RESULTS – AsiaSweep 2024

A total of 73 teams wrote AsiaSweep 2024. We have a new winner this year: Calvin Christ and Preetham Upadhya scored an outstanding 76 points out of a possible 108 in Bengaluru.

Ten points behind were the second-placed team of Prithwish Dutta and Sourjo Sengupta, who also took the quiz from Bengaluru. Behind these doughty veterans, the young and upcoming duo of Vibhendu Tewari and Abhinav Dasgupta from Mumbai, placed third overall with 63 points.

The Q&A can be found here.

A big thank-you to all quizzing communities and proctors who helped run the quiz smoothly. AsiaSweep 2024 was set by Dibyendu Das, Nagaratna ‘Partikal’ Patil, Nikhita Thomas, and Dr Arul Mani.

We’ll see you in 2025!

Note from KQA: If your results are missing, we haven’t received your scores. Contact your proctor.

#Team Member 1Team Member 2CityS1S2Total
1CalvinPreethamBengaluru443276
2PrithwishSourjoBengaluru432366
3Vibhendu TewariAbhinav DasguptaMumbai382563
4Abid AbdullaPraveen VRBengaluru342559
5Santosh SwaminathanSachin DeshpandeBengaluru372259
6Abhijit BanerjeeAnirudh Sridhar ChariKolkata322658
7SreeradhJaidev KBengaluru342458
8Anustup DattaThejaswi UdupaBengaluru332558
9NishanthKeshav AtreyaBengaluru352358
10Anannya DebVenkatraghavan SMumbai381856
11Mohan RavichandranKarthik ShashidharBengaluru401656
12Avinash MudaliarRahul KottalgiMumbai322355
13Subrat MohantyVenky SrinivasanBengaluru332053
14Rajiv AnnieGoa331952
15Avinas MisraSouasis BoseBengaluru311950
16AlagarVenkatBengaluru262349
17ShakeelSri NageshHyderabad262248
18SanatSupratimBengaluru191948
19Bhargav SaikiaSomasish GhoshUdaipur282048
20Kushan PatelAniruddha MitraAhmedabad291847
21Shashwat SalgaocarChandrashekhar RaoGoa341145
22Anil RaghavanManu SudhakarThrissur242145
23Abhishek HariharanAninthitha NathMumbai271744
24Shrijit KumarVilas PavithranGoa271340
25Udayan MishraSamartha RaoBengaluru261339
26Preyoshi GangulyTanmay PrustyMumbai201838
27R SamyakChinmay NaikGoa201838
28Sanjay krPavan Madhukar BhatManipal251237
29AnaghaAkshayaBengaluru221537
30Rakesh TPSarath VRThiruvananthapuram162137
31Debjit DasguptaSri HariHyderabad221436
32SahilBaluBengaluru231336
33Vishnu VijaySreehariThiruvananthapuram162036
34Advik KabraAbhineetBengaluru211334
35Francis RodriguesAmeya SamantMumbai201333
36Krishan ShettyAhmedabad161733
37Tony Nixon MavelyJyothishko GhoshThiruvananthapuram221133
38Akshay SreyasSreeram MThiruvananthapuram151633
39NilabhPradhi GoelUdaipur231033
40Gokul PanigrahiSarvesh ShenoyMumbai191231
41Shujoy DevikaGoa181331
42Sidharth UdayThiruvananthapuram181331
43Bharat JayanSaranya BhattacharjeeMumbai22830
44N. Viswanathan--Udaipur18927
45Arun ASNILThrissur20626
46SumeerTej VohraBengaluru16925
47Rohit KaulgudSoumya KhannaAhmedabad131023
48Anuradha DharwadkarSanveer Singh PuriAhmedabad17522
49Viola RodriguesPaul GatwardGoa17522
50Manoj RDr Arun J SankarKozhikode121022
51Ishaan NejeebRama PandyaBengaluru14822
52MonishAnvithrajHyderabad12921
53SumanthRahulBengaluru16420
54Mohsin MustafaAnshita JainBengaluru13720
55Nikhil JhaBengaluru12820
56Prayag MohantyKhitish PandaMumbai11718
57Aniruddh BhaskaranNishtha KMumbai12618
58PrabhatPrajwalBengaluru11718
59RohanYashasHyderabad8816
60Harish AlagappaHyderabad9716
61TanmayRajeevBengaluru7815
62AnujithJithinThiruvananthapuram8715
63Soumyadeep DasSourodip BoseUdaipur10515
64Kalilur RahmanHyderabad41014
65Vineet Ranjan MaitreyLucy JAKAhmedabad8412
66AkshitGargiHyderabad8311
67Rohan UmeshPrajwalMumbai336
68Soumyadeep BiswasKolkata516
69Raza FaizUzayr FaizKozhikode246
70Quiz KhalifaThrissur246
71Mathew R VargheseVidhu PradeepThrissur314
72Satvik PariharDhruvish PatelAhmedabad033
73John Philip GeorgeHiba FathimaThrissur213

RESULTS – MahaQuizzer 2024

A total of 252 quizzers attempted MahaQuizzer this year.

The winner, for a barely believable fifth time, is Vinoo Sanjay from Mumbai. Vinoo reclaims his title with a score of 80 points out of 150.

Two quizzers tied for 77, but in the end, youth beat out experience. Ravi Mundoli (Chennai) pips ahead of Preetham Upadhya (Bengaluru) on stars. The defending champion, Jayakanthan, finishes fourth with 76 points.

A new entrant into the top ten is also comfortably its youngest. Calvin Christ finishes with 70 points in sixth place. He will celebrate it with a bottle of champagne when he is old enough to.

Two other former MQ champions, Dr Arul Mani and Shouvik Guha (Kolkata), round off the top ten with 65 points. Another former champ, Jayashree Jaykar Mohanka (Kolkata), was the highest-scoring woman, with 59.

The top 16 automatically qualify for Mahamahaquizzer at AsKQAnce 2025.

The KQA thanks all quizzing communities and proctors who helped conduct MQ smoothly.

The Q&A can be found here.

MahaQuizzer 2024 was set by Sachin Deshpande, Santosh J Swaminathan, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman R.

See you in 2025!

#NameScoreTotal *s***Venue
1Vinoo Sanjay80422Mumbai
2Ravi Mundoli77532Chennai
3Preetham Upadhya77505Bengaluru
4Jayakanthan76413Chennai
5Amrit Pritom Chetia73624Delhi
6Calvin70615Bengaluru
7Thejaswi Udupa69202Bengaluru
8Sourjo Sengupta66312Bengaluru
9Arul Mani65413Bengaluru
10Shouvik Guha65211Kolkata (JU)
11Hrishikesh Varma65202Mumbai
12Aswath Venkataraman65101Bengaluru
13Anustup Datta64312Bengaluru
14Rahul Kottalgi62523Mumbai
15Abhinav Dasgupta62422Mumbai
16Siddhartha Shanker61514Bengaluru
17Chandrakant Nair59211Thrissur
18Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka59211Kolkata
19Annie Sen Gupta58101Goa
20Kunal Sawardekar57413Pune
21Subrat M57303Bengaluru
22Aadisht Khanna57202Chennai
23Jaidev Karunakaran57110Bengaluru
24Vinod Sivarama Krishnan56202Mumbai
25Dinesh Krithivasan56110Chennai
26Nikhil Sonde56101Bengaluru
27Shashwat Salgaocar55404Goa
28Samanway55202Kolkata (JU)
29Abid Abdulla54505Bengaluru
30Rohit Suresh54303Chennai
31Prithwish Datta54101Bengaluru
32Ramanand J54000Pune
33Govind Grewal53321Mumbai
34Srihari Raju53211Hyderabad
35Praveen VR53202Bengaluru
36Mario F53110Chennai
37Karthik S53000Bengaluru
38Aditya Gadre52303Delhi
39Sreeradh RP52303Bengaluru
40Arnold D'Souza52202Pune
41Harish Alagappa51101Hyderabad
42Abdul Raouf50303Bengaluru
43Sanat Pai Raikar50000Bengaluru
44Anand Sivashankar48211Chennai
45Anirudh Chari48211Kolkata
46Manu Sudhakar47202Thrissur
47Sanjay47202Bengaluru
48Kunal Savarkar46110Mumbai
49Krishan Shetty46101Ahmedabad
50AP Alagarsamy46000Bengaluru
51Vibhendu Tewari45211Mumbai
52Vilas Pavithran45211Goa
53Sreekanth RP45202Bengaluru
54Sushant45101Delhi
55Anannya Deb44101Mumbai
56Venky Srinivasan44000Bengaluru
57Hussain Ahmed43101Hyderabad
58Wrichik Basu42110Kolkata
59Nirmalya Biswas42101Siliguri
60Abhay Vikram41202Delhi
61Arunoday Chaudhuri41000Kolkata (JU)
62Saarthak Chhabra40303Hyderabad
63Kushan Patel40202Ahmedabad
64Preyoshi Ganguly39202Mumbai
65Abhilash39101Bengaluru
66Sanjay KR38303Manipal
67Somasish Ghosh38110Udaipur
68Sangeeth38101Thiruvananthapuram
69Aniruddha Mitra37303Ahmedabad
70Atul Mathew37202Bengaluru
71Sreeram Madhavan37202Chennai
72Tanmay Prusty37000Mumbai
73Sarath VR35303Thiruvananthapuram
74Advik Kabra35202Bengaluru
75Francis Rodrigues35101Mumbai
76Gudur Abhinav35101Bengaluru
77N Viswanathan35000Udaipur
78Vidyadhar Gadgil34220Goa
79Anil Kothuri34101Mumbai
80Siddharth K34101Bengaluru
81Sushant Shekhar34101Bengaluru
82Balu John34000Thiruvananthapuram
83Ishaan N33202Bengaluru
84J K Lakshmi33101Hyderabad
85Sahil HR33101Bengaluru
86Shashank Tyagi33000Delhi
87Sudip Kalyan Dey33000Kolkata (JU)
88Dr V Srinagesh32101Hyderabad
89Ananya Upadhya31312Bengaluru
90Aninthitha Nath31202Mumbai
91Appu S31101Bengaluru
92Arun Ramanathan31101Chennai
93Gokul Panigrahi31000Mumbai
94Mukund Krishnan Kumar31000Delhi
95Samir Gupta31000Pune
96Shamsuddin Haider31000Kolkata (JU)
97Ayush Sharma30404 Kharagpur
98S Chakraborty30211Mumbai
99Shayak Chakrabarty30211Kolkata
100Ankita Shandilya30202Delhi
101Rishi Roy30202Delhi
102Sarvesh Shenoy30110Mumbai
103Aditya Pal29404 Kharagpur
104Saswata Acharya29202Kolkata (JU)
105Arun AS29101Thrissur
106Elvis Francis29101Thrissur
107R Samyak29101Goa
108Rakesh TP29101Thiruvananthapuram
109Siddharth Mishra29101Bengaluru
110Mahendra Balu P28413Bengaluru
111Sankar Roy28110Kolkata
112Aniruddha Mondal27202Bengaluru
113Rama Subramanian27101Bengaluru
114Udayan Mishra27101Bengaluru
115D Ghosh27000Kolkata
116Sourasis Bose27000Bengaluru
117Sriram Padmanabhan27000Pune
118Raamanujan C26202Chennai
119Abhinav Dhar26000Delhi
120Shujoy Dutta26000Goa
121Abhineet25101Bengaluru
122Sanveer Singh Puri25101Ahmedabad
123Sumukh H25000Pune
124Puranjay Dixit24101Ahmedabad
125Sreeram M24101Thiruvananthapuram
126Aditya Narayan Sen24000Kolkata (JU)
127Nirupama V24000Chennai
128Saee Joshi24000Pune
129athul ajay23211Thiruvananthapuram
130Uttirno Nath23202Kolkata (JU)
131Anuradha Dharwadkar23101Ahmedabad
132Soumya23101Bengaluru
133Vinay Nair Karath23101Bengaluru
134Shiladitya Ganguli23000Kolkata (JU)
135Jayaprakash BR22202Bengaluru
136Pranavi BA22202 Kharagpur
137Manoj R22110Kozhikode
138Amit CJ22101Bengaluru
139Nikhilesh Singh Rana22101Goa
140Nikhil Jha22001Bengaluru
141Izhar Ansari22000Kolkata
142Manohar Burra22000Bengaluru
143Pranava 21101Bengaluru
144Shantanu Yadav21000Bengaluru
145Basab20211Hyderabad
146Debasmita B20202Delhi
147Sreevatsa G20101Bengaluru
148Anirvin Srivarsan20000Chennai
149Monish Singhaz20000Hyderabad
150Rohit Kaulgud19312Ahmedabad
151Sagar Agarwal19303Siliguri
152Shashwat S Shetty19202Ahmedabad
153Manas Pradhan18303Bengaluru
154Magizhan Natarajan18202Chennai
155Sudarshan Sundarrajan18101Bengaluru
156Viola Rodrigues18101Goa
157Avinash Mishra17303Bengaluru
158Shubang Shukla17211Delhi
159Pranjal Jharkharia17202 Kharagpur
160Anvithraj Reddy17101Hyderabad
161Kiran Ramaswamy17000Bengaluru
162Prayag Mohanty17000Mumbai
163Pavan Madhukar Bhat16101Manipal
164Sourabh Chowdhury16101Kolkata
165Paul G16000Goa
166Haripriya S15202Manipal
167Praveen S Pai15202Bengaluru
168Uma Shankari Kalavath Promoth15202Thrissur
169Rahul R15101 Kharagpur
170Swathi PG15101Chennai
171Bharat Jayan15000Mumbai
172Mohammad15000Hyderabad
173Nisaad K15000Delhi
174Prasun Thakur15000Ahmedabad
175Syed Shakeel Imdad15000Hyderabad
176Asha Janardhan14202Thiruvananthapuram
177A Santhanam14101Chennai
178Rakshan Trivedi14101Delhi
179Vrishab Anurag Venkataraghavan14101Chennai
180Aditya Bhattacharyya14000Siliguri
181Anagha KH14000Thrissur
182Raghav Gupta13202Delhi
183Abhijeet Kumar13101 Kharagpur
184Amir Sen13000Siliguri
185Bismay Parija13000 Kharagpur
186Rahul Kulkarni13000Bengaluru
187Raja Narasimhan B13000Pune
188Samartha S Rao12101Bengaluru
189Subikash Paul12101Kolkata
190S Jayakrishna12000Bengaluru
191John Philip George11202Thrissur
192Navya11202Delhi
193Debabrata Malik11101Bengaluru
194Hari Prasad V11101Manipal
195Kanak Varma11101Pune
196Niranjan N 11101Hyderabad
197Rushikesh W11101Hyderabad
198Prashant Sinha11000Delhi
199Srivats Ramanujan11000Chennai
200Tejoos11000Bengaluru
201S Keerthana10202Bengaluru
202Sonakshi Yadav10202Ahmedabad
203K Palani10000Chennai
204Pradhi Goel10000Udaipur
205Rajeev Nair10000Bengaluru
206Amit Agarwal9000Pune
207Karthik Mistry9000Ahmedabad
208Ramakrishna R9000Chennai
209Rohan Umesh9000Mumbai
210Swahat Subhakanta Das9000Bengaluru
211Vineet V9000Bengaluru
212Vivet9000Delhi
213Diganto Sarkar8101Ahmedabad
214Harshil Agarwal8101 Kharagpur
215Udit Sengupta8000Siliguri
216Anna Regi7101Thrissur
217Mohammed Azharuddin S7101Chennai
218Niyati Jois7101Bengaluru
219Sagar Chandan7101 Kharagpur
220Diptojyoti P7000Siliguri
221Jithin S7000Thiruvananthapuram
222Malay Nirav Dixit6202 Kharagpur
223Rohitash Sriram6202Pune
224Arun J Sankar6000Kozhikode
225Monthan Saste6000Mumbai
226Pankaj Waghmare6000Pune
227Chinmay Modi5101Ahmedabad
228Sumanth5101Bengaluru
229Adnan Dalal5000Bengaluru
230Badarla Rohan Naidu5000Hyderabad
231Deepa Rao5000Manipal
232Ritwik Mukherjee5000Pune
233Udit Jain5000Mumbai
234Vidyuth Ajith Soman5000Manipal
235Aneesha Roy4202Kolkata (JU)
236Mansi4000Delhi
237Satwik Mehta4000Mumbai
238Medha Kumari3000Udaipur
239Raza Faiz Arakkal3000Kozhikode
240Niharika2101Udaipur
241Abhilasha2000Delhi
242Bhargav Saikia2000Udaipur
243Harish Kandoi2000Siliguri
244Uzayr Faiz Arakal2000Kozhikode
245Satvik Parihar1101Ahmedabad
246Abheri Karthik1000Bengaluru
247Dhruvish Patel1000Ahmedabad
248Hiba Fathima PH1000Thrissur
249Prince Kumar Singh1000Delhi
250Harsh Kumar Rajput0000Delhi
251Rishabh Kumar0000Hyderabad
252Suchana Ghosh0000Kolkata (JU)

KQA Sports Day on 9th February 2025

The KQA is happy to announce Sports Day 2024 a full 48 days before the event (take that, CWC 2023)!

Come to the IAT on Queen’s Road on February 9 (Sunday) for a day of sports quizzing on shores made of jerseys, where you’re allowed concussion substitutes, the quizzers say it’s team of up to Fore! and the furniture is made of cardboard.

930AM to 1 PM: Well Off Course, KQA’s cricket quiz, by returning champions Carthic Crishna, Keshav Athreya and Venky! Please note that qs about Pakistan cricket will be asked at the UAE Embassy Attestation Centre in Shivajinagar.

It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four.

Report at 915 AM for registration as the quiz will start at 930 AM sharp.

2PM to 345PM: The Cigar Quiz (written) is a written quiz by Hrishi Varma and Major Chandrakant Nair, about second-place finishers and other near misses who finally get their flowers.

It’s a written quiz for teams of up to two.

4 PM to 730PM: Sport to Tarboard – The KQA Sports Quiz by Preetham Upadhya, Prithwish Datta and Sanat Pai Raikar. Will contain sports. May contain cricket or Olympics. May even contain WWE.

It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four.

Venue: The Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queen’s Road https://goo.gl/maps/YndqYDAGH1giNi3U6

Every quiz is open to all! The quizzes will start and finish on time.

Registration for the written quiz is Rs. 200/team and each prelims/finals quiz is Rs. 300/team (waived for school and college teams) — only on-the-spot registrations, so just turn up on the day!

For further details, updates or any queries on AsKQAnce and other quizzes, follow us on (sigh) X and Instagram at @kqaquizzes.

Join our Quiz Announcement WhatsApp group using the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/EEsx1FuBmWCLqqwR408CWc

And now we have the Team Finder WhatsApp Group that will surely be of use for this weekend: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQBki9fzMAk7GUwb010qdF

Quizzes on December 22 (Sunday)

The KQA will be organising two quizzes on Sunday (December 22) at Ujjivan HO in Koramangala, also the last KQA event of 2024. Come ring out the chaos that was the last 12 months on a high note with two music-themed quizzes!

1030 AM: The Scene and the Unseen — an Indian indie music quiz Allow local scenester Berty (is there a musician he hasn’t met?) and international scenester Sohan (recipient of a takedown notice from Raghu Dixit) take you on a journey through the Indian indie scene: the people behind it, the stories, the venues and of course the history.

Written quiz for teams of up to 2. Open to all. On the spot registration, ₹200/team.

Registration waived for school and college teams.

230 PM: Sesame Mucho — The KQA Music Quiz is back with returning QMs Anuradha, Santosh and Thejaswi Udupa.

Still big in Japan, this lineup promises to avoid a sophomore slump with another all killer, no filler mixtape!

A prelims/finals quiz with teams of up to four. Open to all. On the spot registration, ₹300/team.

Registration free for school and college participants.

Venue: Ujjivan Head Office, Koramangala https://maps.app.goo.gl/GX4DPxF9h5vwio866

Please note that we will be starting and ending on time. Do report for the quiz 10 min before scheduled start time.

Text 9902444486 in case of any queries. DO NOT CALL.

VENUES – MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2024 (FINAL)

Here is the list of venues for the two quizzes.

#CityVenueContact Phone
1AhmedabadCR7 - IIM A (New Campus)88492 09809
2BengaluruUjjivan Small Finance Bank, Grape Garden, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main Rd, 6th Block, Koramangala99024 44486
3ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore98800 61309
4DelhiStudents Activity Centre (SAC), IIT Delhi98681 49674‬
5DhemajiSIPRD Centre, Dhemaji9954922506
6GoaGoa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.9890141715
7HyderabadH105, Himalaya Block, IIITH(triple -I T, not IIT)

(https://maps.app.goo.gl/D1R3QzTMgJHhwF1G6)
90008 77436
8Kharagpur (only MQ)IIT Kharagpur9082685503
9KolkataThe Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch,
Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments,
31/3 Sahapur Colony,
Block J, New Alipore,
Kolkata 700 053.
9831082098
10Kolkata (JU)Professor Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, Adjacent to Gate no. 4, Jadavpur University Main Campus, Kolkata- 70003262900 36256
11KozhikodePPT Academy, 3rd floor, Indus Academy, Pushpa Junction, Calicut.79076 35399
12ManipalInteract Lecture Halls, KMC Manipal, Health Sciences Campus, MAHE, Manipal.9711116181
13MumbaiRajyog Family Restaurant & Bar 99308 53913
14Pune (only MQ)Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan94212 77399
15SiliguriSonar Taree Apartment 4th Road, College Para South, Opposite Baghajatin Park, Siliguri - 73400179808 57897
16ThrissurRoom 213, Main Block, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur9447380969
17ThiruvananthapuramReading room, Cheruvaikal94952 58436
18UdaipurIIM Udaipur7741884541