Canara Union Lone Wolf 2012 – Results
The results of the first Lone Wolf contest of the 2012 season held on Sunday, 23 September 2012, at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram. The quizmaster was Navin Rajaram.
The Canara Union Lonewolf Quiz saw 47 participants take part. After a 33-question preliminary round, where the highest was 18.5 points, the top 8 scorers went directly into the finals round. An innovation was added to the format this year, with the next 8 highest scorers from the preliminary round taking part in a 33-question semi-final, from which two more people joined the top 8. These 10 contestants battled it out in a 50+ questions final and the final standings were as follows:
1. Arul Mani – 205 points (winner)
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 155 points (runner-up via tiebreak)
3. Santosh Swaminathan – 155 points
4. Anustup Dutta – 150 points
5. Debashree Mitra & Arun Hiregange – tied on 135
7. Dinesh Krithivasan – 135
8. Keshav Athreya – 130
9. Varun Rajiv – 85
10. Rohan Nogueira – 77.5
The other semi-finalists were:
Praveen VR
Raouf
Sohan Maheshwar
Anand P
Dibyendu Das
Guru
Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz on 23 September 2012
We will hold the first Lone Wolf contest of the 2012 season on Sunday, 23 September 2012, at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram.
Rules
This is a solo quizzing contest is open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Written Prelims followed by Finals for 8 qualifiers
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1430hrs
QM: Navin Rajaram
In a rather cryptic communication, the QM has advised all participants to arrive after a hearty breakfast.
Karnataka, Ruckus Tangdi, Solus Rex, Cannabis Indica, Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, Lao Me Thanda, Cricket, Artifacts, Lone Wolf, Glamour-Giri, Music Quizzes – Results
The results of two open quizzes on Saturday 3 March 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: The Annual Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh Swaminathan – 155
2. Soda, Sohan – 145
3. Vipin, Praveen VR – 127.5
4. KD – 112.5
5. Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange – 90
6. KP, Raouf / Srisha, Roshan – tied on 75
8. Ajay, Sumeer – 45
9. Anand – 27.5
Event II: Glamour-giri, an Open Quiz in a new written format
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1. Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan – 42
2. Sohan, Nishanth – 39
3. Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange – 35
4. VR, Vipin – 31
5. Ashwin Kelkar – 30
6. A. Pillai, T.C. Venkat – 22
7. Ajay Parasuraman, Sumeer – 17
8. Pradyoth, Sachin – 16
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Lone Wolf Quiz
QM: Alagar Samy
1. Arul Mani – 215
2. Arun Hiregange – 139
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 108
4. Rajagopal PS – 94.5
5. Ochintya Sharma – 51.5
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 41.5
7. Vivek Karthikeyan – 21.5
8. Hrishi Varma – 13
EVENT II: ARTIFACTS, a written quiz dedicated to the appreciation of useless/useful objects
QM: Arul Mani
1. Art For Facts Sake (Alagarswamy, Udupa) – 25
2. We Put the Holy in Nexus (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram) – 19.5
3. Metaquizziks (Santosh Swaminathan, Mitesh) – 18
4. Nexus (Venky, Kivi) – 14
5. Ochintya, Degree Raju – 13
6. DD, Sumeer / Ajay Parasuraman, Sandeep M – tied on 10.5
8. Nishanth Raman, Rahul Jadhav – 9
EVENT III: Open Cricket Quiz
QM: Manish Achuta
1. Lahar Appaiah, Rajan – 200
2. Thejaswi Udupa, Alagar ‘Cutoff’ Samy – 175
3. Degree Raju, Sohan – 155
4. Landmark Venky, Kivi – 150
5. Rajdeep, Ashwin – 135
6. Ajay Parasuram, Santosh Swaminathan – 125
7. Gaurav, Anubhav – 92.5
8. Hrishi ‘Buffalo’ Varma, Jithin Jacob – 85
9. Sachin Deshpande, Madan Gopal – 75
10. Nakul, Jose – 55
The results of three Open quizzes on Saturday, 4 February 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Lao Me Thanda, the annual quiz on Love, Sex and other associated disorders.
QM: Arul Mani
1. Santosh Swaminathan, Manish Achuta – 140
2. M & UL (Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 120
3. Anand Pillai & Sumeer – 90
4. Uncool’s the New Cool (Shamanth, Lakshana) – 70
5. Power Rangers – 45
6. Range of Kinsey (Jeydev, Pranav) – 40
7. Got Milf? – 25
8. Perverts Inc. (Rohit Rao, Nitin Gopinath) – 15
9. Pocket Rockets (Abhim Shetty, Roshan) – 5
EVENT II: Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, an open written quiz on speculative fiction.
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan – 27.5
2. Arjun, Goutham – 24
3. Praveen VR, Arun Hiregange – 23 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Unusual Suspects – 23
5. Shenoy – 20
6. Manish Achuta, Sandeep Mathias – 15.5
7. Anand & Sumeer – 14.5
8. Tropic Blunder – 13
EVENT III: Cannabis Indica, the Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
1. Questionable Characters (Anil Raghavan, Hiranyappa, Sumeer) – 195
2. CID Nexus (Praveen VR, Jithin Jacob, Vivek Karthikeyan, Landmark Venky) &
Waltwo (Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – tied on 160
4. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan) – 125
5. Aditya, Nishanth, Manish – 90
6. Schroedinger’s Felines – 85
7. Ba Bu Black Sheep (Himadri, Sharath, Sachin) – 70
8. Rajat, Jayant, Hemant – 50
The results of two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Solus Rex
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das
1. Arul Mani
2. Debashree Mitra
3. Arun Hiregange
4. Santosh Swaminathan
other positions TBD.
EVENT II: Ruckus Tangdi Quiz
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani
1. Anand Pillai, Santosh Swaminathan, Hrishi Varma, Keshav – 255
2. Rajagopal PS, Sohan, Arun, Vipin – 215
3. Lakshana, Arun Hiregange, Sandeep, Govind – 185
4. Alagarsamy, Shamanth Rao, Sandeep Mathias, Vijay – 125
5. Sai Ganesh, Farhan, Sachin, Aditya – 100
6. Nishanth, Sumeer, Suresh, Srihari – 90
7. Ajay Parasuraman, Nakul, Trisha / Venkat, Manish, Praveen, Adi – tied on 60
The results of a quiz held on 11th December 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
Poli Shankar, Shankar Poli and Others: KQA’s Karnataka Quiz
QMs: Lingaraj and Naresh Keerthi
1. Kaveri Nammadu, Kolaveri Nimmadu (Wimpy, Udupa) – 27
2. Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal – 24
3. Rajat, Jayant – 15
4. Harsha, Nikhil / KD – tied on 13
6. Landmark Venky, Manish – 12
7. Rosellini Gowda, Posalini Gowda / Raju, Manish – tied on 10
Quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
Lone Wolf Quiz
QM: Alagar Samy
Solo quiz
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs
EVENT II
ARTIFACTS
A written quiz dedicated to the appreciation of useless/useful objects
QM; Arul Mani
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Open Cricket Quiz
QM: Manish Achuta
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all
Prelims: 1515hrs
Finals: 1615hrs-1745hrs
Quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
The first event is the Solus Rex contest in an all-new format.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das
Rules:
Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1330hrs
Prizes for all finalists
The second event on the 15th is a Ruckus Tangdi Quiz featuring unused questions from the recently held MindSweep 2012.
QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani
Rules
Open to team of four members.
Team compositions will be rudely altered.
Teams get ranking points only if they field all members during registration.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Schedule:
Prelims: 1500hrs
Finals: 1615-1830hrs
Prizes for all finalists
College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
College Lone Wolf
1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5
PU Lone Wolf
1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8
EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9
EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third
Oasis Lone Wolf Quiz 2011 – Bangalore Results
Sl. NAME TOTAL STARS
OPEN
1 Arul Mani 93 7
2 Thejaswi Udupa 82.5 8
3 Anustup Datta 82.5 6
4 Arun Hiregange 78 5
5 Rahul S. Kottalgi 73 7
6 Movin Miranda 69.5 6
7 Santosh V Swaminathan 67 5
8 Sumeer Kumar 62 5
9 Alagarsamy 54 5
10 Ochintya Sharma 54 3
11 Navin Rajaram 47 5
12 Raghu Gopalan 46 3
13 Sudarshan M A 45 5
14 Hrishikesh Varma 41 3
15 Venkatesh Srinivasan 38 3
16 Rashmi Vallabhajosyula 31.5 2
17 Ulka Kelkar 31.5 0
18 Ajay Parasuraman 27.5 4
19 Nishanth R C 23 1
20 Mayur Srinivasan 18 0
21 Harold D’Souza 13.5 0
22 Vibhav 13 0
23 V Chandrashekar 12 0
24 Prakash Bagri 6.5 0
25 Amrit Sodhi 2 0
26 Miteshkumar Jain 1 0
COLLEGE
1 Samarth Rangavittal 37 2
2 Sandeep Mathias 34 4
3 Pranav S Ramamurthy 17.5 1
4 Jeydev C S 16 0
5 Pranav Kuttaiah 15.5 0
6 Vijay Ramesh 12 0
7 Akshay Tiwari 11.5 0
8 Nanjundeshwara N 2 0
9 Hayden D’Souza 1 0
10 S Srivastav 1 0
Lone Wolf Quiz on Sunday 28 August 2011
We will hold the first Lone Wolf contest of the 2011 season on Sunday, 28 August 2011, at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram.
This is a solo quizzing contest is open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Written Prelims followed by Finals for 8 qualifiers
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1200hrs-1400hrs
QM: Navin Rajaram
Venue:
Results of KQA’s Quiz for Families and Lone Wolf Quiz
The results of the quizzes held on Sunday 7th August 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Open Quiz for Families
QM: Rashmi Vallabhajyosula
1. Two and a Half Lorises (Siddharth, Ulka, Mandavi) – 85
2. Mukherjees (Sutanu & team) – 73
3. Rishika & Rajeev Gowda – 63
4. Deepa & Mani – 53
5. Sharmas (Ochintya, Sujata, Tuku) – 52.5
6. Koramangala Nexus (Venky & team) – 43.5
7. Two Men and a Baby – 43
8. Sumer, Arnav, Aarushi – 42
Lone Wolf Quiz
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar, Vineeth Surendranath, Siddhartha Sen and Ashwan Lewis
1. Arun Hiregange – 70 (1st by tie-break)
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 70 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Varun Rajiv – 70 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Arul Mani – 55
5. Santosh Swaminathan – 50
6. Sudarshan M.A. / Sumer Kumar – tied on 25
8. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 20
World Quizzing Championships 2011 – Bangalore results
Here are the results of the WQC2011 in Bangalore
1st Place – Arul Mani – 141
2nd Place – Rahul Kottalgi – 121
3rd Place – Tejaswi Udupa – 113 (Arun Hiregange also scored 113 but the tie was broken because Tejaswi Udupa had the highest score in two categories.)
Ladies winner – Ulka Kelkar – 63
College winner – Samarth – 84
School winner – Pranav R – 31
Category winners
Science – Tejaswi Udupa – 21
Entertainment – Rahul Kottalgi – 16
Culture – Arul Mani – 26
Lifestyle – Santosh Swaminathan – 20
History – Arul Mani – 22
Media – Arul Mani and Arun Hiregange – 23
Sports – Manish – 16
World – Arul Mani, Rahul Kottalgi and Tejaswi Udupa – 18
UPDATE: The world top 30 scores have been put up on the WQC2011 site.
