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 |
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
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 Name | Score | Stars | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QED | 53.5 | 10 | Chennai |
| 2 | Aardvarks | 53 | 10 | Delhi |
| 3 | United Separatists | 50.5 | 9 | Mumbai |
| 4 | Dada Kondke and His Lamp | 50 | 8 | Mumbai |
| 5 | CIDs From Kerala | 48.5 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 6 | Zero Gravitas | 48 | 9 | Bengaluru |
| 7 | So far, So good, So Megawhats? | 47.5 | 9 | Bengaluru |
| 8 | Quizaholics Anonymous | 47.5 | 9 | Chennai |
| 9 | Insignificant Others | 46.5 | 9 | Chennai |
| 10 | Feni Vidi Vici | 46.5 | 6 | Goa |
| 11 | Sainted and Dented | 46 | 9 | Mumbai |
| 12 | Hammer and Tongs | 44.5 | 9 | Kolkata |
| 13 | Laapataa Ladies | 44.5 | 8 | Delhi |
| 14 | Sreeradh Supratim SGD Jaidev | 44 | 8 | Bengaluru |
| 15 | Zulfiqar-e-Fidel | 44 | 5 | Pune |
| 16 | Congrats All | 43.5 | 8 | Bengaluru |
| 17 | Peter Panchali | 42 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 18 | Forecasting Couch Potatoes | 42 | 6 | Chennai |
| 19 | Triple S with a B | 42 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 20 | Rags to Riches | 41 | 10 | Mumbai |
| 21 | SJU Quizzers | 41 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 22 | Three Men and a Baby | 41 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 23 | Swami and Friends | 39.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 24 | F & F | 38.5 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 25 | Baibaswata Ritwik Toyada Adarsh | 38.5 | 7 | Bhubaneswar |
| 26 | Carefully Put Together | 38.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 27 | SNM and SHCS | 38 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 28 | Nishant Rahul Maitrey Abhay | 38 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 29 | Four Everybody Problem | 37.5 | 6 | Mumbai |
| 30 | KSI | 37.5 | 6 | Coimbatore |
| 31 | We Like Our Answers Better | 37 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 32 | Vijay Char Rosters | 36.5 | 6 | Ahmedabad |
| 33 | Veritas Vin Cit | 36 | 7 | Delhi |
| 34 | Prasanna Goes for DRS | 36 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 35 | Cute Purple Unicorns | 36 | 5 | Chennai |
| 36 | Thrissur Round-up | 35.5 | 6 | Thrissur |
| 37 | Mimirer Ghoraguli | 35 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 38 | Sreeram Rajat Balu Kishire | 34.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 39 | 3 Cool People and 1 Last Minute Addition | 33.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 40 | True Men Show | 33 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 41 | Hiptullah Limbfitters | 33 | 6 | Delhi |
| 42 | All Quiet on the Eastern Front | 33 | 5 | Guwahati |
| 43 | Ankita Ayush Kavin Laxya | 33 | 5 | Delhi |
| 44 | Joy East Bengal | 32 | 5 | Kolkata |
| 45 | RCB>>> SRH | 31.5 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 46 | The Kaun Men | 31.5 | 5 | Goa |
| 47 | Ee Sala Answer Namde | 31.5 | 3 | Bengaluru |
| 48 | Goanese Gang | 30.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 49 | Navneet Akshay Nikhil | 30.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 50 | Anushilan Samiti | 30 | 6 | Guwahati |
| 51 | Noobs | 30 | 4 | Pune |
| 52 | Team Fubar | 29.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 53 | Paisa Vasool | 29 | 5 | Delhi |
| 54 | Zoha | 29 | 3 | Pune |
| 55 | Ben Stokes | 27 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 56 | Teamesh Kumar | 26.5 | 6 | Chennai |
| 57 | Say Our Names | 26.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 58 | Waiting for 2 More Teammates | 26 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 59 | Sandipan & Debakanta | 24.5 | 6 | Dhemaji |
| 60 | Kartikeya Panwar (solo) | 24.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 61 | Team With No Name | 24.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 62 | Khiladis of Kerala | 24.5 | 3 | Thrissur |
| 63 | The Big Bang Theory | 24.5 | 3 | Trivandrum |
| 64 | Megawhys | 24 | 3 | Goa |
| 65 | Sunandita Appu Debabrata Swagat | 23.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 66 | Quizzilaterals | 23.5 | 3 | Bhubaneswar |
| 67 | Strawberry Soda | 23 | 4 | Delhi |
| 68 | -273.15 | 23 | 3 | Coimbatore |
| 69 | Shankar Balaji Ramya Kasturi | 22.5 | 2 | Chennai |
| 70 | Vande Bharat Express | 22 | 3 | Delhi |
| 71 | Aalshi Goenkar | 21.5 | 4 | Goa |
| 72 | Soups | 21 | 4 | Delhi |
| 73 | Sigma Enigmas | 20.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 74 | Saswati Aditya Mukti | 20.5 | 3 | Bhubaneswar |
| 75 | Four Horses in Search of Three Roads | 20 | 3 | Chennai |
| 76 | SAKK | 18 | 4 | Delhi |
| 77 | SAAR | 18 | 2 | Trivandrum |
| 78 | Killjoys | 16.5 | 3 | Pune |
| 79 | Selatkcud | 16.5 | 2 | Bengaluru |
| 80 | Dhruv Shubhankar Aadi | 15.5 | 3 | Delhi |
| 81 | Chai Biscuit | 15.5 | 1 | Hyderabad |
| 82 | Instant Raman | 15 | 3 | Bengaluru |
| 83 | Four Men Problem | 15 | 2 | Guwahati |
| 84 | The Usual Suspects | 14.5 | 2 | Bengaluru |
| 85 | Himawari | 14 | 2 | Pune |
| 84 | Buggers | 13 | 3 | Pune |
| 86 | Abhijwala Pragnajeet Tapan | 12 | 1 | Bhubaneswar |
| 87 | Mahadev & Amit | 11.5 | 2 | Pune |
| 88 | Sanyog Satyanshu Ananya | 10 | 0 | Bhubaneswar |
| 89 | Shinchan | 9 | 2 | Pune |
| 90 | Aravind Biji Thanseela | 6 | 0 | Trivandrum |
MAHAQUIZZER 2023 – RESULTS & RANKINGS
The results of the 18th edition of MahaQuizzer are below. Nearly 300 people took Mahaquizzer.
Jayakanthan of Chennai has won the title of MahaQuizzer with a score of 112, the highest in the competition’s history. This is his first title. Our congratulations to him.
Two former champions also reached the century score: Vinoo Sanjay (100 (12*), Mumbai), and Rahul Kottalgi (100 (9*), Bengaluru). The highest-scoring woman is 2012 champ Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, who made 79.
The next four highest scorers in Bengaluru were Thejaswi Udupa (94), Santosh Swaminathan (92), Achyuth Sanjay (88) and Anustup Datta (83).
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we did not receive the answer sheets from Delhi. They are presented as we received them. We are yet to receive scores from Siliguri and Raiganj. Scores will be updated if we receive them.
The top sixteen players also qualify for Mahamahaquizzer 2024. The winners will be given the trophy at AsKQAnce 2024, which will be held in June 2024.
We thank all our quiz setters, proctors, and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success.
We’ll see you again in December 2024.
| # | Name | Score | * | ** | City | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayakanthan | 112 | 6 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 2 | Vinoo Sanjay | 100 | 9 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 3 | Rahul Kottalgi | 100 | 7 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 4 | Rajiv Rai | 97 | 8 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 5 | Suraj Menon | 96 | 8 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 6 | Thejaswi Udupa | 94 | 6 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 7 | Rajagopal PS | 92 | 7 | 3 | Chennai | Open |
| 8 | Santosh JS | 92 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 9 | Amrit Pritom Chetia | 91 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 10 | Hrishikesh Varma | 89 | 6 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 11 | Manu Sudhakar | 89 | 6 | 2 | Thrissur | Open |
| 12 | Achyuth Sanjay | 88 | 7 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 13 | Dinesh Krithivasan | 88 | 6 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 14 | Prithwish Datta | 88 | 3 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 15 | Gokul S | 88 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 16 | Calvin | 86 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 17 | Anustup Datta | 83 | 6 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 18 | Sourjo Sengupta | 82 | 7 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 19 | Shaswat Salgaocar | 82 | 6 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 20 | VR | 81 | 7 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 21 | Mario F | 80 | 7 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 22 | Abhinav Dasgupta | 79 | 6 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 23 | Jayashree Mohanka | 79 | 3 | 3 | Kolkata | Ladies |
| 24 | Kunal Sawardekar | 78 | 6 | 1 | Pune | Open |
| 25 | Chandrakant Nair | 77 | 6 | 1 | Thrissur | Open |
| 26 | Krishnamurthi G (Goach) | 77 | 4 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 27 | Govind Grewal | 75 | 7 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 28 | Shouvik Guha | 75 | 6 | 4 | Kolkata | Open |
| 29 | Arul Mani | 75 | 4 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 30 | Samanway Banerjee | 74 | 3 | 2 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 31 | Kiran V | 73 | 6 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 32 | Anush Iyer | 72 | 6 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 33 | Abdul Raouf | 72 | 2 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 34 | Piyush Kedia | 71 | 4 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 35 | Sania Narulkar | 71 | 2 | 1 | Mumbai | Ladies |
| 36 | J Ramanand | 70 | 4 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 37 | Rohit S | 69 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 38 | Sandipan Goswami | 69 | 3 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 39 | J Krishnamurthi | 68 | 4 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 40 | Jaidev Karunakaran | 68 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 41 | Sreekanth R P | 66 | 2 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 42 | Baibaswata Jena | 66 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 43 | Sangeeth | 65 | 5 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 44 | Karthik S | 65 | 4 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 45 | Vibhendu | 63 | 4 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 46 | Roshith Mohan | 63 | 1 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 47 | Dibyo Halder | 62 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 48 | Vilas Pavithran | 61 | 2 | 1 | Goa | Open |
| 49 | Mustafa | 60 | 5 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 50 | Venky Srinivasan | 60 | 5 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 51 | Ashvini R Natu | 60 | 3 | 1 | Mumbai | Ladies |
| 52 | Maitrey D | 59 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 53 | Rajiv D'Silva | 59 | 3 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 54 | Abid Abdulla | 59 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 55 | Bedbyas Dutta | 58 | 4 | 1 | Kolkata | Open |
| 56 | Siddhanth Rao | 58 | 2 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 57 | Shankha Ghosh Dastidar | 57 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 58 | Shamsuddin Haider | 56 | 5 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 59 | R Samyak | 56 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 60 | Anannya Deb | 55 | 2 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 61 | Jithin Jacob | 54 | 5 | 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 62 | Zaman S Khan | 54 | 3 | 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 63 | Annway Ghosh | 54 | 3 | 0 | Pune | College |
| 64 | Subhadeep Sarkar | 54 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 65 | Murty MVR | 54 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 66 | Arun Ramanathan | 53 | 4 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 67 | Sriram Padmanabhan | 53 | 3 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 68 | Shrey Shylesh | 53 | 2 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 69 | Vijay Sarathy | 53 | 2 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 70 | Somasish Ghosh | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 71 | Muhammed Munavvir VV | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 72 | Abhay Vikram | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 73 | Alagarsamy | 52 | 4 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 74 | Anil Kothuri | 52 | 4 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 75 | Kunal Savarkar | 52 | 2 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 76 | Srihari Raju | 52 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 77 | Sanat Pai Raikar | 51 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 78 | Gautam Ghosh | 50 | 5 | 2 | Kolkata | Open |
| 79 | Abhilash | 50 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 80 | Dr. V Sri Nagesh | 49 | 3 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 81 | Kavya Ramasubramanian | 49 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 82 | Prasanth John Abraham | 49 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 83 | Arun A S | 48 | 4 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 84 | Kunal Roy | 48 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 85 | J K Lakshmi | 48 | 3 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 86 | Saransh Mohapatra | 48 | 2 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 87 | Vinod Hariharan | 47 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 88 | Sujay | 47 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 89 | Saswata Acharya | 46 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 90 | Siddharth Mishra | 46 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 91 | Siddharth K | 46 | 1 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 92 | Sumeer Kumar | 45 | 5 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 93 | Prithwiraj Mukherjee | 45 | 4 | 1 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 94 | Balu John | 45 | 1 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 95 | Sarvesh Shenoy | 45 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 96 | Santonab Chakraborty | 44 | 3 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 97 | Sushant Shekhar | 44 | 3 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 98 | Atul Mathew | 44 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 99 | Varun Parthasarathy | 44 | 1 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 100 | Mukilan Ayapparaj | 43 | 3 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 101 | Shobhyam Chakravarty | 42 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 102 | Ayush Agrawal | 41 | 1 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 103 | Rajat Gururaj | 41 | 1 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 104 | Shayak Chakraborty | 41 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 105 | Anisha Karnail | 40 | 1 | 1 | Pune | Ladies |
| 106 | Sudip Kalyan Dey | 40 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 107 | Adarsh | 39 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 108 | Venkatasubramanian TC | 39 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 109 | Sujith E | 39 | 1 | 2 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 110 | Viswas Viswam K C | 37 | 3 | 1 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 111 | Sagnik Chakraborty | 37 | 3 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 112 | Francis Rodrigues | 37 | 2 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 113 | Ishaan Najeeb | 37 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 114 | Samir Gupta | 37 | 0 | 1 | Pune | Open |
| 115 | Rama Subramanian | 36 | 2 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 116 | Rajesh Panchanadhan | 35 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 117 | Chandrashekhar Rao | 35 | 2 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 118 | Mudit Bhardwaj | 34 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 119 | Meghana Iyengar | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 120 | Sahil Ramchandani | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 121 | Rishav Dewan | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 122 | Viola Rodrigues | 34 | 0 | 1 | Goa | Ladies |
| 123 | Sreejesh PS | 33 | 3 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 124 | Monoswini Misra | 33 | 2 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 125 | Tony Nixon Mavely | 33 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | College |
| 126 | Saee Joshi | 33 | 1 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 127 | Shubham Jha | 33 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 128 | Jitaditya Narzary | 32 | 2 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 129 | Devarshi Ghosh | 32 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 130 | Shiladitya Ganguli | 32 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 131 | Bishanka Dassarma | 32 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 132 | Ganesh Thambhahalli Satyen | 31 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 133 | Ashutosh Das | 31 | 2 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 134 | Ayush Sharma | 31 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 135 | Vivek Pinto | 31 | 1 | 1 | Manipal | Open |
| 136 | Rahul Preman | 31 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 137 | Nikhil Jha | 31 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 138 | S Ramesh | 31 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 139 | Shom Biswas | 31 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 140 | Dimpal Dutta | 31 | 0 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 141 | Sankar Roy | 30 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 142 | Elvis Francis | 30 | 2 | 0 | Pune | College |
| 143 | Sreeram M | 30 | 2 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 144 | Pranava | 30 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 145 | Nayan | 30 | 0 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 146 | Srijon Jana | 29 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 147 | Kaivalya Karkare | 29 | 2 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 148 | Prajwal V | 29 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 149 | Utkarsh Ruhela | 29 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 150 | Abhijith Bhadran | 29 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 151 | Anuradha Dharwadkar | 29 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Ladies |
| 152 | N Viswanathan | 29 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 153 | Akshay P | 28 | 2 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 154 | Athul Ajay | 28 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 155 | Roshan | 28 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 156 | Manoj R | 28 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 157 | Sundar Srinivas Harish | 28 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 158 | Abhishek Gupta | 28 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 159 | Sriniketh B | 27 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 160 | Abhijit Anand | 27 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 161 | Imthiaz Ahammed | 27 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 162 | Soumya S | 27 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Ladies |
| 163 | Aniruddha Mondal | 26 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 164 | Jerry Jose | 26 | 2 | 0 | Thrissur | College |
| 165 | Revanth Turlapati | 26 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 166 | Rana Mayank Pratap | 25 | 1 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 167 | Shreyas Iyer | 25 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 168 | Vinay Nair Karath | 25 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 169 | Izhar Ansari | 25 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 170 | Paul B E Gatward | 25 | 0 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 171 | Pinakpani Kashyap | 24 | 2 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 172 | Sanveer Singh Puri | 24 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 173 | Sumanth Jayaramaiah | 24 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 174 | Praveen Jayaraj A | 24 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 175 | Amit C J | 24 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 176 | Neelam Goswami | 24 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Ladies |
| 177 | S V Roshini | 23 | 3 | 0 | Chennai | College |
| 178 | Aravind S N | 23 | 2 | 0 | Chennai | College |
| 179 | Manu Varma | 23 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 180 | Arnav Patel | 23 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 181 | Vibhu Prakash | 23 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 182 | S V Ananthakrishna | 23 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 183 | Pavan Madhukar Bhat | 22 | 1 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 184 | Samyukta Anand | 22 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 185 | Arjun Jeewan | 22 | 0 | 0 | Goa | College |
| 186 | Preetpal | 22 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 187 | Arnav Metrani | 21 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 188 | S T Prasad | 21 | 1 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 189 | Aumkaar Pranav Shukla | 21 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 190 | Syed Mohammad Hashmi | 20 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | College |
| 191 | Aditya Pal | 20 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 192 | Swethaa | 20 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Ladies |
| 193 | Kiran Ramaswamy | 20 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 194 | Kevin | 20 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 195 | Aravind Suresh | 19 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | College |
| 196 | Nikhil Shirsat | 19 | 1 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 197 | Bhargav Sadari | 19 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 198 | Ram Mohan | 19 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 199 | Vatsal | 19 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 200 | Asif Ahmed | 19 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 201 | Harshad | 18 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 202 | Parijat Choudhury | 17 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 203 | Subikash Paul | 17 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 204 | Manad | 17 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 205 | Kanishkaa Balachandran | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 206 | Aoditya | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 207 | Sukrit Sivaprasad | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
| 208 | Sankalp Chowdhury | 16 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 209 | Jayagopalan V | 16 | 1 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 210 | Aaditya S Rao | 16 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 211 | Priyanuj Parasar | 15 | 1 | 2 | Guwahati | College |
| 212 | Vrinda Varma | 15 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 213 | Amit Agrawal | 15 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 214 | Debabrata Malik | 15 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 215 | Aatir Zaki | 14 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 216 | Swagat Shubakanta Das | 14 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 217 | Meghna Sudhir | 13 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 218 | Samyak Jain | 13 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 219 | Tejas Lodaya | 13 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 220 | Niyati Jois | 13 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
| 221 | S Joshua | 12 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 222 | Prayag Mohanty | 12 | 0 | 0 | Goa | College |
| 223 | Kamal Mehdi | 12 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 224 | Sagufta | 12 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 225 | Pranshu Singh | 11 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 226 | Rayshma R | 11 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | Ladies |
| 227 | Jash Sirui | 11 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 228 | Vineet | 11 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 229 | Anoop N Nambudari | 10 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 230 | Atharva Pandare | 10 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 231 | Bhavya H Varma | 9 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 232 | Sreeram N Pai | 9 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 233 | Vishwanath Varma | 9 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 234 | Jayant Rankwa | 9 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 235 | Alok Vijay Saldanha | 9 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 236 | Rohit R K | 9 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 237 | Riddhi Mondal | 9 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Ladies |
| 238 | Varun Ramachandran | 9 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 239 | Saumay | 9 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 240 | Nikhil A Khattar | 8 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 241 | Kabilesh Nataraj | 8 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 242 | Pankaj Waghmare | 8 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 243 | Vijeet V | 8 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 244 | Vigenshwaran A | 7 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 245 | Bijili V Komath | 7 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 246 | Nilova Jasu | 7 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Ladies |
| 247 | Khevan Thanki | 7 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 248 | Harishkumar A | 6 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 249 | Ridah P | 6 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 250 | Sounak Bhawal | 6 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 251 | Uddipana N | 6 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 252 | Hemant | 6 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 253 | Gowtham V | 5 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 254 | Nancy R | 5 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 255 | Dhruv | 5 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 256 | Siddharth S | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 257 | Raza Faiz Arakkal | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 258 | U Kanishkar | 4 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 259 | Harshil Agarwal | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 260 | Shivansh Srivastava | 3 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 261 | Mohamad Asik | 3 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 262 | Divyansh Agarwal | 3 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 263 | Tanvi | 3 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 264 | Ashok Kumar Gupta | 2 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 265 | Rohit J S | 1 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 266 | Hariharan P | 1 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 267 | Ayisha Farsana P P | 1 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 268 | Uzayr Faiz Arakkal | 1 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 269 | Edsel Shannen D'Souza | 0 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 270 | Ahil Anwar P | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 271 | Aseel Muhammed P | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 272 | Saamved Chakraborty | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | School |
| 273 | Dhananjoy Chakraborty | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 274 | Abheri Karthik | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
AsKQAnce – Winter of this Content 2023
With less than a month remaining for KQA’s special 40th anniversary “all the nice topics” quizzing extravaganza The Winter of This Content, here’s the schedule in full detail!
Saturday (16th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien — the Arts Quiz
As the name suggests, art does not stop at paintings or with the Renaissance. A quiz about all walks of art, from still life with fruit to bananas taped to walls!
QMs: Anush Iyer, Mahendra Balu, Nikhita Thomas
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
145 PM: The Extremely Online offline quiz
Whether you know the phrase “extremely online” or are thinking “huh this is some gen Z yooth play”, this is a quiz for you — for every MostlySane posting content, there is a pre-millennial struggling with caps lock on Twitter/X. From T-Series subscription numbers to T-4826 (and counting; IYKYK), if it’s online, it’s fair game.
QMs: Abid Abdulla, Nagaratna Patil
A written open quiz for teams of up to two.
330 PM – 830 PM: SoL — the Movie Quiz
Son. Of. Lumiere. Is. Back. The venerable movie quiz rides again! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… it’s all here.
QMs: Anustup, Sripradha, Varun
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Sunday (17th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Persiflage — the Books Quiz
Another long-standing favourite, the books quiz is back and off the chain with low/high brow and everything in between, from Murdoch to BookTok and beyond!
QMs: Mollika, Sreyashi, Urmila
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
2 PM – 7 PM: Sesame Mucho — the Music Quiz
Another banger is back and promises to be an all-killer, no-filler music quiz!
QMs: Anuradha, Santosh, Udupa
A prelims/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.
Every quiz is open to all!
Registration for the written quiz is Rs. 200/team and each prelim/finals quiz is Rs. 300/team (waived for school and college teams) — 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.
MahaMahaQuizzer and MegaWhats Finals 2023
The finals of MahaMahaQuizzer 2023 will take place at 10 am on 30 June, the first day of Askqance 2023. The participants are listed below.
- Sachin Deshpande
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bangalore)
- Santosh JS (Bangalore)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore)
- Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
- Keshava Guha (Delhi)
- Amrit P C (Delhi)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Praveen VR (Bangalore)
- Manu Sudhakar (Kochi)
- Dinesh Krithivasan (Chennai)
- Chandrakant Nair (Thrissur)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Kolkata)
- Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)
The semifinals of MegaWhats 2023 will take place on the first day of Askqance 2023. The teams for each semifinal are listed below.
Semifinal 1 @ 230pm
1. ZeF
2. Zero Gravitas
3. Hammer and tongs
4. Feni vidi vici
5. String quartet
6. QA, Bangalore
7. CIDs
8. Nexus
Semifinal 2 @ 345pm
1. Adutha Varsham
2. Matunga Manram
3. Aardvarks
4. In search of lost prime
5. QED
6. QA, Chennai
7. BMQJ
8. Peter Panchali
Junior Askqance on July 28
As part of AsKQAnce – KQA’s 36th anniversary quiz fest – three general quizzes for school/college students will be held on Sunday, July 28, 2019 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events are as below:
Inter-Middle School Quiz for students in classes 5, 6 and 7 – reporting time 0900 Hours – quiz starts at 0930 Hours. QMs: Hrishikesh, Urmila and Venkat. Teams of 2.
Cognito, the Inter-High School Quiz for students in classes 8, 9 and 10 – reporting time 1115 Hours – quiz starts at 1145 Hours. QMs: Gautam and Nagaratna. Teams of 2.
PUC/College Quiz for students in classes 11 and 12 (or Junior College / PU) or in college – reporting time 1400 Hours – quiz starts at 1430 Hours. There will be a common prelim but separate finals for teams from classes 11 and 12 (or junior college/PU) and for teams from college. QMs: Ajay, Manish, Meghavi. Teams of 3.
All members of a team need to be from the same school/college. A maximum of two teams from one school will qualify for the Middle School and High School quizzes, and a maximum of three teams from one PU/college will qualify for their respective finals.
Students can also attempt the prelims of quizzes in an age category higher than their own – for example, middle school students can also attempt the high school and PUC/college prelims, and high school students can also attempt the PUC/college prelims.
The newly released 2018-19 KQA Yearbook will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the *KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
ASKQANCE 2019 – QMs, SCHEDULES, PRIZES
Askqance, the KQA’s annual quiz fest, is just a week away! Three days of quizzing goodness – here are all the details.
The venue for all quizzes (except Sai-tanic verses) is the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road. (Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/pLoJ3Eo4k6weBoZLA)
Friday, June 28th
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer – a showdown between the top 16 quizzers in India, as determined by Mahaquizzer 2018.
QMs: Movin Miranda, Nagaratna Patil, Navin Rajaram and Praveen VR.
230 PM: MegaWhats – a showndown between the top 16 quizzers quiz teams in India, as determined by MegaWhats 2019.
QMs: Preetham Upadhya, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Rajagopal PS and Vivek Karthikeyan.
Audience is always welcome for MahaMahaquizzer and MegaWhats.
9 PM: The Sai-Tanic Verses (Quiz Night at the Courtyard)
Yes, AsKQAnce now has a nightlife! Come to the Courtyard in Shantinagar for a fun quiz at a great venue to wine and dine – it’s like dinner theatre, only a quiz.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Venue: The Courtyard in Shantinagar. (Maps:Â https://goo.gl/maps/XQ7eanLRTMLkyWu6A )
QM: Sai Ganesh + team.
Note on parking: Very limited parking available at the venue, so ideal to park either near St. Joseph’s college or at the Shantinagar Bus Stand parking lot and walk up.
Saturday, June 29th
10 AM: Persiflage – the books quiz
High brow, low brow, middle brow… books and the people behind them. A few alternative titles: Rifle Pages, Book Lagi Hai, Tome Deaf, Readheads, Sheet Happens, Shelf Aware… sigh, #LitAF (millennials, please attend). Rest assured, the QMs are hard at work with the questions rather than the title.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Krittika Adhikary, Thejaswi Udupa.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
330 PM: Son of Lumiere – the movies quiz
The 11th edition of a movie quiz that just keeps getting better, like your favourite Indiana Jones Carry On the 11th movie in the MCU the reputation of Harvey We… FINE WINE. It keeps getting better like fine wine. The biggest and best movie quiz in the biz. Ask anyone.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Sujata Sharma, Varun Rajiv.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
Sunday, June 30th
10AM: By Hooke or by Crookes – the Sci/Tech quiz
Science, as in the science of everyday things. Technology, as in how the USB is inserted the wrong way up. Anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, anti-evolution crusaders and makers of mythological nukes are all welcome. No PhD required.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
QMs: CIDs from Kerala.
Prizes: 6K, 4K, 3K + coupons for all finalists.
230 PM: Gridlock – the Crossword Quiz
A take-to-lunch quiz that requires solving a printed grid containing approximately 30 clues. Most clues will have a predominant quizzing component and/or a cryptic clue. Winners determined on the number of correct answers. Ties, if any, will be broken by time taken.
An open quiz for teams of 2… well, the prizes are for two people, at any rate.
QMs: Venkatesh S, Venkataraman R
Prizes: 2K, 1.5K, 1K
330PM: Sesame – the General Quiz
A general quiz. The general quiz of the calendar, even. After all, specialisation is for insects.
An open quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Mollika, Santosh Swaminathan.
Prizes: 8K, 6K, 4K + coupons for all finalists.
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MegaWhats 2019 – Scores & Rankings
The elimination round of MegaWhats 2019 was attempted by 92 teams in 17 centres across India and Dubai.Â
Remembrance of Things Fast (Debashree Mitra, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram and Kiran Vijaykumar) from Bangalore topped the prelims with a score of 70. Aardvarks (Aryapriya Ganguly, Rahul Kottalgi, Amrit Chetia and Shaswat Salgaoncar) were close behind with a score of 68. Hammer & Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani, Partha Sarathi Ghatak, Sourjo Sengupta) from Kolkata were third with 64 points.
The top 10 city winners and the next 6 highest-scoring teams will face off in the semi-finals to be held at asKQAnce 2019 to be held in June.
The city winners are:
- Remembrance of Things Fast, Bangalore (70)
- Aardvarks, Mumbai (68)
- Hammer & Tongs, Kolkata (64)
- QED, Chennai (64)
- Zulfiker-e-Fidel, Hyderabad (61)
- Sheikh Yerboutis, Dubai (56)
- Vetes Vulpes, Delhi (52)
- Slippery Nipples, Goa (45)
- We Are Not Coolies, Thiruvanathapuram (43)
- Tirupur Tughlaqs, Coimbatore (38)
These are the other semifinalists, in order:
11. Mahavinoo Orchestra, Mumbai (60)
12. Travelling Pillsburys, Mumbai (59)
13. Forecasting Couch, Bangalore (58)
14. Answering Service, Kolkata (56)
15. Memory Blank, Chennai (56)
16. MQ, Bangalore (55)
All semifinalists are requested to email vivek.karthikeyan@gmail.com before 31-May confirming if your team will attend the semis during asKQAnce. If a team drops out, then the team with next highest score will be offered the slot.
The others in the top 20, in order are:
17. East India Company, Bangalore (54)
18. Peter Panchali, Bangalore (54)
19. Insignificant Others, Chennai (54)
20. We are Like This Wonly, Bangalore (54)
College winner: Math Quizzers (Aditya, Julian, Nishit, Basu) from Bangalore top the college category with a score of 39. The top-placed school team is Donde Esta Kachodi from Delhi (Apoorv Sinha, Shashvat Singh, Harshil Goswami and Abhishek Sehgal) with a score of 13
Our congratulations to all the participants and to the toppers. We extend our thanks to all the quiz associations, proctors and others who helped us conduct the event.
Hope to see you all at asKQAnce!
| Rank | City | Team Name | Score | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangalore | Remembrance of Things Fast | 70 | Open |
| 2 | Mumbai | Aardvarks | 68 | Open |
| 3 | Kolkata | Hammer & Tongs | 64 | Open |
| 4 | Chennai | QED | 64 | Open |
| 5 | Hyderabad | Zulfiker-e-Fidel | 61 | Open |
| 6 | Mumbai | Mahavinoo Orchestra | 60 | Open |
| 7 | Mumbai | Travelling Pillsburys | 59 | Open |
| 8 | Bangalore | Forecasting Couch | 58 | Open |
| 9 | Kolkata | Answering Service | 56 | Open |
| 10 | Dubai | Sheikh Yerboutis | 56 | Open |
| 11 | Chennai | Memory Blank | 56 | Open |
| 12 | Bangalore | MQ | 55 | Open |
| 13 | Bangalore | East India Company | 54 | Open |
| 14 | Bangalore | Peter Panchali | 54 | Open |
| 15 | Chennai | Insignificant Otthers | 54 | Open |
| 16 | Bangalore | We are Like This Wonly | 54 | Open |
| 17 | Bangalore | CIDs from Kerala | 52 | Open |
| 18 | Kolkata | StillManiacs | 51 | Open |
| 19 | Chennai | Inmaniacs | 51 | Open |
| 20 | Delhi | Vetes Vulpes | 52 | Open |
| 21 | Chennai | QMK | 49 | Open |
| 22 | Delhi | D’ Caveat Attemptor | 50 | Open |
| 23 | Bangalore | Sumo Yet So Near | 47 | Open |
| 24 | Mumbai | Amar Tomar Naam Vietnam Vietnam | 47 | Open |
| 25 | Bangalore | Swami and Friends | 45 | Open |
| 26 | Goa | Slippery Nipples | 45 | Open |
| 27 | Delhi | Abid & Team | 45 | Open |
| 28 | Thiruvanathapuram | We Are Not Coolies (Mostly) | 43 | Open |
| 29 | Bangalore | Nishanth & Team | 42 | Open |
| 30 | Hyderabad | Maami and Friends | 42 | Open |
| 31 | Mumbai | Chete Chete Khabo | 41 | Open |
| 32 | Delhi | Sreekanth & team | 40 | Open |
| 33 | Delhi | Akshay & team | 39 | Open |
| 34 | Bangalore | Math Quizzers | 38 | College |
| 35 | Coimbatore | Tirupur Tughlaqs | 38 | Open |
| 36 | Delhi | Bedyas & team | 38 | Open |
| 37 | Chennai | Sukruth & Team | 33 | Open |
| 38 | Hyderabad | Nikhil & Team | 33 | Open |
| 39 | Goa | Gadgil & team | 32 | Open |
| 40 | Delhi | Atul & Team | 31 | Open |
| 41 | Thrissur | Arun & Team | 30 | Open |
| 42 | Bangalore | Jose and the Pussycats | 29 | Open |
| 43 | Hyderabad | Riyaz & Team | 29 | Open |
| 44 | Delhi | PMS. I Love You | 29 | College |
| 44 | Ahmedabad | Vast Deference | 29 | Open |
| 45 | Thiruvanathapuram | Kla Kla Klu Kli Kle | 28 | Open |
| 46 | Thiruvanathapuram | Chaiwallas | 28 | Open |
| 47 | Mumbai | MIT Gaye Barbaad Ho Gaye | 27 | Open |
| 48 | Guwahati | Degeneration X | 27 | Open |
| 49 | Bangalore | Team #9 | 26 | Open |
| 50 | Bangalore | Schrodinger's Felines | 26 | Open |
| 51 | Bangalore | Error 404 | 26 | Open |
| 52 | Bangalore | Yeh POBG Wala Hai Kya | 26 | Open |
| 53 | Coimbatore | Kavin and Team | 26 | Open |
| 54 | Bangalore | Ooru | 25 | Open |
| 55 | Bangalore | NLS-A Gaslighters | 25 | College |
| 56 | Guwahati | beltola Kingdom Blues | 23 | Open |
| 57 | Bangalore | Ardhawokeshwaras | 22 | Open |
| 58 | Bangalore | Twilight Zone | 22 | Open |
| 59 | Thrissur | Anil & team | 22 | Open |
| 60 | Bangalore | Chord Road Cabal | 21 | Open |
| 61 | Thrissur | Arun & Team | 21 | Open |
| 63 | Mumbai | One By4 | 21 | Open |
| 64 | Chennai | Almost There | 20 | Open |
| 65 | Mumbai | IIT Bombay | 20 | college |
| 66 | Delhi | Ayush & team | 20 | Open |
| 67 | Siliguri | Unsocial Network | 20 | Open |
| 68 | Kolkata | Corpse Sell Out | 19.5 | Open |
| 69 | Goa | Anjali & team | 19 | Open |
| 70 | Coimbatore | Hari & Team | 18 | college |
| 71 | Delhi | Munavir & team | 18 | College |
| 72 | Goa | Aave Baba Savkaas | 17 | Open |
| 73 | Thrissur | College team with no name | 16 | College |
| 74 | Ahmedabad | DPS Bopal | 16 | college |
| 75 | Dubai | Murali and Team | 16 | Open |
| 76 | Chennai | Swami, Johm Frutman | 15 | Open |
| 77 | Bangalore | Animesh & team | 13 | Open |
| 78 | Bangalore | SJC | 13 | College |
| 79 | Coimbatore | Praghadeesh and Team | 13 | college |
| 80 | Delhi | Donde esta Kachodi | 13 | School |
| 81 | Bangalore | Varma Kurma Burma Shawarma | 12 | School |
| 82 | Bangalore | K Then | 11 | Open |
| 83 | Ahmedabad | Umbrella Academy | 11 | Open |
| 84 | Ahmedabad | Death by Pounce | 10 | college |
| 85 | Mohali | Wolves of Wall Street | 10 | Open |
| 86 | Thrissur | Illuminati | 4 | College |
| 87 | Kolkata | Quizlamic Extremists | 3 | School |
| 88 | Kolkata | School Team with no name | 3 | School |
| 89 | Bangalore | Junaid & Khushboo | 2 | Open |
| 90 | Thrissur | School team with no name | 2 | School |
| 91 | Thrissur | Shanthi & team | 1 | College |
| 92 | Hyderabad | DKS | 1 | Open |
ASKQANCE 2019 – THE SCHEDULE
Once more ’round the sun – AsKQAnce 2019 continues to put the ‘annual’ in ‘KQA’s annual quiz fest’ by returning for another go – and has gone above and beyond the call of duty by continuing to be a quiz fest!
Here’s the schedule:
Friday, June 28th
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer – a showdown between the top 16 quizzers in India, as determined by Mahaquizzer 2018.
230 PM: MegaWhats – a showndown between the top 16 quizzers quiz teams in India, as determined by MegaWhats 2019.
Audience is always welcome for MahaMahaquizzer and MegaWhats.
9 PM: The Sai-Tanic Verses (Quiz Night at the Courtyard)
Yes, AsKQAnce now has a nightlife! Come to the Courtyard in Shantinagar for a fun quiz at a great venue to wine and dine – it’s like dinner theatre, only a quiz. (https://goo.gl/maps/yAa52nLVm6oigQcx8)
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Saturday, June 29th
10 AM: Persiflage – the books quiz
High brow, low brow, middle brow… books and the people behind them. A few alternative titles: Rifle Pages, Book Lagi Hai, Tome Deaf, Readheads, Sheet Happens, Shelf Aware… sigh, #LitAF (millennials, please attend). Rest assured, the QMs are hard at work with the questions rather than the title.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
330 PM: Son of Lumiere – the movies quiz
The 11th edition of a movie quiz that just keeps getting better, like your favourite Indiana Jones Carry On the 11th movie in the MCU the reputation of Harvey We… FINE WINE. It keeps getting better like fine wine. The biggest and best movie quiz in the biz. Ask anyone.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Sunday, June 30th
10AM: By Hooke or by Crookes – the Sci/Tech quiz
Science, as in the science of everyday things. Technology, as in how the USB is inserted the wrong way up. Anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, anti-evolution crusaders and makers of mythological nukes are all welcome. No PhD required.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
230 PM: Gridlock – the Crossword Quiz
A take-to-lunch quiz that requires solving a printed grid containing approximately 30 clues. Most clues will have a predominant quizzing component and/or a cryptic clue. Winners determined on the number of correct answers. Ties, if any, will be broken by time taken.
An open quiz for teams of 2… well, the prizes are for two people, at any rate.
330PM: Sesame – the General Quiz
A general quiz. The general quiz of the calendar, even. After all, specialisation is for insects.
An open quiz for teams of 4.
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Venue and other details to follow soon, but mark your calendars and make your plans – Bangalore, June 28-30th. Don’t miss it!
