Quiz on Sunday 28 March 2010
We will hold an Open Quiz on Sunday, 28th March 2010 (scheduled to start at 4pm) at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The other quizzes scheduled for the 28th have been postponed to allow members to cast their votes at the BBMP Elections which will be conducted across the city from 7am to 5pm.
Registrations: 4pm
Prelims: 4:30 pm
Finals: 5:30pm to 7:30 pm
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
QMs: Karthik Shashidhar, Aadisht Khanna and others of the team No Enthu Da.
No Enthu Da will conduct the quiz simultaneously at Chennai and Mumbai.
Prizes for all finalists.
Solus Rex finals in April 2010
The Solus Rex finals will be held on a Sunday in April. The date will be announced once we have a confirmed booking.
Topics
1. Fictional Detectives
i.e. created in books. Those which started off in movies or comics not included.
2. Indian Scientists and Mathematicians
i.e. those of Indian origin. Foreign scientists who worked here or were born here are not included. Indians who were born abroad or worked abroad are included.
The Finalists
Rahul Kottalgi, Harish R., Debashree Mitra, Anustup Datta, and Ochintya Sharma
The Quizmasters
Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
Prizes
Rs. 1000/- for the winner and Rs. 500/- for the other finalists
Best Questions
Members, with the exception of the finalists, are welcome to send in questions on these topics. While these will not be used in the finals, the quiz-masters will pick the five best questions from the entries received. Book-coupons of Rs. 500/- each will be awarded to the winners chosen thus.
The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz
The fifth edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz will be
held on Sunday, 21 March 2010 at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram,
Bangalore.
QM: Mitesh Agarwal
Schedule
Registrations: 0930hrs
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100-1230hrs
The Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Prizes for all finalists
Those who remember Wingco are welcome to join us in a short memorial
moment immediately before the prelims (0955hrs-1000hrs) .
Lao Me Thanda, South Indian Films and Ruckus Tangdi Quizzes – Results
he results of three quizzes held on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 160
2. Nishanth & Rahul – 110
3. Rajath & Santosh – 100
4. Arun Hiregange & Anil Raghavan – 90
5. Shenoy & Venkat – 40
6. Vinod & Ananth / Aditi & Neha – tied at 30
8. Rini & Ambar – 20
Uncle’s Fault: A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
QM: Arul Mani
1. Dr. Krishnan & Anil Raghavan – 29
2. Shenoy & Venkat – 23
3. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 21
4. Arun & Raju – 18.5
5. Vinod & Ananth – 13.5
6. Sana & Patrick / Nishanth & Srikanth – tied on 13
Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: S. Venkatesh & Vivek Karthikeyan
1. Ananth, Holla, Arun Hiregange – 145
2. Cheriyan, Arun, Rajagopal – 125
3. Arul Mani, Abhay, Maitrey – 117.5
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi, Sairam, Raj Tejas – 100
5. Santosh, Kaustuba, Vinod – 87.5
6. Shenoy, Abhishek, Goutham – 77.5
7. Vijay TSR, Sudarshan, Jayanth – 70
8. Rajath, Sohan, Ambar – 70
Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa, with inputs from Dibyojyoti Haldar
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
This is the fourth of our five ranking Specialist Open quizzes for the season
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115-1315hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1315-1400hrs
EVENT II
The Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
Open to all
Teams of two members
Written: 50 questions
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1400hrs
Duration: 1415hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The Families Quiz
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
We recognise siblings, couples, parents with children, and various combinations thereof as family teams. Cousins, elaborate family trees and other such dodges are not welcome.
Members are requested to persuade spouses/parents/ children/ siblings and to turn up. Please pass the word around as well.
Open to all
Teams of three members or less.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Registrations: 1515hrs
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1615-1730hrs
Please call 97312-14519 if you need more information.
Quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
LAO ME THANDA
KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
Censorship is for finks, but the nature of the quiz requires us to restrict entry to those who are above the age of 18.
RULES
Teams of two members
Open to all (Age 18 and above)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes for I, II and III places.
QM: Arul Mani
1300hrs-1400hrs
LUNCH-BREAK
EVENT II
UNCLE’S FAULT
A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
Open to teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
50 questions
1400hrs to 1500hrs
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
General Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1800hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMS: Venky and Kivi of Nexus.
Karan Arjun Quiz for Std III and IV, Ranking High School Quiz & Seek Under Porus, The Open History Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange
Std III
1. National Public School Rajajinagar (Shravasti Sarkar, Sandhya R, Nidhi Prakash, Tanvi F) – 130
2. National Academy For Learning (Madhavi N Rao, Aryaan S Anand, Rithvik Panchapakesan, Sumedh Niyogi) – 120 (2nd by tie-break)
3. National Hill View Public School (Vignesh Srikanth, Meghana Deepali Rao, Vaishnav V Rao, Sathya Krishna KR) – 120
4. CMR National Public School (Mohith, Divya, Dhanush, Lalitha) & Innisfree House School (Raghvan, Anirudh, Aditya, Abhishek) – 120 (joint 4th)
6. Aurobindo (Ganapathi, Hima Trisha M, Prakrith Keshav, Sowmyaa) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Parvathy, Soundarya, Srikar, Sanjana) – 115 (joint 6th)
8. Aurobindo (Anoushka, Ajay, Arjun, Harsha) – 110
Std IV
1. CMR National Public School (Ria Melanie Picardo, Arkaprovo Ghosh, K. Aparna, Jatin Raghav N) – 110
2. National Hill View Public School (Suraj, Shreyas, Karthik, Srinidhi) – 105
3. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Sathvik K Bharadwaj, Arjun M, Aniruddh HM, Raghunandan Sriram) – 95 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Tanya, Parikshith, Srinath, Sindhu) – 95
5. Mallya Aditi International School (Rishika, Nikhil, Sumer, Vidisha) & National Academy For Learning (Nacheketa, Prakriti, Raaga, Akul) – 85 (joint 5th)
7. Innisfree House School (Shradda, Varsha, Snehal, Aakansh) – 80
8. National Public School Rajajinagar (HS Shashank, Varun Shah, M Sreyas, Himanshu S Jog) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Ashwin Alarparthi, Navaneeth Raghunath, Kaushik Sengupta) – 75 (joint 8th)
Ranking Inter High School Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Sri Kumaran Public School (Athith K, Subham Nandy) – 75
2. Innisfree House School (Karansinha Patil, Rushati Mukherjee) – 65
3. St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Chirag Prince, Anirudh) – 60
4. National Public School Koramangala (Kavya, Nirmal) – 45
5. Frank Anthony Public School (Mollika M, Prashanth TK) – 40
6. MESKK (Krishna Kumar, Pavan MR) – 30
7. National Public School Rajajinagar (Krishna AK, Ameya Koushik) – 25
8. National Hill View Public School (Sethupati, Parantap) – 5
Seek Under Porus : The Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
1. MetaQuizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Sandip Sen, Varun Rajiv) – 175
2. QC+Mustafa (Hiranyappa, Debashree Mitra, Dibyendu Das, Vijay TSR) – 155
3. Dirty Ghetto Kids (Harry, Rahul, Nishanth and team)- 150
4. WALTWo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 135
5. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat, Shenoy) – 95
6. Deviprasad V, Rajagopal, Subrat – 80
7. Rahul Girish Kumar and Harikrishnan A – 67.5
8. Anirudh and team – 30
Quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
1000hrs to 1200hrs
Teams of FOUR members
Two teams per school for Std II and Std IV.
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange.
EVENT II
Ranking Inter High School Quiz.
1230hrs to 1430hrs
Teams of 2 members
Two teams per school
Open to Std VIII, IX and X
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per school
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
The third of our Specialist Open Quizzes
Seek Under Porus
The much-awaited Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
1500hrs to 1830hrs
Go Ogle 2010 – Results
The results of Go Ogle 2010 are as follows:
One hundred and twelve individuals signed up to participate. Fifteen competitors completed the quiz.
The Winner : Arun Hiregange 68
The Runner-up : Thejaswi Udupa 65
Other scores
3. Jayakanthan R. 52.5
4. Siddhartha Sen 38
5. Hrishikesh Varma 29
6. Vivek Krishnan and Archiman Dutta: 28
8. Balakrishnan 26.5
9. Varun Shenoy 26
10. Sandeep Mathias 23.5
11. Abhijeet 21
12. Atul Mathew and Arun Kumar 09
14. Atith Kuduvalli 8.5
15. Pranav VC: 02
Go Ogle 2010
We will run Go Ogle, our annual online quiz on 1st Jan 2010. This is the fifth edition of the quiz.
The questions will be posted at 1600hrs and will stay up, by popular demand, till 0700hrs on 2nd January 2010.
Go Ogle is a quiz that adds a few layers of meaning to the idea of working things out–a discovery you will make when you attempt the quiz.
The quiz will be posted at our community blog Daly Haal
http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes
This year’s prizes:
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1000/-
in book-coupons from Blossom Book Shop, Bangalore.
Open to solo contestants only, irrespective of age or location. No prior registration is required–however since the blog-community is open only to members, please make sure your membership has been approved before 1 Jan 2010. More details in the next paragraph.
If you are interested in signing up–please create a Livejournal account for yourself. Once you have completed this process–similar to opening an email account–you can send a request for inclusion in the community (please include your given name, the name you are using on Livejournal and the city that you wish to appear from) to arul.mani@gmail. com.
