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!

#NameCentreTotalArtsMovies & TVFood & BeveragesLiteratureMusicThe SciencesThe Social SciencesSports
1Jayakanthan RChennai103141410121317185
2Rajiv RaiMumbai101181381111161410
3Prithwish DattaMumbai9915167168141112
4CalvinDelhi941710899161510
5Sachin DeshpandeBengaluru81118985121414
6Krishnamurthy ViswanathanBay Area811110710618118
7Thejaswi UdupaBengaluru80138117716108
8Dinesh KrithivasanChennai8015569517167
9Abhinav DasguptaMumbai801413610414127
10Praveen VRBengaluru791015591013116
11Santosh JSBengaluru78121015512996
13Anush IyerChennai7713108791497
14Govind GrewalMumbai771410310119119
16Jaidev KarunakaranBengaluru7616871058139
17Nikhil SondeMumbai7612996812119
18Anustup DattaBengaluru75111089316108
19Swaminathan GChennai7513499714118
20Aswath VenkataramanBengaluru73113886131410
21Somashish GhoshDelhi7111667515138
22Piyush KediaDelhi7113113679148
23Gokul SDelhi7016884510118
24Annie Sen GuptaGoa43107698998
25AadishtDelhi6397111266102
26Rohit SBengaluru591157441189
27Baibaswata JenaBhubaneswar598107736810
28Sanat Pai RaikarBengaluru5866410410117
29Alok Prasanna KumarBengaluru589755311126
30Rajiv D'silvaGoa411258574116
31SANDIPAN GOSWAMIDhemaji578114711673
32Akshat JainBay Area571083668106
33Harish AlagappaHyderabad5665147101211
34Anand SivashankarChennai5566778984
35Abhinav DharDelhi5498654796
36Adarsh Kumar MohapatraBhubaneswar54859631175
37Anannya DebMumbai5110304641311
38Vinod KrishnanMumbai5175764688
39Balagopal MenonThrissur517102101993
40Mukilan AyyapparajCoimbatore49139542565
41Subhadeep SarkarBengaluru48108463566
42Rushi AnandanMumbai4776355894
43Hussain AhmedHyderabad46654421285
44Syed Shakeel ImdadHyderabad4576685355
45Samrat SenguptaPune4559173398
46SreenathBengaluru43344556124
47Saarthak ChhabraDelhi4374555566
48AbhilashBengaluru42493243107
49Vilas PavithranGoa2684462387
50Rajat GururajBengaluru41623601482
51Siddharth MishraCoimbatore4174355674
52Dr. V. Sri NageshHyderabad4194661492
53SujayBengaluru4065862562
54Aninthitha NathMumbai4076446265
55Abhishek HariharanMumbai4063464494
56Sayan MazumdarGuwahati39853321044
57Gokul PanigrahiMumbai39722655102
58Appu SBengaluru3856352665
59DhananjayChennai3846432775
60Sriram MadhavanChennai3757442465
61Shshank TyagiGuwahati37534425104
62Pulkit MalhotraMumbai37510164524
63Debjit TripathyDelhi3754175582
64Kaushik ChatterjeeDelhi3649264173
65Abhay KulkarniBengaluru3544462564
66Ankita ShandilyaDelhi3555346552
67Samir GuptaPune3544345366
68CR NaveenCoimbatore3456534362
69Anurakshat GuptaPune3454261295
70Sumeer KumarBengaluru3333260694
71Nandana SonyDelhi3367384320
72Jitaditya NarzaryGuwahati3249231157
73Rama SubramanianHyderabad3295111645
74Francis RodriguesMumbai32324041072
75Uday Tej SinghPune3241250956
76VARUN MURTHYAhmedabad3154451075
77Sahil RamchandaniBengaluru3165072542
78ShubhamBengaluru31542413102
79Rahul JadhavBengaluru3191310296
80Kaushik SahaDelhi31510111085
81R SamyakBengaluru30433015104
82Kapinjal Kishore SharmaGuwahati3065263350
83Jyotishko GhoshBengaluru2933261464
84Srijit KumarGoa1558126052
85sanat navalAhmedabad2841723371
86Prabhat BChennai2853423614
87Praveen JayarajCoimbatore2897223212
88RoshanCoimbatore2896310036
89Priyanuj ParasharGuwahati2843022458
90Adarsh BDelhi28544120102
91Vaibhav AyerDelhi2816133329
92Nikhil JhaDelhi2818034255
93AnoushkaDelhi2885054141
94RajPune2821344842
95Venky SrinivasanBengaluru273897
96Chinmay NaikGoa2762320770
97Viola RodriguesGoa2744343342
98Ganesha DurbhaBay Area2733122475
99sanveerAhmedabad2622423247
100Varun ParthasarathyChennai2611510288
101M P Shreesh BhatGoa1915153344
102Akhil SiddharthaDelhi26111308102
103Ramish AbdaliDelhi2634421165
104Ruchira PorobGoa2553230282
105Mayur ShettGoa1416432333
106Sujit RayDelhi2565312143
107Rithwik Rao HBengaluru2332034254
108Abhijeet ShyamChennai2308021156
109Paul GatwardGoa1450421254
110Navneet SharmaDelhi2314331362
111Shubham JhaPune2331240751
112Suresh RamasubramanianChennai225476
113Aastha DuaGoa2224253042
114Akshay ShreyasDelhi2222144522
115Vembu ShankarChennai2121422145
116Shujoy DuttaDelhi215844----
117Prisha JoshiPune2112332442
118Malhar MazumdarDelhi1943300342
119Harshit AgarwalDelhi1915132124
120Kartik GuliaDelhi1942050620
121Shantanu KarthaThrissur1912421234
122Karthik DesikanBengaluru1811232144
123KrishnaChennai185274
124Amit AgarwalPune1835030025
125Divyanshu MohantyBhubaneswar1813211163
126Sankalp ChowdhuryMumbai1714320421
127Faris Abdul NassarThrissur1732231321
128Mukti Swaroop PradhanBhubaneswar1744110142
129Nitish WagleGoa16000013102
130Revanth THyderabad1642210223
131Vaibhav BajpaiPune1607110043
132HarshadBengaluru1532130222
133Raman SCoimbatore1502100255
134Abinash BharatiPune1502420241
135Krishna Aditya MohantyBhubaneswar1562010132
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138Pritam GhoshPune1402332130
139Niyati JoisBengaluru1331121122
140Neev Raj SinghBengaluru1301102162
141Siddhartha MahajanDelhi1312110125
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148Sharat ChandarCoimbatore1202100333
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170Amol SakhalkarGoa501011021
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182Ram Mohan VHyderabad220000000
183Shubhankar Mani TripathiDelhi200000200
184Tapan Kumar BhuyanBhubaneswar100000010

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.

For further details, updates or any queries on AsKQAnce and other quizzes, follow us on Twitter and IG at @kqaquizzes or join our Quiz Announcement WhatsApp group using the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/EEsx1FuBmWCLqqwR408CWc