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!
# | Name | Score | Total *s | ** | * | Venue |
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1 | Vinoo Sanjay | 80 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Mumbai |
2 | Ravi Mundoli | 77 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Chennai |
3 | Preetham Upadhya | 77 | 5 | 0 | 5 | Bengaluru |
4 | Jayakanthan | 76 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Chennai |
5 | Amrit Pritom Chetia | 73 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Delhi |
6 | Calvin | 70 | 6 | 1 | 5 | Bengaluru |
7 | Thejaswi Udupa | 69 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
8 | Sourjo Sengupta | 66 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bengaluru |
9 | Arul Mani | 65 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bengaluru |
10 | Shouvik Guha | 65 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kolkata (JU) |
11 | Hrishikesh Varma | 65 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
12 | Aswath Venkataraman | 65 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
13 | Anustup Datta | 64 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bengaluru |
14 | Rahul Kottalgi | 62 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Mumbai |
15 | Abhinav Dasgupta | 62 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Mumbai |
16 | Siddhartha Shanker | 61 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Bengaluru |
17 | Chandrakant Nair | 59 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Thrissur |
18 | Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka | 59 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kolkata |
19 | Annie Sen Gupta | 58 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Goa |
20 | Kunal Sawardekar | 57 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Pune |
21 | Subrat M | 57 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bengaluru |
22 | Aadisht Khanna | 57 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Chennai |
23 | Jaidev Karunakaran | 57 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru |
24 | Vinod Sivarama Krishnan | 56 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
25 | Dinesh Krithivasan | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Chennai |
26 | Nikhil Sonde | 56 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
27 | Shashwat Salgaocar | 55 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Goa |
28 | Samanway | 55 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata (JU) |
29 | Abid Abdulla | 54 | 5 | 0 | 5 | Bengaluru |
30 | Rohit Suresh | 54 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Chennai |
31 | Prithwish Datta | 54 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
32 | Ramanand J | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
33 | Govind Grewal | 53 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Mumbai |
34 | Srihari Raju | 53 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Hyderabad |
35 | Praveen VR | 53 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
36 | Mario F | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Chennai |
37 | Karthik S | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
38 | Aditya Gadre | 52 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Delhi |
39 | Sreeradh RP | 52 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bengaluru |
40 | Arnold D'Souza | 52 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Pune |
41 | Harish Alagappa | 51 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
42 | Abdul Raouf | 50 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bengaluru |
43 | Sanat Pai Raikar | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
44 | Anand Sivashankar | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Chennai |
45 | Anirudh Chari | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kolkata |
46 | Manu Sudhakar | 47 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Thrissur |
47 | Sanjay | 47 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
48 | Kunal Savarkar | 46 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai |
49 | Krishan Shetty | 46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
50 | AP Alagarsamy | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
51 | Vibhendu Tewari | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Mumbai |
52 | Vilas Pavithran | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Goa |
53 | Sreekanth RP | 45 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
54 | Sushant | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
55 | Anannya Deb | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
56 | Venky Srinivasan | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
57 | Hussain Ahmed | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
58 | Wrichik Basu | 42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata |
59 | Nirmalya Biswas | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Siliguri |
60 | Abhay Vikram | 41 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
61 | Arunoday Chaudhuri | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |
62 | Saarthak Chhabra | 40 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Hyderabad |
63 | Kushan Patel | 40 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Ahmedabad |
64 | Preyoshi Ganguly | 39 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
65 | Abhilash | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
66 | Sanjay KR | 38 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Manipal |
67 | Somasish Ghosh | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Udaipur |
68 | Sangeeth | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram |
69 | Aniruddha Mitra | 37 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Ahmedabad |
70 | Atul Mathew | 37 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
71 | Sreeram Madhavan | 37 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Chennai |
72 | Tanmay Prusty | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
73 | Sarath VR | 35 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Thiruvananthapuram |
74 | Advik Kabra | 35 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
75 | Francis Rodrigues | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
76 | Gudur Abhinav | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
77 | N Viswanathan | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur |
78 | Vidyadhar Gadgil | 34 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Goa |
79 | Anil Kothuri | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
80 | Siddharth K | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
81 | Sushant Shekhar | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
82 | Balu John | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram |
83 | Ishaan N | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
84 | J K Lakshmi | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
85 | Sahil HR | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
86 | Shashank Tyagi | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
87 | Sudip Kalyan Dey | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |
88 | Dr V Srinagesh | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
89 | Ananya Upadhya | 31 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bengaluru |
90 | Aninthitha Nath | 31 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
91 | Appu S | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
92 | Arun Ramanathan | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
93 | Gokul Panigrahi | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
94 | Mukund Krishnan Kumar | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
95 | Samir Gupta | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
96 | Shamsuddin Haider | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |
97 | Ayush Sharma | 30 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Kharagpur |
98 | S Chakraborty | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Mumbai |
99 | Shayak Chakrabarty | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kolkata |
100 | Ankita Shandilya | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
101 | Rishi Roy | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
102 | Sarvesh Shenoy | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai |
103 | Aditya Pal | 29 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Kharagpur |
104 | Saswata Acharya | 29 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata (JU) |
105 | Arun AS | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
106 | Elvis Francis | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
107 | R Samyak | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Goa |
108 | Rakesh TP | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram |
109 | Siddharth Mishra | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
110 | Mahendra Balu P | 28 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bengaluru |
111 | Sankar Roy | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata |
112 | Aniruddha Mondal | 27 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
113 | Rama Subramanian | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
114 | Udayan Mishra | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
115 | D Ghosh | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
116 | Sourasis Bose | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
117 | Sriram Padmanabhan | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
118 | Raamanujan C | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Chennai |
119 | Abhinav Dhar | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
120 | Shujoy Dutta | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Goa |
121 | Abhineet | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
122 | Sanveer Singh Puri | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
123 | Sumukh H | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
124 | Puranjay Dixit | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
125 | Sreeram M | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram |
126 | Aditya Narayan Sen | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |
127 | Nirupama V | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
128 | Saee Joshi | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
129 | athul ajay | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram |
130 | Uttirno Nath | 23 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata (JU) |
131 | Anuradha Dharwadkar | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
132 | Soumya | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
133 | Vinay Nair Karath | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
134 | Shiladitya Ganguli | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |
135 | Jayaprakash BR | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
136 | Pranavi BA | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kharagpur |
137 | Manoj R | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode |
138 | Amit CJ | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
139 | Nikhilesh Singh Rana | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Goa |
140 | Nikhil Jha | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
141 | Izhar Ansari | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
142 | Manohar Burra | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
143 | Pranava | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
144 | Shantanu Yadav | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
145 | Basab | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Hyderabad |
146 | Debasmita B | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
147 | Sreevatsa G | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
148 | Anirvin Srivarsan | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
149 | Monish Singhaz | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
150 | Rohit Kaulgud | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Ahmedabad |
151 | Sagar Agarwal | 19 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Siliguri |
152 | Shashwat S Shetty | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Ahmedabad |
153 | Manas Pradhan | 18 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bengaluru |
154 | Magizhan Natarajan | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Chennai |
155 | Sudarshan Sundarrajan | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
156 | Viola Rodrigues | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Goa |
157 | Avinash Mishra | 17 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bengaluru |
158 | Shubang Shukla | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Delhi |
159 | Pranjal Jharkharia | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kharagpur |
160 | Anvithraj Reddy | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
161 | Kiran Ramaswamy | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
162 | Prayag Mohanty | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
163 | Pavan Madhukar Bhat | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Manipal |
164 | Sourabh Chowdhury | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
165 | Paul G | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Goa |
166 | Haripriya S | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Manipal |
167 | Praveen S Pai | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
168 | Uma Shankari Kalavath Promoth | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Thrissur |
169 | Rahul R | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
170 | Swathi PG | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
171 | Bharat Jayan | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
172 | Mohammad | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
173 | Nisaad K | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
174 | Prasun Thakur | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad |
175 | Syed Shakeel Imdad | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
176 | Asha Janardhan | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Thiruvananthapuram |
177 | A Santhanam | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
178 | Rakshan Trivedi | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
179 | Vrishab Anurag Venkataraghavan | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
180 | Aditya Bhattacharyya | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
181 | Anagha KH | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
182 | Raghav Gupta | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
183 | Abhijeet Kumar | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
184 | Amir Sen | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
185 | Bismay Parija | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
186 | Rahul Kulkarni | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
187 | Raja Narasimhan B | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
188 | Samartha S Rao | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
189 | Subikash Paul | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
190 | S Jayakrishna | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
191 | John Philip George | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Thrissur |
192 | Navya | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
193 | Debabrata Malik | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
194 | Hari Prasad V | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Manipal |
195 | Kanak Varma | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
196 | Niranjan N | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
197 | Rushikesh W | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
198 | Prashant Sinha | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
199 | Srivats Ramanujan | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
200 | Tejoos | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
201 | S Keerthana | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bengaluru |
202 | Sonakshi Yadav | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Ahmedabad |
203 | K Palani | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
204 | Pradhi Goel | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur |
205 | Rajeev Nair | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
206 | Amit Agarwal | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
207 | Karthik Mistry | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad |
208 | Ramakrishna R | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
209 | Rohan Umesh | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
210 | Swahat Subhakanta Das | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
211 | Vineet V | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
212 | Vivet | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
213 | Diganto Sarkar | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
214 | Harshil Agarwal | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
215 | Udit Sengupta | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
216 | Anna Regi | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
217 | Mohammed Azharuddin S | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
218 | Niyati Jois | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
219 | Sagar Chandan | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
220 | Diptojyoti P | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
221 | Jithin S | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram |
222 | Malay Nirav Dixit | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kharagpur |
223 | Rohitash Sriram | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Pune |
224 | Arun J Sankar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode |
225 | Monthan Saste | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
226 | Pankaj Waghmare | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
227 | Chinmay Modi | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
228 | Sumanth | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru |
229 | Adnan Dalal | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
230 | Badarla Rohan Naidu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
231 | Deepa Rao | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Manipal |
232 | Ritwik Mukherjee | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
233 | Udit Jain | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
234 | Vidyuth Ajith Soman | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Manipal |
235 | Aneesha Roy | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata (JU) |
236 | Mansi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
237 | Satwik Mehta | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
238 | Medha Kumari | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur |
239 | Raza Faiz Arakkal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode |
240 | Niharika | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Udaipur |
241 | Abhilasha | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
242 | Bhargav Saikia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur |
243 | Harish Kandoi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
244 | Uzayr Faiz Arakal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode |
245 | Satvik Parihar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad |
246 | Abheri Karthik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru |
247 | Dhruvish Patel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad |
248 | Hiba Fathima PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
249 | Prince Kumar Singh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
250 | Harsh Kumar Rajput | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
251 | Rishabh Kumar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
252 | Suchana Ghosh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JU) |