AsKQAnce 2017 Schedule
The original orgy of quizzing is back this week, celebrating the 34th anniversary of KQA. Three days, seven quizzes, twenty two quizmasters.
Here’s the schedule.
Friday, June 30th
I
Mahamahaquizzer – A solo quiz where past winners of Mahaquizzers battle against the top 8 of the latest edition. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijaykumar, Urmila Lakshmanan, Rajagopal PS
Time: 9:30 am
II
Megawhats – KQA’s annual quest to find the best team in India. Top 16 teams from this year’s Megawhats written quiz face off. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan
Time: 2 pm
Saturday, July 1st
III
Cannabis Indica – A quiz on all things Indian. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR
Time: 9:30 am
IV
Not Just Cricket – A written quiz on sports. For teams of two.
QM team: Manish Achutha, Sohan Maheshwar, Alagarsamy AP
Time: 2 pm
V
Son of Lumiere – A quiz on movies. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Anustup Datta, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa
Time: 4 pm
Sunday, July 2nd
VI
The GS Hiranyappa Memorial Open Quiz – A quiz on history and geography. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Ashwin Kumar, Navin Rajaram, Lakshana Kripash
Time: 9:30 am
VII
Sesame – A general quiz. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
Time: 2:30 pm
ASKQANCE 2016–A round-up
The semifinals and finals of MegaWhats 2016 – the national flagship team quizzing championship of the KQA took place on Day 1 of asKQAnce 2016.
The first semis saw a close fight ending in a tiebreaker between two teams with Metaquizziks from Bangalore eventually prevailing over the Travelling Pillsburys from Mumbai. They joined the top three teams from this semi, Ingit Bergman – Mumbai, Swami and Friends – Hyderabad and We Are Like This Wonly – Bangalore.
In the second semifinal QED-Chennai won, with Remembrance of Things Fast-Chennai a close second. Matunga Manram-Mumbai finished third and Aardvarks-Delhi pipped a couple of other teams to take fourth place.
After a riveting final, there was a new champion – Remembrance of Things Fast – Chennai, represented by Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Srinath Bashyam and Manu Sudhakar.
QED from Chennai with Samanth, Sankhya, Gopal and Jayakanthan finished second.
Waltwo from Bangalore with Thejaswi, Anustup, Arun and Ochintya finished third.
The quiz was set by Mitesh Agarwal and Venkatesh Srinivasan.
The @Knappily India Quiz was conducted on Saturday, 25 June 2016 by Ochintya Sharma and Alagarsamy AP. After a closely fought prelims, the following eight teams made it to the finals with these final standings:
Winners – The Travelling Pillsburies – Mumbai
Runners-up – Memory Blank – Chennai
3rd Place – Inmaniacs – Kovai
Finalists
Ingit Bergman
Forecasting Couch
Rebel Alliance
Hammer and Tongs
QED
KQA would also like to acknowledge and thank @Knappily, who sponsored this quiz. Do look them up on the Play Store.
Double Sculls – the written sports quiz was conducted on Saturday, 25 June 2016 by Ashwin Kumar and Rajagopal PS. The quiz had a huge turnout and teams attempted 45 questions in writing.
After a close finish, the podium finishers were:
Winners – Venkatraghavan S and Aniket Khasgiwale
Runners-up – Vinoo Sanjay and Atul Mathew
3rd Place – Sankhya and Sreeram
The movies quiz at ASKQANCE 2016 – Son of Lumiere was conducted on Day II of Askqance by Santosh Swaminathan and Anustup Datta. The marathon quiz with loads of movie clips from multiple language films went on till the wee hours of the night and in the end, the top three were:
Winners – Metaquizziks – Varun, Priyambad, Ashwin and Shiv
Runners-up – QED – Samanth, Jayakanthan, Gopal and TKB
3rd Place – Mavericks – Ramkey, Dr Chandrashekar, Nikhil and Atul
Day 3 at ASKQANCE 2016 started with Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Varun Rajiv and Vivek Karthikeyan. After a 30-questions prelims, which was well enjoyed and cracked by the teams, the Top eight teams made it to the final, with QED from Chennai coming out trumps, at the end of the finals. There was a tie-break for second spot, in which Remembrance of Things Fast pipped Matunga Manram to second place.
Final Standings:
Winners – QED – 255 points
Runners-up – Remembrance of Things Fast – tied on 170
3rd Place – Matunga Manram – tied on 170
Other Finalists in order of scores
Insignificant Others – 165
Hammer and Tongs – 150
Travelling Pillsburys – 135
We Are Like This (W)only – 125
Go Goya Gone – 115
The flagship General Quiz at Askqance – Sesame, saw a huge number of teams attempt the prelims (nearly 50 teams). After a tightly contested 40-questions prelims, a long finals began – a quiz in two halves, respectively by Thejaswi Udupa and Arul Mani.
After 75+ questions in the finals, there was a tie between two teams – The Travelling Pillsburys from Mumbai and QED from Chennai – the tie was resolved after the second tie-breaker question and QED emerged champions.
The final standings were:
Winners – QED – 385 points
2nd Place – The Travelling Pillsburys – 385
3rd Place – Matunga Manram – 370
Other finalists
We Are Like This Wonly – 335
Swami and Friends – 305
Rebel Alliance – 295 tied with Remembrance of Things Fast – 295
Metaquizziks – 260
The three-day quiz festival ended with the fun-AJM quiz. Despite the late start, almost 50 people stayed back – a mix of Bangaloreans and outstation quizzers. Beginning with a twin List-It round, Sai Ganesh, Kaustuba Venugopal and Abhishek Upadhya, regaled the participants with some fun questions, PJs and fantastic fundas.
The quiz ended with two large teams of about 20 people each, and much chaos on the pounce! The team which had Jayakanthan R and Rajagopal PS among others won the quiz, as the event wound up post 10 PM on Sunday.Thanks to everyone who stayed back and to the QMs for a very interesting and fun quiz – the perfect way to end the fest.
KQA thanks all the QMs, and all the teams for a memorable ASKQANCE 2016.
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
