ASKQANCE 2016–A round-up
The semifinals and finals of MegaWhats 2016 – the national flagship team quizzing championship of the KQA took place on Day 1 of asKQAnce 2016.
The first semis saw a close fight ending in a tiebreaker between two teams with Metaquizziks from Bangalore eventually prevailing over the Travelling Pillsburys from Mumbai. They joined the top three teams from this semi, Ingit Bergman – Mumbai, Swami and Friends – Hyderabad and We Are Like This Wonly – Bangalore.
In the second semifinal QED-Chennai won, with Remembrance of Things Fast-Chennai a close second. Matunga Manram-Mumbai finished third and Aardvarks-Delhi pipped a couple of other teams to take fourth place.
After a riveting final, there was a new champion – Remembrance of Things Fast – Chennai, represented by Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Srinath Bashyam and Manu Sudhakar.
QED from Chennai with Samanth, Sankhya, Gopal and Jayakanthan finished second.
Waltwo from Bangalore with Thejaswi, Anustup, Arun and Ochintya finished third.
The quiz was set by Mitesh Agarwal and Venkatesh Srinivasan.
The @Knappily India Quiz was conducted on Saturday, 25 June 2016 by Ochintya Sharma and Alagarsamy AP. After a closely fought prelims, the following eight teams made it to the finals with these final standings:
Winners – The Travelling Pillsburies – Mumbai
Runners-up – Memory Blank – Chennai
3rd Place – Inmaniacs – Kovai
Finalists
Ingit Bergman
Forecasting Couch
Rebel Alliance
Hammer and Tongs
QED
KQA would also like to acknowledge and thank @Knappily, who sponsored this quiz. Do look them up on the Play Store.
Double Sculls – the written sports quiz was conducted on Saturday, 25 June 2016 by Ashwin Kumar and Rajagopal PS. The quiz had a huge turnout and teams attempted 45 questions in writing.
After a close finish, the podium finishers were:
Winners – Venkatraghavan S and Aniket Khasgiwale
Runners-up – Vinoo Sanjay and Atul Mathew
3rd Place – Sankhya and Sreeram
The movies quiz at ASKQANCE 2016 – Son of Lumiere was conducted on Day II of Askqance by Santosh Swaminathan and Anustup Datta. The marathon quiz with loads of movie clips from multiple language films went on till the wee hours of the night and in the end, the top three were:
Winners – Metaquizziks – Varun, Priyambad, Ashwin and Shiv
Runners-up – QED – Samanth, Jayakanthan, Gopal and TKB
3rd Place – Mavericks – Ramkey, Dr Chandrashekar, Nikhil and Atul
Day 3 at ASKQANCE 2016 started with Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Varun Rajiv and Vivek Karthikeyan. After a 30-questions prelims, which was well enjoyed and cracked by the teams, the Top eight teams made it to the final, with QED from Chennai coming out trumps, at the end of the finals. There was a tie-break for second spot, in which Remembrance of Things Fast pipped Matunga Manram to second place.
Final Standings:
Winners – QED – 255 points
Runners-up – Remembrance of Things Fast – tied on 170
3rd Place – Matunga Manram – tied on 170
Other Finalists in order of scores
Insignificant Others – 165
Hammer and Tongs – 150
Travelling Pillsburys – 135
We Are Like This (W)only – 125
Go Goya Gone – 115
The flagship General Quiz at Askqance – Sesame, saw a huge number of teams attempt the prelims (nearly 50 teams). After a tightly contested 40-questions prelims, a long finals began – a quiz in two halves, respectively by Thejaswi Udupa and Arul Mani.
After 75+ questions in the finals, there was a tie between two teams – The Travelling Pillsburys from Mumbai and QED from Chennai – the tie was resolved after the second tie-breaker question and QED emerged champions.
The final standings were:
Winners – QED – 385 points
2nd Place – The Travelling Pillsburys – 385
3rd Place – Matunga Manram – 370
Other finalists
We Are Like This Wonly – 335
Swami and Friends – 305
Rebel Alliance – 295 tied with Remembrance of Things Fast – 295
Metaquizziks – 260
The three-day quiz festival ended with the fun-AJM quiz. Despite the late start, almost 50 people stayed back – a mix of Bangaloreans and outstation quizzers. Beginning with a twin List-It round, Sai Ganesh, Kaustuba Venugopal and Abhishek Upadhya, regaled the participants with some fun questions, PJs and fantastic fundas.
The quiz ended with two large teams of about 20 people each, and much chaos on the pounce! The team which had Jayakanthan R and Rajagopal PS among others won the quiz, as the event wound up post 10 PM on Sunday.Thanks to everyone who stayed back and to the QMs for a very interesting and fun quiz – the perfect way to end the fest.
KQA thanks all the QMs, and all the teams for a memorable ASKQANCE 2016.
The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz
The 11th edition of the Wing Commander GR Mulky Memorial Quiz will be held on Sunday, 12 June 2016, at the Canara Union, 8th Main Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore 56003.
This is an annual event held in memory of the man who founded and almost single-handedly ran the activities of the Karnataka Quiz Association from 1983 to 2000.
The details
Open to all, irrespective of age or affiliation
Teams of four members
Registration Fee: Rs. 100/- for open teams, Rs. 50 for college teams, free entry for school teams (up to Std XII/II PUC)
Start time: 1030 hrs
Researched and presented by Urmila Lakshmanan and Sujata Sharma
The Canara Union has kindly agreed to sponsor prizes for the top three teams and for all finalists.
For directions:
Update
Results
I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 136 points
II – SJC Quizzers (Arul Mani, Mollika Maiti, Sripadha S, Nagaratna Patil) – 92 points
III – Pranav Solo (Varun Rajiv, Raghuram Cadambi, Aravind, Pranav Ravikumar) – 79 points
World Quizzing Championships on Saturday 4 June 2016
The 2016 edition of the World Quizzing Championships will be held in Bangalore on Saturday, 4 June 2016. The venue is the Command Hospital Auditorium, Bangalore. As this is part of an Air Force campus, it is advised that you carry some form of ID with you. Also note that the entrance to Command Hospital will be from Cambridge Road and not HAL Airport Road.
The event will commence at 3 pm, and requires the taker to attempt two packs of questions. Each pack contains four topics, and the taker is allowed an hour in which to attempt the questions–thus two hours for writing, and an extra hour for corrections and so on. The quiz is open to solo contestants, of all ages.
KQA will provide prizes for the top 5 finishers in the Open category, and top 2 finishers in College, School (up to Std XII) and Ladies categories. In addition, each of the eight topic winners will get a book coupon. An entry fee will be collected at the venue to recover photocopying costs.
Please register ASAP using the form provided below:
Norwegian Open 2016
Time: 11am start.
Venue: H-302, Third Floor, Humanities Block, St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road, Bangalore.
Pushups for Muscular Success V
The fifth Pushups for Muscular Success will be held at 2 pm on Saturday, 19 March 2016, at the Humanities Block (III Floor), St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road.
Push-ups?
For those who are wondering what all this is about, the Push-ups are a set of 75 questions which you answer in writing in 60 minutes. The Push-ups were thought up as a way of getting people interested in solo quizzing, and in taking part regularly in a short quizzing activity that involves some intelligent guesswork.
Time:
Push-ups for Muscular Success V at 2 pm ( Entry fee: Rs. 50/-)
Venue: III Floor, Humanities Block, St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road.
Open to all, with prizes for winners in school, college, ladies and open categories.
Prior registration is very useful. Please register here:
KQA Quizzes on Sunday, 14 Feb 2016
We will be hosting two quizzes on Sunday, Feb 14 at the offices of Ujjivan Financial Services, Koramangala
Entry Fee: Rs 100 per team
Push-Ups for Muscular Success on 6 Feb 2016
Open to all, with prizes for winners in school, college, ladies and open categories.
Please note that this week’s Push-ups will be followed by an Open Quiz titled In Foreign Parts (World Affairs, Business and Travel) for teams of two members, held by SJC Quizzers as part of the quiz festival Tie Grab. This event will begin at 3:30 pm, immediately after the Push-ups.
Results of KQA Quizzes held in January 2016
Results of quizzes held on Sunday, 10 Jan 2016
Inter-collegiate Solo Quiz by Sai Ganesh and Sohan Maheshwar
Winner – Athith KR
Runner-up – Shishira
3rd Place – Sriram
Other finalists
Pratheek
Shashwat
Surya
The History of Ideas written quiz by Varun Shenoy
Winners – Ochintya Sharma and Rajagopal PS
Runners-up – Santosh Swaminathan and Varun Rajiv
Tied for 3rd place – Navin Rajaram and Alagarsamy AP (and) Achyuth Sanjay and R Vijay
The January Open Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venky Srinivasan
Winners – Metaquizziks – Santosh, Varun and Mitesh
Runners-up – WALTWo – Ochintya, Appu, Jithin and Aditya
3rd Place – Nexus-Keep Distance – Navin, Alagar, Nishanth and Rajagopal
Other finalists (in order of finals scores)
Anne Warriors – Abhimanyu, Tara, Harsha and Keshava
Pai & Co – Siddarth Pai, Jaydev, Hari and Debanjan
True North, Down South – Achyuth, Vijay and Sruti
Nobodies from Nowhere – Anand, Anush, Prashant and Vinod
Rohit & team – Rohit, Rashmi and Vinod Rajamani
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to the QMs!
Here are the results of the quizzes held on 24 Jan 2016.
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, volume 7, a quiz on speculative fiction.
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
I – Varun Rajiv, Ashwin Kumar – 23.5 points
II – Anustup Datta, Santosh Swaminathan – 20 points
III – Rishiraj S, Mridul Kapoor – 15 points
IV – Gautam Shenoy, Keshav – 13.5 points
V – Arul Mani, Nagaratna Patil – 12 points
Ochintya’s Open Quiz
QM: Ochintya Sharma
I – SJC Quizzers With A Token Male (Arul Mani, Mollika Maity, Sripadha, Nagaratna Patil) – 147.5 points
II – We Are Like This Wonly (Dibyojyoti Haldar, Arun Hiregange, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa) – 145 points
III – Keep Distance (Rajath, Rajagopal, Rahul, Nishanth Raman) – 125 points
Other finalists
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar, Gautam Shenoy)
Bulbul Hoopoe Cuckoo Mynah (Srisha Haridas, Vinod Rajamani, Girish, Anush)
Siri and Team (Siri Srinivas, Sai Ganesh, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Gururaj Rao)
Swami and Friends (Alagarsamy, Tanmay Prusty, EM Bhargava)
Yaako Doubt (Aditya Sridhar, Pranjali AT, Bhargava, Nisha Pillai)
Congratulations to all the winners.
Pushups for Muscular Success on Tuesday, 26 Jan 2016
Open to all, with prizes for winners in school, college, ladies and open categories.
Prior registration is necessary. Please use the form below:
Quizzes on Sunday, 24 Jan 2016
This Sunday, the 24th of January 2016, KQA will hold two open quizzes at the offices of Ujjivan Financial Services in Koramangala.
At 2 pm, we will have the seventh edition of Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, an annual affair where Thejaswi Udupa goads people to read more genre fiction. This will be a written quiz for teams of two. There will be prizes for the top 5 teams.
At 4 pm, Ochintya Sharma will make a long pending return to the stage and conduct an Open Quiz for teams of four. There will be prizes for all finalists.
Finish all your Sunday-things in the morning, and turn up for an afternoon of lazy and fun quizzing. See you at Ujjivan!
