MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep 2025

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on December 14, 2025 (Sunday).

NOTE: The cities listed on the registration page are provisional.

MahaQuizzer, now in its twentieth year, will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper.It will be set by a team of Jaidev Karunakaran, Keshava Guha, Sachin Deshpande, Santosh Swaminathan, and Sujata Sharma.

MQ will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM.

Register here for MahaQuizzer 2025.

AsiaSweep will consist of around 50 questions, to be read off a ppt and is open to teams of a maximum of two people. Solo participants are also welcome.

AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck. A projector will be required to conduct AsiaSweep.

AsiaSweep will start at 3pm.

Register here for AsiaSweep 2025.

October 27, 2025 | Filed Under AsiaSweep, ASKQANCE, Mahaquizzer, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

MegaWhats 2025 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

Here are the results of the prelims of MegaWhats 2025, the KQA’s annual inter-city written quiz. The top ten city winners are invited to participate in the MW semifinals at AsKQAnce on 27 June 2025.

Each team is allowed a maximum of two changes per team. If a city winner drops out, the next team to qualify will NOT be the second highest scoring team in that city, but the highest scoring team overall that has not qualified.

Our congratulations to the imaginatively named ‘Prasad’ from Mumbai for topping the prelims.

The other qualifiers are listed below. The semifinal line-up will be published closer to AsKQAnce.

Top ten city winners:

  1. Prasad – Mumbai – 46.5
  2. Peter Panchali – Bangalore – 45.5
  3. Rude Mechanicals – Chennai – 42
  4. Veni Vidi Went to Koshys – Pune – 41.5
  5. Swami and Friends – Hyderabad – 38.5
  6. Rhino Wanderers – Guwahati – 35.5
  7. Vetes Vulpes – Delhi -35.5
  8. Hammer and Tongs – Kolkata – 35
  9. Sheikh Yerbouti – Dubai – 34.5
  10. A Four Body Problem – Thiruvananthapuram – 33.5

Top 6 non-City qualifiers

  1. Matunga Manram – Mumbai – 44.5
  2. CIDs from Kerala – Bangalore – 41
  3. Congrats All – Bangalore – 40
  4. Aardvarking Quizzers – Bangalore – 39.5
  5. Kya Farak Padta Hai – Mumbai -35.5
  6. QA – Chennai – 35

Waitlist:

  1. Titash Sreeradh Sanat Jaidev – Bangalore – 34.5
  2. Zero Gravitas – Bangalore – 34.5
  3. Debashree Venky Raju Navin – Bangalore – 34
#TeamCityScore
1PrasadMumbai46.5
2Peter PanchaliBangalore45.5
3Matunga ManramMumbai44.5
4Rude MechanicalsChennai42
5Veni Vidi Went to KoshysPune41.5
6CIDs from KeralaBangalore41
7Congrats AllBangalore40
8Aardvarking QuizzersBangalore39.5
9Swami and FriendsHyderabad38.5
10Rhino WanderersGuwahati35.5
11Vetes VulpesDelhi35.5
12Hammer and TongsKolkata35
13Kya Farak Padta HaiMumbai35.5
14QAChennai35
15Sheikh YerboutiDubai34.5
16Titash Sreeradh Sanat JaidevBangalore34.5
17Zero GravitasBangalore34.5
18Debashree Venky Raju NavinBangalore34
19A Four Body ProblemTrivandrum33.5
20We Like Our Answer BetterBangalore33.5
21InmaniacsKolkata33
22SJU QuizzersBangalore32.5
23SADRHyderabad32.5
24Best Kind of KLPDKolkata32
25Joy East BengalPune32
26Bala Piyush Sumantra DebanjanDelhi31.5
27Memory BlankChennai31.5
28KC and the Sunshine BoysGoa30.5
29Nine Inch AnilsDelhi30.5
304 Non BlondesMumbai30.5
31Devayani Rahul Nishant MaitreyBangalore29
32String QuartetHyderabad28.5
33Cute Purple UnicornsChennai28
34Hari RoshanCoimbatore27
35The Kaun MenGoa27.5
36Lone Wolf No CubDelhi27.5
37Anuradha Sanveer Hasit ParthAhmedabad26.5
38Preyoshi Tanmay Ssagnik AniruddhaMumbai26.5
39Ocean BoilersBangalore26.5
40Arvind Anirvan Guna PrabhatChennai26
41Champak Magazine Memorial CollectiveMumbai26
42Jheng Quiz KhanGuwahati26
43ThunderboltsBangalore25.5
44Pulkit Avinash Francis AabhasMumbai25.5
45Ben StokesBangalore25
46Groove Like DhruvKolkata24
47Four HorsemenTrivandrum24
486 DogsBangalore23.5
49Onion Sell OneMumbai23.5
50Insert Clever Team Name HereChennai22.5
513 Hours from UdupiGoa22
52Going Through a FaizDelhi22
53Rishi Yuvraj Shashwat ChaitanyaDelhi21.5
54Rise of the Planet of the BabesGoa21
55Again and AgainKolkata21
56Shaheen Mit Abhilash ShakyaDelhi20.5
57Questionable CharactersCoimbatore20.5
58Utkarsh Debjit AnupriyDelhi20
59Adarsh Atharv ParthDelhi20
60Jeevesh Sharat SatyaCoimbatore19.5
61Waiting for Double DigitsThrissur19
62Arunabh Ramish Vagish AbhishekDelhi19
63RV PesticidesBangalore18
64D'FourseDelhi17.5
65ScibabasHyderabad17
66Raja Priya Rajdeep AjayChennai17
672 Quiz 2 CuriousBangalore16
68Queen's DefeatBangalore16
69RoycketBangalore15.5
70Prajwal KavyaBangalore15.5
71Julius CheeserDelhi15.5
72Mum's the WordKolkata14.5
73Christopher UmasankariThrissur13
74Samir AntonPune12.5
75PranaviChennai12
76Quiz KhalifaDubai11.5
77Rishika AdvikAhmedabad10.5
78Okhla PC Quiz ClubDelhi10.5
79Mohit KarthikDelhi10.5
80WankersDelhi10
81SaywhattBangalore10
82Terrible 3Bangalore9.5
83Harsh MehtaHyderabad2
May 22, 2025 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Results | Leave a Comment 

KQA’S AsKQAnce 2025 on June 27-29 in Bangalore

The KQA is happy to announce the full schedule of its 3-day quizzing extravaganza in Bangalore, AsKQAnce 2025! With 8 quizzes over 3 days at the venerable IAT on Queen’s Road, there’s something for everyone!

Venue: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road https://maps.app.goo.gl/AV995M5BmwUxZFC16

Pub quiz venue: To be announced closer to the date

All quizzes on Days 2 & 3 have a registration fee of ₹200/team, and on-the-spot registration. Registration fee waived for school and college teams.

The schedule:

Friday (27th June)

10 AM to 1 PM: Mahamahaquizzer

The national final for the top 16 qualifiers from KQA’s inter-city written quiz, Mahaquizzer. Come watch the best minds duke it out etc etc.

QMs: Santosh JS, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, Venkataraman Ravindra

2 PM onwards: MegaWhats National Final

The 16 qualifiers from cities across India converge for the national final of MegaWhats, the KQA’s inter-city team written quiz (duke, best minds, etc.).

2 PM to 330 PM: Semifinal 1
345 PM to 515 PM: Semifinal 2
530 PM to 730 PM: Final

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Manish Achuth, Movin Miranda

8 PM: 4 Edge Pub Quiz

A pub quiz in association with Bangalore pub quizzing royalty 4 Edge Quizzing! A fun pub quiz that’s open to all.

A pub quiz for teams of up to 4. ₹200/team, open to all.

QMs: 4Edge Team

Saturday (28th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: By Hooke or by Crookes—the KQA Science and Technology Quiz

SciTech quizzes are a mainstay of festivals, and this one won’t be any different.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Jaidev Karunakaran, Krittika Adhikary, Venky Srinivasan

2 PM to 330 PM: Turned Pages — a quiz on adaptations

If you ever thought literature quizzes these days were movie quizzes in disguise, this is for you. A quiz on stories that have been adapted for stage/TV/movies from books/plays, all from the “lit” angle.

A written open quiz for teams of up to two.

QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan (Kivi)

345 PM to 845 PM: Son of Lumiere – the Movie Quiz

After a brief pause, the venerable movie quiz rides again at AsKQAnce! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… It’s all here.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Anustup, Sourjo, Varun Rajiv

Sunday (29th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial quiz

A quiz in memory of KQA stalwart, GS Hiranyappa, on topics near and dear to his quizzing heart: history, geography and the social sciences.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Debashree Mitra, Maitrey Deshpande, Agila Ulaga Uttama Nayagan Superstar Keshav Athreya 

2 PM to 7 PM: Sesame — the Open General Quiz

Our flagship general quiz is back in a new avatar… that’s the same well-received avatar as last year.

Sesame will have a tiered format with a prelim, a play-in semi-final, and a nine-team final incorporating the top 6 from the prelim and top 3 from the semi-final.

A prelims/semi/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Abid Abdulla, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande, Sripradha S

Prizes for all finalists of all quizzes, slightly better prizes for the top three.

May 12, 2025 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mahaquizzer, Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment 

VENUES – MindSweep & MegaWhats 2025

Here are the venues for Sunday’s doubleheader. Please note that Mindsweep and Megawhats have separate venues in Kolkata.

The Bangalore venue, as always, is the Institution of Agricultural Technologists on Queens Road. (Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3da7uEjZL3fGPwT49)

CityVenueContact
AhmedabadRoom 004, Ahmedabad University88492 09809
BengaluruInstitution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road.80505 8897
ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore82977 33676
CoimbatoreBrookefields9843970112
DelhiIIIT Delhi, (C01, Old Academic Block) (nearest metro station: Govindpuri) (https://g.co/kgs/qZwAcn1 )89105 46353
GoaGoa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.98901 41715
GuwahatiNERIM, Jayanagar, Guwahati96781 29626‬/
70422 2617
Hyderabad2nd Floor, Vibrant Living, Jubilee Hills (https://maps.app.goo.gl/kAHHQg66jUSvJNyo8)75698 69324
Kolkata (for MS)The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch,
Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments,
31/3 Sahapur Colony,
Block J, New Alipore,
Kolkata 700 053.		9831082098
Kolkata (for MW)Mother Teresa Hall, Church of Christ the King,
5, Syed Amir Ali Ave, Park Circus, Kolkata - 700017.		98362 22698
MumbaiRajyog Family Restaurant & Bar99308 53913
PuneGoethe Institut/Max Muller Bhavan, 14/3-B, Boat Club Rd, Sangamvadi94212 77399
SingaporeFunction Room, Sky Eleven, Thomson Lane, Singapore 297725+65 8208 9851
ThrissurGovt. Engineering College, Thrissur9447380969
ThiruvananthapuramThe Reading Room, Cheruvaikal, Sreekaryam75108 71143
VisakhapatnamNeemyard Classes, Akkayyapalem, near Maharani Parlour, Visakhapatnam.
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/R62bGC8p5UnJjL2Y9)		90046 41925
May 9, 2025 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, MindSweep, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

MindSweep and MegaWhats on 11 May 2025

The KQA is pleased to announce the return of its annual multi-city written open quizzing championships, Mindsweep and Megawhats.

Both quizzes will be conducted on Sunday, 11th May, 2025 in various cities.

Mindsweep, the international solo quizzing championship, is a written quiz for solo participants that will require takers to answer around 200 questions in two back-to-back sessions of 75 min each. The quiz will commence at 10.30 AM IST.

MindSweep is set by a team led by Dr Arul Mani.

Registration form and further details are here.

Megawhats, the national team quizzing championship, is a written quiz for teams of up to four that will commence at 3.30 PM IST. Do note that the top winners of Megawhats will also be invited to take part in the Megawhats National Final on June 27 at AsKQAnce 2025.

Registration form and further details are here.

MegaWhats is set by a team led by Thejaswi Udupa.

Venue details for each city will be notified soon. The venue in Bangalore is IAT, Queen’s Road.

If your location isn’t listed and you would like your city to conduct Mindsweep and Megawhats, or for any clarifications, please write to Hrishi Varma at kqaquizzes@gmail.com The more the merrier, and the only reason your city is not yet on the list is that the organising details have not yet been ironed out with the local quiz club so lean on them and tell them to get their act together

Prior registration is required for both quizzes, so please register at the earliest using the links mentioned above, and do spread the word.

March 20, 2025 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Lone Wolf Quizzes, Mega-Whats, MindSweep, News | Leave a Comment 

KQA’s AsKQAnce quiz fest on 27-29 June, 2025

The KQA is happy to announce the return of its 3-day quizzing extravaganza in Bangalore, Askqance 2025! With 8 quizzes over 3 days, there’s really something for everyone!

The schedule:

Friday (27th June)

10 AM to 1 PM: Mahamahaquizzer

The national final for the top 16 qualifiers from KQA’s inter-city written quiz, Mahaquizzer. Come watch the best minds duke it out etc etc.

2 PM onwards: MegaWhats National Final

The 16 qualifiers from cities across India converge for the national final of MegaWhats, the KQA’s inter-city team written quiz (duke, best minds etc.).

2 PM to 330 PM: Semifinal 1
345 PM to 515 PM: Semifinal 2
530 PM to 730 PM: Final

8 PM: 4 Edge Pub Quiz

A pub quiz in association with Bangalore pub quizzing royalty 4 Edge Quizzing! A fun pub quiz that’s open to all.

Saturday (28th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: the KQA Science and Technology Quiz

SciTech quizzes are a mainstay of festivals, and this one won’t be any different.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

2 PM to 330 PM: Turned Pages, a quiz on adaptations

If you ever thought literature quizzes these days were movie quizzes in disguise, this is for you. A quiz on stories that have been adapted for stage/TV/movies from books/plays, all from the “lit” angle.

A written open quiz for teams of up to two.

345 PM to 845 PM: Son of Lumiere – the Movie Quiz

After a brief pause, the venerable movie quiz rides again at Askqance! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… it’s all here.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

Sunday (29th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial quiz

A quiz on topics near and dear to his quizzing heart: history, geography and the social sciences.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

2 PM to 7 PM: Sesame — the Open General Quiz

Our flagship general quiz is back in a new avatar… that’s the same well-received avatar as last year.

Sesame will have a tiered format with a prelim, a play-in semi final, and a nine-team final incorporating the top 6 from the prelim and top 3 from the semi-final.

A prelims/semi/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QM, registration, venue and prize details to be announced soon!

For further details, updates or any queries on AsKQAnce and other quizzes, follow us on Twitter and IG at @kqaquizzes or join our Quiz Announcement WhatsApp group using the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/EEsx1FuBmWCLqqwR408CWc

March 13, 2025 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

RESULTS – MahaQuizzer 2024

A total of 252 quizzers attempted MahaQuizzer this year.

The winner, for a barely believable fifth time, is Vinoo Sanjay from Mumbai. Vinoo reclaims his title with a score of 80 points out of 150.

Two quizzers tied for 77, but in the end, youth beat out experience. Ravi Mundoli (Chennai) pips ahead of Preetham Upadhya (Bengaluru) on stars. The defending champion, Jayakanthan, finishes fourth with 76 points.

A new entrant into the top ten is also comfortably its youngest. Calvin Christ finishes with 70 points in sixth place. He will celebrate it with a bottle of champagne when he is old enough to.

Two other former MQ champions, Dr Arul Mani and Shouvik Guha (Kolkata), round off the top ten with 65 points. Another former champ, Jayashree Jaykar Mohanka (Kolkata), was the highest-scoring woman, with 59.

The top 16 automatically qualify for Mahamahaquizzer at AsKQAnce 2025.

The KQA thanks all quizzing communities and proctors who helped conduct MQ smoothly.

The Q&A can be found here.

MahaQuizzer 2024 was set by Sachin Deshpande, Santosh J Swaminathan, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman R.

See you in 2025!

#NameScoreTotal *s***Venue
1Vinoo Sanjay80422Mumbai
2Ravi Mundoli77532Chennai
3Preetham Upadhya77505Bengaluru
4Jayakanthan77413Chennai
5Amrit Pritom Chetia73624Delhi
6Calvin70615Bengaluru
7Thejaswi Udupa69202Bengaluru
8Sourjo Sengupta66312Bengaluru
9Arul Mani65413Bengaluru
10Shouvik Guha65211Kolkata (JU)
11Hrishikesh Varma65202Mumbai
12Aswath Venkataraman65101Bengaluru
13Anustup Datta64312Bengaluru
14Rahul Kottalgi62523Mumbai
15Abhinav Dasgupta62422Mumbai
16Siddhartha Shanker61514Bengaluru
17Chandrakant Nair59211Thrissur
18Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka59211Kolkata
19Annie Sen Gupta58101Goa
20Kunal Sawardekar57413Pune
21Subrat M57303Bengaluru
22Aadisht Khanna57202Chennai
23Jaidev Karunakaran57110Bengaluru
24Vinod Sivarama Krishnan56202Mumbai
25Dinesh Krithivasan56110Chennai
26Nikhil Sonde56101Bengaluru
27Shashwat Salgaocar55404Goa
28Samanway55202Kolkata (JU)
29Abid Abdulla54505Bengaluru
30Rohit Suresh54303Chennai
31Prithwish Datta54101Bengaluru
32Ramanand J54000Pune
33Govind Grewal53321Mumbai
34Srihari Raju53211Hyderabad
35Praveen VR53202Bengaluru
36Mario F53110Chennai
37Karthik S53000Bengaluru
38Aditya Gadre52303Delhi
39Sreeradh RP52303Bengaluru
40Arnold D'Souza52202Pune
41Harish Alagappa51101Hyderabad
42Abdul Raouf50303Bengaluru
43Sanat Pai Raikar50000Bengaluru
44Anand Sivashankar48211Chennai
45Anirudh Chari48211Kolkata
46Manu Sudhakar47202Thrissur
47Sanjay47202Bengaluru
48Kunal Savarkar46110Mumbai
49Krishan Shetty46101Ahmedabad
50AP Alagarsamy46000Bengaluru
51Vibhendu Tewari45211Mumbai
52Vilas Pavithran45211Goa
53Sreekanth RP45202Bengaluru
54Sushant45101Delhi
55Anannya Deb44101Mumbai
56Venky Srinivasan44000Bengaluru
57Hussain Ahmed43101Hyderabad
58Wrichik Basu42110Kolkata
59Nirmalya Biswas42101Siliguri
60Abhay Vikram41202Delhi
61Arunoday Chaudhuri41000Kolkata (JU)
62Saarthak Chhabra40303Hyderabad
63Kushan Patel40202Ahmedabad
64Preyoshi Ganguly39202Mumbai
65Abhilash39101Bengaluru
66Sanjay KR38303Manipal
67Somasish Ghosh38110Udaipur
68Sangeeth38101Thiruvananthapuram
69Aniruddha Mitra37303Ahmedabad
70Atul Mathew37202Bengaluru
71Sreeram Madhavan37202Chennai
72Tanmay Prusty37000Mumbai
73Sarath VR35303Thiruvananthapuram
74Advik Kabra35202Bengaluru
75Francis Rodrigues35101Mumbai
76Gudur Abhinav35101Bengaluru
77N Viswanathan35000Udaipur
78Vidyadhar Gadgil34220Goa
79Anil Kothuri34101Mumbai
80Siddharth K34101Bengaluru
81Sushant Shekhar34101Bengaluru
82Balu John34000Thiruvananthapuram
83Ishaan N33202Bengaluru
84J K Lakshmi33101Hyderabad
85Sahil HR33101Bengaluru
86Shashank Tyagi33000Delhi
87Sudip Kalyan Dey33000Kolkata (JU)
88Dr V Srinagesh32101Hyderabad
89Ananya Upadhya31312Bengaluru
90Aninthitha Nath31202Mumbai
91Appu S31101Bengaluru
92Arun Ramanathan31101Chennai
93Gokul Panigrahi31000Mumbai
94Mukund Krishnan Kumar31000Delhi
95Samir Gupta31000Pune
96Shamsuddin Haider31000Kolkata (JU)
97Ayush Sharma30404 Kharagpur
98S Chakraborty30211Mumbai
99Shayak Chakrabarty30211Kolkata
100Ankita Shandilya30202Delhi
101Rishi Roy30202Delhi
102Sarvesh Shenoy30110Mumbai
103Aditya Pal29404 Kharagpur
104Saswata Acharya29202Kolkata (JU)
105Arun AS29101Thrissur
106Elvis Francis29101Thrissur
107R Samyak29101Goa
108Rakesh TP29101Thiruvananthapuram
109Siddharth Mishra29101Bengaluru
110Mahendra Balu P28413Bengaluru
111Sankar Roy28110Kolkata
112Aniruddha Mondal27202Bengaluru
113Rama Subramanian27101Bengaluru
114Udayan Mishra27101Bengaluru
115D Ghosh27000Kolkata
116Sourasis Bose27000Bengaluru
117Sriram Padmanabhan27000Pune
118Raamanujan C26202Chennai
119Abhinav Dhar26000Delhi
120Shujoy Dutta26000Goa
121Abhineet25101Bengaluru
122Sanveer Singh Puri25101Ahmedabad
123Sumukh H25000Pune
124Puranjay Dixit24101Ahmedabad
125Sreeram M24101Thiruvananthapuram
126Aditya Narayan Sen24000Kolkata (JU)
127Nirupama V24000Chennai
128Saee Joshi24000Pune
129athul ajay23211Thiruvananthapuram
130Uttirno Nath23202Kolkata (JU)
131Anuradha Dharwadkar23101Ahmedabad
132Soumya23101Bengaluru
133Vinay Nair Karath23101Bengaluru
134Shiladitya Ganguli23000Kolkata (JU)
135Jayaprakash BR22202Bengaluru
136Pranavi BA22202 Kharagpur
137Manoj R22110Kozhikode
138Amit CJ22101Bengaluru
139Nikhilesh Singh Rana22101Goa
140Nikhil Jha22001Bengaluru
141Izhar Ansari22000Kolkata
142Manohar Burra22000Bengaluru
143Pranava 21101Bengaluru
144Shantanu Yadav21000Bengaluru
145Basab20211Hyderabad
146Debasmita B20202Delhi
147Sreevatsa G20101Bengaluru
148Anirvin Srivarsan20000Chennai
149Monish Singhaz20000Hyderabad
150Rohit Kaulgud19312Ahmedabad
151Sagar Agarwal19303Siliguri
152Shashwat S Shetty19202Ahmedabad
153Manas Pradhan18303Bengaluru
154Magizhan Natarajan18202Chennai
155Sudarshan Sundarrajan18101Bengaluru
156Viola Rodrigues18101Goa
157Avinash Mishra17303Bengaluru
158Shubang Shukla17211Delhi
159Pranjal Jharkharia17202 Kharagpur
160Anvithraj Reddy17101Hyderabad
161Kiran Ramaswamy17000Bengaluru
162Prayag Mohanty17000Mumbai
163Pavan Madhukar Bhat16101Manipal
164Sourabh Chowdhury16101Kolkata
165Paul G16000Goa
166Haripriya S15202Manipal
167Praveen S Pai15202Bengaluru
168Uma Shankari Kalavath Promoth15202Thrissur
169Rahul R15101 Kharagpur
170Swathi PG15101Chennai
171Bharat Jayan15000Mumbai
172Mohammad15000Hyderabad
173Nisaad K15000Delhi
174Prasun Thakur15000Ahmedabad
175Syed Shakeel Imdad15000Hyderabad
176Asha Janardhan14202Thiruvananthapuram
177A Santhanam14101Chennai
178Rakshan Trivedi14101Delhi
179Vrishab Anurag Venkataraghavan14101Chennai
180Aditya Bhattacharyya14000Siliguri
181Anagha KH14000Thrissur
182Raghav Gupta13202Delhi
183Abhijeet Kumar13101 Kharagpur
184Amir Sen13000Siliguri
185Bismay Parija13000 Kharagpur
186Rahul Kulkarni13000Bengaluru
187Raja Narasimhan B13000Pune
188Samartha S Rao12101Bengaluru
189Subikash Paul12101Kolkata
190S Jayakrishna12000Bengaluru
191John Philip George11202Thrissur
192Navya11202Delhi
193Debabrata Malik11101Bengaluru
194Hari Prasad V11101Manipal
195Kanak Varma11101Pune
196Niranjan N 11101Hyderabad
197Rushikesh W11101Hyderabad
198Prashant Sinha11000Delhi
199Srivats Ramanujan11000Chennai
200Tejoos11000Bengaluru
201S Keerthana10202Bengaluru
202Sonakshi Yadav10202Ahmedabad
203K Palani10000Chennai
204Pradhi Goel10000Udaipur
205Rajeev Nair10000Bengaluru
206Amit Agarwal9000Pune
207Karthik Mistry9000Ahmedabad
208Ramakrishna R9000Chennai
209Rohan Umesh9000Mumbai
210Swahat Subhakanta Das9000Bengaluru
211Vineet V9000Bengaluru
212Vivet9000Delhi
213Diganto Sarkar8101Ahmedabad
214Harshil Agarwal8101 Kharagpur
215Udit Sengupta8000Siliguri
216Anna Regi7101Thrissur
217Mohammed Azharuddin S7101Chennai
218Niyati Jois7101Bengaluru
219Sagar Chandan7101 Kharagpur
220Diptojyoti P7000Siliguri
221Jithin S7000Thiruvananthapuram
222Malay Nirav Dixit6202 Kharagpur
223Rohitash Sriram6202Pune
224Arun J Sankar6000Kozhikode
225Monthan Saste6000Mumbai
226Pankaj Waghmare6000Pune
227Chinmay Modi5101Ahmedabad
228Sumanth5101Bengaluru
229Adnan Dalal5000Bengaluru
230Badarla Rohan Naidu5000Hyderabad
231Deepa Rao5000Manipal
232Ritwik Mukherjee5000Pune
233Udit Jain5000Mumbai
234Vidyuth Ajith Soman5000Manipal
235Aneesha Roy4202Kolkata (JU)
236Mansi4000Delhi
237Satwik Mehta4000Mumbai
238Medha Kumari3000Udaipur
239Raza Faiz Arakkal3000Kozhikode
240Niharika2101Udaipur
241Abhilasha2000Delhi
242Bhargav Saikia2000Udaipur
243Harish Kandoi2000Siliguri
244Uzayr Faiz Arakal2000Kozhikode
245Satvik Parihar1101Ahmedabad
246Abheri Karthik1000Bengaluru
247Dhruvish Patel1000Ahmedabad
248Hiba Fathima PH1000Thrissur
249Prince Kumar Singh1000Delhi
250Harsh Kumar Rajput0000Delhi
251Rishabh Kumar0000Hyderabad
252Suchana Ghosh0000Kolkata (JU)
December 29, 2024 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mahaquizzer, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment 

MegaWhats Semi-final lineups @ AsKQAnce 2024

This is the semi-final lineup for the MegaWhats semifinals:

SF1:

1 QED Chennai
2 United Separatists Mumbai
3 Zero Gravitas Bengaluru
4 Quizzaholics Anonymous Chennai
5 Sainted & Dented Mumbai
6 Laapataa Ladies Delhi
7 Congrats All Bengaluru
8 Triple S with a B Hyderabad

SF2:

1 Aardvarks Delhi
2 CIDs From Kerala Bengaluru
3 So Far So Good So Megawhats Bengaluru
4 Insignificant Others Chennai
5 Hammer & Tongs Kolkata
6 Zulfiqar-e-Fidel Pune
7 Peter Panchali Bengaluru
8 KSI Coimbatore
June 24, 2024 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats | Leave a Comment 

KQA’S QUIZ FESTIVAL ASKQANCE 2024 ON JUNE 28-30

With little under two months remaining for KQA’s 3-day quizzing extravaganza AsKQAnce, here’s the schedule in full detail!

Friday (28th June)

10 AM to 1 PM: Mahamahaquizzer The national final for the top 16 qualifiers from KQA’s inter-city written quiz, Mahaquizzer. Come watch the best minds duke it out etc etc.

QMs: Navin Rajaram, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, Venkatraman Ravindra

2 PM onwards: MegaWhats National Final: The 16 qualifiers from cities across India converge for the national final of MegaWhats, the KQA’s inter-city team written quiz (duke, best minds etc.).

2 PM to 330 PM: Semifinal 1
345 PM to 515 PM: Semifinal 2
530 PM to 730 PM: Final

QMs: Krittika Adhikary, Manish Achuth, Rashmi Vallabhajosyula, Thejaswi Udupa

8-830ish PM: 4 Edge Pub Quiz A pub quiz in association with Bangalore pub quizzing royalty 4 Edge Quizzing! A fun pub quiz that’s open to all, venue and details TBD. Note: This quiz is still ironing out venue gremlins; exact time and location will be notified closer to the date.

QM: 4 Edge Quizzing

Saturday (29th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: Parts Unknown — the Travel and Living quiz. What is travel and living, you ask? A journey or destination or anything there is travel, anything that happens during a journey or at a destination is living.

QMs: Jaidev K, Jayaprakash, Nikhita Thomas

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

2 PM to 330 PM: As Seen on TV Quiz, a quiz on um, things seen on TV. So that’s not just TV shows but also live events, news, even the static. Anything that our QMs deem fit to tenuously connect to the topic at hand.

QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan

A written open quiz for teams of up to two.

345 PM to 715 PM: Bizkashi – the Business Quiz Once again we attempt to bridge the gap between business quizzing and quizzing for pleasure with a quiz that will be accessible to all but flavoured by the world of business. That is, we’re disrupting business quizzes. Seeing as this is late-stage capitalism’s world and we merely live in it, a quiz on business is a quiz on life itself.

QMs: After a corporate boardroom coup that has resulted in exiling their co-QMs to Mumbai, Rohit Suresh and Venky Srinivasan take sole control

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

Sunday (30th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial quiz on topics near and dear to his quizzing heart: history, geography and the social sciences.

QMs: Debashree Mitra, Keshav Athreya, Maitrey Deshpande

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

2 PM to 7 PM: Sesame — the Open General Quiz Our flagship general quiz is back in a new avatar… that’s the same well-received avatar as last year.

Sesame will have a tiered format with a prelim, a play-in semi final, and a nine-team final incorporating the top 6 from the prelim and top 3 from the semi-final.

QMs: Abid Abdulla, Mollika Maiti, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande, Sripradha S

A prelims/semi/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

Venue: The Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queen’s Road https://goo.gl/maps/YndqYDAGH1giNi3U6

There will be prizes for all the finalists, and slightly better prizes for 1-2-3. Book coupons galore, so keep your suitcase empty if you fancy your chances.

Registration for each quiz is Rs. 200/team — only on-the-spot registrations, so just turn up on the day!

Hope to see you (yes, you) there, and please spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Discord, Hood (is anyone on Hood?)… even send this along with a “GM 🙏🏼” to your quiz and non-quiz WhatsApp groups.

For further details, updates or any queries on AsKQAnce and other quizzes, follow us on Twitter and IG at @kqaquizzes or join our Quiz Announcement WhatsApp group using the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/EEsx1FuBmWCLqqwR408CWc

June 1, 2024 | Filed Under ASKQANCE | Leave a Comment 

MegaWhats 2024 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

Here are the results of prelims of MegaWhats 2024, the KQA’s annual inter-city written quiz. The top ten city winners are invited to participate in the MW semifinals on 28 June 2024. The MW face-off will be part of AsKQAnce, KQA’s annual quiz fest.

Qualifiers will be contacted by the KQA to confirm participation at AsKQAnce. Each team is allowed a maximum of one change per team. In case of a city winner dropping out, the next team to qualify will NOT be the second highest scoring team in that city, but the highest scoring team overall that has not qualified.

Our congratulations to QED from Chennai for topping the prelims. The other qualifiers are listed below.

Top ten city winners:

1. QED (Chennai, 53.5 with 10*)
2. Aardvarks (Delhi, 53 with 10*)
3. United Separatists (Mumbai, 50.5 with 9*)
4. CIDs From Kerala (Bangalore, 48.5 with 7*)
5. Feni Vidi Vici (Goa, 46.5 with 6*)
6. Hammer & Tongs (Kolkata, 44.5 with 9*)
7. Zulfiqar-e-Fidel (Pune, 44 with 5*)
8. Triple S with a B (Hyderabad, 42 with 6*)
9. Baibaswata Ritwik Toyada Adarsh (Bhubaneshwar, 38.5 with 7*)
10. KSI (Coimbatore, 37.5 with 6*)

Other qualifiers

1. Dada Kondke & His Lamp (Mumbai, 50 with 8*)
2, Zero Gravitas (Bangalore, 48 with 9*)
3. So Far So Good So Megawhats (Bangalore, 47.5 with 9*)
4. Quizzaholics Anonymous (Chennai, 47.5 with 9*)
5. Insignificant Others (Chennai, 46.5 with 9*)
6. Sainted & Dented (Mumbai, 46 with 9*)

*UPDATED 27 MAY: Coimbatore is the 10th qualifier among city winners, beating out Ahmedabad by a point. Apologies for any confusion.

#Team NameScoreStarsCity
1QED53.510Chennai
2Aardvarks5310Delhi
3United Separatists50.59Mumbai
4Dada Kondke and His Lamp508Mumbai
5CIDs From Kerala48.57Bengaluru
6Zero Gravitas489Bengaluru
7So far, So good, So Megawhats?47.59Bengaluru
8Quizaholics Anonymous47.59Chennai
9Insignificant Others46.59Chennai
10Feni Vidi Vici46.56Goa
11Sainted and Dented469Mumbai
12Hammer and Tongs44.59Kolkata
13Laapataa Ladies44.58Delhi
14Sreeradh Supratim SGD Jaidev448Bengaluru
15Zulfiqar-e-Fidel445Pune
16Congrats All43.58Bengaluru
17Peter Panchali427Bengaluru
18Forecasting Couch Potatoes426Chennai
19Triple S with a B426Hyderabad
20Rags to Riches4110Mumbai
21SJU Quizzers417Bengaluru
22Three Men and a Baby414Bengaluru
23Swami and Friends39.55Bengaluru
24F & F38.57Kolkata
25Baibaswata Ritwik Toyada Adarsh38.57Bhubaneswar
26Carefully Put Together38.55Bengaluru
27SNM and SHCS387Kolkata
28Nishant Rahul Maitrey Abhay384Bengaluru
29Four Everybody Problem37.56Mumbai
30KSI37.56Coimbatore
31We Like Our Answers Better375Bengaluru
32Vijay Char Rosters36.56Ahmedabad
33Veritas Vin Cit367Delhi
34Prasanna Goes for DRS366Hyderabad
35Cute Purple Unicorns365Chennai
36Thrissur Round-up35.56Thrissur
37Mimirer Ghoraguli357Kolkata
38Sreeram Rajat Balu Kishire34.54Bengaluru
393 Cool People and 1 Last Minute Addition33.54Bengaluru
40True Men Show336Hyderabad
41Hiptullah Limbfitters336Delhi
42All Quiet on the Eastern Front335Guwahati
43Ankita Ayush Kavin Laxya335Delhi
44Joy East Bengal325Kolkata
45RCB>>> SRH 31.56Hyderabad
46The Kaun Men31.55Goa
47Ee Sala Answer Namde31.53Bengaluru
48Goanese Gang30.55Bengaluru
49Navneet Akshay Nikhil30.54Delhi
50Anushilan Samiti306Guwahati
51Noobs304Pune
52Team Fubar29.54Bengaluru
53Paisa Vasool295Delhi
54Zoha293Pune
55Ben Stokes274Bengaluru
56Teamesh Kumar26.56Chennai
57Say Our Names26.54Bengaluru
58
Waiting for 2 More Teammates263Mumbai
59Sandipan & Debakanta24.56Dhemaji
60Kartikeya Panwar (solo)24.54Bengaluru
61Team With No Name24.54Delhi
62Khiladis of Kerala24.53Thrissur
63The Big Bang Theory24.53Trivandrum
64Megawhys243Goa
65Sunandita Appu Debabrata Swagat23.54Bengaluru
66Quizzilaterals23.53Bhubaneswar
67Strawberry Soda234Delhi
68-273.15233Coimbatore
69Shankar Balaji Ramya Kasturi22.52Chennai
70Vande Bharat Express223Delhi
71Aalshi Goenkar21.54Goa
72Soups214Delhi
73Sigma Enigmas20.54Delhi
74Saswati Aditya Mukti20.53Bhubaneswar
75Four Horses in Search of Three Roads203Chennai
76
SAKK184Delhi
77SAAR182Trivandrum
78Killjoys16.53Pune
79Selatkcud16.52Bengaluru
80Dhruv Shubhankar Aadi15.53Delhi
81Chai Biscuit15.51Hyderabad
82Instant Raman153Bengaluru
83Four Men Problem152Guwahati
84The Usual Suspects14.52Bengaluru
85Himawari142Pune
84Buggers133Pune
86Abhijwala Pragnajeet Tapan121Bhubaneswar
87Mahadev & Amit11.52Pune
88Sanyog Satyanshu Ananya100Bhubaneswar
89Shinchan92Pune
90Aravind Biji Thanseela60Trivandrum
May 25, 2024 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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