MegaWhats Semi-final lineups @ AsKQAnce 2024
This is the semi-final lineup for the MegaWhats semifinals:
SF1:
| 1 | QED | Chennai |
| 2 | United Separatists | Mumbai |
| 3 | Zero Gravitas | Bengaluru |
| 4 | Quizzaholics Anonymous | Chennai |
| 5 | Sainted & Dented | Mumbai |
| 6 | Laapataa Ladies | Delhi |
| 7 | Congrats All | Bengaluru |
| 8 | Triple S with a B | Hyderabad |
SF2:
| 1 | Aardvarks | Delhi |
| 2 | CIDs From Kerala | Bengaluru |
| 3 | So Far So Good So Megawhats | Bengaluru |
| 4 | Insignificant Others | Chennai |
| 5 | Hammer & Tongs | Kolkata |
| 6 | Zulfiqar-e-Fidel | Pune |
| 7 | Peter Panchali | Bengaluru |
| 8 | KSI | Coimbatore |
RESULTS & RANKINGS – MindSweep 2024
UPDATED 9 JUNE: Bhubaneswar scores have now been added. Our apologies. Certain individuals in our team have been struggling with the concept of MS Excel.
We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep 2024. Apologies for the small delay: a couple of centres took their own sweet time in sending in the scores, and the person responsible for posting the results online may or may not have forgotten about it.
Now, to weightier matters: Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the reigning MahaQuizzer, tops MindSweep with 103 . JK was also part of the team that topped the MegaWhats — lending credence to the theory that he may just be good at this sort of thing — our congratulations to him.
Rajiv Rai of Mumbai finished a close second, with 101. Prithwish Datta, also of Mumbai, was next with 99.
Unfortunately, the proctor in Singapore forgot to note down the section-wise scores. The total scores are presented below.
Piyush Kedia topped the College category with 71 points. Aninthitha Nath of Mumbai topped the Women’s category with 40 points. The category toppers are as follows:
Arts: Rajiv Rai, Mumbai, 18
Movies & TV: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16
Food & Beverages: Santosh JS, Bengaluru, 15
Literature: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16
Music: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 13
The Sciences: Jayakanthan R & Dinesh Krithivasan, both from Chennai, 17
The Social Sciences: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 18
Sports: Sachin Deshpande, Bengaluru, 14
Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2025!
| # | Name | Centre | Total | Arts | Movies & TV | Food & Beverages | Literature | Music | The Sciences | The Social Sciences | Sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayakanthan R | Chennai | 103 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 5 |
| 2 | Rajiv Rai | Mumbai | 101 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 10 |
| 3 | Prithwish Datta | Mumbai | 99 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| 4 | Calvin | Delhi | 94 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 10 |
| 5 | Sachin Deshpande | Bengaluru | 81 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 14 |
| 6 | Krishnamurthy Viswanathan | Bay Area | 81 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| 7 | Thejaswi Udupa | Bengaluru | 80 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 8 |
| 8 | Dinesh Krithivasan | Chennai | 80 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 |
| 9 | Abhinav Dasgupta | Mumbai | 80 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | Praveen VR | Bengaluru | 79 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | Santosh JS | Bengaluru | 78 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| 13 | Anush Iyer | Chennai | 77 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 7 |
| 14 | Govind Grewal | Mumbai | 77 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
| 16 | Jaidev Karunakaran | Bengaluru | 76 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 9 |
| 17 | Nikhil Sonde | Mumbai | 76 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 9 |
| 18 | Anustup Datta | Bengaluru | 75 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 |
| 19 | Swaminathan G | Chennai | 75 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| 20 | Aswath Venkataraman | Bengaluru | 73 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 10 |
| 21 | Somashish Ghosh | Delhi | 71 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 |
| 22 | Piyush Kedia | Delhi | 71 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 8 |
| 23 | Gokul S | Delhi | 70 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| 24 | Annie Sen Gupta | Goa | 43 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| 25 | Aadisht | Delhi | 63 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 26 | Rohit S | Bengaluru | 59 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 |
| 27 | Baibaswata Jena | Bhubaneswar | 59 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| 28 | Sanat Pai Raikar | Bengaluru | 58 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 |
| 29 | Alok Prasanna Kumar | Bengaluru | 58 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 |
| 30 | Rajiv D'silva | Goa | 41 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
| 31 | SANDIPAN GOSWAMI | Dhemaji | 57 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| 32 | Akshat Jain | Bay Area | 57 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| 33 | Harish Alagappa | Hyderabad | 56 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 11 |
| 34 | Anand Sivashankar | Chennai | 55 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| 35 | Abhinav Dhar | Delhi | 54 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 6 |
| 36 | Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra | Bhubaneswar | 54 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| 37 | Anannya Deb | Mumbai | 51 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 11 |
| 38 | Vinod Krishnan | Mumbai | 51 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| 39 | Balagopal Menon | Thrissur | 51 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| 40 | Mukilan Ayyapparaj | Coimbatore | 49 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 41 | Subhadeep Sarkar | Bengaluru | 48 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 42 | Rushi Anandan | Mumbai | 47 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 4 |
| 43 | Hussain Ahmed | Hyderabad | 46 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 |
| 44 | Syed Shakeel Imdad | Hyderabad | 45 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 45 | Samrat Sengupta | Pune | 45 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 46 | Sreenath | Bengaluru | 43 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 4 |
| 47 | Saarthak Chhabra | Delhi | 43 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 48 | Abhilash | Bengaluru | 42 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| 49 | Vilas Pavithran | Goa | 26 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 |
| 50 | Rajat Gururaj | Bengaluru | 41 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 2 |
| 51 | Siddharth Mishra | Coimbatore | 41 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| 52 | Dr. V. Sri Nagesh | Hyderabad | 41 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 53 | Sujay | Bengaluru | 40 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 54 | Aninthitha Nath | Mumbai | 40 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| 55 | Abhishek Hariharan | Mumbai | 40 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
| 56 | Sayan Mazumdar | Guwahati | 39 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
| 57 | Gokul Panigrahi | Mumbai | 39 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 58 | Appu S | Bengaluru | 38 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 59 | Dhananjay | Chennai | 38 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| 60 | Sriram Madhavan | Chennai | 37 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 61 | Shshank Tyagi | Guwahati | 37 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 62 | Pulkit Malhotra | Mumbai | 37 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 63 | Debjit Tripathy | Delhi | 37 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 64 | Kaushik Chatterjee | Delhi | 36 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| 65 | Abhay Kulkarni | Bengaluru | 35 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| 66 | Ankita Shandilya | Delhi | 35 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| 67 | Samir Gupta | Pune | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 68 | CR Naveen | Coimbatore | 34 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 69 | Anurakshat Gupta | Pune | 34 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| 70 | Sumeer Kumar | Bengaluru | 33 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| 71 | Nandana Sony | Delhi | 33 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 72 | Jitaditya Narzary | Guwahati | 32 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 73 | Rama Subramanian | Hyderabad | 32 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| 74 | Francis Rodrigues | Mumbai | 32 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
| 75 | Uday Tej Singh | Pune | 32 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
| 76 | VARUN MURTHY | Ahmedabad | 31 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 77 | Sahil Ramchandani | Bengaluru | 31 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 78 | Shubham | Bengaluru | 31 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 79 | Rahul Jadhav | Bengaluru | 31 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
| 80 | Kaushik Saha | Delhi | 31 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
| 81 | R Samyak | Bengaluru | 30 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 82 | Kapinjal Kishore Sharma | Guwahati | 30 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 83 | Jyotishko Ghosh | Bengaluru | 29 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 84 | Srijit Kumar | Goa | 15 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 85 | sanat naval | Ahmedabad | 28 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 86 | Prabhat B | Chennai | 28 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| 87 | Praveen Jayaraj | Coimbatore | 28 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 88 | Roshan | Coimbatore | 28 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 89 | Priyanuj Parashar | Guwahati | 28 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 90 | Adarsh B | Delhi | 28 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| 91 | Vaibhav Ayer | Delhi | 28 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 92 | Nikhil Jha | Delhi | 28 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 93 | Anoushka | Delhi | 28 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 94 | Raj | Pune | 28 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| 95 | Venky Srinivasan | Bengaluru | 27 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | ||||
| 96 | Chinmay Naik | Goa | 27 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 97 | Viola Rodrigues | Goa | 27 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 98 | Ganesha Durbha | Bay Area | 27 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| 99 | sanveer | Ahmedabad | 26 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 100 | Varun Parthasarathy | Chennai | 26 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| 101 | M P Shreesh Bhat | Goa | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 102 | Akhil Siddhartha | Delhi | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 2 |
| 103 | Ramish Abdali | Delhi | 26 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 104 | Ruchira Porob | Goa | 25 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| 105 | Mayur Shett | Goa | 14 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 106 | Sujit Ray | Delhi | 25 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 107 | Rithwik Rao H | Bengaluru | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 108 | Abhijeet Shyam | Chennai | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 109 | Paul Gatward | Goa | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 110 | Navneet Sharma | Delhi | 23 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 111 | Shubham Jha | Pune | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 112 | Suresh Ramasubramanian | Chennai | 22 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ||||
| 113 | Aastha Dua | Goa | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 114 | Akshay Shreyas | Delhi | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 115 | Vembu Shankar | Chennai | 21 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 116 | Shujoy Dutta | Delhi | 21 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 117 | Prisha Joshi | Pune | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 118 | Malhar Mazumdar | Delhi | 19 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 119 | Harshit Agarwal | Delhi | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 120 | Kartik Gulia | Delhi | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 121 | Shantanu Kartha | Thrissur | 19 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 122 | Karthik Desikan | Bengaluru | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 123 | Krishna | Chennai | 18 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| 124 | Amit Agarwal | Pune | 18 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 125 | Divyanshu Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 18 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 126 | Sankalp Chowdhury | Mumbai | 17 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 127 | Faris Abdul Nassar | Thrissur | 17 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 128 | Mukti Swaroop Pradhan | Bhubaneswar | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 129 | Nitish Wagle | Goa | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 130 | Revanth T | Hyderabad | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 131 | Vaibhav Bajpai | Pune | 16 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 132 | Harshad | Bengaluru | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 133 | Raman S | Coimbatore | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 134 | Abinash Bharati | Pune | 15 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 135 | Krishna Aditya Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 136 | Debabrata Malik | Bengaluru | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 137 | Bunny Furtado | Goa | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 138 | Pritam Ghosh | Pune | 14 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 139 | Niyati Jois | Bengaluru | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 140 | Neev Raj Singh | Bengaluru | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 141 | Siddhartha Mahajan | Delhi | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 142 | Bhishama Pradhan | Pune | 13 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 143 | Mahadev Menon | Pune | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 144 | Naman Chaturvedi | Pune | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 145 | Swagat Subhakanta Das | Bengaluru | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 146 | Hriday Shah | Bengaluru | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 147 | Tejas S | Bengaluru | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 148 | Sharat Chandar | Coimbatore | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 149 | Satish Mudaliar | Bengaluru | 11 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 150 | Vidyadhar Gadgil | Goa | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 151 | Pragyajeet Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 152 | Abhijvala Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 153 | Razdan | Guwahati | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 154 | Dr. Nishad K | Delhi | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 155 | Avinash Kadam | Pune | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 156 | Kaushik Raam | Bay Area | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 157 | Barnil Sarma | Guwahati | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 158 | Prashant Sinha | Delhi | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 159 | Man Agochar Singh | Pune | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 160 | Venkateshwaran | Pune | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 161 | ARYAKALPA BHATTACHARYA | Dhemaji | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 162 | Ripunjeet barman | Guwahati | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 163 | Saswat Samal | Bhubaneswar | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 164 | Srinidhi AV | Bengaluru | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 165 | Kushagra Bindal | Delhi | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 166 | Smarth Nagpal | Pune | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 167 | Abhijeet Kumar | Pune | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 168 | Rabmit Das | Bhubaneswar | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 169 | Neerav Raj Singh | Bengaluru | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 170 | Amol Sakhalkar | Goa | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 171 | Ashutosh | Pune | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 172 | Dev Singh | Pune | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 173 | JITUL KONCH | Dhemaji | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 174 | Arya RN | Bengaluru | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 175 | Mukilan M | Chennai | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 176 | Srivatsan | Coimbatore | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 177 | Srinjoy Choudhury | Guwahati | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 178 | DEBAAKANTA BORAH | Dhemaji | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 179 | Ambarish Kulkarni | Mumbai | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 180 | Kabilesh Nataraj | Coimbatore | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 181 | Prerit | Pune | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 182 | Ram Mohan V | Hyderabad | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 183 | Shubhankar Mani Tripathi | Delhi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 184 | Tapan Kumar Bhuyan | Bhubaneswar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
KQA’S QUIZ FESTIVAL ASKQANCE 2024 ON JUNE 28-30
With little under two months remaining for KQA’s 3-day quizzing extravaganza AsKQAnce, here’s the schedule in full detail!
Friday (28th June)
10 AM to 1 PM: Mahamahaquizzer The national final for the top 16 qualifiers from KQA’s inter-city written quiz, Mahaquizzer. Come watch the best minds duke it out etc etc.
QMs: Navin Rajaram, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, Venkatraman Ravindra
2 PM onwards: MegaWhats National Final: The 16 qualifiers from cities across India converge for the national final of MegaWhats, the KQA’s inter-city team written quiz (duke, best minds etc.).
2 PM to 330 PM: Semifinal 1
345 PM to 515 PM: Semifinal 2
530 PM to 730 PM: Final
QMs: Krittika Adhikary, Manish Achuth, Rashmi Vallabhajosyula, Thejaswi Udupa
8-830ish PM: 4 Edge Pub Quiz A pub quiz in association with Bangalore pub quizzing royalty 4 Edge Quizzing! A fun pub quiz that’s open to all, venue and details TBD. Note: This quiz is still ironing out venue gremlins; exact time and location will be notified closer to the date.
QM: 4 Edge Quizzing
Saturday (29th June)
930 AM to 1 PM: Parts Unknown — the Travel and Living quiz. What is travel and living, you ask? A journey or destination or anything there is travel, anything that happens during a journey or at a destination is living.
QMs: Jaidev K, Jayaprakash, Nikhita Thomas
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
2 PM to 330 PM: As Seen on TV Quiz, a quiz on um, things seen on TV. So that’s not just TV shows but also live events, news, even the static. Anything that our QMs deem fit to tenuously connect to the topic at hand.
QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan
A written open quiz for teams of up to two.
345 PM to 715 PM: Bizkashi – the Business Quiz Once again we attempt to bridge the gap between business quizzing and quizzing for pleasure with a quiz that will be accessible to all but flavoured by the world of business. That is, we’re disrupting business quizzes. Seeing as this is late-stage capitalism’s world and we merely live in it, a quiz on business is a quiz on life itself.
QMs: After a corporate boardroom coup that has resulted in exiling their co-QMs to Mumbai, Rohit Suresh and Venky Srinivasan take sole control
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Sunday (30th June)
930 AM to 1 PM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial quiz on topics near and dear to his quizzing heart: history, geography and the social sciences.
QMs: Debashree Mitra, Keshav Athreya, Maitrey Deshpande
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
2 PM to 7 PM: Sesame — the Open General Quiz Our flagship general quiz is back in a new avatar… that’s the same well-received avatar as last year.
Sesame will have a tiered format with a prelim, a play-in semi final, and a nine-team final incorporating the top 6 from the prelim and top 3 from the semi-final.
QMs: Abid Abdulla, Mollika Maiti, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande, Sripradha S
A prelims/semi/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.
Registration for each quiz is Rs. 200/team — 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.
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