Open Quizzes on Thursday, November 1, 2018
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
KQA Rankings and results of quizzes held on Sunday, 7 October 2018
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 |
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 | |||||
| RRRRRRRR |
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.
Open quizzes on Sunday, October 14, 2018
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
Results of quizzes held on September 16
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
XXXVI Canara Union Lone Wolf on Sunday, August 26, 2018
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.
Junior AsKQAnce – Results (July 29th)
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!
ASKQANCE 2018 – Results
The Woodstock of quizzing saw a total of 8 quizzes being held over three days, with old and new names turning up in the winners and finalists’ lists. Here are the full results:
1. Mahamahaquizzer, the showdown between the top 16 finishers of Mahaquizzer.
I – Vinoo Sanjay – 295 points
II – Manu Sudhakar – 260 points
III – Jayakanthan R – 241 points
IV – Arul Mani – 240 points
V – Samanth Subramanian – 235 points
V – Rahul Kottalgi – 235 points
VII – Anustup Datta – 220 points
VIII – Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
2. MegaWhats, the National open quizzing championship.
I – Preetham Upadhya, Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 201 points
II – Swaminathan Ganesh, Gopal Kidao, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 164 points
III – Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 160 points
IV – Vinoo Sanjay, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma (Matunga Manram) – 159 points
V – Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari (Traveling Pillsbury) – 153 points
VI – Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Naveen Jayakumar (Memory Bank) – 152 points
VII – Anannya Deb, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Suraj Menon, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 147 points
VIII – Ramkey, Goach, Shafeeq, Alok (Sheikh Yerboutis) – 101 points
3. Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the Arts Quiz at asKQAnce
I – Rahul Kottalgi, Anirudh Chari, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 208 points
II – Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 200 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 142 points
IV – Mario Fernando, Vijaysarathy, Sreeram, Sankhya (Insignificant Others) – 130 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar (Memory Blank) – 84 points
VI – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 75 points
VII – Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 65 points
VIII – Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Rohit Rao, Hari Nair – 60 points
4. Son of Lumiere, the movie quiz at asKQAnce.
I – Balaji Thirumalai, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 291 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde (Matunga Manram) – 247 points
III – Jinson Chacko, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Chandrakant Nair (CIDs from Kerala) – 189 points
IV – Kushan Patel, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 188 points
V – Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar – 187 points
VI – Abhinav Dasgupta, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 125 points
VII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Rajagopal PS, Arun Ramanathan (Mission 2018) – 92 points
VIII – Anagh Mukherjee, Prithwish Dutta, Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh (Caveat Attemptor) – 90 points
5. GS Hiranyappa Memorial History-Geography Quiz at asKQAnce 2018
I – Kunal Sawardekar, Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 305 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 250 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 235 points
III – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 235 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli (Memory Blank) – 225 points
V – Kunal Savarkar, Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani (Hammer and Tongs) – 225 points
VII – Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh (QED) – 217 points
VIII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We are Like This Wonly) – 140 points
6. Sesame, the General Open quiz at Askqance
I – Swaminathan Ganesh, Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao (QED) – 356 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 326 points
III – Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 302 points
IV – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 301 points
V – Jayashree Mohanka, Sreyashi Dastidar, Debashree Mitra, Preyoshi Ganguly (ShriDevis) – 293 points
VI – Sreshth Shah, P Srikanth, Partha Ghatak, Arindam Dutta (Last Action Heroes) – 267 points
VII – Debanjan Bose, Rohit Rao, Sachin Deshpande, Siddharth Pai (Peter Panchali) – 250 points
VIII – Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Abhinav Dasgupta (Traveling Pillsbury) – 201 points
Congrats all.
Mulky Memorial Quiz 2018 – Results
Here are the results of the Mulky Memorial Open Quiz held on June 24th, 2018:
I – Ajachi Chakrabarti, Hari Nair, Debanjan Bose, Rajagopal PS – 90 points
II – Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan – 85 points
III – Manish Achutha, Keshav Athreya, Ajay Parasuraman, Arun Ramanathan – 80 points
The quiz was conducted by Urmila L and Sujata S.
Congratulations to all the winners!
ASKQANCE 2018 – REMINDER
This is the schedule for the weekend:
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the arts quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Lakshana Kripash, Praveen VR.
3 PM: Son of Lumiere, a quiz on movies for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv.
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz, a quiz on history/geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS.
230 PM: Sesame, the general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan.
All these quizzes are open to all .
Venue for all quizzes is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/T1e3xXnejQS2
Please call ++91 8884125047 if you have trouble finding the place
Apart from the open quizzes over the weekend, Mahamahaquizzer and the semis and finals of Megawhats will be conducted on Friday (29th) at IAT – do turn up to watch some of the country’s top quizzers in action.
Results of quizzes held on May 27, June 10 and WQC Bangalore
Here are the results of the Bangalore leg of the World Quizzing Championship held on June 2
Overall winners
I – Ashwin Kumar – 105 (113–8)
II – Arul Mani – 103 (111–8)
III – Thejaswi Udupa – 102 (112–10)
IV – Debashree Mitra – 100 (109–9)
V – Arun Hiregange – 95 (103–8)
VI – Santosh Swaminathan – 91 (101–10)
VII – Varun Rajiv – 89 (96–7)
VIII – Rajagopal PS – 83 (92–9)
Category Winners
Culture – Ashwin Kumar, Arul Mani
Entertainment – Arun Hiregange
History – Arul Mani, Debashree Mitra
Media – Varun Rajiv
Lifestyle – Arul Mani
Science – Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange
Sports – Arun Hiregange
World – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa
Congratulations to all the top scorers!
Here are the results of quizzes held on May 27.
Comikaze, the KQA Comics Quiz
QMs: Debanjan Bose and Siddharth Pai
I – Varun Rajiv and Ashwin Kumar – 26 points
II – Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa – 24.5 points
III – Sohan Maheshwar and Gautam Shenoy – 23.5 points
The Abominable Open Quiz, a quiz on the Himalayas
QM: Ashwin Kumar
I – Thejaswi Udupa – 30 points
II – Sachin Deshpande and Debanjan Bose – 29.5 points
III – Varun Rajiv and Santosh Swaminathan – 24 points
The May Open Quiz
QMs: Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramana than
I – Varun Rajiv, Ashwin Kumar, Santosh Swaminathan – 130 points
II – EM Bhargava, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ajay Parasuraman, Atul Mathew – 95 points
III – Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Ochintya Sharma – 45 points
Congratulations to all the winners.
Results of quizzes held on June 10:
After nearly 300 questions spread over three quizzing days across the season, Chandrakant Nair gets crowned as the new Solus Rex champion, getting his nose ahead of Ashwin Kumar in his breakthrough year. Boy wonder Preetham Upadhya comes third. Here are the scores.
I – Chandrakant Nair – 296 points
II – Ashwin Kumar – 291 points
III – Preetham Upadhya – 247 points
IV – Manu Sudhakar – 220 points
V – Santosh Swaminathan – 205 points
VI – Debashree Mitra – 183 points
VII – Varun Rajiv – 155 points
VIII – Keshav Atreya – 150 points
Results of Artefacts Quiz conducted by Vivek Karthikeyan:
I – Navin Rajaram and Manu Sudhakar – 34 points
II : Avinash T and Praveen VR (and) Venky Srinivasan and Tanmay Prusty – 28 (Tie)
Results of History Quiz by Urmila:
I – SRS, Debashree, Ajay Parasuraman, Tanmay Prusty
II – SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Avinash, Prithwiraj)
III- Anush, Nishant, Maitrey Pranav R
Congratulations to all the winners!
