Mega-Whats 2009: All-India Top 100 Teams

Rank Team City Score Stars Points Off Star Questions Annotation
1 QED (Gopal Kidao, Samanth S, Swaminathan, Jayakanthan) CHENNAI (City Winners) 67 4 14 Original Score 69. Points deducted for Soyuz and Bund Road. Cracked Theme!
2 WALTWo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) BANGALORE (City Winners) 61 2 11 Original Score 62. Point deducted for Bund Road. Cracked Theme!
3 Travelling Pillsburies (Rajen Prabhu, Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tewari) MUMBAI (City Winners) 58 5 13 Original Score 58. Points added for Vesperus. Points deducted for Mannar
4 Telangana Is an Oily Song (Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah) NEW DELHI (City Winners) 57 5 13 Original Score 56. Change due to counting error. Cracked Succulent Karoo!
5 Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay TSR) BANGALORE 53 4 11 Original Score 55. Points wrongly given for Golden Horn and Asteroids.
6 Thinker Toiler Lawyer & Guy ( Ramanan, Shiv, Goach and Ramkey) CHENNAI 52 3 11 Original Score 52. Up to 53 after counting error was remedied. Point deducted for Bund Road brings them back to 52.
7 Inmaniacs(Malavika Banerjee,Gautam Ghosh, Shounak Chakraverti, Anirudh Chari) KOLKATA (City Winners) 51 5 14 Original Score 52. Points deducted for Vespa Lynd. Team retains Kolkata title on stars.
8 Tabula Rosetta (Bala, Vikram, Anand Shivashankar, Pradeep R. ) MUMBAI 51 5 13 Original score 52. Point deducted for The Life of Others
9 Byapok Batha (Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Deepanjan Deb) KOLKATA 51 4 13 Original score 51. Lost points for Soyuz. Gained points for Vesperus.
10 Blank Slate (Sarath, Diwakar Pingle, Raamesh, Arvind. K) MUMBAI 49 7 17 No change.
11 Memory Bank (Saranya Jayakumar, P.B. Jayakumar, Navin Jayakumar, Gautam Padmanabhan) CHENNAI 49 6 16 Original Score 51. Lost points for Soyuz and “Quark for Muster Mark”.
12 Octette (Anil Vaswani, Vimala Jagannath, Tathagatha Chatterjee, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka) KOLKATA 48 5 14 Original Score 49. Lost points for Soyuz.
13 Insert Uncool Name Here (Shamanth Madhava Rao, Manu Sudhakar, Nagesh and Anil Raghavan) THRISSUR (City Winners) 47 5 13 No change. Anal people have done corrections in Thrissur.
14 Chak De Bhatta (Joy, Kunal, Dr. Bhattacharya, Praveen) NEW DELHI 46 4 12 Original Score 44. Counting Error.
15 Something Something (Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv) BANGALORE 46 1 8 Original Score 43. Error in counting. Cracked Theme!
16 Answering Service (Soubhadra, Charanpreet, Supratik, Sanjoy) KOLKATA 45 3 11 Original Score 46. Counting Error.
17 No Enthu Da (Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik) BANGALORE 45 2 10 No change
18 Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh CHENNAI 44 4 11 Original Score 45. Point deducted for Soyuz.
19 Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry) BANGALORE 43 3 12 Original Score 45. Points wrongly given for Banyan Tree and for Aeschylus (41)
20 Questionable Characters (Vikram Sreeram, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda, Hiranyappa G.S. BANGALORE 42 6 15 Original Score 41. Points not given for Shofer.
21 SHARED a)Kiddo, Lalith, Fing and Anil and b) Swami and Friends ( J.Krishnamurthi, Alagar Swami, Lakshmi J.K., Bhargava E.M.) a) CHENNAI b) HYDERABAD (City Winners) 42 4 10 a) Original Score 43. Point deducted for Soyuz and b) Point deducted for Jana Zatopek
22 Not Awarded–see above
23 Jesus Wept ( Meghashyam, Mahesh, Mukund, Prasann) MUMBAI 41 3 10 Original Score 42. Point deducted for ‘Soyuz fell in India’.
24 Jai Santosh Ki Maa (Amit Varma, Kaushik Chatterjee, Rishi Iyengar, Annanya Deb) MUMBAI 40 2 10 Original Score 41. Counting Error.
25 Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG ( Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, D. Sundar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta GOA (City Winners) 39 2 8 Original Score 37. Points given for Vesperus and Kiss Our Chuddies.
26 Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Venkat and Gautam Shenoy) BANGALORE 38 3 10 Original Score 39. Counting Error.
27 Nitish Khadiya, Lathish, Praveen, Navneet HYDERABAD 38 3 8 No change.
28 No Idea, Still (Ashwin Koneti, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil) BANGALORE 38 2 10 Original Score 36. Points not given for Oort’s and Hershey.
29 Tail Bone Enders (Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles, Vinod Rajamani) BANGALORE 37 3 10 Original Score 36. Counting Error.
30 Mehul, Srinath T.B, Roshith Mohan, Abid E.H MUMBAI 37 2 8 Original Score 36. Counting Error.
31 Last Action Heroes (S. Dutta, S. Gupta, R. Mistry, P.S. Ghatak) KOLKATA 37 0 5 No change
32 Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Suraj, Suvajit, Yasho T, Yash Marathe) PUNE (City Winners) 36 2 8 Original Score 38. Points wrongly given for RBI Banyan Tree and Talaimannar.
33 Mera Naam Joka (Vikas Sahu, Arnav Sinha, Jitaditya Narzary, Suchi MUMBAI 36 1 8 No change
34 What Maga? (Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba, Vivek Kartikeyan) BANGALORE 35 3 11 Original Score 36. Point deducted for Mannar.
35 Rahul Gaur, Tushar Kaul, Akshay Sehgal,  Paranjoth Singh MUMBAI 35 3 10 No change
36 Desi Dhamaka (Tallulah D’Silva, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan, Anjali Sengupta) GOA 35 2 6 No change
37 Lazarus Effect ( Dr. Murali Mohan, S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar) BANGALORE 34 1 8 Original Score 33. Counting Error.
38 Potoldanga Thunder Club (Panchjanya, Robin Dey, Rahul Basu, Prithwish Datta) KOLKATA 34 1 7 No change
39 Fidda ( Govind Grewal, Shambhu Shankar, Aniruddha Dutta, Dhananjay Shettigar) MUMBAI 33 4 11 No change
40 Why Did We Bother (Amit Garde, Dharmakirti Wakankar, Trilok Khairnar, Gaurav Kapoor) PUNE 33 2 9 Original Score 34. Counting Error.
41 Sukha Hara (Harish, Kunal, Salil, Ramanand. J) PUNE 32 1 8 No change.
42 Questionable Characters II (Debjit, Anupam, Rohan, Vemana) HYDERABAD 32 0 5 Original Score 33. Points wrongly given for ‘Claude Levi’
43 Not the Last Ones (Sumit R. Abhijit. N, Suchintan C., Suvam P.) KOLKATA 31 2 10 No change.
44 Ahead of Points (Sanandan, Amar, Ananth, Vinod) CHENNAI 31 2 9 No change.
45 SHARED a) Tea, Coffee and Snacks (Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kalyan Dey) and b) Whatever (Yaggy, Matti, Arun Ramanathan, Renuka) a) KOLKATA b) CHENNAI 31 1 7 a) Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. b) no change
46 Not Awarded–See Above
47 Gloriously Legitimate (Sandeep, Chinmoy, Aditya Sridhar, Sriharsha Bhat) BANGALORE 31 1 4 No change.
48 Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra) NEW DELHI 31 0 4 Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz.
49 Dreamz (Capt. Chandrakant Nair, Viswas Viswam, Jyothi EK, Midhun Zachariah) THRISSUR 30 0 4 No change. Cracked Shiroi Lily!
50 Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Ashwin Prabhu, Balaji T.K CHENNAI 29 1 8 Original Score 30.Point deducted for Soyuz.
51 Gunpowder! Yumm!! (Aditya, Praveen, Supratim, Parth) KOLKATA 28 2 7 Original Score 27. Counting Error.
52 Jana Telangana Mana Adayaka Jayahe! (Shanmati, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra V., AkshayNair) CHENNAI 28 1 7 Original Score 27. Point deducted for Soyuz. Counting Error.
53 Mat-Rag (Deepak, Raghu, Nishant, Aneesh) NEW DELHI 28 1 5 Original Score 29. Point deducted for Ansari (!), 55 D.
54 RTDT ( Ritubroto, Tanaji, Dhruv, Tanmay) 28 0 6 No change.
55 ????(Atul, Janardhan, Dushyanth, Arnab) MUMBAI 27 1 5 No change
56 Numero Uno (Shrikant, Luis Dias, Anil Rodrigues, Sachin Chatte) GOA 27 1 4 Original score 20. Counting Error.
57 Bottle Green Whales (Chirag Mutgi, Sidharth Kuruvila,Vipin, Paramananda) BANGALORE 27 0 6 Original Score 24.  Counting Error.
58 Joka Conquistadors (Karan Kalia, Nihansh, Amrutanshu, Harsh Ketkar) KOLKATA 27 0 5 No change.
59 MAM Returns (S. Chakladar, I. Mukherjee, N.Sankar, Shouvik Das) KOLKATA 26 1 7 No change.
60 Tall, Dark, Handsome and Sunil (Ram Shankar,Debopam, Sunil Chandrashekar, Guruprasad Shenoy) KOLKATA 26 1 5 No change
61 No Hope in Hell.Com (Vinay, Vcat, Gaurav, Sameer) PUNE 26 1 3 No change
62 Srikant, Sameer, Majji, Gayathri HYDERABAD 26 0 5 Original Score 25. Counting error.
63 Boye Geche! (Debanjan B, Anagh M, Shayak C., Jishu D.H.) KOLKATA 25 1 6 Original Score 23. Counting Error.
64 Quadrophenia(Rohit, Harish, Gaurav, Anirudh) CHENNAI 25 0 4 Original Score 22. Points not given for Hershey and Greenland, Counting Error.
65 Trailblazers (Vardhan, Uday, Ratna, Manish) BANGALORE 24 1 6 No change.
66 It’s Complicated (Pravin Varma, Ayyappa Kumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Supriy Singh) NEW DELHI 24 0 3 No change.
67 Shared between a) Pan Galactic Quiz Blasters (Arka Banerji, Niranka Banerjee, Kaustuv Gupta) and b) Mere Do Anmol Watan (Raghu, Balaji, Navin, Sudhir) a) KOLKATA and b) HYDERABAD 23 2 6 a) Original Score 22. Counting Error. b) No change
68 Not Awarded–See Above. No change
69 Advitiya (Naveen B.A, Raghu Pant, Anupam Jain, Surya JVS) NEW DELHI 23 1 4 Original Score 24. Pooint deducted for Soyuz.
70 Anshul, Abhinav, Nikhil, Akul NEW DELHI 23 0 5 No change.
71 Zizzyphus Kahan Hai?( Gandhi, Katoch, Mangal, Pande) NEW DELHI 23 0 4 Original Score 25. Counting error.
72 Lotus Eaters (Abhinav, Mayank, Shubhendu, PUNE 22 1 5 Original Score 25. Points deducted for Soyuz, Oliver Cromwell under a different number, and Levi Claude Strauss.
73 Who’s Soda’s Daddy? (Sharath K Jose, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) BANGALORE 22 1 4 Original Score 18. Counting Error.
74 SHARED BETWEEN a) Sheki’s Groupies (Ahimanyu, Udit, Abhisek, Abhinav) and b) Radix (Devarshi Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta) a) NEW DELHI and b) KOLKATA 22 0 4 a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) Original Score 21. Counting Error.
75 Not Awarded–See Above
76 Pingu’s PomPoms feat. Tonic (Abhishek, Anucheth, Karthik, Rohit) BANGALORE 22 0 3 Point deducted for Vostok-Rakesh Sharma.
77 Shared between a) Piyush Ahuja, Gagandeep Singh, Shankaran Anand, Anshuman Fotedar and b) Once Upon a Time in GEC (RGK, Rajasekar, Arun A.S. , Chandu Lenin) a) NEW DELHI and b) THRISSUR 21 2 8 a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) No change
78 Quizzer’s Utopia (Sanjay, Mithun, Sunny, Priyanka) KOLKATA 21 1 4 Original Score 23. Point deducted for Soyuz and Meteorites in 52 B (for Meteoroids)
79 Paranormal Activity (Shriram, Shankhayan, Azeez, Kush) NEW DELHI 21 0 5 Original Score 22. Counting Error.
80 Guess Me! Guess Me Not! (Dr. Jinu Mathew, S.K. Mohanty, Vikash Khandelwal, Epshita Chatterjee) KOLKATA 21 0 4 No change.
81 3 Strikes and You’re Out (Hari, Rabi, Divyam) NEW DELHI 20 1 4 Original Score 17. Counting Error.
82 Reds ‘N’ Guns (Noufel Samad, Vikas Plakkot, Jithin Raghavan, Jose Thomas) THRISSUR 20 0 4 Original Score 18. Counting Error.
83 Appl Pi (Bhargava, Pradeep, Murari) BANGALORE 20 0 2 Original Score 19. Counting Error.
84 Salmagundi (Venkatesh) BANGALORE 20 0 1 No change. Solo Entry!
85 Two Non-Smoking Barrels (Jishnu, Sid) BANGALORE 19 1 7 No change
86 Mega Answers (Nihal, Navneet, Prashanth) BANGALORE 19 1 5 No change.
87 Bum-Boo ( Dhananjay, Apratim, Parth) NEW DELHI 19 0 1 22. Points wrongly given on 26 and 54b. Counting Error.
88 Shared Between a) No Team Name (Bharath, Ram Prakash, Gnanaskandan) , b) The Lizzard Kings (Ankit, Arun, Nilohit) and c) On the Fly (Pras, Subbareddy, Srini, Abhyu a)HYDERABAD,  b) PUNE and c) HYDERABAD 19 0 3 a) Original Score 17. Counting Error, b) No change and c) Original Score 18. Counting Error.
89 Not Awarded–See Above
90 Not Awarded–See Above
91 Amnesiac Quizzers Inc. ( Nipun V, Shafeeq. S, Ijaz Aslam, Edward Davis) THRISSUR 19 0 2 Original Score 18. Counting Error.
92 Tetra Pack (Saidy, Naveen, Sushant, Srivats) CHENNAI 18 2 5 No change.
93 Dog, Pig, Sheep and ET (Ashok, Thiru, Keki, Okal) BANGALORE 18 1 3 No change
94 3 Doc 1 Tech (Harikrishnan, Vijaynath V., Sarin. P, Sowmya Sarin) THRISSUR 18 0 7 No change.
95 Ensemble (Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee) KOLKATA 18 0 4 Original Score 20. Counting Error.
96 ICQC ( K. Saha, S.Reddy, S. Bhatnagar, S. Sinha) KOLKATA 18 0 3 No change
97 42 ( Paritosh Rai, Anilesh) NEW DELHI 18 0 2 Original Score 19. Counting Error.
98 Quizito Ergo Sum ( K. Pramod, Reeju Datta, Harshit Khare, Prashant Kr. Sinha) NEW DELHI 17 1 5 No change.
99 Shared Between a) The Magnificent Four ( Sunil S, Paul C, Mahesh Prabhu, Sachin Pai K) and b) Quizzigans ( Athith K., Subham, Aditya Menon) a) GOA and b) BANGALORE,  SCHOOL WINNER 17 1 4 No change
100 Not Awarded–See Above.