AsKQAnce – Winter of this Content 2023
With less than a month remaining for KQA’s special 40th anniversary “all the nice topics” quizzing extravaganza The Winter of This Content, here’s the schedule in full detail!
Saturday (16th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien — the Arts Quiz
As the name suggests, art does not stop at paintings or with the Renaissance. A quiz about all walks of art, from still life with fruit to bananas taped to walls!
QMs: Anush Iyer, Mahendra Balu, Nikhita Thomas
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
145 PM: The Extremely Online offline quiz
Whether you know the phrase “extremely online” or are thinking “huh this is some gen Z yooth play”, this is a quiz for you — for every MostlySane posting content, there is a pre-millennial struggling with caps lock on Twitter/X. From T-Series subscription numbers to T-4826 (and counting; IYKYK), if it’s online, it’s fair game.
QMs: Abid Abdulla, Nagaratna Patil
A written open quiz for teams of up to two.
330 PM – 830 PM: SoL — the Movie Quiz
Son. Of. Lumiere. Is. Back. The venerable movie quiz rides again! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… it’s all here.
QMs: Anustup, Sripradha, Varun
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Sunday (17th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Persiflage — the Books Quiz
Another long-standing favourite, the books quiz is back and off the chain with low/high brow and everything in between, from Murdoch to BookTok and beyond!
QMs: Mollika, Sreyashi, Urmila
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
2 PM – 7 PM: Sesame Mucho — the Music Quiz
Another banger is back and promises to be an all-killer, no-filler music quiz!
QMs: Anuradha, Santosh, Udupa
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Venue: The Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queen’s Road (https://goo.gl/maps/YndqYDAGH1giNi3U6)
There will be prizes for all the finalists and slightly better prizes for 1-2-3. Book coupons galore, so keep your suitcase empty if you fancy your chances.
Every quiz is open to all!
Registration for the written quiz is Rs. 200/team and each prelim/finals quiz is Rs. 300/team (waived for school and college teams) — only on-the-spot registrations, so just turn up on the day!
Hope to see you (yes, you) there, and please spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Discord, Hood (is anyone on Hood?)… even send this along with a “GM 🙏🏼” to your quiz and non-quiz WhatsApp groups.
MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2023
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on 10 December 2023 (Sunday).
MahaQuizzer will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. Mahaquizzer will be set by a team comprised of Debashree Mitra, Sachin Deshpande, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman R.
MahaQuizzer is open to individual entrants, irrespective of age or other affiliations. The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2023. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2024.
AsiaSweep will consist of around 75 questions, to be read off a ppt. A projector will be required to hold the quiz. The quiz is being set by Dibyendu Das, Urmila Lakshmanan, Dr Arul Mani, and Nagaratna Patil.
AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck.
We look forward to your cooperation in conducting another successful edition of these quizzes. We will require a proctor at each centre to conduct the quizzes. Please nominate one/two person(s) for this responsibility. We will send the question paper to the proctor(s) a few days before the quiz. The proctor will need to take copies of the question paper as per the number of participants in each centre. Kindly announce news of the quiz in your respective quiz groups as soon as possible.
Mahaquizzer will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM. AsiaSweep will start at 3 pm.
Prior registration is essential. Go here to register for Mahaquizzer, and here for AsiaSweep. If you would like to host either event in your city, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
