Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz on 31 May
The Xth Annual Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz will be held on Sunday 31 May 2015 at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram. The quiz is open to all. Interested participants may form teams of up to four members.
Schedule
Registrations: 1000 hrs onwards
Prelims: 1030 hrs–1130 hrs
Finals: 1200 hrs to 1400 hrs
Researched and hosted by
Sujata Sharma and Urmila Lakshmanan
Prizes for all finalists.
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Directions:
To reach the venue, you could either head up 15th Cross from Margosa/Sampige Roads till you reach CV Raman’s House/Chitrapur Math and turn left for 8th Main. Fourth or fifth gate on the right.
Or come to Malleswaram circle and take the first available left after you hit Margosa Road, get past Malleswaram Club/Grounds and head straight till you hit a T-Junction–which is 8th Main. Turn right here, and continue some way up, watching for 13th cross. CU is about five gates away, on the left.
asKQAnce 2015 – Schedule
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be celebrating its 32nd anniversary this year and is hosting asKQAnce – a three-day festival of quizzing from Friday to Sunday, June 26 to 28, 2015. All the quizzes will be held at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists on Queen’s Road. This is the schedule:
Friday, June 26
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 1 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 2 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Cannabis Indica – the India Quiz by Navin Rajaram and Hrishikesh Varma
Saturday, June 27
9:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Kibitz Simple – the Sports Quiz by Sohan Maheshwar, Manish Achuth and Alagarsamy AP
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM – MegaWhats National Finals by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
4:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Son Of Lumiere – the Films Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan and Anustup Datta
Sunday, June 28
10 AM to 1:30 PM – Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venky Srinivasan
2:30 PM to 6:30 PM – Sesame – the Open General Quiz by Mitesh Agarwal and Thejaswi Udupa (with breaks for hi-tea and prize distribution for Mahaquizzer/MegaWhats)
The time taken from IAT to the airport is about 75 minutes and the Cantonment railway station is only five minutes away. Please plan your return trip accordingly.
Look forward to seeing all of you at asKQAnce 2015.
Mega-Whats 2015 Results
A total of 129 teams from 16 centres in India and Dubai wrote Mega-Whats 2015. These are the toppers in each category:
Open: QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal) from Chennai – 86
College: The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay) from Delhi – 60
School: Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh) & Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya), both from Bangalore – 17
These are all the scores after re-correction, with city winners in each category indicated. As was done last year, the top 10 city winners and remaining 6 top scores qualify for the finals. In case any teams drop out, their spots will be filled by the remaining highest team overall. Tie-breaks were resolved by sudden death from the first question.
Our heartfelt thanks to all the city quiz associations and proctors who helped us hold Mega-Whats this year.
| No. | Teams | City | Score | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal) | Chennai | 86 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 2 | Insignificant Others (Sankhya, Sreeram, Vijay Sarathi, Ramanan) | Chennai | 79 | Open (Q) |
| 3 | We Are Like This Wonly (Bhargava, Movin, Anustup, Udupa) | Bangalore | 77 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 4 | Memory Bank (Anil, Ravi, Dr. Jayakumar, Mrs. Jayakumar) | Chennai | 71 | Open (Q) |
| 5 | Matunga Manram (Vinoo Sanjay, Balakrishnan S, Nikhil Sonde, Govind Grewal) | Mumbai | 71 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 6 | Latabai ki Kasam (Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Anil K.) | Mumbai | 70 | Open (Q) |
| 7 | Mitesh (solo) (Mitesh, Mitesh II, Mitesh III, I need no fourth) | Bangalore | 69 | Open (Q) |
| 8 | Swami and Friends (Alagar Samy, Krishnamurthi J, Lakshmi J, Mustafa Hashmi) | Hyderabad | 67 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 9 | Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, A. Guha, S. Guha) | Kolkata | 66 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 10 | Ingit Bergman (Ingit, Shubhankar G., Anannya Deb, Aniket Khasgiwale) | Mumbai | 65 | Open (Q) |
| 11 | CIDs From Kerala (Captain, VR, Buffalo, Jithin) | Bangalore | 64 | Open (Q) |
| 12 | Aardvarks (Avinash Mudaliar, Ramya M., Rahul Kottalgi, Arjo Ganguly) | Mumbai | 64 | Open |
| 13 | Rebels Without A Quiz | Chennai | 62 | Open |
| 14 | Krishnamurthi G, Ramkey V, Alok M and Shafeek | Dubai | 61 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 15 | The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay) | Delhi | 60 | Open/College - City Winner (Q) |
| 16 | Delhi Ke Thugs (Dr. Bhattacharya, Kunal Malhotra, P. Srikant, Shresth Shah) | Delhi | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Surreal and Fluoroscent (Salil Bijur, Aadisht Khanna, Ajay Parasuraman, Ashwath V) | Delhi | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Sober, High, Higher and Aiyer (Rohit Rao, Anand Aiyer, Siddarth Pai, Jayadev Bhaskaran) | Bangalore | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Mega WTF (Suraj Menon, Aditya Gadre, Srirang Raddi, Kunal S) | Pune | 59 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 20 | Concious Recoupling (Ajay Jaisinghani, Tanmay Prusty, Preyoshi Ganguly, Siddharth Sen) | Delhi | 58 | Open |
| 20 | ICNH (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Jaidev, Manu Sudhakar) | Thrissur | 58 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 22 | Petit Bourgeois (Sahitha, Roshith, Vijay) | Delhi | 56 | Open |
| 23 | SJC Quizzers (Arul Mani, Sachin, Nagaratna, Sripradha) | Bangalore | 55 | Open |
| 23 | Collected Works of Nexus Baggage (Keshava Guha, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan, Navin Rajaram) | Bangalore | 55 | Open |
| 25 | The Djinns in Jeans (Tothagata C, Vinod Krishnan, Abhinav K, Shreekanth Reddy) | Delhi | 52 | Open |
| 26 | Deviprasad, Balaji, Arun, Raju | Chennai | 51 | Open |
| 26 | Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh, Abhijit Banerjee, Bhaskar Datta, Anirudh Chari) | Kolkata | 51 | Open |
| 28 | Forecasting Couch (SRS, Logik, Anand, Keshav) | Bangalore | 50 | Open |
| 29 | Suvajit C., Prithwish, Karthik Ganesh, Shamika M. | Mumbai | 49 | Open |
| 30 | Raunaq, Jonathan, Sumer and Sandeepan | Dubai | 48 | Open |
| 31 | Idivettum Pemariyum (Nilima Rajdev, Justin T, Ashwin Sudhir, Niranjan Sudhir) | Trivandrum | 47 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 32 | Feni Vidi Vici Grouchy (Nitish Wagle, Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, Aniruddha Sengupta) | Panjim | 47 | Open - City Winner |
| 33 | Tirupur Tughlaqs (Yogeesh Pai, Surya, Indumathi, C.R. Naveen) | Coimbatore | 46 | Open - City Winner |
| 33 | 8.5 (Sachin, Varun, Adjitya, Manish) | Bangalore | 46 | Open |
| 35 | Megha Vats (Achyuth, Pranjal, Murty) | Delhi | 45 | Open |
| 36 | Matric Fail Inc (Bhrigu Talukdar, Akshay Seal, Pranami Tamuli, Amrit Pritam Chetia) | Guwahati | 44 | Open - City Winner |
| 37 | Vanar Sena (Sasidhar, Ritvik, Niyam, Keshav) | Bangalore | 43 | College - City Winner |
| 38 | The Zero Whats (Chirag, Chetan, Abhay, Rahul) | Bangalore | 42 | Open |
| 39 | Kasturiba Nagar Kasamusa | Chennai | 41 | Open |
| 39 | We Are From IIN | Chennai | 41 | College - City Winner |
| 41 | 4 Monks Without a Straw (Lathish, Debji, Rahul, Nishant) | Bangalore | 40 | Open |
| 41 | Bannerghatta Jammers (Abhilash, Debashish, Jayaprakash, Sreyashi) | Bangalore | 40 | Open |
| 41 | Soda Bottle Opener Wallahs (Prasanna, Jose, Shilpa, Priyambad) | Hyderabad | 40 | Open |
| 44 | Booze is the Cigaratte of Our Energy (Abhinav Dhar, Jyoti Prakash Panda, Saransh Mohapatra, Sheikh Wasim Sajjad) | Bhubaneswar | 39 | Open - City Winner |
| 45 | Nishant, Maitrey, Karthik | Bangalore | 38 | Open |
| 45 | Trivially Challenged (Arko Ganguli, Mayank Majumdar, Shayak Chakraborty, Somashish Ghosh) | Kolkata | 38 | Open |
| 47 | Abhijeet, Rithwik, Rushabh, Sreeram | Thrissur | 37 | Open |
| 48 | Abijit, Abid, Kunal, Siddhanth | Chennai | 36 | College |
| 49 | Deplorable (Pankaj Pukhan, Deepak Padmkumar, Garima Paul, Udita Gaurav) | Delhi | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Beer View Mirror (Vijay, Avijeet, Harsimran, Shiva) | Bangalore | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Sex and the Old City (Mithilesh.G, Vishal.B, Bharadwaj P., Shreyas.D) | Hyderabad | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Atul, Abhishikth, Vamsi, Krishan | Hyderabad | 35 | Open |
| 53 | Undecided (Shyama, Ananya, Allan, Supreeth) | Bangalore | 33 | Open |
| 54 | Sana, Vinod, Varun, Ramesh | Chennai | 32 | Open |
| 54 | Srisha, Vishnu | Bangalore | 32 | Open |
| 56 | Some Real Devotees of Kinetic Energies (Debashish, Sarbajit, Devarshi, SRD) | Kolkata | 31 | Open |
| 57 | Will Manikam Make It (Katik M, Atishay S, Aditya, Vashistha) | Delhi | 30 | Open |
| 57 | Keshy Venks is Mass | Chennai | 30 | Open |
| 57 | NLSIU (Parth, Jeydev, Abhishek, Osho) | Bangalore | 30 | College |
| 57 | Why So Studious? (Pranav, Nanjundeshwara, Hans George, Moshir Harsh) | Bangalore | 30 | College |
| 61 | Balwant Rai ke Kutte (Shalim, Kapinjal, Jitaditya) | Delhi | 29 | Open |
| 61 | Two Night Stand (Sameer Dharur, Murtuza Hashmi, Lokesh Kaza, Sukruth Koundinya) | Hyderabad | 29 | College - City Winner |
| 61 | Gokul, Arnold, Khagendra | Pune | 29 | Open |
| 64 | Girish, Sulagna, Utkarsh | Bangalore | 28 | Open |
| 64 | Old Monks (Dr. Nirmal Joy, Dr. Alby John, Er. Jose Thomas, Er. Munidarshan) | Trivandrum | 28 | Open |
| 64 | Nakul H., Subin Gafoor, Vishnu.S. Kumar | Thrissur | 28 | College - City Winner |
| 67 | Abhishek Veeraraghavan, Rama Subramanian and Rahul Khatri | Mysore | 27 | Open/College - City Winner |
| 67 | Devang Ghia, Sumeet Pai, Suresh Rao | Mumbai | 27 | Open |
| 67 | Maximus Minimus (Amrit Sharma, Nayan Medhi, Jyotishsman Gogoi, Souvik Bhattacharjee) | Guwahati | 27 | Open. |
| 67 | Eleventh Hour (Satwik Raut, Sampad Pattanaik, Baibaswata) | Bhubaneswar | 27 | Open |
| 71 | Vivin K, Shreyas and Shreyas | Dubai | 26 | Open |
| 71 | Totally Blank | Chennai | 26 | Open |
| 73 | Adda Quiz (Subhasish Dutta, Anubhav Joshi, Abhishek Patiri, Ashutosh Das) | Tezpur | 25 | Open/College - City Winner |
| 73 | Sheyal Pandits (Shinjon Chatterjee, Dipanjan Pal, Debtanu Sen, Arnab Auddy) | Kolkata | 25 | College - City Winner |
| 75 | Murali, Rajesh Sharma, Rajesh Panicker and Pulin | Dubai | 24 | Open |
| 76 | Shantanu G, Sampuran, Kartik | Pune | 23 | College - City Winner |
| 77 | Mega-Whatevers (Srijit Kumar, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Vishwanath Rajan, Ajey Patil) | Panjim | 22 | Open |
| 77 | X Factor From Barak Valley (Dipankar Sharma, Aveek Baruah, Amitabh Sharma) | Guwahati | 22 | College - City Winner |
| 79 | Ittiam (Venkatramana, Umang, Deepshika) | Bangalore | 21 | Open |
| 79 | Whatever!! (Adhithyan, Tharunya, Jyothishraj) | Bangalore | 21 | College |
| 81 | Wein Chun (Santhosh, Ashwin, Annirudh, Vishnu) | Coimbatore | 20 | College - City Winner |
| 81 | Baba Black Sheep (Sachin B) | Delhi | 20 | Open |
| 81 | Team 9 From Outer Space (Ravi, Lochan, Rahul, Itishree) | Bangalore | 20 | Open |
| 81 | 4 Chan Loka (Aditya, Deven, Omkar, Kaustubh) | Pune | 20 | Open |
| 81 | The M.A.S.K. (Midhun S, Ashish John, Sudev N.M., Ibrahim Khaleel) | Thrissur | 20 | College |
| 86 | Praneet, Ausmita | Chennai | 19 | Open |
| 87 | Aldona Apples (Kanchan Gatward, Kv Gouthami, Beverly Mendonca, Viola Rodrigues) | Panjim | 18 | Open |
| 87 | Subzero (N.Shravya, S. Kaustubh, Tushant, V.Rahul) | Hyderabad | 18 | College |
| 87 | Cowboys from Chennai (Kaushik T G, Goutham S.) | Mumbai | 18 | Open |
| 90 | Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh) | Bangalore | 17 | School - City Winner |
| 90 | Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya) | Bangalore | 17 | School - City Winner |
| 90 | Kaatu Freakz (Roshan Zain, Arun S, Aravind M J, Athul Ajay) | Trivandrum | 17 | College - City Winner |
| 90 | Ashwini’s Boys (Paul Gatward, Ashwini Patil, Anant Prabhu, Linus) | Panjim | 17 | Open |
| 90 | Mega Pots (Sahil, Alok, Saswat, Prateik) | Pune | 17 | Open |
| 95 | MYZORNIS (Sandipan Goswami, Amlan Phukan, Padmanav Barua, Saurav Das) | Guwahati | 16 | College. |
| 95 | Micro-Whats (Toyad Pattanaik, Prateek Mishra, Soumya R. Mohanty, Adarsh K. Mohapatra) | Bhubaneswar | 16 | School - City Winner |
| 97 | We Have To Give Now Only? (Tanay Ravi, Aabharan H) | Bangalore | 15 | School |
| 97 | 12/3 Berley Burlians (Deepayan, Abhijit, Archit, Sanket Tripathy) | Bhubaneswar | 15 | College - City Winner |
| 97 | ACubed+D (Anoop Joby, Aravind Anil, Denita Mendez, Abdul Vahid P.A.) | Thrissur | 15 | College |
| 100 | Vetla Vettiya Irukom (Harikrishna, Sathya Narayanan, Aravind, Surya Narayanan P | Coimbatore | 14 | College |
| 100 | The Piggs Bosons (Atharva, Chaitanya, Kaivalya Karkare, Ashwin Mascarenhas) | Panjim | 14 | School - City Winner |
| 100 | Docsons (Binu Raju George, Serin, Unnikrishnan Menon) | Thrissur | 14 | Open |
| 103 | M Karthikeyan, Prasath PR, Poorani, Gayatri | Coimbatore | 13 | College |
| 103 | Ninety-Four (Ajith John Joshua, Saloni, Manish Agarwal) | Delhi | 13 | Open |
| 103 | Invictus (Shashank, Rutvik) | Bangalore | 13 | School |
| 103 | Bribed the Quiz Master (Animesh Swain, Soham Panda, Anurag Bhol, Mukti Pradhan) | Bhubaneswar | 13 | Open |
| 103 | The Infernos (Aaditya R, Aman) | Thrissur | 13 | College |
| 108 | Ooh La La Malala | Chennai | 12 | School - City Winner |
| 108 | Amateur Mature (Sushant, Anish, Abhishek) | Bangalore | 12 | Open |
| 108 | Bajaunga Again (Akshat, Pranav, Surya, Anshuman) | Bhubaneswar | 12 | School |
| 111 | Quizards (Anand S Pillay, Akshay B Vinayak, Zaman S Khan, Vishakh Valiathan | Trivandrum | 11 | College |
| 111 | Rambo (Sridhar) | Trivandrum | 11 | Open |
| 111 | Titans (Deepak Nandakumar, Ashlyn Tom, Kishor S, Akhil O. Asok) | Thrissur | 11 | College |
| 114 | Qzer's (Surat S, Nithyaselvan R, Dhilip R, Vivek Kannai K) | Coimbatore | 10 | College |
| 114 | Jal Jazeera (Sujit J Patil, Ashish Negi) | Delhi | 10 | College |
| 114 | Two and Two More Men (Hassan, Amaresh Sarangi, K. Abhisek, N.S. Swarup) | Bhubaneswar | 10 | College |
| 114 | Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Nishant, Prajwal) | Pune | 10 | Open |
| 118 | Whiskypedia | Chennai | 9 | College |
| 118 | Abhijit S Gupta, Sridhar Sashank, Tejas Joshi | Bangalore | 9 | College |
| 118 | The Quizaders of Arul Mani - Land (Saishyam, Arjun, Rahul, Malavika) | Bangalore | 9 | School |
| 118 | Sai Karthik, Siddharth, Keshava, Sunil Kumar | Hyderabad | 9 | Open |
| 118 | Vertigo (Jishnu, Maya, Vishnu, Kannan A.) | Thrissur | 9 | College |
| 123 | The Invincibles | Chennai | 8 | Open |
| 123 | Yolo, Who Go Solo! (Karthik, Jibran, Siddarth) | Bangalore | 8 | College |
| 123 | Erudite Challenge (Spandan Dash, Anwesh Das, Ronisha Das) | Bhubaneswar | 8 | School |
| 126 | Tezpur | 7 | College | |
| 127 | Spartans (Kishore, Akash, Vishnu, Aravind) | Coimbatore | 3 | Open |
| 128 | Vidhya Niketan Public School (Ashwath Sibi, Naresh K, Sivnarayan) | Coimbatore | 2 | School - City Winner |
| 129 | Youngster (Antony A. Jaison & co) | Thrissur | 1 | School - City Winner |
Open Quizzes on Sunday, 10 May 2015
We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at the office of Ujjivan Financial Services, Koramangala.
Sense a Femur
The Annual KQA Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
Written for Teams of two
Regn. Fee Rs 100/team
Starts at 9:45 AM (please be on time, since we have a tight schedule!)
May Open Quiz
QMs: Siddarth Pai, Rohit Rao and Jayadev Bhaskaran
Teams of four or less
Prelims followed by finals
Regn. Fee Rs 100/team
Prelims starts at 1130 AM
Soliloquiz
What? A solo quiz. Questions appear on screen, you write the answers down on a piece of paper.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Kiran Vijayakumar, Priyambad Pattanayak, Navin Rajaram, G. Krishnamurthi, J. Krishnamurthi, Jayashree Mohanka, Balakrishnan Satyam and Annie Sengupta.
60 questions, 120 minutes. Expect short/not-so-long questions with quite a few visuals.
Starts at 3 PM sharp; the Bengaluru leg will be proctored by Thejaswi Udupa and Navin Rajaram. Please note that it’s a coordinated start time across the country.
