ASKQANCE 2008 Results
We would like to thank all of you for helping to make ASKQANCE 2008 a
success. A special word of thanks goes out to our sponsors, TVS Tyres,
for their support.
For the record, the collegiate quizzes attracted a total of 110 teams
with the top spots being taken by SVCE (Chennai) and NLSIU-A
(Bangalore) BMSCE finished third. . The Junior College event was won
by SBM Jain College, with NPS-Indiranagar and FAPS taking 2nd and 3rd
spots.
The Bangalore Quiz was won by Rajeev Gowda and Anustup Datta.
G.S.Hiranyappa and Chandrashekhar teamed up to take the second place.
Previous winners Thejaswi Udupa and Karthik Shashidhar finished third.
The entertainment quiz attracted 45 teams. The Chennai outfit
Treebeard (JK, Gopal, Sumo and team) won the quiz, followed by
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Satyajit Chetri, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul
Mani) in second place. The third place was taken by Bang Hoes (Udatta
and team).
120 teams wrote the High School quiz prelims.The event was dominated
by teams from the various branches of the Sri Kumaran’s institutions
with their ICSE team eventually winning the quiz. NPS Rajajinagar
finished second.
Sriram from NPS-R’nagar won the solo title, followed by Arvind (FAPS)
in second place and Athith from Kumaran’s ICSE in third place.
60 teams took the Open Quiz prelims. Special prizes for best school
and best college were claimed by Sishu Griha and NPS-Indirangar
respectively.
The TVS Ride Smart Round for teams placing 9-16 in the prelims was won
by Questionable Characters, followed by Metaquizziks in second place.
Other qualifiers included Raju and His Henchmen,Guessworks,Mustafa,
Takemytrip.com, Nexus, and Namesake. All eight qualifiers received prizes.
The Finals were a truly national affair–5 out of the 8 places were
taken by non-Bangalore teams. The quiz was eventually won by We Are
Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and
Thejaswi Udupa). Arul and His Technicoloured Kurta (from Chennai- JK,
Sumo, Vinod and Sreeram) finished Second, losing top spot by a narrow
margin of 10 points. QED-Chennai (Samanth, Swami, Gopal Kidao and
Rajiv Rai) shook off a slumbersome start to finish Third. The other
finalists included Revenge of the Sith (New Delhi – Dr. Bhattacharya
and team), Insert Cool Name Here, Swami and Friends (Hyderabad), No
Questions Asked and a team from Mumbai (Amit Varma, Udatta and others)
The Informal Sports Quiz was won by Vinod (36 points), followed by
Harish (24.5) and Manish (22) in second and third spots. The
quizmasters decided to limit the prizes to three because only about a
dozen of the fifty people who took the quiz returned their sheets:)
The results for the Informal Science Quiz set by PS Rajagopal for
ASKQANCE are as follows:
Samanth – 17
Sriharsha V Bhat – 11
Ajay Parasuram – 7
Suraj R Nair (FAPS) – 3
Both informals are available for download at http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/
Thanks are due to the quizmasters Rajeev Gowda, Ochintya Sharma,
Thejaswi Udupa,Kiran Vijayakumar, Madhav Nair,Vivek Karthikeyan,
Venkatesh, Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal, Rajagopal PS and Arun
Hiregange for the effort they made to ensure that the quizzes were
both challenging and interesting.
