AsKQAnce 2018 – Schedule
AsKQAnce 2018, KQA’s annual quiz fest – the Woodstock of quizzing (it’s fun?), the Burj Khalifa of buildings (it’s big?), the Pacific of oceans (it’ll be peaceful?), the Silk Board of traffic jams (lots of people?), the Manoj Prabhakar of 90s all-rounders (er… what?), the Tesla Model 3 of heightened expectations (maybe not), the original iPhone launch event of #hype (please stop), the… uh, Thejaswi Udupa of Twitter (…) – is just one month away!
Here’s the final schedule:
Friday, June 29th
1030 AM: MahaMahaquizzer
A showdown between the Top 16 (well, #17 and #18 made it after some dropouts) of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Avinash Thirumalai, Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar.
230 PM: MegaWhats (semi finals and finals)
For the 16 qualifiers from MegaWhats 2018.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan.
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien
An open quiz on the Arts, for teams of 4.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3 PM: Son of Lumiere
An open quiz on Movies, for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz
An open quiz on History/Geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS
230 PM: Sesame
The Open general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
The venue for all three days is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road.
So book your tickets, make your plans, and just come off!
Open quizzes on Sunday, 27th May 2018
The KQA will be hosting three open quizzes on 27th May (Sunday) at the Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Head Office in Koramangala (Grape Garden address on Google maps):
10 AM: ComiKaze, the Comics quiz by Siddarth Pai and Debanjan Bose
A quiz on all things comic books, graphic novels, mangas, illustrated works… by whatever name it goes. It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
130 PM: The Himalayas Quiz by Ashwin Kumar
No need for alpenstocks, crampons and ice axes. Oxygen cylinders might be of help. It’s a general quiz on the Himalaya; questions won’t be restricted to geography and mountaineering. He has assured us that it will easier than climbing the mountain. It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
4 PM: The May Open by Rajagopal P.S. and Arun Ramanathan.
A general quiz for teams of four by two seasoned QMs – sure to be an enjoyable experience. It is a prelims/finals quiz. Open to all.
Location: https://goo.gl/tSp1GE
Please call +91 88841 25047 in case you have trouble finding the place
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Results of quizzes held on May 6th, 2018
Here are the results of today’s quizzes at KQA.
A. The Indian MELA Quiz by Hem Maradia and Siddhant Rao
I – Preetham Upadhya, Ayush Murthy – 42 points
II – Anustup Datta, Alagarsamy – 38 points
III – Debanjan Bose, Hari – 33 points
B. The Lone Wolf Quiz, by Navin Rajaram
I – Hrishikesh Varma – 216 points
II – Thejaswi Udupa – 178 points
III – Rajagopal PS – 166 points
Congratulations to all the winners!
