AsKQAnce 2026
The KQA is happy to announce the 2026 edition of its annual quiz fest, AsKQAnce.
- Dates: 26, 27, 28 June, 2026 (Friday-Sunday)
- Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru.
- The quizzes are open to all. On-the-spot registration only.
- ₹200/team for each quiz.
- Reg fees are waived for school and college teams.
26 June, Friday:
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer (Qualifiers list)
QMs: Jaidev Karunakaran, Keshava Guha, Santosh J Swaminathan, Sujata Sharma
2 PM: MegaWhats National Finals (Qualifiers List)
QMs: Debanjan Bose, Movin Miranda, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sushant Shekar, Thejaswi Udupa
730 PM: 4Edge Pub Quiz at Arbor Brewing Co. (tables of up to 6)
27 June, Saturday:
930 AM: By Hooke or by Crookes: SciTech Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Navin Rajaram, Venky Srinivasan
2 PM: Stick No Bills: Quiz on Posters (written, teams of up to 2)
QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan
345 PM: Son of Lumiere: Movie Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Anustup Datta, Sourjo Sengupta, Varun Rajiv
28 June, Sunday:
930 AM: GS Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz on History, Geography, and the Social Sciences (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Debashree Mitra, Keshav Athreya, Maitrey Deshpande
2 PM: Sesame, the Open Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Abdul Raouf, Abid Abdulla, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande
There’ll be prizes for the winners of each quiz (and for all finalists too).
Contact kqaquizzes@gmail.com OR Varun at +91 99024 44486 for any queries.
KQA Events – June 2026
Below is the KQA Schedule for June. Individual events will be announced separately on the WhatsApp groups and Instagram.
QUALIFIERS: MahaMahaQuizzer & MegaWhats 2026
Here is the list of quizzers who have qualified for MahaMahaQuizzer at AsKQAnce 2026.
MMQ 2026 will start at 10am, 26 June 2026.
- Preetham Upadhya (Bengaluru)
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bengaluru)
- Amrit Pritom Chetia (Delhi)
- Subrat M (Bengaluru)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bengaluru)
- Hrishikesh Varma (Bengaluru)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Ravi Mundoli (Chennai)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Bengaluru)
- Manu Sudhakar (Thrissur)
- Aswath Venkataraman (Bengaluru)
- Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)
- Shaswat Salgaocar (Bengaluru)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Annie Sen Gupta (Goa)
- Shouvik Guha (Kolkata)
Here are the line-ups for the semifinals of MegaWhats at AsKQAnce 2026.
The first semi will start at 2 pm, 26 June 2026.
Semifinal I
- Aardvarks (Amrit P Chetia, Rahul S Kottalgi, Rithwik Kambil), New Delhi
- Congrats All (Abid Abdulla, Calvin Christ, Shaswat Salgaocar, Sourjo Sengupta), Bengaluru
- Dos Zeros Y Ciatres (Balagopal Menon, Ayush Sharma, Somashish Ghosh, Santonab Chakraborty), Delhi
- My Way or Samanway (Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Vibhendu Tewari, Samanway Banerjee), Mumbai
- Onko Masters (Sandipan Goswami, Jitaditya Narzary, Bishwayan Bhattacharjee, Aabhaas Dasgupta), Guwahati
- Relapsed Quizzaholics (Abijit Hariharan, Nishant, Zaman S Khan), Chennai
- Rude Mechanicals (Sankhya, Swaminathan G, Preetham Upadhya, R Jayakanthan), Chennai
- Swami and Friends (AP Alagarsamy, Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, J Krishnamurthi), Hyderabad
Semifinal II
- Bombay Ducks (Aditya Gadre, Brajendu Bhaskar, Kunal Sawardekar, Pradeep Ramarathnam), Delhi
- Feni Vedi Vici (Rajiv D’Silva, Srijit Kumar, Nitish Wagle, Annie Sengupta), Goa
- Live to Eat (Mukilan Ayyapparaj, Siddharth Mishra, Yogesh Pai, Ashwin Balasubramaniam), Coimbatore
- Matunga Manram (Nikhil Sonde, Govind Grewal, Krishan Shetty, Ravi Mundoli), Mumbai
- Nexus Gravitas (Anustup Datta, Subrat Mohanty, Swapnil Das, Venky Srinivasan), Bengaluru
- Peter Panchali (Sid Pai, Rohit Rao, Abdul Raouf, Sachin Deshpande), Bengaluru
- QEDs from Kerala (Samanth S, Varun Rajiv, Praveen VR, Hrishikesh Varma), Bengaluru
- Smells Like Team Spirit (Amlan Sanyal, Annway Ghosh, Subhadeep Sarkar, Saswata Acharya), Kolkata
