Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz and Solus Rex Prelims Results
Results of Canara Union Lone Wolf quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Manjith K.
1. Arul Mani – 110 (winner by tie-break)
2. Anustup Datta – 110
3. Arun Hiregange – 80
4. Harry – 70
5. Debashree Mitra – 55
6. Movin Miranda – 45
7. Mitesh Agarwal – 30
8. Subrat – 15
Qualifiers for Solus Rex 2009
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
1. Arul Mani – 24
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 20.5
3. Rajagopal – 17
4. Praveen V.R. – 16.5
5. Anustup Datta – 15
6. Debashree Mitra – 14
7. Movin Miranda – 14
8. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 13
9. Ochintya Sharma – 12.5
10. Subrat – 12
11. Arun Raghavan – 10.5
12. Sharath – 10.5
13. Venkatesh S. – 10.5
14. Harish Rao – 10
15. Tanmay Prusty – 10
16. Vivek Karthikeyan – 10
17. Mitesh Agarwal – 9.5
18. Harry – 8.5
19. Rajesh M. – 8
20. Rahul Girish Kumar – 7.5
21. Sudarshan M.A. – 7
22. Prajwal N. – 6.5
* Those tied on the same score were ordered in alphabetical order of first name
* Semi-final line-ups were determined by ordering this list tennis style i.e. 1&8, 9&16, 17 in one group; 2&7, 10&15, 18 in one group and so on
* Arun Raghavan and Movin Miranda had to withdraw from the semi-finals because they live outside India
Semi-final 1:
Arul Mani
Ochintya Sharma
Subrat
Harry
Rajesh M.
Semi-final 2:
Thejaswi Udupa
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Sharath
Mitesh Agarwal
Rahul Girish Kumar
Semi-final 3:
Rajagopal
Debashree Mitra
Venkatesh S.
Vivek Karthikeyan
Sudarshan M.A.
Semi-final 4:
Praveen V.R.
Anustup Datta
Harish Rao
Tanmay Prusty
Prajwal N.
The first pair of semi-finals will be conducted in October and the second pair in November. Information about format and dates will be sent out in a few weeks.
Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz and Solux Rex Prelims on Sunday 23 August 2009
The 27th edition of the Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz will be held on
Sunday 23 August 2009.
Venue
Canara Union, 8th Main Malleswaram
Rules
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- (free for school-students)
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Manjith K.
Prizes:
Rs. 500, Rs. 400 and Rs. 300/- plus prizes for all finalists.
In addition,
The preliminaries for the sixth edition of Solus Rex, KQA’s solo quiz loosely based on the Mastermind format, will also be held at the same venue.
20 qualifiers from the preliminary round will sit for semifinals over
October and November, followed by a finals in December, featuring the
winners of the four semifinals and the runner-up with the highest score.
Rules
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Schedule
Registrations: 1000hrs onwards
Solus Rex Prelims: 1030hrs
Lone Wolf Prelims: 1100hrs
Solus Rex results and draw: 1200hrs
Lone Wolf Finals: 1200hrs-1330hrs
All events will start and end as scheduled.
For other details, please contact Arul Mani at 97312-14519 (after 1500hrs every day if you are calling).
There will be two quizzing Sundays on 6th and 20th September at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists. Events planned include Persiflage–the KQA Book Quiz, an Unseeded Open Quiz, and two ranking Open Quizzes. The scheduled school/middle school and college events are postponed to a future date owing to the swine-flu panic.
Copies of the KQA yearbooks will be available for sale at the venue.
ASKQANCE 2009 – Results
KQA celebrated the 26th anniversary of its founding this year. This year’s ASKQANCE, our anniversary quiz festival, featured six quizzes held over two successive Sundays at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
28 June 2009
Son of Lumiere – Open Film Quiz
QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange
1. Rahul Kottalgi and Nishanth (KD): 126
2. Gopal Kidao and TK Balaji (Inglourious Basterd Sons of Lumiere): 110
3. Vibhendu Tiwari and Alagar Swamy: 106
4. Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar (MQ): 98
Thejaswi Udupa and Ochintya Sharma (We Are Like This Wonly): 98
6. Mitesh Agarwal and Varun Rajiv (Chota MQ): 96
7. JK & Samanth (Nobody’s Perfect): 95
8. Vinay Vasisht and Subrat: 47
Sesame — Annual Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. QED (Kidao, JK, Swami, Samanth)
2. Metaquizziks (Cheriyan, Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar)
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa)
4. Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay)
5. Expats (Rishi, Ashwin, Udatta Duarah, Bala)
6. Swami & Friends (Alagar, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Arun)
7. No Questions Asked (Rajeev, Kesavan, Karthik, Shamanth)
8. Pranesh+3 (Pranesh, Ashwin, Vinit, Alok)
5 July 2009
KQA Middle School Championships
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1. N.P.S. Koramangala: Amon, Priyank and Gaurav
2. Innisfree House School: Gaurav Kamath, Sanath S.B. and Gaurav Bagur
3. N.P.S. , Rajajinagar: Darshan B., Manasa J. and Radha K.
4. N.H.V.P.S: Srujan S.R., Karthik Y. and Sathvika A.
5. F.A.P.S. : Akhil Nori, P.K. Kasturi and Manas Nair
6. Presidency N.L.O. : Pavan Rao K., Trivikrama M. and Likhit N.
7. Sri Kumaran Public School: Sagar B.M., Ananth A. and Vinayak S.
8. Sishu Griha : Vibha S., Shashank and Chidambaram
KQA High School Championships
QM: Dibyendu Das
1. Sri Kumaran Public School: Athith K. and Subham Nandy
2. Sri Kumaran Public School (ICSE): Abhiram J. and Akhila K. J.
3. Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home (CBSE) : Madhusudan Raman and Aditya Chatterjee
4. Clarence High School: Toby George Sam and Aloshy Reji Mepram
5. Mallya Aditi: Srivats and Dhruv Manchala
6. National Hill View Public School: Sethupathi K. and Parantap Chakrabarti
7. N.P.S. Koramangala: Janani Ram and Prathyusha Jwalapuram
8. N.P.S. Koramangala: Rooshil Shah and Madhusudan S.
KQA Inter College Championships
QMs: Venkatesh S. and Vivek Karthikeyan
1. MSRIT : Nishant, Rahul and Shrikanth
2. RVCE : Chaitanya G. Hegde, Gautam Daubekodi and Nakul P. Sagoll
3. Christ University: Anurag Chaudhury, Aditya Govil and Kishore Kumar
4. RVCE: Harry, Jose and Anna and SVCE: Harish, Mario and Aniruddh
6. NLS: Badri, Arvind and Pranav
7. NITK: Sam, Kaushik and Thatha
8. IIT KGP: Neeraj, Arvind and Vishaka
KQA Inter Junior College Championships
QMs: Venkatesh S. and Vivek Karthikeyan
1. S.B.M. Jain College, V.V. Puram: Deepak, Nandakishore and Suraj
2. Sri Kumaran Children’s home (CBSE): Sudarshan, Sashank and Arjun
3. Bethany High School: Navneet Saxena, Joseph Kuruvilla and Harshant Ahuja
4. Sri Kumaran Children’s home P.U. College: Anirudh S., Srimukh Prasad V.K. and Pranav Rao
St. Joseph’s Boy’s High School : Sonal Saldanha, Saipreet Kohli and Akshay Krishna
St. Joseph’s P.U. College: Aniket, Kiran and Vikram
7. Bishop Cotton Boy’s School: Pranshu Singh, Rishab Mehta and Rudra R.
8. Jain College: Himadri, Rohan and Sharath
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 https://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.
