ASKQANCE 2009
KQA celebrates the 26th anniversary of its founding this year. This year’s ASKQANCE, our anniversary quiz festival, will feature six quizzes to be held over two successive Sundays at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore
The Dates
Sunday 28 June 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
The Venue
Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore
The Quizzes
28 June 2009
We will hold two Open Quizzes on Sunday 28 June 2009:
Son of Lumiere – Open Film Quiz
QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange
Prelims 1015hrs and Finals at 1100hrs
Teams of two members, Regn: Rs. 50/-
Mahaquizzer Ceremony
Sesame — Annual Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
Registrations start at 1500hrs, followed by prelims. Finals at 1630hrs
Teams of 4 members, Regn: Rs. 50/-
5 July 2009
KQA Middle School Championships
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1030hrs to 1130hrs
Teams of three members, No Entry Fee.
KQA High School Championships
QM: Dibyendu Das
1200hrs-1430hrs
Teams of two members, No Entry Fee
KQA Intercollegiate Championships
QMs: Venkatesh S. and Vivek Kartikeyan.
Teams of three members
Separate finals for Junior College(XI/XII or PUC) and College (PUC to PG)
Prelims at 1500hrs
Junior College Final at 1600hrs
College Final at 1700hrs.
Quizzes on Sunday 8 March 2009
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday, 8th March 2009, at the
Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore .
The details:
B’ZKASHI
KQA’s Open Business Quiz
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arul Mani
B’zkashi is open to all–corporates, students and the general public.
RULES
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100-1300hrs
Prizes
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1500/-
III: Rs. 1000/-
and Rs. 500 for the other finalists.
KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
The Ladies Quiz is open to all women quizzers, irrespective of age or
affiliation.
RULES
Teams of three
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1300hrs
Finals: 1400-1500hrs
Prizes:
I: Rs.1500/-
II: Rs. 1200/-
III: Rs. 900/-
prizes for all finalists
KQA Open Quiz for Families
QM: Arul Mani
RULES
Teams of three (not four as announced earlier)
Team composition: Parent/s & Children or Siblings. Please don’t do the
cousin thing.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1800hrs
Prizes
I: Rs.1500/-
II: Rs. 1200/-
III: Rs. 900/-
prizes for all finalists
For details or directions, please contact Roshan (98452-10091)
All three are English-language events.
Quizzes 2008-2009: Results
July Open Quiz at BrewHaHa
QMS: Manjith and Praveen
- Waltwo : 205
- MQ : 155
- Insert Cool Name and Yaake: 135
- Blank due to tie
- Team 8:110
- Not Raju’s Henchmen: 95
- Shot in the Dark: 95
- Latecomers: 75
Ranking points: WALTWO (15), MQ (12), ICNH and Yaake (10), Team 8 (5), Not Raju’s Henchmen (3), Shot in the Dark (2) and Latecomers (1).
Lone Wolf conducted on 14 Sept 2008
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Scores: Varun Rajiv
- Arul Mani: 140
- Anustup Datta: 80
- Rahul Kottalgi:75
- Arun Hiregange:65
- Debashree Mitra:45
- Ochintya Sharma:45
- Vijay TSR:40
- Manu Sudhakar:15
Ranking points
Arul Mani (15), Anustup Datta: (12), Rahul Kottalgi (10), Arun Hiregange (7), Debashree Mitra and Ochintya Sharma (5), Vijay TSR (2) and Manu Sudhakar (1).
Intercollegiate Quiz on 14 Sept 2008
QM Arul Mani
Scores: Dibyo
- NLSIU (Varun Rajiv, Abhishek Krishnan and team): 125
- MSRIT (Nishanth, Santosh and Rahul Jadhav): 110
- BMS (Manaswi and Rahul): 105
- CMRIT (Sohan, Vinay and Razi): 80
- NLSIU (Arvind ,Pranav and Rishabh): 75
- IIM Bangalore (Debashree Mitra and team): 75
- Trivandrum Medical College (Manu Sudhakar): 72.5
- Christ College of Law (Anurag and Vinay): (30)
Ranking points
NLSIU-A (15), MSRIT (12), BMS (10), CMRIT (7), NLSIU-B (5), IIM-B (5), Trivandrum Medical College (2) and Christ College of Law (1)
Persiflage 2008 conducted on 14 Sept 2008
QM: Arul Mani
Scores: G. Raghu
- MQ (Cheriyan, Mitesh, Varun Rajiv and Dibyo): 145
- Sistah and Team(Debashree Mitra et al): 121 following tie
- Drunkadelics (Manu Sudhakar and team): 120.5 following tie
- Hrithik Sampat, Subarna Sampat, Vivek Cheriyan et al: 120 following tie
- WALTWO (Ochintya, Anustup, Appu and Thejaswi): 95
- Thought Gang (Ashwan, Siby, Avinash Thirumalai and Sid): 80
- Questionable Characters (Hiranyappa, DD, Chandrashekhar and team): 75
- Triskaidecaphobia: 65
Ranking points
MQ (7.5), Sistah (6), Drunkadelics (5), Hrithik and team (3.5), Waltwo (2.5), Thought Gang (1.5), QCs (1), Triskaidecaphobia (0.5)
Mysore Quizzes: The Results
High School Quiz
50 teams took part in the School Quiz held at the SDM-IMD auditorium in Mysore. The quiz was conducted by Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy.
The results:
- Ganesh A and Venkatram Belvadi of Acharya Vidya Kula won the quiz
- II: Haridev and Vaishak of Sadvidya
- III: Prakrithi and Madhuri Sampath of Sadvidya
- IV:Sushruth and Deepak of Sadvidya
- IV: Laksh Kumar and Pruthvi Bharadwaj of Acharya Vidya Kula
- VI: Manohar and Ishaana of JSS Public School
- VII: Aakarsh and Pareekshith of St. Joseph’s Central High School
Intercollegiate Quiz
Forty teams took part in the Intercollegiate quiz. The quiz was conducted by Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai.
The results
I: MSRIT – Rahul, Santosh and Srikanth
II: SJCE-Mysore: Ashwini B.M, Nickil Somanna and Vikas
III: NLSUI – Badrinarayan and Manish
IV:RVCE –Nakul P.S
V:NIE – Nikhil Kaundinya, Chaitanya AK and Swikrath GK
VI: SDM-IMD – Anil Jagadish, Ramakrishna and Tejasvi Nathan
VI: NIE – Arun Kumar, Arjun and Pavan HS
VIII: Sadvidya PU College – Sachin Phatak, Mohith NP and Shashank Das
Open Quiz
25 teams took part in the Open Quiz. The quiz was conducted by Arul Mani.
I: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa
II: Venkatesh, Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha and Nagesh
III: Avinash Thirumalai, Siby Kuriakose, Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy
IV; Sandeep Achar, Thanuj and Naren
V: Shashishekhar, Vikas, Kaustubh and Ravi Shekar aka The Mysoreans
VI: Rahul, Srikanth, Nakul and Santosh
VII: Anil Jagadish and team (SDM-IMD)
VII: Rajesh Haldipur, Sundareshan, Manoj and Sandeep
KQA Open Quiz on 20 July
Praveen and Manjith ( formerly of NIT-Kozhikode) will conduct a ranking Open Quiz on Sunday 20 July 2008 at the coffee-shop BrewHaHa in Koramangala.
The quiz starts at 1100hrs sharp. Please be on time–we have to wind up by 2pm.
Rules
- Teams of 4
- Open to all
- Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
- Prelims: 1100hrs sharp
- Finals: 1145hrs sharp
- Prizes for all finalists
The Venue: BrewHaHa is about two doors away from Jyoti Nivas College.
http://www.brewhaha.in for more details
KQA Quizzes in Mysore
We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday 13 July in Mysore as part
of our Silver Jubilee Season.
The venue is sponsored by the SDM Institute of Management Development,
Mysore.
The details
Date: Sunday 13 July 2008
Venue: Yoga Hall, SDM-IMD , Mysore
Events:
High School Quiz
Open to teams of two members
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1000hrs sharp
QM: Varun Shenoy
Intercollegiate Quiz
Open to teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1230hrs
QM: Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai
Open Quiz
Teams of four members
No entry fee
Prelims: 1530hrs sharp
QM: Arul Mani
Teams are requested to report at the venue at least 30 minutes before
the event starts. No prior registration is required. For more details
call Varun (9964666528) /Arul Mani (9731214519).
To reach the venue:
SDM IMD is on Chamundi Hill road. Please carry identification–this is required since the Chief Minister is addressing a gathering at another venue on the same campus.
ASKQANCE 2008 Results
We would like to thank all of you for helping to make ASKQANCE 2008 a
success. A special word of thanks goes out to our sponsors, TVS Tyres,
for their support.
For the record, the collegiate quizzes attracted a total of 110 teams
with the top spots being taken by SVCE (Chennai) and NLSIU-A
(Bangalore) BMSCE finished third. . The Junior College event was won
by SBM Jain College, with NPS-Indiranagar and FAPS taking 2nd and 3rd
spots.
The Bangalore Quiz was won by Rajeev Gowda and Anustup Datta.
G.S.Hiranyappa and Chandrashekhar teamed up to take the second place.
Previous winners Thejaswi Udupa and Karthik Shashidhar finished third.
The entertainment quiz attracted 45 teams. The Chennai outfit
Treebeard (JK, Gopal, Sumo and team) won the quiz, followed by
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Satyajit Chetri, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul
Mani) in second place. The third place was taken by Bang Hoes (Udatta
and team).
120 teams wrote the High School quiz prelims.The event was dominated
by teams from the various branches of the Sri Kumaran’s institutions
with their ICSE team eventually winning the quiz. NPS Rajajinagar
finished second.
Sriram from NPS-R’nagar won the solo title, followed by Arvind (FAPS)
in second place and Athith from Kumaran’s ICSE in third place.
60 teams took the Open Quiz prelims. Special prizes for best school
and best college were claimed by Sishu Griha and NPS-Indirangar
respectively.
The TVS Ride Smart Round for teams placing 9-16 in the prelims was won
by Questionable Characters, followed by Metaquizziks in second place.
Other qualifiers included Raju and His Henchmen,Guessworks,Mustafa,
Takemytrip.com, Nexus, and Namesake. All eight qualifiers received prizes.
The Finals were a truly national affair–5 out of the 8 places were
taken by non-Bangalore teams. The quiz was eventually won by We Are
Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and
Thejaswi Udupa). Arul and His Technicoloured Kurta (from Chennai- JK,
Sumo, Vinod and Sreeram) finished Second, losing top spot by a narrow
margin of 10 points. QED-Chennai (Samanth, Swami, Gopal Kidao and
Rajiv Rai) shook off a slumbersome start to finish Third. The other
finalists included Revenge of the Sith (New Delhi – Dr. Bhattacharya
and team), Insert Cool Name Here, Swami and Friends (Hyderabad), No
Questions Asked and a team from Mumbai (Amit Varma, Udatta and others)
The Informal Sports Quiz was won by Vinod (36 points), followed by
Harish (24.5) and Manish (22) in second and third spots. The
quizmasters decided to limit the prizes to three because only about a
dozen of the fifty people who took the quiz returned their sheets:)
The results for the Informal Science Quiz set by PS Rajagopal for
ASKQANCE are as follows:
Samanth – 17
Sriharsha V Bhat – 11
Ajay Parasuram – 7
Suraj R Nair (FAPS) – 3
Both informals are available for download at http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/
Thanks are due to the quizmasters Rajeev Gowda, Ochintya Sharma,
Thejaswi Udupa,Kiran Vijayakumar, Madhav Nair,Vivek Karthikeyan,
Venkatesh, Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal, Rajagopal PS and Arun
Hiregange for the effort they made to ensure that the quizzes were
both challenging and interesting.
Askqance – The KQA Silver Jubilee Quiz Festival
The Karnataka Quiz Association celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this year. ASKQANCE 2008, our anniversary quiz festival will now feature nine quizzes to be held over two days.
This year’s ASKQANCE is supported by TVS Tyres who also celebrate their 25th anniversary.
The Dates:
- Saturday 28th June 2008
- Sunday 29th June 2008
The Venues:
Saturday 28th June
Old Hall, St. Joseph’s Boys High School
Museum Road
Bangalore
Sunday 29th June
Purandara Bhavan
(Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha)
8th Main Road
(Near Indiranagar Club)
The Quizzes
Quizzes on Saturday, 28th June
KQA Intercollegiate Championships
(featuring two separate finals for junior college and collegiate teams)
3-member teams
No entry fee
No mixed teams allowed
Registration: 09:30a.m.
Start: 10:00a.m. sharp
Junior Finals: 11:00a.m.-12:00 noon
College Finals: 1200 noon -1:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000 to be won.
QMs: Ochintya Sharma, Rajeev Gowda and Thejaswi Udupa
Hubbubb-a!
The Third edition of the Bangalore Quiz
2-member teams
Open to all
Entry fee: Rs. 50/-
Start: 1:30 p.m
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani
Open Entertainment Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 200/-
Start: 3:00p.m.
Finals: 4:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 20,000/- to be won
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Madhav Nair
Venkatesh and Vivek Karthikeyan will coordinate an Informal Sports
Quiz beginning at 1:00p.m. The best five individual entries in this written
contest will win prizes.
Quizzes on Sunday, 29th June (at Purandara Bhavan)
Cognito
High School Quiz Championships
Teams of 2 members
A maximum of 6 teams per school
No entry fee
Prelims: 10 a.m
QM: Dibyendu Das
High School Solo Championship
Start: 12:30 p.m
QM: Mitesh Agarwal
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000/-
Sesame – The Open Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prelims: 2p.m.
TVS Tyres Ride Smart Round: 3:30pm
Finals: 4:15p.m.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
Prizes totalling Rs. 25,000/-
KQA Silver Jubilee Ceremonies
6:00 p.m
All prizes and certificates will be given out during the ceremonies.
A map to help those who need directions to Purandara Bhavan for the quizzes on 29th June:
Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz
Date: Sunday, 21 October 2007
Venue: Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram
QM: Jayakanthan R (QFI-Chennai)
Prelims: 1030hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/-
The Texas Instruments Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz
The Texas Instruments Foundation announces the 5th edition of the Jack
Kilby Science and Technology Quiz!
* No entry fee.
* High school students of class 8, 9 and 10 are eligible.
* Each school can register multiple teams of 2 students each.
* Not more than two teams from the same school will qualify for the
regional finals.
* The decision of the quiz master is final and binding.
The dates
CHENNAI
Friday, October 26, 2007
09:30 am – 01:00 pm
Kumararaja Muttaiah Hall, R. A. Puram
Contact +91 99400 28541 to register
DELHI
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
09:30 am – 01:00 pm +91 80 2509 9115
Kamani Auditorium, 1, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register
BANGALORE
Sunday, November 11, 2007
12:00 pm – 03:00 pm
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register
The regional round in Bangalore will be followed by a National Final
where the three regional winners will vie for top spot.
NATIONAL FINAL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
4 pm onwards
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore
Go to http://www.tiif.org/Registration_Process.htm for information on
how to register.
Ochintya Sharma, President, KQA, will host the quiz.
Prizes
Regional winners get Robotic kits, Telescopes, Binoculars,
Microscopes, High-end TI Calculators, Book coupons and Trophies among
other prizes.
The National winners stand to win prizes worth more than Rs. One Lakh!
SPECIAL PRIZES for the best all-girls team!
More details at http://www.tiif.org/About_JKQuiz.htm
