asKQAnce 2015 – Schedule
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be celebrating its 32nd anniversary this year and is hosting asKQAnce – a three-day festival of quizzing from Friday to Sunday, June 26 to 28, 2015. All the quizzes will be held at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists on Queen’s Road. This is the schedule:
Friday, June 26
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 1 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 2 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Cannabis Indica – the India Quiz by Navin Rajaram and Hrishikesh Varma
Saturday, June 27
9:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Kibitz Simple – the Sports Quiz by Sohan Maheshwar, Manish Achuth and Alagarsamy AP
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM – MegaWhats National Finals by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
4:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Son Of Lumiere – the Films Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan and Anustup Datta
Sunday, June 28
10 AM to 1:30 PM – Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venky Srinivasan
2:30 PM to 6:30 PM – Sesame – the Open General Quiz by Mitesh Agarwal and Thejaswi Udupa (with breaks for hi-tea and prize distribution for Mahaquizzer/MegaWhats)
The time taken from IAT to the airport is about 75 minutes and the Cantonment railway station is only five minutes away. Please plan your return trip accordingly.
Look forward to seeing all of you at asKQAnce 2015.
Mega-Whats 2015 Results
A total of 129 teams from 16 centres in India and Dubai wrote Mega-Whats 2015. These are the toppers in each category:
Open: QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal) from Chennai – 86
College: The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay) from Delhi – 60
School: Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh) & Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya), both from Bangalore – 17
These are all the scores after re-correction, with city winners in each category indicated. As was done last year, the top 10 city winners and remaining 6 top scores qualify for the finals. In case any teams drop out, their spots will be filled by the remaining highest team overall. Tie-breaks were resolved by sudden death from the first question.
Our heartfelt thanks to all the city quiz associations and proctors who helped us hold Mega-Whats this year.
| No. | Teams | City | Score | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal) | Chennai | 86 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 2 | Insignificant Others (Sankhya, Sreeram, Vijay Sarathi, Ramanan) | Chennai | 79 | Open (Q) |
| 3 | We Are Like This Wonly (Bhargava, Movin, Anustup, Udupa) | Bangalore | 77 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 4 | Memory Bank (Anil, Ravi, Dr. Jayakumar, Mrs. Jayakumar) | Chennai | 71 | Open (Q) |
| 5 | Matunga Manram (Vinoo Sanjay, Balakrishnan S, Nikhil Sonde, Govind Grewal) | Mumbai | 71 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 6 | Latabai ki Kasam (Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Anil K.) | Mumbai | 70 | Open (Q) |
| 7 | Mitesh (solo) (Mitesh, Mitesh II, Mitesh III, I need no fourth) | Bangalore | 69 | Open (Q) |
| 8 | Swami and Friends (Alagar Samy, Krishnamurthi J, Lakshmi J, Mustafa Hashmi) | Hyderabad | 67 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 9 | Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, A. Guha, S. Guha) | Kolkata | 66 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 10 | Ingit Bergman (Ingit, Shubhankar G., Anannya Deb, Aniket Khasgiwale) | Mumbai | 65 | Open (Q) |
| 11 | CIDs From Kerala (Captain, VR, Buffalo, Jithin) | Bangalore | 64 | Open (Q) |
| 12 | Aardvarks (Avinash Mudaliar, Ramya M., Rahul Kottalgi, Arjo Ganguly) | Mumbai | 64 | Open |
| 13 | Rebels Without A Quiz | Chennai | 62 | Open |
| 14 | Krishnamurthi G, Ramkey V, Alok M and Shafeek | Dubai | 61 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 15 | The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay) | Delhi | 60 | Open/College - City Winner (Q) |
| 16 | Delhi Ke Thugs (Dr. Bhattacharya, Kunal Malhotra, P. Srikant, Shresth Shah) | Delhi | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Surreal and Fluoroscent (Salil Bijur, Aadisht Khanna, Ajay Parasuraman, Ashwath V) | Delhi | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Sober, High, Higher and Aiyer (Rohit Rao, Anand Aiyer, Siddarth Pai, Jayadev Bhaskaran) | Bangalore | 59 | Open |
| 16 | Mega WTF (Suraj Menon, Aditya Gadre, Srirang Raddi, Kunal S) | Pune | 59 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 20 | Concious Recoupling (Ajay Jaisinghani, Tanmay Prusty, Preyoshi Ganguly, Siddharth Sen) | Delhi | 58 | Open |
| 20 | ICNH (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Jaidev, Manu Sudhakar) | Thrissur | 58 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 22 | Petit Bourgeois (Sahitha, Roshith, Vijay) | Delhi | 56 | Open |
| 23 | SJC Quizzers (Arul Mani, Sachin, Nagaratna, Sripradha) | Bangalore | 55 | Open |
| 23 | Collected Works of Nexus Baggage (Keshava Guha, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan, Navin Rajaram) | Bangalore | 55 | Open |
| 25 | The Djinns in Jeans (Tothagata C, Vinod Krishnan, Abhinav K, Shreekanth Reddy) | Delhi | 52 | Open |
| 26 | Deviprasad, Balaji, Arun, Raju | Chennai | 51 | Open |
| 26 | Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh, Abhijit Banerjee, Bhaskar Datta, Anirudh Chari) | Kolkata | 51 | Open |
| 28 | Forecasting Couch (SRS, Logik, Anand, Keshav) | Bangalore | 50 | Open |
| 29 | Suvajit C., Prithwish, Karthik Ganesh, Shamika M. | Mumbai | 49 | Open |
| 30 | Raunaq, Jonathan, Sumer and Sandeepan | Dubai | 48 | Open |
| 31 | Idivettum Pemariyum (Nilima Rajdev, Justin T, Ashwin Sudhir, Niranjan Sudhir) | Trivandrum | 47 | Open - City Winner (Q) |
| 32 | Feni Vidi Vici Grouchy (Nitish Wagle, Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, Aniruddha Sengupta) | Panjim | 47 | Open - City Winner |
| 33 | Tirupur Tughlaqs (Yogeesh Pai, Surya, Indumathi, C.R. Naveen) | Coimbatore | 46 | Open - City Winner |
| 33 | 8.5 (Sachin, Varun, Adjitya, Manish) | Bangalore | 46 | Open |
| 35 | Megha Vats (Achyuth, Pranjal, Murty) | Delhi | 45 | Open |
| 36 | Matric Fail Inc (Bhrigu Talukdar, Akshay Seal, Pranami Tamuli, Amrit Pritam Chetia) | Guwahati | 44 | Open - City Winner |
| 37 | Vanar Sena (Sasidhar, Ritvik, Niyam, Keshav) | Bangalore | 43 | College - City Winner |
| 38 | The Zero Whats (Chirag, Chetan, Abhay, Rahul) | Bangalore | 42 | Open |
| 39 | Kasturiba Nagar Kasamusa | Chennai | 41 | Open |
| 39 | We Are From IIN | Chennai | 41 | College - City Winner |
| 41 | 4 Monks Without a Straw (Lathish, Debji, Rahul, Nishant) | Bangalore | 40 | Open |
| 41 | Bannerghatta Jammers (Abhilash, Debashish, Jayaprakash, Sreyashi) | Bangalore | 40 | Open |
| 41 | Soda Bottle Opener Wallahs (Prasanna, Jose, Shilpa, Priyambad) | Hyderabad | 40 | Open |
| 44 | Booze is the Cigaratte of Our Energy (Abhinav Dhar, Jyoti Prakash Panda, Saransh Mohapatra, Sheikh Wasim Sajjad) | Bhubaneswar | 39 | Open - City Winner |
| 45 | Nishant, Maitrey, Karthik | Bangalore | 38 | Open |
| 45 | Trivially Challenged (Arko Ganguli, Mayank Majumdar, Shayak Chakraborty, Somashish Ghosh) | Kolkata | 38 | Open |
| 47 | Abhijeet, Rithwik, Rushabh, Sreeram | Thrissur | 37 | Open |
| 48 | Abijit, Abid, Kunal, Siddhanth | Chennai | 36 | College |
| 49 | Deplorable (Pankaj Pukhan, Deepak Padmkumar, Garima Paul, Udita Gaurav) | Delhi | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Beer View Mirror (Vijay, Avijeet, Harsimran, Shiva) | Bangalore | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Sex and the Old City (Mithilesh.G, Vishal.B, Bharadwaj P., Shreyas.D) | Hyderabad | 35 | Open |
| 49 | Atul, Abhishikth, Vamsi, Krishan | Hyderabad | 35 | Open |
| 53 | Undecided (Shyama, Ananya, Allan, Supreeth) | Bangalore | 33 | Open |
| 54 | Sana, Vinod, Varun, Ramesh | Chennai | 32 | Open |
| 54 | Srisha, Vishnu | Bangalore | 32 | Open |
| 56 | Some Real Devotees of Kinetic Energies (Debashish, Sarbajit, Devarshi, SRD) | Kolkata | 31 | Open |
| 57 | Will Manikam Make It (Katik M, Atishay S, Aditya, Vashistha) | Delhi | 30 | Open |
| 57 | Keshy Venks is Mass | Chennai | 30 | Open |
| 57 | NLSIU (Parth, Jeydev, Abhishek, Osho) | Bangalore | 30 | College |
| 57 | Why So Studious? (Pranav, Nanjundeshwara, Hans George, Moshir Harsh) | Bangalore | 30 | College |
| 61 | Balwant Rai ke Kutte (Shalim, Kapinjal, Jitaditya) | Delhi | 29 | Open |
| 61 | Two Night Stand (Sameer Dharur, Murtuza Hashmi, Lokesh Kaza, Sukruth Koundinya) | Hyderabad | 29 | College - City Winner |
| 61 | Gokul, Arnold, Khagendra | Pune | 29 | Open |
| 64 | Girish, Sulagna, Utkarsh | Bangalore | 28 | Open |
| 64 | Old Monks (Dr. Nirmal Joy, Dr. Alby John, Er. Jose Thomas, Er. Munidarshan) | Trivandrum | 28 | Open |
| 64 | Nakul H., Subin Gafoor, Vishnu.S. Kumar | Thrissur | 28 | College - City Winner |
| 67 | Abhishek Veeraraghavan, Rama Subramanian and Rahul Khatri | Mysore | 27 | Open/College - City Winner |
| 67 | Devang Ghia, Sumeet Pai, Suresh Rao | Mumbai | 27 | Open |
| 67 | Maximus Minimus (Amrit Sharma, Nayan Medhi, Jyotishsman Gogoi, Souvik Bhattacharjee) | Guwahati | 27 | Open. |
| 67 | Eleventh Hour (Satwik Raut, Sampad Pattanaik, Baibaswata) | Bhubaneswar | 27 | Open |
| 71 | Vivin K, Shreyas and Shreyas | Dubai | 26 | Open |
| 71 | Totally Blank | Chennai | 26 | Open |
| 73 | Adda Quiz (Subhasish Dutta, Anubhav Joshi, Abhishek Patiri, Ashutosh Das) | Tezpur | 25 | Open/College - City Winner |
| 73 | Sheyal Pandits (Shinjon Chatterjee, Dipanjan Pal, Debtanu Sen, Arnab Auddy) | Kolkata | 25 | College - City Winner |
| 75 | Murali, Rajesh Sharma, Rajesh Panicker and Pulin | Dubai | 24 | Open |
| 76 | Shantanu G, Sampuran, Kartik | Pune | 23 | College - City Winner |
| 77 | Mega-Whatevers (Srijit Kumar, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Vishwanath Rajan, Ajey Patil) | Panjim | 22 | Open |
| 77 | X Factor From Barak Valley (Dipankar Sharma, Aveek Baruah, Amitabh Sharma) | Guwahati | 22 | College - City Winner |
| 79 | Ittiam (Venkatramana, Umang, Deepshika) | Bangalore | 21 | Open |
| 79 | Whatever!! (Adhithyan, Tharunya, Jyothishraj) | Bangalore | 21 | College |
| 81 | Wein Chun (Santhosh, Ashwin, Annirudh, Vishnu) | Coimbatore | 20 | College - City Winner |
| 81 | Baba Black Sheep (Sachin B) | Delhi | 20 | Open |
| 81 | Team 9 From Outer Space (Ravi, Lochan, Rahul, Itishree) | Bangalore | 20 | Open |
| 81 | 4 Chan Loka (Aditya, Deven, Omkar, Kaustubh) | Pune | 20 | Open |
| 81 | The M.A.S.K. (Midhun S, Ashish John, Sudev N.M., Ibrahim Khaleel) | Thrissur | 20 | College |
| 86 | Praneet, Ausmita | Chennai | 19 | Open |
| 87 | Aldona Apples (Kanchan Gatward, Kv Gouthami, Beverly Mendonca, Viola Rodrigues) | Panjim | 18 | Open |
| 87 | Subzero (N.Shravya, S. Kaustubh, Tushant, V.Rahul) | Hyderabad | 18 | College |
| 87 | Cowboys from Chennai (Kaushik T G, Goutham S.) | Mumbai | 18 | Open |
| 90 | Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh) | Bangalore | 17 | School - City Winner |
| 90 | Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya) | Bangalore | 17 | School - City Winner |
| 90 | Kaatu Freakz (Roshan Zain, Arun S, Aravind M J, Athul Ajay) | Trivandrum | 17 | College - City Winner |
| 90 | Ashwini’s Boys (Paul Gatward, Ashwini Patil, Anant Prabhu, Linus) | Panjim | 17 | Open |
| 90 | Mega Pots (Sahil, Alok, Saswat, Prateik) | Pune | 17 | Open |
| 95 | MYZORNIS (Sandipan Goswami, Amlan Phukan, Padmanav Barua, Saurav Das) | Guwahati | 16 | College. |
| 95 | Micro-Whats (Toyad Pattanaik, Prateek Mishra, Soumya R. Mohanty, Adarsh K. Mohapatra) | Bhubaneswar | 16 | School - City Winner |
| 97 | We Have To Give Now Only? (Tanay Ravi, Aabharan H) | Bangalore | 15 | School |
| 97 | 12/3 Berley Burlians (Deepayan, Abhijit, Archit, Sanket Tripathy) | Bhubaneswar | 15 | College - City Winner |
| 97 | ACubed+D (Anoop Joby, Aravind Anil, Denita Mendez, Abdul Vahid P.A.) | Thrissur | 15 | College |
| 100 | Vetla Vettiya Irukom (Harikrishna, Sathya Narayanan, Aravind, Surya Narayanan P | Coimbatore | 14 | College |
| 100 | The Piggs Bosons (Atharva, Chaitanya, Kaivalya Karkare, Ashwin Mascarenhas) | Panjim | 14 | School - City Winner |
| 100 | Docsons (Binu Raju George, Serin, Unnikrishnan Menon) | Thrissur | 14 | Open |
| 103 | M Karthikeyan, Prasath PR, Poorani, Gayatri | Coimbatore | 13 | College |
| 103 | Ninety-Four (Ajith John Joshua, Saloni, Manish Agarwal) | Delhi | 13 | Open |
| 103 | Invictus (Shashank, Rutvik) | Bangalore | 13 | School |
| 103 | Bribed the Quiz Master (Animesh Swain, Soham Panda, Anurag Bhol, Mukti Pradhan) | Bhubaneswar | 13 | Open |
| 103 | The Infernos (Aaditya R, Aman) | Thrissur | 13 | College |
| 108 | Ooh La La Malala | Chennai | 12 | School - City Winner |
| 108 | Amateur Mature (Sushant, Anish, Abhishek) | Bangalore | 12 | Open |
| 108 | Bajaunga Again (Akshat, Pranav, Surya, Anshuman) | Bhubaneswar | 12 | School |
| 111 | Quizards (Anand S Pillay, Akshay B Vinayak, Zaman S Khan, Vishakh Valiathan | Trivandrum | 11 | College |
| 111 | Rambo (Sridhar) | Trivandrum | 11 | Open |
| 111 | Titans (Deepak Nandakumar, Ashlyn Tom, Kishor S, Akhil O. Asok) | Thrissur | 11 | College |
| 114 | Qzer's (Surat S, Nithyaselvan R, Dhilip R, Vivek Kannai K) | Coimbatore | 10 | College |
| 114 | Jal Jazeera (Sujit J Patil, Ashish Negi) | Delhi | 10 | College |
| 114 | Two and Two More Men (Hassan, Amaresh Sarangi, K. Abhisek, N.S. Swarup) | Bhubaneswar | 10 | College |
| 114 | Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Nishant, Prajwal) | Pune | 10 | Open |
| 118 | Whiskypedia | Chennai | 9 | College |
| 118 | Abhijit S Gupta, Sridhar Sashank, Tejas Joshi | Bangalore | 9 | College |
| 118 | The Quizaders of Arul Mani - Land (Saishyam, Arjun, Rahul, Malavika) | Bangalore | 9 | School |
| 118 | Sai Karthik, Siddharth, Keshava, Sunil Kumar | Hyderabad | 9 | Open |
| 118 | Vertigo (Jishnu, Maya, Vishnu, Kannan A.) | Thrissur | 9 | College |
| 123 | The Invincibles | Chennai | 8 | Open |
| 123 | Yolo, Who Go Solo! (Karthik, Jibran, Siddarth) | Bangalore | 8 | College |
| 123 | Erudite Challenge (Spandan Dash, Anwesh Das, Ronisha Das) | Bhubaneswar | 8 | School |
| 126 | Tezpur | 7 | College | |
| 127 | Spartans (Kishore, Akash, Vishnu, Aravind) | Coimbatore | 3 | Open |
| 128 | Vidhya Niketan Public School (Ashwath Sibi, Naresh K, Sivnarayan) | Coimbatore | 2 | School - City Winner |
| 129 | Youngster (Antony A. Jaison & co) | Thrissur | 1 | School - City Winner |
ASKQANCE 2014 for Schools & Colleges on Saturday 26 July 2014
As part of our 31st Anniversary celebrations titled ASKQANCE 2014, the Karnataka Quiz Association will host a series of general quiz contests for students of various classes. All the quizzes will be held on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore. The various events are as below:
Inter-Middle School Quiz for students in classes 5, 6 and 7 in teams of 2 – a maximum of 6 teams per school
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Inter-High School Quiz for students in classes 8, 9 and 10 in teams of 2 – a maximum of 6 teams per school
QMs: Hrishikesh Varma and Praveen VR
Junior College Quiz for students in classes 11 and 12 (or Junior College / PU) in teams of 3
Inter-College Quiz for students in UG and PG courses in teams of 3
The Junior College and College quizzes will have a common preliminary round and separate finals. QMs – Varun Shenoy and Sai Ganesh
We invite participation in these events – all team members have to be from the same school/college.
Please note that registration is only through the online form available at the links below. No hard copy/paper registration or printout is required. Students can wear school uniform and/or carry a school badge for identification.
To register, please fill the relevant form that is available at the following links; all the rules are available in the form itself.
http://kqaquizzes.org/middle-school-quiz
http://kqaquizzes.org/high-school-quiz
http://kqaquizzes.org/askqance-junior-college-quiz
http://kqaquizzes.org/askqance-college-quiz
ASKQANCE 2014
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be celebrating its 31st anniversary this year. We will be hosting a series of quizzes as part of ASKQANCE 2014 – a 2.5 day festival of open quizzes.
All quizzes will be held at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The schedule is as follows:
Friday, June 27, 2014
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Megawhats Semi Finals 1 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar – line-up to be announced in a couple of weeks
3:15 to 4:45 PM – Megawhats Semi Finals 2 – line-up to be announced in a couple of weeks
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Capital Punishment – the Social Sciences Quiz by Alagarsamy AP and Rajagopal PS – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less
Saturday, June 28, 2014
9:15 AM to 12:45 PM – Flying Dutchmen – the Sports and Travel Quiz by Sohan Maheshwar and Venkatesh Srinivasan – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less
1:45 PM to 4:00 PM – Megawhats National Finals
4:15 PM to 9:30 PM – Son of Lumiere – the Films Quiz by Anustup Datta and Santosh Swaminathan – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less
Sunday, June 29, 2014
9:15 AM to 12:45 PM – Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Hrishikesh Varma – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Newton’s Cradle – the Science and Technology Quiz by Navin Rajaram – Written Quiz for teams of 2 or less – Prizes for the Top 3 teams
3:15 PM to 7:30 PM – Sesame – the Open General Quiz by Thejaswi Udupa and Mitesh Agarwal – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less.
We will also be giving out the trophies for the winner of the 30th Anniversary Mahaquizzer edition held in Dec 2013 and the National Champion of Megawhats 2014 between the prelims and the finals of Sesame. There will also be a KQA-hosted high-tea for all participating teams.
All quizzes will carry an entry fee of Rs 100/team, except for school teams. Prizes for all finalists in all the quizzes. Look forward to seeing all of you in June!
ASKQANCE 2013 – School & College Results
The results of the KQA Anniversary School and College quizzes held on Saturday, August 24, 2013.
I. Middle School Quiz – classes 5-7
QM: Venkatesh S.
1. St. Joseph’s Boy’s High School (Hayden D’Souza, Jacob Jaison) – 95
2. PSBB LLA (Shashank Pandey, Naeem Niaz) – 90
3. Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home CBSE (Kaustubh Bhanj, Ganesha N Sai) – 85
4. CMR NPS (Akhil P, Shashank S) – 80
5. Presidency RT Nagar (Aniket KM, Adithya PS) – 63
6. Frank Anthony Public School (Mihir Rajamane, George Panicker) – 60
7. Bishop Cotton Boy’s School (Ajay Sabareesh B, Moitreyo Ganguly) – 55
8. PSBB LLA (Ayushman Satpathy, Vallabh Chander) – 50
II. High School Quiz – classes 8-10
QMs: Hrishi Varma & Arun Hiregange
1. NPS Rajajinagar (Rutvik BP, Saurav Shenoy P) – 90
2. Presidency RT Nagar (Parv Modi, Kiran MS) – 76
3. Sri Kumarans Childrens Home (Sameer A Kolhar, Aniruddha Mysore) – 64
4. NPS Koramangala (Shreyas K, Vikram S) – 62
5. St. Josephs Boys High School (Hari Kartik Ramesh, Rishabh Kamath) – 58
6. NPS HSR Layout (Mani Mannampalli, Pradyumna Shome) – 53
7. PSBB LLA (Kunjal Parnami, Arjun Shekar) – 50
8. Presidency Nandini Layout (Trivikrama M, Nagendra KJ) – 45
III. PU Quiz – classes 11-12 / PU / Junior College
QMs: Varun Rajiv, Varun Shenoy, Sohan Maheshwar
1. Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home (Akshay Tiwary, Tejas Joshi, Barghav) – 105 (on tie break)
2. NPS Rajajinagar (Naren Kumar, Sumedh Bharadwaj, Harshavardhan U) – 105 (on tie break)
3. NPS Koramangala (R Adithya, Gaurav Pai, Priyank Bhandia) – 105 (on tie break)
4. NPS HSR Layout (Siddharth Rajeevan, Chethan T, Ananye Pandey) / Frank Anthony Public School (Venkat N, Ritvik C, Aakash S) / Christ College (BS Supreeth, Pavan Raju M, Suhas KC) – tied on 80
7. NPS Rajajinagar (Rohith Raju, Bharath AK, Sahil Bhandary) – 35
8. NPS HSR Layout (Aditya Arun, Shashank Reddy, Krishnan S) / St. Johns High School (Mohsin, Poovanna BA, Joseph S Davis) – tied on 30
IV. College Quiz – UG and PG
QMs: Varun Rajiv, Varun Shenoy, Sohan Maheshwar
1. St. Joseph’s Commerce – 82
2. BMS – 75
3. RVCE – 71
4. St. Joseph’s Arts & Science – 51
5. NPS Koramangala – 26
6. BMS – 25
7. NLS – 13
8. NPS Rajajinagar – 6
ASKQANCE 2013 – Schools and Colleges
We will hold the KQA Anniversary School and College quizzes on Saturday, August 24, 2013.
The quizzes will be held at Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT), Queens Road, in the ground floor hall.
The quizzes are:
I. Middle School Quiz – classes 5-7
Middle School prelims: 9 AM to 9:40 AM
Middle School Finals: 9:50 AM to 10:50 AM
II. High School Quiz – classes 8-10
High School Prelims: 11 AM to 11:40 AM
High School Finals: 11:50 AM to 1:00 PM
Invitation letters have been sent out to schools.
There is a restriction of 3 teams per school per category.
III. PU Quiz – classes 11-12 / PU / Junior College
The prelims for the PU and College quizzes will be common, with separate finals.
PU and College Prelims: 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
PU Finals: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
IV. College Quiz – UG and PG
PU and College Prelims: 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
College Finals: 4:30 to 6:00 PM
ASKQANCE 2012 Results – College Quizzes
ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the college quizzes.
Junior College Quiz
- FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 150 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran - Frank Anthony Public School – 145 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M - National Public School, Indiranagar – 105 points
Abhinav VN, Deepak KS & Anindya Sharma - Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home (CBSE) – 75 points
Akshay Tiwary, Tejas Joshi & Madhavan Venkatesh - National Public School, Koramangala – 65 points
Pratik Ramesh, Ganesh Krishna & Pranay Rai - National Public School, Rajajinagar – 60 points
Anirudh SR, Suraj Srikumar & Sasidhar GV - Sri Kumaran’s PU College – 55 points
Abhishek VS, Raghavendra RG & Pradyumna S Kale - National Public School, Koramangala
College Quiz
Since the junior college quiz and the college quiz had a common written preliminary round, two junior college teams from FIITJEE, Hyderabad and FAPS, Bangalore also qualified for the college quiz.
- NITK, Surathkal – 65 points
Chaitanya K, Samarth R & Srinivas S - BITS, Pilani – 57 points
Srisha Haridas, Deepak Gopinath & Nachiketa Adhikari - NIT, Calicut – 56 points
Deepak Thomas, Leo Thomas & Prasanth John Abraham - NITK, Surathkal – 55 points
Preeti S, Soumya E & Aniruddha T - NLSIU – 50 points
Aurobindo, Badri & Pranav - Frank Anthony Public School – 40 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M - FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 10 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran - IIIT, Bangalore – 0 points
Sandeep A Mathias
ASKQANCE 2012 Results – School Quizzes
ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the school quizzes.
Middle School Championships (V, VI, VII std)
- PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 90 points
Ayushman Satpaty & Samyukta Shrivatsa - National Public School, Indiranagar – 80 points
Arjun Nair & Arcot Pradhuymna - National Hill View Public School – 65 points
Siddarth Yagnamurtyh & N. Krishna - Frank Anthony Public School – 55 points
Nakul Diwekar & Abhiram Eswara - St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 55 points
Hayden D’Souza & Kaustubh Roy - PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 50 points
Kunjal Parnami & Arjun Shekar - National Hill View Public School – 45 points
Anirudh Kulkarni & Vikas Vasu - National Academy for Learning – 40 points
Prakriti R & Akul D. Shetty
Cognito – High School Championships (VIII, IX & X std)
- Sharada Vidyalalya – 165 points
Preetham & Bharath - St. Paul’s English School – 140 points
Amogh N Chakravarthy & Nikhil Chandra R - The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 116 points
Sanskar Biswal & Anshu Pal - St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 115 points
Pranav Ramamurthy & Ashwin Kumar - National Public School, Koramangala – 105 points
R. Adithya & Arko Kundu - The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 80 points
R. Jayanth & Rohan J - National Public School, Koramangala – 60 points
Gaurav Pai & Priyank Bhandia - PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 40 points
Rahul G & Nitin V
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 3 Results
With only two quizzes scheduled for the 3rd day of ASKQANCE, we began a little later in the day. This also meant some of us could get a precious extra hour or two of sleep before turning up for the quizzes.
SON OF LUMIERE – OPEN FILM QUIZ
QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange
With almost every question containing video or audio clips, this quiz was literally packed with entertainment. The question ranged over different eras of cinema and covered the gamut of cinema from Bollywood to Hollywood to foreign languages to Indian regional.
The team calling themselves Keep Distance topped the preliminary round with an astounding 30 out of a possible 36 points. They went on to come second in the final round, but were always close on the heels of the eventual winners, Metaquizziks.
- Metaquizziks – 185 points.
- Keep Distance – 165 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 130 points.
- Waltobama – 105 points.
- Insignificant Others – 100 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 85 points.
- Inglorious Bastard Son of Lumiere – 80 points.
- We May Die But It’s Worth It – 80 points.
AWARDS
The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was presented to Ms. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka from Kolkata for being the top scorer in Mahaquizzer 2012. Ms. Mohanka has been consistently among the top few scores for the past few years and her winning the trophy this year also makes her the first lady to win it in the short history of Mahaquizzer.
The KQA Founders’ Trophy was presented to QED (Jayakanthan, Samanth S, Gopal Kidao & Swaminathan G) from Chennai, the team that won the finals of Mega-Whats held on June 30.
SESAME, OPEN! QUIZ
QM: Arul Mani
The annual open quiz held at ASKQANCE sees participation from the best teams from across the country and so the prelims are not just high scoring but also hard fought for the 8 places in the finals. The final line up this year had teams from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore with a team from Goa just missing the qualification mark.
The finals proved to be both interesting in content and exciting in competition as teams frequently changed places in the scoring. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan & Kiran Vijaykumar) from Bangalore overtook QED early in the quiz but then slumped for a while before finally finishing second. QED, the eventual winners lagged for a bit too but then pounced on a series of questions in the fourth round to create and unassailable lead. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and Thejaswi Udupa) from Bangalore who were placed last for a couple of rounds bounced back spectacularly towards the end of the quiz to pip the Kolkata team Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Shouvik Guha & Anil Vaswani) by 5 points for third place.
Click the graph below for an idea of how the teams’ scores progressed through the quiz.
- QED – 275 points.
- Metaquizziks – 225 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 215 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 210 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 205 points.
- Champions of Breakfast – 135 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 130 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 115 points.
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 2 Results
June 30, Day 2 of ASKQANCE 2012 had a packed schedule with 2 open quizzes and the second semi-finals and the finals of Mega-Whats.
MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 2
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar
In the second semi-finals, We Are Like This Wonly secured their spot in the finals winning by a comfortable margin but there was a close fight for the other 3 spots.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 285 points.
- Travelling Pilsburies – 255 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 215 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 200 points.
- Metaquizziks – 185 points.
- Mega-WTFS – 130 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 115 points.
- Two and a Half Men – 30 points.
BY HOOKE OR BY CROOKES – THE SCIENCE QUIZ
QMs: Rajagopal P.S., Vivek Karthikeyan & Siddhartha Shanker
The quizmasters kept the participants on their toes, answering questions about elements, identifying equations and even filling in blanks in poetry! The scoring was so close that two teams tied for first place and decided to split the honours instead of breaking the tie.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 104 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 104 points.
- Pouncing As Science (aka Metaquizziks) – 95 points.
- Nexus – 77 points.
- Questionable Characters – 64 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 64 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 47 points.
- Swami’s Friends – 42 points.
KIBITZ SIMPLE – THE SPORTS QUIZ
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Metaquizziks going under the alias of Metal-Quizziks in a surprise result qualified for the finals of a sports quiz. They also bravely participated in the absence of Arul Mani who was busy setting questions for the Mega-Whats finals for later in the day.
- Insignificant Others – 235 points.
- Flibberti-Kibitz – 175 points.
- Swami Obamananda – 165 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 160 points.
- CIDs from Mumbai/Kerala – 155 points.
- Untitled – 130 points.
- MAAZ FC – 125 points.
- Metal-quizziks – 85 points.
MEGA-WHATS FACE OFF
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijaykumar
After a short break for tea and snacks, quizzers poured into the hall to witness the finals of Mega-Whats. With teams from Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Bangalore & Delhi, it had a truly national flavour.
QED, a team from Chennai took an early large lead and kept it through the quiz to win by very large margin. This didn’t mean there was no excitement at all; The teams in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places though frequently exchanged places as the quiz progressed, and even before the last couple of questions, there was a chance for teams to surge ahead to get 2nd place.
An interesting round on connections where teams could also stake confidence on their answers to take higher points helped some teams get a nice leg up in the scoring.
- QED – 390 points.
- Insignificant Others – 265 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 250 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 237.5 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 215 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 215 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 190 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 155 points.
KQA ANNIVERSARY YEARBOOK 2011-2012
The President of the KQA, Ochintya Sharma also released the yearbook for 2011-2012 containing questions from many of the quizzes conducted by the KQA in the past year. He thanked the efforts of the many quizmasters that contributed questions to the yearbook as well as those that helped edit it. The KQA school quiz book for 2011-2012 will be released at the ASKQANCE School and College quizzes to be held in July 2012.
KQA Yearbooks including older copies can be purchased at most KQA events held in Bangalore.
