The KQA will be conducting three quizzes on 16th December (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
1030AM: Pilferages – The Genre Fiction Quiz by Nagaratna Patil and Vivek Karthikeyan, a books quiz that is not so ‘lit’. More 50 Shades than Thomas Gray, more Hadley Chase than Joyce.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
1220 PM: ComiKaze, the Comics quiz by Siddarth Pai and Debanjan Bose – a quiz on all things comic books, graphic novels, mangas, illustrated works… by whatever name it goes.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
3 PM: The December Open (Ruckus) Quiz by team MQ – the first of many ruckus quizzes on the calendar is finally here!
What is a ruckus, you ask? No more #foreveralone. Farewell to feeling in-team-idated because you can never find teammates. Everyone present gets randomised into teams on the spot. It’s that simple.
It is a prelims/finals quiz with teams to be formed on the spot. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
The KQA will host two general solo quizzes for (i) students of Std. V, VI & VII and (ii) students of Std. VIII, IX & X on Sunday, November 18, 2018.
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
(Location on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/ixQJxnZPc1G2)
The Rules:
Participating schools may field a maximum of four participants per category.
A maximum of two participants per school per category will qualify for the finals.
This is a solo quiz — the entrants will take the quiz on their own.
There is no entry fee.
There is no prior registration needed; participants can register on the spot, carrying any form of suitable identification.
Participants must bring pens/pencils; paper will be provided.
The quiz will cover topics of general interest and requires no specific preparatory effort.
Prizes & Certificates will be awarded to all 8 qualifiers—plus a prize for the best performance by a girl entrant in each category.
Schedule
Lone Kid – Classes 5-7
QMs – SJC Quizzers (Nagaratna, Arul, Prithwiraj and Avinash)
Registration: 0900hrs-0915hrs
Quiz Prelims: 0915hrs-1000hrs
Finals: 1015hrs-1115hrs
Lone Cub – Classes 8-10
QMs – SJC Quizzers (Nagaratna, Arul, Prithwiraj and Avinash)
Registration: 1100hrs-1115hrs
Quiz Prelims: 1115hrs-1200hrs
Finals: 1200hrs-1330hrs
For more details/participation, please contact the school.
Please call Avinash (+91 96201 06064) or Santosh (+91 98449 53179) for any clarifications.
The KQA will be conducting two quizzes on 11th November (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
11AM: The KQA Food Quiz – a quiz on, well, all things food and food-related by Urmila.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
2 PM: The November Open – an open general quiz conducted by Rajat, Jayaprakash, Satish and Sanmay.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
Here are the results of today’s quizzes at KQA
Yell Iruve, a quiz on zoology, by Siddharth Pai and Jayadev Bhaskaran
I – Anustup Dutta and Thejaswi Udupa – 60 points
II – Arun Hiregange and Navin Rajaram – 57 points (tie broken by stars)
III – Ravi Mundoli and Ashwin Kumar – 57 points
IV – Hrishikesh Varma and Praveen VR – 52 points
V – Avinash Thirumalai and Arul Mani – 50 points
VI – J Krishnamurthy and Chandrakant Nair – 45 points
VII – Sachin Deshpande and Shreyas Karanth – 41 points
VIII – Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramanathan – 37 points
Solus Rex prelims, by Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa
The following quizzers make it to the semi finals to be held later in the calendar year
I – Santosh Swaminathan – 38 points
II – Varun Rajiv – 30.5 points
III – Hrishikesh Varma – 30 points
III – Ajay Parasuraman – 30 points
V – Ashwin Kumar – 29 points
V – Rajagopal PS – 29 points
VII – Ravi Mundoli – 28.5 points
VIII – J Krishnamurthy – 27.5 points
VIII – Manu Sudhakar – 27.5 points
X – Arul Mani – 27 points
X – Navin Rajaram – 27 points
XII – Sachin Deshpande – 26.5 points
XIII – Rohit Suresh – 26 points
XIII – Anustup Dutta – 26 points
XIII – Sreshth Shah – 26 points
XVI – Pranav R – 25.5 points
XVI – Chandrakant Nair – 25.5 points
The Nexus Open Quiz by Nexus Consulting
I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Dutta, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 209 points
II – CIDs From Kerala (Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, J Krishnamurthy, Ravi Mundoli) – 201 points
II – KC and the Sunshine Band (Navin Rajaram, Rajagopal PS, EM Bhargava, Ajay Parasuraman) – 201 points
IV – BMQJ (Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar) – 178 points
V – Manu Sudhakar, Anush Iyer, Sreshth Shah, Rabin Jacob – 165 points
VI – Peter Panchali (Debanjan Bose, Siddharth Pai, Ashish Saligram, Sachin Deshpande) – 158 points
VII – SJCE Quizzers (Arul Mani, Avinash Thirumalai, Nagaratna Patil) – 149 points
VIII – AIQMK (Alagarsamy, Arun Prasad, Rohit Suresh, Pranav R) – 141 points
Best school team – Akkan Just Quiz (Varun, Vignesh, Prajwal, Mehul)
Best college team – Eternal Losers with Spotless Minds (Gaurav, Anirudh, Surya, Bhargav)
Congratulations to all the winners!
The KQA will be conducting three quizzes on 1st November (Thursday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
1030AM: Yell Iruve – the open quiz on flora and fauna by Jayadev Bhaskaran and Siddharth Pai, featuring all creatures great and small with a helping of veggies.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
1220 PM: Solus Rex prelims – the KQA’s love-it-or-hate-it-but-you-can’t-ignore-it solo quiz is back with its super-sized prelim to determine the sacrificial lambs to be entered into the rest of its devious machinations.
It is a solo prelim for semis and finals to be held later in the calendar Open to all.
3 PM: The Nexus Open – an open general quiz conducted by Team Nexus, QMs with a great track record and a quizzing company to prove it. The prizes are generously sponsored by them too.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks – both the latest and a limited number from years past – will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
Results of the quizzes held on Sunday, 7 October 2018.
In Medias Ques–Mass Media Quiz
By Urmila Lakshmanan
13 teams took part
I: Santosh Swaminathan & Varun Rajiv 21
II: Rajagopal PS 20
III: Venkataraman & Arul Mani 19
IV: Tanmay Prusty & Prithwiraj Mukherjee 17
Bizkashi: hosted by Tanmay Prusty
21 teams took part.
I:
B Naveen Kumar, Yogesh Pai, Jayakanthan–242
II
Anush, Arun, Sethu, Vinid–170
III
Navin Rajaram, Priyambad, Tagnyeshwaran, Venkatesh S. NEXUS BAGGAGE 167
IV
Ashwin, Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh JS BMQJ 167
Other finalsts
Shivam, Jasim, Aditya, Satyam A TEAM HAS NO NAME 138
Kaustub, Debanjan, Pranav, Rohit QMK 107
Arun Ramanathan, Rajagopal PS 103
Niyam Joshi, Rahul Shanbagh, Sethupathi, Yogesa Metla EVERYBODY HATES KEVIN 80
Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Anirudh, Venkataraman, Arul Man SJC QUIZZERS 79
Urmila Lakshmanan, Shiv, Jayant, Ajay Parasuraman RHCQ 72
You can access KQA rankings for Written Duos below:
| TEAM MEMBERS | TEAM NAME | SCORE | POINTS EARNED |
| Santosh Swaminathan & Varun Rajiv | METAQUIZZIKS | 21 | 5 |
| Rajagopal PS | | 20 | 4 |
| Venkataraman & Arul Mani | SJC QUIZZERS | 19 | 3 |
| Tanmay Prusty & Prithwiraj Mukherjee | EAST INDIA CO | 17 | 2 |
| Arun Prasad & Anush Iyer | | 13 | 1 |
| Sahil Sharma and Bishanka | | 10 | 1 |
| XY | ROYAL MYSORE GULLIS | 9 | 1 |
| Bala & Vinid | | 7 | 1 |
| Rahul Shanbagh & Kevin D'Souza | SANKEY TANK NAAYIS | 6 | 1 |
| Shubendra & Amit Chandra | | 6 | 1 |
| Nischay and Manoj | SWAGGOTS | 5.5 | 1 |
| Udith & Vishnu | | 2 | 1 |
| Anirudh and Kaustub | SJC QUIZZERS A | 1 | 1 |
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The rankings for Specialist Quizzes are also up.
| TEAM MEMBERS | TEAM NAME | SCORE | FINALS | POINTS EARNED | | | |
| B Naveen Kumar, Yogesh Pai, Jayakanthan | | | 242 | 5 | | | |
| Anush, Arun, Sethu, Vinid | | | 170 | 4 | | | |
| Navin Rajaram, Priyambad, Tagnyeshwaran, Venkatesh S. | NEXUS BAGGAGE | | 167 | 3 | | | |
| Ashwin, Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh JS | BMQJ | | 167 | 3 | | | |
| Shivam, Jasim, Aditya, Satyam | A TEAM HAS NO NAME | | 138 | 2 | | | |
| Kaustub, Debanjan, Pranav, Rohit | QMK | | 107 | 2 | | | |
| Arun Ramanathan, Rajagopal PS | | | 103 | 2 | | | |
| Niyam Joshi, Rahul Shanbagh, Sethupathi, Yogesa Metla | EVERYBODY HATES KEVIN | | 80 | 2 | | | |
| Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Anirudh, Venkataraman, Arul Man | SJC QUIZZERS | | 79 | 2 | | | |
| Urmila Lakshmanan, Shiv, Jayant, Ajay Parasuraman | RHCQ | | 72 | 2 | | | |
| Dilip, Naman, Savyasachi, Shraddha | RESURRECTION | 11.5 | | 1 | | | |
| Sahil, Nav. Vignesh, Balaji | | 11 | | 1 | | | |
| Sriram, Akshaya, Ajay | | 11 | | 1 | | | |
| Akshath, Chaitanya | | 10 | | 2 | | | |
| Venkat, Puneet, Bala, Nambirajan | SSCRODINGER'S INVESTORS | 9.5 | | 1 | | | |
| Anuj, Arnab, Govind | | 9 | | 1 | | | |
| Mrutyunjaya, Archita, Sriram, Dhruba | | 8.5 | | 1 | | | |
| Vishnu, Udith, Dhruvan | | 5 | | 1 | | | |
| Sreshta, Kevin, Rohan | | 5 | | 1 | | | |
| Vinay, Rishabh, Hrishikesh, Shrivathsa | | 5 | | 1 | | | |
| Aftab | | 5 | | 1 | | | |
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The points system works thus: 5-4-3-3 for top 4 spots, followed by 2 points for other qualifiers. All teams that wrote but did bot qualify make 1 point apiece.
October 9, 2018 | Filed Under
Results |
Leave a Comment The KQA will be conducting two quizzes on 14th October (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Grape Garden address on Google maps)
11AM: Eastern Promises – an ‘Everything East’ General Quiz – an by Priyambad and Tanmay – a general quiz with Oriental, North-Eastern and Eastern India flavours. Some Odiya chauvinism may be on display.
It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
2 PM: *The XXVIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz – a general quiz by Sreshth Shah and Preetham Upadhya.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks – both the latest and a limited number from years past – will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
The Family Quiz
I – Malini Sethuraman, Navin Rajaram
II – Krittika Adhikary, Arjun Bharadwaj
III – Keerthi, Adhway, Ashwin Kumar
The September Open Quiz
I – Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa – 225 points
II – Rohit Suresh, Anirudh Sudarshan, Pranav, Ramesh Natarajan – 122.5 points
III – Srinath Bhashyam, Arun Ramanathan, Riju Gupta, Aditya Rajan – 117.5 points
Congratulations to all the winners
October 9, 2018 | Filed Under
Open Quizzes,
Results |
Leave a Comment KQA rises again from its post-Askqance stupor and will shake off its hibernation sickness with the 36th edition of the legendary Canara Union Lone Wolf quiz on 26th August (Sunday).
QM Navin Rajaram will put solo participants through their paces in this general quiz.
It will start at 10 AM on Sunday, 26th August.
The venue is the Canara Union in Malleswaram. (Location: https://goo.gl/maps/Wk8TVTqd2F82)
It is a prelims/finals open general quiz for solo participants.
Note 1: The venue is NOT Ujjivan in Koramangala. Also, the pin on Facebook is not accurate – please use the Google pin for navigation.
Note 2: The KQA yearbook for 2017-18 – launched in July 2018 – will be available at the venue at ₹500/copy.
A limited number will be brought to the venue – if you’re interested in purchasing a copy, please message 9902444486 to ensure availability of your copy.
Please call 8884125047 in case you have trouble finding the place.
Results of the school quizzes at Junior asKQAnce:
Middle School
I – Aditya Sharath, Kushagra Agrawal – Presidency School Nandini Layout
II – Deepak Nayak, Vedant Shinde – Presidency School RT Nagar
III – Jayanth Nenmeli, Sarvarth Ghosh – NPS Koramangala
High School
I – Dhyan Vyas, Keshav Kapoor – NPS Indiranagar
II – Aniruddha Mondal, Sahit Bangre – PSBB LLA
III – Aditya KV, Ankit RB – Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Academy
The results of the college quizzes held at Junior asKQAnce today.
Junior section
I – Aditya Kannan, Aniruddha Mondal, Sahit Bangre – PSBB LLA
II – Ananya Upadhya, Prajwal Gowtham, Achyut Rotti – Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home
III – Ankit Sharma, Shrey, Pranav – NPS Indiranagar.
Senior section (open to Juniors too)
I – Shreyas Srinath, Nagendra Jamadagni, Dileep Reddy – RVCE
II – Nishit Pandya, Julian D’Costa – IISc
III – Ankit Sharma, Shrey, Pranav – NPS Indiranagar
Congratulations to all the winners!
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