu Vijay, Shibin Azad, Aravind Anil, Midhun | Thrissur | 16 | Open | ||
| Logos (Sankar Roy, Rajib Roy) | Kolkata | 16 | Open | |||
| Four Musketeers (Mukilan, Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Atitya Ragul) | Coimbatore | 16 | College (City Winner) | |||
| Nameless Wonders | Chennai | 16 | School (City Winner) | |||
| Shravan, Vivek | Chennai | 16 | College | |||
| Three Men and a Goat (Akhil, Gaurang, Shaurya, Amith) | Bangalore | 16 | School | |||
| 98 | 4 Angry Men (Shyam, Hari, Anand, Akhilesh) | Thrissur | 15 | School (City Winner) | ||
| Ramachandran | Chennai | 15 | Open | |||
| 100 | Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Prajwal, Souvik) | Pune | 14 | Open | ||
| The Hobbits | Guwahati | 14 | College | |||
| AbkiBaar (Abhinash, Joydeep, Amruta) | Bhubaneswar | 14 | College | |||
| 103 | Quiz Mafia (Aswin, Jomy, Samuel, Swathi) | Thrissur | 13 | College (City Winner) | ||
| Team Rocket (Chinmay, Aniruddha, Pratik, Soham) | Panjim | 13 | School | |||
| 105 | 13th Legion (Akhil R Nair, Feny Jay, Sivakumar, Vaisak) | Thrissur | 12 | Open | ||
| Jurassic Sparx (Ashwin, Siddharth, Chaitanya, Kaivalya) | Panjim | 12 | School | |||
| Team Thalaiva (Yash, Vishal, Akash, Rajat) | Panjim | 12 | School | |||
| Ellipsis + 1 (Kavin Aadithiyan, Kathikeyan, Gowtham Sriram, Prasath) | Coimbatore | 12 | College | |||
| Sharath, Sai Prasanth, Hari Krishna, Aayush Poddar | Coimbatore | 12 | College | |||
| 110 | Rahul Varma, Sohail Nijas | Thrissur | 11 | College | ||
| Engicos (Praduya Rane, Akash Kulkarni, Mayur Shet, Suraj Kamat) | Panjim | 11 | College (City Winner) | |||
| Dream Killers (Susan Das, Kaustav Das, Piyush Mishra, Subradeep) | Bhubaneswar | 11 | School | |||
| 113 | Caution: Explosive Brains (Muhammad Hashmi, Yashovardhan Shetty, Pranav Mihir Kandada) | Hyderabad | 10 | School | ||
| Lakshmy | Bangalore | 10 | Open | |||
| Bottom Line (Ananta, Mufaddal) | Bangalore | 10 | Open | |||
| 116 | Xquizite (Nilarghya, Ritabrata, Arunabha) | Kolkata | 9 | School (City Winner) | ||
| Team Stresswa | Guwahati | 9 | College | |||
| Cool Town Quizzers (Chandrasekhar) | Bangalore | 9 | Open | |||
| 119 | Kamal Kaustav | Guwahati | 8 | Open | ||
| Three and a Half Men (Lokesh, Ajai, Kanishk, Arvind) | Coimbatore | 8 | College | |||
| Siddharth, Karthik, Ankush, Benedict | Bangalore | 8 | Open | |||
| 122 | Wonder Wizards (Prateek Mishra, Sankalp Mohanty, Pattanaik) | Bhubaneswar | 7 | School | ||
| FAPS 8th Std (Mihir, George, John, Siddhant) | Bangalore | 7 | School | |||
| Blunders Pride (Deven, Soumya) | Bangalore | 7 | Open | |||
| 125 | Error 404 Team Not Found (Shubham, Siddharth, Hemang, Viplav) | Mumbai | 6 | School | ||
| 126 | Neharika, Kritika | Pune | 5 | Open | ||
| Google United (Ayush, Abhed, Sriram, Aditya) | Panjim | 5 | School | |||
| Spartans (Sai Krishnan, Ramanathan, Nishanth, Aneesh) | Coimbatore | 5 | Open | |||
| Team K (Siddharth Mishra, Rahul Dey, S. Dey) | Bhubaneswar | 5 | Open | |||
| Illuminati (Anirudh, Amogh, Atul P, Atul Simha) | Bangalore | 5 | Open | |||
Dubai scores:
1. Alok Mohan, Shafeek M K, Ramkey V – 56
2. Raunaq P, Jonathan, Zahid R, Sandeepan – 41
3. Anirudh S, Shreyas R, Shreyas S, Sahil G – 33
4. Srini K, Antara J, Ranjani J, Raghu, Ambarish – 21
5. Sherin, Amrutha, Aiswarya – 12
* Answer sheets from Guwahati have not been received so re-correction for them has not been done
** Standings have been updated and names added after receiving answer sheets from Mumbai
*** Dubai results added in separate section
**** Names of team members in Bhubaneswar added
