asKQAnce 2017 Day 2 Results
asKQAnce 2017 Day 1 – Megawhats megafinals results
Here are the results of the Megawhats megafinals that concluded Day 1 of asKQAnce.
I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 270 points
II – QED (Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Swaminathan G, Gopal Kidao) – 245 points (won the tiebreak for the second place)
III – BMQJ (Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar, Bhargava EM) – 245 points
IV – Travelling Pillsburies (Rajiv Rai, Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tiwari) – 230 points
V – Aardvarks (Rahul Kottalgi, Sreshth Shah, Amrit P Chetia, Aryapriya Ganguly) – 223 points
VI – Remembrance of Things Fast (Kiran Vijaykumar, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam) – 181 points
VII – Hammer and Tongs (Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) – 170 points
VIII – Forecasting Couch (Suresh Ramasubramanian, Nishanth Raman, Ajay Parasuraman, Keshav Atreya) – 135 points
Congratulations to all!
AsKQAnce 2017 Schedule
The original orgy of quizzing is back this week, celebrating the 34th anniversary of KQA. Three days, seven quizzes, twenty two quizmasters.
Here’s the schedule.
Friday, June 30th
I
Mahamahaquizzer – A solo quiz where past winners of Mahaquizzers battle against the top 8 of the latest edition. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijaykumar, Urmila Lakshmanan, Rajagopal PS
Time: 9:30 am
II
Megawhats – KQA’s annual quest to find the best team in India. Top 16 teams from this year’s Megawhats written quiz face off. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan
Time: 2 pm
Saturday, July 1st
III
Cannabis Indica – A quiz on all things Indian. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR
Time: 9:30 am
IV
Not Just Cricket – A written quiz on sports. For teams of two.
QM team: Manish Achutha, Sohan Maheshwar, Alagarsamy AP
Time: 2 pm
V
Son of Lumiere – A quiz on movies. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Anustup Datta, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa
Time: 4 pm
Sunday, July 2nd
VI
The GS Hiranyappa Memorial Open Quiz – A quiz on history and geography. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Ashwin Kumar, Navin Rajaram, Lakshana Kripash
Time: 9:30 am
VII
Sesame – A general quiz. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
Time: 2:30 pm
Canara Union’s Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz
The 2017 edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz will be held on Sunday the 18th of June, at the Canara Union, Malleswaram.
The quiz will start at 10:30 am sharp. Teams are requested to take their places by 10:15 am since we have to finish on time for other events at the venue.
The quiz is open to teams of four members, irrespective of age or institutional affiliation. Teams will be charged a registration fee of Rs. 100/-, with free entry for teams comprising school students.
The quiz will be conducted by Sujata Sharma and Urmila Lakshmanan.
Prizes for all finalists.
Canara Union is located on 8th Main Malleswaram (now called the Canara Union Road), and can be approached from 15th Cross. Landmark: Panchavati (Sir CV Raman’s residence)
Four-wheeler parking may be unavailable. Please make alternative arrangements.
Map.
WQC 2017
International Quizzing Association will be organising the World Quizzing Championship on 3rd June, Saturday this year. This is an annual written solo quiz where participants answer questions divided over eight categories.
The Bangalore venue will be Bookworm, on Church Street. Please report to the venue at 2:45 pm and take your seats. The quiz will begin at 3 pm sharp.
There will be prizes for the top 10 scores, top score in each category, and to the best woman participant, as well as the best school and college participants.
The quiz will be proctored by Tarun Bhalla. There is a registration fees of 50/- per participant. School students are exempt from paying.
Please register by filling up the form below. This will help us plan the logistics around printing question papers correctly.
Quizzes on Sunday 28 May 2017
We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday, May 28 at the offices of Ujjivan Financial Services in Koramangala.
You can find the location here: https://goo.gl/sz3gLw
10 AM – Seek under Porus – The KQA History Quiz by Praveen Kumar VR and Manjith K
Written prelims followed by Finals
Teams of four or less
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
2.30 PM – The Non Fiction Quiz by Arul Mani
Written Quiz for teams of two or less
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
4 PM – The May Open Quiz by Jayadev Bhaskaran, Siddharth Pai, Debanjan Bose
General quiz for teams of four or less
Written prelims followed by Finals
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
Magister 2017–Venues and proctors
| City | Institute | Venue | Proctor | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangalore | SJC | Xavier Hall, St. Joseph's College | Arul Mani | 9731214519 |
| Mysore | #57, 3rd Cross, Sanmarga, 2nd Stage, Siddharthanagar, Mys-11 | Srikar Raghavan | 9686296552 | |
| Bhubaneshwar | KIIT | KIIT Student Activity Center, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. | Gourav Jeet Nair | 8339827075 |
| Mohali | IISER | LH4, LHC, IISER Mohali Sector 81, Knowledge CIty Mohali - 140306 | Shantanu Katiyar | 7696811839 |
| Thrissur | GEC Thrissur | Dept. Of Mechanical Engg | Dr. VIjaynath | 9447380969 |
| Kolkata | IIM-Calcutta | Rudradeep Bhattacharjee | 9836344694 | |
| Vellore | VIT | SJT Foodys | Sripradha Sadagopan | 7760685376 |
| Vadodara | IAS Coaching Centre, Ellora Park | Mollika Maiti | 7259753588 | |
| Kanpur | IIT Kanpur | LitSoc Room, New SAC, IIT Kanpur | Tushant Mittal | 7755047787 |
| Warangal | NIT Warangal | Alam | 967693372 | |
| Mumbai | Pinstorm | Pinstorm Office, Swati Bldg, North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W) Bombay 400 054 | Abhay Vikram | 9833162045 |
| Raipur | National Corporate Park, G.E Road, Raipur. | Achal Agrawal | 7225079989 | |
| Kochi | ChaiCofi Cafe, Kaloor, Kochi. | Aravind Anil | 70125 22296 | |
| Guwahati | Assam Engineering College | Dhiman Kakati | 8134963508 | |
| Manipal | Manipal Institute of Technology | Manipal Institute of Technology , Academic Block 5 (AB-5) , Rooms 206 & 208 | Karthik Nair | 9008129480 |
| Pune | COEP | Gokul Panigrahi | 97303 98608/Pranav:7620979878 | |
| Tezpur | Tezpur Univ | Ashutosh Das | 9577077227 (Snehashis) | |
| Shillong | IIM Shillong | Auditorium, IIM Shillong, Mayurbhanj Complex, Nongthymmai, Shillong-793014 | Pr atik Das | 9884965805 |
| Goa | The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula. | Rajiv D'Silva | ||
| Delhi | St. Stephen's | OPLT | Reyna Shruti | 8179185780 |
| Hyderabad | EFLU | Timothy Jairaj | 7675020838 |
Magister 2017
Magister 2017 is a solo quiz contest with collegiate and open tracks that will be held on Sunday, 29 January 2017 in Bengaluru, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Tezpur, Vellore, Baroda, Mohali, Pune, Mysuru, Raipur, Thrissur, Kochi, Warangal, Goa, Kolkata, Manipal, Kanpur, Pondicherry and Shillong.
The quiz will require takers to answer one hundred questions off a PowerPoint presentation from 11 am to 1 pm on Sunday, 29 January 2017 (with earlier starts in some venues). The quiz is the result of a partnership between the Karnataka Quiz Association and SJC Quizzers, the quiz club at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore.
The setters are Prof. Rajeev Gowda, Arul Mani, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Nagaratna ‘Partikal’ Patil, Avinash Thirumalai (in sublimated form), Rijul Ballal, Chirag Chittar and Abhijith Raghu.
Why Magister?
Once upon a time, every open quiz would have a sizeable college contingent in attendance and the Open circuits of India’s quizzing cities throve on the energy and dash of college quizzing. In many cities, though not all, this is a thing of the past. Which is not good news for open quizzing, or, indeed, for quizzing.
The simple idea behind Magister is to bring together the two rapidly diverging streams of quizzing–College and Open. The setters are college and open quizzers. The quiz has college and open tracks for competition. The questions themselves are an attempt to start up something of a conversation between open and collegiate quizzing.
You could thus say that what we want to see is a form of a Re-Open-ed Quizzing.
But what the Deccan is a Magister?
Magister comes from the Latin for mastery. That said, we must clarify that we are interested in more than quizzing as simple, masculine achievement.
The term magis is used in Jesuit thought to indicate the spirit of doing more, or giving more of oneself. For us, this name draws some attention to the happily out-of-syllabus character of quizzing. And indeed to the primary joy of quizzing, which is that of refusing to be a passive recipient of information, and choosing instead to celebrate an active curiosity in the world.
The persons who win this title in the college and open tracks will embody this idea better than our words can.
If you’ve enjoyed open quizzing, support this venture by turning up and taking part!
Register here
On-the-spot entries will be accepted in Bengaluru, and at the proctor’s discretion in other cities.
The Bengaluru venue is Xavier Hall, St. Joseph’s College (PG Block), Langford Road. Please text 9731214519 if you have any questions.
Quizzes on Sunday 8 January 2017
KQA will have its first quizzing Sunday of 2017 this January 8th.
We have three quizzes lined up. The venue will be the offices of Ujjivan at Grape Garden in Koramangala 6th Block.
We start proceedings at 10-30 am with a solo quiz for college students to decided the annual KQA College Quizzing Champion title. Sai Ganesh will set the questions, and Varun Rajiv will host. Register on the spot by paying 50/-
At 2 pm, we have Hubbubba, KQA’s annual quiz on Bangalore. This will be a written quiz for teams of two. Thejaswi Udupa will set and host. Register on the spot by paying 100/- per team
At 4 pm, we have the Metaquizziks Open, an open quiz for teams of four. Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Mitesh Agarwal, and Ashwin Kumar will be your quizmasters. Register on the spot by paying 100/- per team.
See you all on Sunday.
Open Quizzes on 1 October 2016
The October Open Quiz by Team CIDs from Kerala – Major Chandrakant Nair, Hrishi Varma, Praveen VR and Jithin Jacob
Teams of four or less
Prelims starts at 10 AM sharp, please report by 0945 Hrs at the venue
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
Prizes for all finalists
The Annual KQA Solus Rex Quiz by Thejaswi Udupa
Open for solo participants
Written prelims start at 3 PM
Entry Fee: Rs 50/person; free for school and college participants
All registrations on the spot.
The venue is the first floor hall at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists at Queen’s Road in Bengaluru.
