Quizzes on Saturday 3 March 2012

We will hold two open quizzes on Saturday 3 March 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I
The Annual Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top 3 teams

Schedule: Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130-1400hrs

Event II
Glamour-giri

Open Quiz in a new written format
QM: Ochintya Sharma

Teams of two members
Entry; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top 3 teams

1500-1700hrs.

Our next quizzing Sunday will feature the annual History Quiz, Yell Iruve and an Open Quiz by Arun Hiregange–all on 24 March 2012.

March 2, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012

We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

EVENT I
Lone Wolf Quiz

QM: Alagar Samy

Solo quiz
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs

EVENT II
ARTIFACTS
A written quiz dedicated to the appreciation of useless/useful objects

QM; Arul Mani

Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

1400hrs-1500hrs

EVENT III
Open Cricket Quiz
QM: Manish Achuta

Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all

Prelims: 1515hrs
Finals: 1615hrs-1745hrs

February 17, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Oikoumene – Registered Teams

COLLEGE

Institution	Team
National Public School, Rajajinagar	Rama Subramanian B & Lokahith Narendra Agasthya
National Public School, Rajajinagar	Rajashekar V & Balaji S
National Public School, Rajajinagar	Nikshep Trinetra B S & Ameya P Koushik
National Public School, Rajajinagar	Krishna A Kinnal & Malhar Jere
The Frank Anthony Public School	Jeydev CS & Pranav K
RV College Of Engineering	Arun Panchapakesan & Vijay Ramesh
MSRIT	Maitrey
RNSIT	Amit and Ashish
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	SUBHASHISH K & SUMIT AGARWAL
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	SHAH NAWAZ & ARIHANT KOCHAR
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	VASUDEV CHATTERJI & JUSTIN SHAWN
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	RONAK JAIN & ANKAN DUTTA
St Joseph’s College of Commerce	Ariya Das and Siddharth Pai

SCHOOL

Institution	Team
BISHOP COTTON GIRLS’ SCHOOL	Rabia Suzanne Angiras
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	Abishek Shetty & Anirup Doshi
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	Aditya Mohan & Siddharth Gupta
BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL	Jayadithya & Sagar Gupta
CHRIST SCHOOL	SHIRISHA B REDDY & SINCHITHA . S
CHRIST SCHOOL	SUHAS K C & AKASH PATIL
CHRIST SCHOOL	SHASHANK C & SUMANTH C
CHRIST SCHOOL	CHAVAN D & ALDEN D’SOUZA
CHRIST SCHOOL	VISHAL S & PAVAN P
Innisfree House School	Anusha Kamath M & Aishwarya Vishwanath
Innisfree House School	Pavan B Garadi & Vishnu Madhusudhan
National Hill View Public School	Rohan S K and Pratyush Pradhan
National Hill View Public School	Bhargavi N A and Shivani Kundur

OPEN

Praveen & Santosh
Chandrashkar V & Gautham Raju
D. Dharmendra
Nexus
The Wild Ones
Team Betta
WALTW(o)
The Two Bs of Quizzing: Bald (B)eagles

February 6, 2012 | Filed Under News, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Quizzes on Saturday 4 February 2012

We will hold three Open quizzes on Saturday, 4 February 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

EVENT I
Lao Me Thanda
The annual quiz on Love, Sex and other associated disorders.

QM: Arul Mani

RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Open to all, but we’d like the participants to each be above 18.

Schedule:
Prelims: 1030hrs onwards
Finals: 1130-1300hrs

Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

EVENT II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Open written quiz on speculative fiction.

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.

Schedule:
1400-1530hrs

Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

EVENT III
Cannabis Indica
The Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.

QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma

RULES:
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.

Schedule:
Prelims: 1600-1700hrs
Finals: 1730-1900hrs

Prizes for the first three places.

January 31, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Oikoumene – A Quiz on Wildlife and the Environment

St. Joseph’s College will hold Oikoumene, a quiz on Wildlife and the Environment, on Saturday 15 December 2012, in partnership with KQA.

The quiz is being held to commemorate the life and work of Fr. Cecil Saldanha SJ, eminent botanist and author of an in-depth study of the Western Ghats that continues to be central to India’s biodiversity claims.

The quiz has three levels of competition: High School, College and Open.

The venue is Xavier Hall, PG Block, St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road, Bangalore 560027. (Opp. the main buildings on Langford Road, between Divyashree Chambers and Double Road)

RULES

Teams of two members for school , college and open events.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50 per team for school and college.
Entry Fee Rs. 100/- per team for open.
School=Std VIII, IX and X
College=PUC/XI+XII/ Undergrad/Post Graduate
Open: Any two individuals can team up.
NO limit on the number of entries per institution
No mixed teams for school/college
Cap of two teams per institution in the school/college finals

SCHEDULE
High School Quiz
Registration: 0900hrs
Quiz Prelims: 0930hrs-1000hrs
On-Stage Finals: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Prizes: 1145hrs

College Quiz
Registration: 1230hrs
Quiz Prelims: 1300hrs-1330hrs
On-Stage Finals: 1400hrs-1500hrs
Prizes: 1515hrs

Open Quiz
Registration: 1500hrs
Quiz Prelims: 1530hrs-1615hrs
On-Stage Finals: 1645-1745hrs
Prizes: 1800hrs

QM: Arul Mani, with assists from the Quiz Club, St. Joseph’s College.

VENUE
Xavier Hall, Post-Graduate Block,
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Langford Road, Bangalore 560027
(Opp. St. Joseph’s College Undergraduate Block on Langford Road).

For more details, please call any one of the following numbers:
St. Joseph’s College Quiz Club Coordinator: 97312-14519

January 25, 2012 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

Quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012

We will hold two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.

The first event is the Solus Rex contest in an all-new format.

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das

Rules:
Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-

Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1330hrs

Prizes for all finalists

The second event on the 15th is a Ruckus Tangdi Quiz featuring unused questions from the recently held MindSweep 2012.

QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani

Rules
Open to team of four members.
Team compositions will be rudely altered.
Teams get ranking points only if they field all members during registration.

Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

Schedule:
Prelims: 1500hrs
Finals: 1615-1830hrs

Prizes for all finalists

January 12, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments

232 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 12 cities this year.

Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.

Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) —Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.

This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.

The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 12 cities. The four other places in the semi-finals will go to the teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city. These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi) and Mad O’ What (64/Mumbai). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2011–Results

Q.E.D (Chennai) have won the Mega-Whats title for the third year running. They scored 85. The runner-up position was shared by MetaQuizziks (Bangalore) and Insignificant Others (Chennai) on 78. The top 80 scores (provisional) can be viewed here: TOP 80 MW2011

232 teams took part in all.

The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.

PANAJI

20 teams appeared

OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M) 52
COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash, Ashin, Akshay Surendra) 27
SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal) 11

PUNE

19 teams appeared

OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar) 57
COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar) 33

KOLKATA

12 teams appeared

OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) 75
COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal) 30
SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu) 16

HYDERABAD

17 teams appeared

OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava ) 69
COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram) 35
SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath) 16

NEW DELHI

26 teams appeared

OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi) 70
COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev) 11

DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7^th question using the score-comparison method.

CHENNAI

21 teams appeared.

OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan) 85
COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan) 29
SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

20 teams appeared

OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi) 39
COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath) 05

CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2^nd question using the score-comparison method.

THRISSUR

12 teams appeared

OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar) 60
COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram, Sruthi: 10
SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09

MUMBAI

14 teams appeared

OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu), 70
COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya 37

BANGALORE

41 teams appeared

OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh) 78
COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team) 37
SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team) 08

COIMBATORE

11 teams appeared

OPEN: TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj) 09
SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram) 03

MYSORE

19 teams appeared

OPEN: TWO AND A HALF MEN (Aarthi, Shyam, Hari) 24
COLLEGE: SJCE (Abhishek CHauhan, Rajat VS, Kevin Paul, Adithya) 15
SCHOOL: SADVIDYA HIGH SCHOOL (Manish, Jayadatta, Pranav, Rohan) 04

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment

Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz

Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.

You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/298602.html

You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/278371.html
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/229294.html
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/2009/01/04/

and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.com/4262.html

A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.

Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.

December 24, 2011 | Filed Under News, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2011 – The Complete Quiz

The all-India (and some overseas!) results for Mega-Whats 2011 will be announced in a few days, but here’s the quiz for all those that might have missed it on the 11th. Or maybe those that want to spot their favourite “succulent karoo” questions once more.

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December 13, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes | 1 Comment

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