College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
College Lone Wolf
1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5
PU Lone Wolf
1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8
EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9
EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third
Quizzes on Saturday 12 November 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
Rules
Open to solo entrants who are currently either PUC/XI & XII or Undergraduate/PG students
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per head
Common Prelims, followed by separate finals
Unlimited entries, but no more than two from an institution in the finals.
Prizes for all finalists.
Schedule
Prelims: 1030-1115hrs
PU Lone Wolf Finals: 1145-1230hrs
College Lone Wolf Finals: 1230-1315hrs
EVENT II
Sense a Femur
The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
Rules
Written, 40 questions
No bicycling!
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for the top three teams
Schedule
1400-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Who or what is an AJM?
What the duck is an Open House quiz?
How can you have an Open Quiz without prelims?
What about my team?
Is this some woolly, hippie, liberal nonsense?
For answers to these, and some of the other mysteries of life, please meet
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal, Arul Mani, Varun Shenoy and Abhishek Upadhya.
Rules
Prior registration essential
To register, please RSVP at http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/eb8j8jjh6kck776hg
Please take your seats by 1515hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head, pay on the spot.
High Tea at 1830
Mega-Whats 2012
The fourth edition of Mega-Whats, KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship will be held on December 9, 2012.
Schedule: 1500hrs-1830hrs
The details:
Date: Sunday, 9 December 2012
Time: 1500hrs-1830hrs
- General quiz, open to all.
- Teams of FOUR members (or less).
- Prior registration is essential.
- To register, please use the form on this page.
- Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team; also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college or open categories
- Registrations will close on Tuesday 4th December 2012. City co-ordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
- Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
- School teams (stds. VIII-XII) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.
- Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.
- Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
- Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.
- The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.
- We will rank the top 100 teams across the country
- The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.
- The city-winners will face off in June 2013 as part of KQAs 30th Anniversary.
For more details, please call Arul Mani at 097312-14519
REGISTRATION
Online registration is now closed. Registrations may be taken at venues if there is space to accommodate teams.
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial, Comics, Ganesh Nayak Memorial Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzing events held on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth
1. NITK (Samarth, Srinivas, Chaitanya) – 114
2. RNSIT (Amit, Ashish) – 88
3. IIMB (Vishwas, Kalai, Katoch) – 79
4. FAPS (Jeydev, Mollika, Pranav) – 68
5. RVCE (Abhineet, Pallavi, Sreenivas) – 51
6. NLS (Pranav, Srikanth, Vikram) – 50
7. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 48
8. RNSIT (Nitin, Rohit, Abhin) – 39
Event II. Cartoons Quiz
QM: Sandeep Mathias
1. Sana & Sumeer – 27
2. Santosh & Sohan – 20
3. Pranav & Mollika – 18
4. Ajay & Ananth – 16
5. Raju & TKB – 11.5
6. Nakul & Nishanth – 10
7. Amit & Suraj – 7
8. Dibyendu & Nambirajan – 6
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin “The Machine” Rajaram
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 327
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 300
3. Alagarsamy, TK Balaji, Rajagopal, Latish – 295
4. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Sandeep Mathias and team) – 207
5. Uncool Is the New Cool (Shamanth, Sudarshan, Lakshana, Chitra) – 170
6. Shura (Ashwan, Ramesh, Shiv, Urmila) – 150
7. Dharmendra, Raghu, Mukka, Ganja – 148
8. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jitin Jacob & team) – 95
Quizzes on Saturday 29 October 2011
We will hold three quizzing events on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events:
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
RULES
Teams of three members
Open to teams from XI/XII/PUC, Undergraduate and PG institutions
No mixed teams
Colleges can send any number of teams–only the best two will qualify for the finals.
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for all finalists
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth.
Schedule
Registrations: 1015hrs-1030hrs
Prelims: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Finals: 1145hrs-1330hrs
Event II. Cartoons Quiz-Written
QM: Sandeep Matthias
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top three teams.
Schedule
1415hrs-1515hrs
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Conducted by Team Nexus: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin Rajaram
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-per team
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1645hrs-1830hrs
We will hold another set of KQA events in the second week of November 2011.
Mega-Whats 2011, the National Open Quizzing Championships, will be held on Sunday, 11 December 2011. We have limited seating at the Bangalore venue. Please register early to ensure seating–send team name, names of all four members and one contact number in a mail with the subject header Mega-Whats 2011-Bangalore to kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
ABBA Ke Zamane Mein, Hubbub-a, Ruckus Tangdi – Results
The results of three open quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
1. Alagarsamy & Rajagopal – 200 (won by sudden-death tie-break)
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 200
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 165
4. Nishanth & Rajath – 115
5. Suresh Ramasubramaniam & Iftikhar Burhanuddin – 110
6. Venkatesh S. & Ashwan Lewis – 85
7. Urmila & Shiv – 80
8. Rossellini – Posalini – 70
EVENT II: Hubbub-a, The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar
1. Arul Mani & Arun Hiregange – 33.5
2. Nishanth & Rajath – 32
3. Rajat & Jayant – 31
4. Venkatesh S. & Vivek Karthikeyan – 29.5
5. Aditya & Co. – 29
6. Padmashri R & Sudarshan MA / Amicus Curious – tied on 28
8. Ochintya Sharma & Dr. NVS Krishnan – 25.5
EVENT III: Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.
1. SRS, Keshav, Ram, Arul – 385
2. Ajay, Rohan, Suraj, Appu – 215
3. Srikari, Vikram, Sachin, Santosh – 205
4. Sumer, Rajat, Raouf, Suhit – 180
5. Aditya, Anirudh, Rajath, Trisha – 140
6. Tanmay, Hrishi, Nishanth, Navin – 130
7. Danny, Hemant, Venky, Farhan – 120
8. Dhammo, Ifti & team – 90
Quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
Teams of two members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
This year we return to our original focus, so the questions in Abba Ke will cover the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s.
Prizes: for teams finishing I, II and III
Schedule:
Prelims: 1015hrs-1100hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs
Ochintya will start the prelims at 1015hrs as announced, and no questions will be repeated. We have a long Sunday of quizzing, and need to finish early.
EVENT II
Hubbub-a
The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar
Teams of two members
Open to all
Written Quiz on people, places, and local lore.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams finishing I, II and III.
Schedule: 1400hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The September Open Quiz
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.
Team of four members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals: 1700-1830hrs
Please note that questions will not be repeated/cycled through.
PS: Other KQA quizzing dates in the near future
29 October 2011: Vidyasagar Rajan College Quiz, and Ganesh Nayak Open
12 November 2011: High-School and PUC quizzes
No, I’m Chomsky, Food Glorious Food and Persiflage – Results
The results of three Open Quizzes held on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
No, I’m Chomsky – The Without Americana Quiz
QM: Urmila Lakshmanan
1. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Rajagopal, Swaminathan & team) – 133
2. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 113
3. How Can We Slap (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan, Krishnan) – 94
4. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 79
5. No Questions Asked – 70
6. PVC – 64
7. Chennai Team (Sumeer, Pantan, Vinod, Sana) – 50
8. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Iftikar Burhanuddin, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 49
EVENT II
Food, Glorious food – The Annual Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
1. Arul Mani & Mitesh Agarwal – 26
2. Rajesh Mehar & team – 24.5
3. Lakshana & team – 22
4. Gautam Bharali & Ulka Kelkar – 21
5. We Eat This Much Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa & Ochintya Sharma) – 20.5
6. Harikrishnan & Manu Sudhakar / Arun Hiregange & Anustup Datta / Rahul S. Kottalgi & Swaminathan G. – all tied on 18
EVENT III
Persiflage – The Blossom Book House Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Metaquizziks (Swaminathan G., Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 315
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 275
3. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi & team) – 230
4. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 210
5. Resthouse Croissants – 140
6. Gautam + 3 (Gautam Bharali, Ulka Kelkar & team)- 105
7. Aneesh, Sinchana, Debashree, Srikrishna – 100
8. How Can We Slap (Aditya & team) – 65
Oasis Lone Wolf Quiz 2011 – Bangalore Results
Sl. NAME TOTAL STARS
OPEN
1 Arul Mani 93 7
2 Thejaswi Udupa 82.5 8
3 Anustup Datta 82.5 6
4 Arun Hiregange 78 5
5 Rahul S. Kottalgi 73 7
6 Movin Miranda 69.5 6
7 Santosh V Swaminathan 67 5
8 Sumeer Kumar 62 5
9 Alagarsamy 54 5
10 Ochintya Sharma 54 3
11 Navin Rajaram 47 5
12 Raghu Gopalan 46 3
13 Sudarshan M A 45 5
14 Hrishikesh Varma 41 3
15 Venkatesh Srinivasan 38 3
16 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula 31.5 2
17 Ulka Kelkar 31.5 0
18 Ajay Parasuraman 27.5 4
19 Nishanth R C 23 1
20 Mayur Srinivasan 18 0
21 Harold D’Souza 13.5 0
22 Vibhav 13 0
23 V Chandrashekar 12 0
24 Prakash Bagri 6.5 0
25 Amrit Sodhi 2 0
26 Miteshkumar Jain 1 0
COLLEGE
1 Samarth Rangavittal 37 2
2 Sandeep Mathias 34 4
3 Pranav S Ramamurthy 17.5 1
4 Jeydev C S 16 0
5 Pranav Kuttaiah 15.5 0
6 Vijay Ramesh 12 0
7 Akshay Tiwari 11.5 0
8 Nanjundeshwara N 2 0
9 Hayden D’Souza 1 0
10 S Srivastav 1 0
Quizzes on Sunday 11 September 2011
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
No, I’m Chomsky
The Without Americana Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1130-1300hrs
QM: Urmila Lakshmanan
EVENT II
Food, Glorious food
The Annual Food Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Written Quiz: 1400-1500hrs
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
EVENT III
Persiflage
The Blossom Book House Quiz
Open Quiz for teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs
QM: Arul Mani
