KQA Quizzes on 5 January (Sunday)

Happy 2025 to all, we’re diving right back into the calendar with two great quizzes to ring in the new year!

The KQA will conduct two open quizzes on January 5 (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala.

1030 AM: The Artifacts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Mahendra Balu. From the QM: An investigative procedure (he means ‘quiz’) into objects of all sorts, from hairclips to Holbeins to hakka noodle makers.

It is a written quiz for teams of up to two. Open to all. On the spot registration, ₹200/team. Registration waived for school and college teams.

2 PM: The January Open Quiz— the first general quiz of 2025 set by Peter Panchali, a veteran quiz team known for their great questions!

It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to 4. Open to all. On-the-spot registration, ₹300/team. Registration is waived for school and college teams.

Venue: Ujjivan Head Office, Koramangala. Click here for Google Maps.

Please note that we will start and end on time. Please report for the quiz 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Text (NOT call) 9902444486 in case of any queries.

January 1, 2025 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

RESULTS – AsiaSweep 2024

A total of 78 teams wrote AsiaSweep 2024. We have a new winner this year: Calvin Christ and Preetham Upadhya scored an outstanding 76 points out of a possible 108 in Bengaluru.

Ten points behind were the second-placed team of Prithwish Dutta and Sourjo Sengupta, who also took the quiz from Bengaluru. Behind these doughty veterans, the young and upcoming duo of Vibhendu Tewari and Abhinav Dasgupta from Mumbai, placed third overall with 63 points.

The Q&A can be found here.

A big thank-you to all quizzing communities and proctors who helped run the quiz smoothly. AsiaSweep 2024 was set by Dibyendu Das, Nagaratna ‘Partikal’ Patil, Nikhita Thomas, and Dr Arul Mani.

We’ll see you in 2025!

Note from KQA: If your results are missing, we haven’t received your scores. Contact your proctor.

#	Team Member 1	Team Member 2	City	S1	S2	Total
1	Calvin	Preetham	Bengaluru	44	32	76
2	Prithwish	Sourjo	Bengaluru	43	23	66
3	Vibhendu Tewari	Abhinav Dasgupta	Mumbai	38	25	63
4	Shouvik Guha	Jayashree Mohanka	Kolkata	40	22	62
5	Abid Abdulla	Praveen VR	Bengaluru	34	25	59
6	Santosh Swaminathan	Sachin Deshpande	Bengaluru	37	22	59
7	Abhijit Banerjee	Anirudh Sridhar Chari	Kolkata	32	26	58
8	Sreeradh	Jaidev K	Bengaluru	34	24	58
9	Anustup Datta	Thejaswi Udupa	Bengaluru	33	25	58
10	Nishanth	Keshav Atreya	Bengaluru	35	23	58
11	Anannya Deb	Venkatraghavan S	Mumbai	38	18	56
12	Mohan Ravichandran	Karthik Shashidhar	Bengaluru	40	16	56
13	Avinash Mudaliar	Rahul Kottalgi	Mumbai	32	23	55
14	Subrat Mohanty	Venky Srinivasan	Bengaluru	33	20	53
15	Rajiv	Annie	Goa	33	19	52
16	Avinas Misra	Souasis Bose	Bengaluru	31	19	50
17	Alagar	Venkat	Bengaluru	26	23	49
18	Shakeel	Sri Nagesh	Hyderabad	26	22	48
19	Sanat	Supratim	Bengaluru	19	19	48
20	Bhargav Saikia	Somasish Ghosh	Udaipur	28	20	48
21	Kushan Patel	Aniruddha Mitra	Ahmedabad	29	18	47
22	Shashwat Salgaocar	Chandrashekhar Rao	Goa	34	11	45
23	Anil Raghavan	Manu Sudhakar	Thrissur	24	21	45
24	Abhishek Hariharan	Aninthitha Nath	Mumbai	27	17	44
25	Arunoday Chaudhary	Saswat Acharya	Kolkata	28	16	44
26	Shrijit Kumar	Vilas Pavithran	Goa	27	13	40
27	Udayan Mishra	Samartha Rao	Bengaluru	26	13	39
28	Preyoshi Ganguly	Tanmay Prusty	Mumbai	20	18	38
29	R Samyak	Chinmay Naik	Goa	20	18	38
30	Sanjay kr	Pavan Madhukar Bhat	Manipal	25	12	37
31	Anagha	Akshaya	Bengaluru	22	15	37
32	Rakesh TP	Sarath VR	Thiruvananthapuram	16	21	37
33	Debjit Dasgupta	Sri Hari	Hyderabad	22	14	36
34	Sahil	Balu	Bengaluru	23	13	36
35	Vishnu Vijay	Sreehari	Thiruvananthapuram	16	20	36
36	Uttirno Nath	Shiladitya Ganguly	Kolkata	20	15	35
37	Advik Kabra	Abhineet	Bengaluru	21	13	34
38	Francis Rodrigues	Ameya Samant	Mumbai	20	13	33
39	Krishan Shetty		Ahmedabad	16	17	33
40	Tony Nixon Mavely	Jyothishko Ghosh	Thiruvananthapuram	22	11	33
41	Akshay Sreyas	Sreeram M	Thiruvananthapuram	15	16	33
42	Nilabh	Pradhi Goel	Udaipur	23	10	33
43	Gokul Panigrahi	Sarvesh Shenoy	Mumbai	19	12	31
44	Shujoy	Devika	Goa	18	13	31
45	Sidharth Uday		Thiruvananthapuram	18	13	31
46	Bharat Jayan	Saranya Bhattacharjee	Mumbai	22	8	30
47	N. Viswanathan	--	Udaipur	18	9	27
48	Arun AS	NIL	Thrissur	20	6	26
49	Sumeer	Tej Vohra	Bengaluru	16	9	25
50	Rohit Kaulgud	Soumya Khanna	Ahmedabad	13	10	23
51	Anuradha Dharwadkar	Sanveer Singh Puri	Ahmedabad	17	5	22
52	Viola Rodrigues	Paul Gatward	Goa	17	5	22
53	Manoj R	Dr Arun J Sankar	Kozhikode	12	10	22
54	Ishaan Nejeeb	Rama Pandya	Bengaluru	14	8	22
55	Monish	Anvithraj	Hyderabad	12	9	21
56	Ananya Mitra	Suchana Ghosh	Kolkata	17	4	21
57	Sumanth	Rahul	Bengaluru	16	4	20
58	Mohsin Mustafa	Anshita Jain	Bengaluru	13	7	20
59	Nikhil Jha		Bengaluru	12	8	20
60	Prayag Mohanty	Khitish Panda	Mumbai	11	7	18
61	Aniruddh Bhaskaran	Nishtha K	Mumbai	12	6	18
62	Prabhat	Prajwal	Bengaluru	11	7	18
63	Rohan	Yashas	Hyderabad	8	8	16
64	Harish Alagappa		Hyderabad	9	7	16
65	Tanmay	Rajeev	Bengaluru	7	8	15
66	Anujith	Jithin	Thiruvananthapuram	8	7	15
67	Soumyadeep Das	Sourodip Bose	Udaipur	10	5	15
68	Kalilur Rahman		Hyderabad	4	10	14
69	Vineet Ranjan Maitrey	Lucy JAK	Ahmedabad	8	4	12
70	Akshit	Gargi	Hyderabad	8	3	11
71	Rohan Umesh	Prajwal	Mumbai	3	3	6
72	Soumyadeep Biswas		Kolkata	5	1	6
73	Raza Faiz	Uzayr Faiz	Kozhikode	2	4	6
74	Quiz Khalifa		Thrissur	2	4	6
75	Aneesha Roy		Kolkata	2	3	5
76	Mathew R Varghese	Vidhu Pradeep	Thrissur	3	1	4
77	Satvik Parihar	Dhruvish Patel	Ahmedabad	0	3	3
78	John Philip George	Hiba Fathima	Thrissur	2	1	3

December 29, 2024 | Filed Under AsiaSweep, News, Open Quizzes, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

KQA Sports Day on 9th February 2025

The KQA is happy to announce Sports Day 2024 a full 48 days before the event (take that, CWC 2023)!

Come to the IAT on Queen’s Road on February 9 (Sunday) for a day of sports quizzing on shores made of jerseys, where you’re allowed concussion substitutes, the quizzers say it’s team of up to Fore! and the furniture is made of cardboard.

930AM to 1 PM: Well Off Course, KQA’s cricket quiz, by returning champions Carthic Crishna, Keshav Athreya and Venky! Please note that qs about Pakistan cricket will be asked at the UAE Embassy Attestation Centre in Shivajinagar.

It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four.

Report at 915 AM for registration as the quiz will start at 930 AM sharp.

2PM to 345PM: The Cigar Quiz (written) is a written quiz by Hrishi Varma and Major Chandrakant Nair, about second-place finishers and other near misses who finally get their flowers.

It’s a written quiz for teams of up to two.

4 PM to 730PM: Sport to Tarboard – The KQA Sports Quiz by Preetham Upadhya, Prithwish Datta and Sanat Pai Raikar. Will contain sports. May contain cricket or Olympics. May even contain WWE.

It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four.

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

Every quiz is open to all! The quizzes will start and finish on time.

Registration for the written quiz is Rs. 200/team and each prelims/finals quiz is Rs. 300/team (waived for school and college teams) — only on-the-spot registrations, so just turn up on the day!

For further details, updates or any queries on AsKQAnce and other quizzes, follow us on (sigh) X and Instagram at @kqaquizzes.

Join our Quiz Announcement WhatsApp group using the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/EEsx1FuBmWCLqqwR408CWc

And now we have the Team Finder WhatsApp Group that will surely be of use for this weekend: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQBki9fzMAk7GUwb010qdF

December 23, 2024 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Quizzes on December 22 (Sunday)

The KQA will be organising two quizzes on Sunday (December 22) at Ujjivan HO in Koramangala, also the last KQA event of 2024. Come ring out the chaos that was the last 12 months on a high note with two music-themed quizzes!

1030 AM: The Scene and the Unseen — an Indian indie music quiz Allow local scenester Berty (is there a musician he hasn’t met?) and international scenester Sohan (recipient of a takedown notice from Raghu Dixit) take you on a journey through the Indian indie scene: the people behind it, the stories, the venues and of course the history.

Written quiz for teams of up to 2. Open to all. On the spot registration, ₹200/team.

Registration waived for school and college teams.

230 PM: Sesame Mucho — The KQA Music Quiz is back with returning QMs Anuradha, Santosh and Thejaswi Udupa.

Still big in Japan, this lineup promises to avoid a sophomore slump with another all killer, no filler mixtape!

A prelims/finals quiz with teams of up to four. Open to all. On the spot registration, ₹300/team.

Registration free for school and college participants.

Venue: Ujjivan Head Office, Koramangala https://maps.app.goo.gl/GX4DPxF9h5vwio866

Please note that we will be starting and ending on time. Do report for the quiz 10 min before scheduled start time.

Text 9902444486 in case of any queries. DO NOT CALL.

December 13, 2024 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

VENUES – MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2024 (FINAL)

Here is the list of venues for the two quizzes.

#	City	Venue	Contact Phone
1	Ahmedabad	CR7 - IIM A (New Campus)	88492 09809
2	Bengaluru	Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Grape Garden, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main Rd, 6th Block, Koramangala	99024 44486
3	Chennai	PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore	98800 61309
4	Delhi	Students Activity Centre (SAC), IIT Delhi	98681 49674‬
5	Dhemaji	SIPRD Centre, Dhemaji	9954922506
6	Goa	Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.	9890141715
7	Hyderabad	H105, Himalaya Block, IIITH(triple -I T, not IIT) (https://maps.app.goo.gl/D1R3QzTMgJHhwF1G6)	90008 77436
8	Kharagpur (only MQ)	IIT Kharagpur	9082685503
9	Kolkata	The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053.	9831082098
10	Kolkata (JU)	Professor Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, Adjacent to Gate no. 4, Jadavpur University Main Campus, Kolkata- 700032	62900 36256
11	Kozhikode	PPT Academy, 3rd floor, Indus Academy, Pushpa Junction, Calicut.	79076 35399
12	Manipal	Interact Lecture Halls, KMC Manipal, Health Sciences Campus, MAHE, Manipal.	9711116181
13	Mumbai	Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar	99308 53913
14	Pune (only MQ)	Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan	94212 77399
15	Siliguri	Sonar Taree Apartment 4th Road, College Para South, Opposite Baghajatin Park, Siliguri - 734001	79808 57897
16	Thrissur	Room 213, Main Block, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur	9447380969
17	Thiruvananthapuram	Reading room, Cheruvaikal	94952 58436
18	Udaipur	IIM Udaipur	7741884541

December 4, 2024 | Filed Under AsiaSweep, Mahaquizzer, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

RESULTS & RANKINGS – MindSweep 2024

UPDATED 9 JUNE: Bhubaneswar scores have now been added. Our apologies. Certain individuals in our team have been struggling with the concept of MS Excel.

We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep 2024. Apologies for the small delay: a couple of centres took their own sweet time in sending in the scores, and the person responsible for posting the results online may or may not have forgotten about it.

Now, to weightier matters: Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the reigning MahaQuizzer, tops MindSweep with 103 . JK was also part of the team that topped the MegaWhats — lending credence to the theory that he may just be good at this sort of thing — our congratulations to him.

Rajiv Rai of Mumbai finished a close second, with 101. Prithwish Datta, also of Mumbai, was next with 99.

Unfortunately, the proctor in Singapore forgot to note down the section-wise scores. The total scores are presented below.

Piyush Kedia topped the College category with 71 points. Aninthitha Nath of Mumbai topped the Women’s category with 40 points. The category toppers are as follows:

Arts: Rajiv Rai, Mumbai, 18

Movies & TV: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16

Food & Beverages: Santosh JS, Bengaluru, 15

Literature: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16

Music: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 13

The Sciences: Jayakanthan R & Dinesh Krithivasan, both from Chennai, 17

The Social Sciences: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 18

Sports: Sachin Deshpande, Bengaluru, 14

Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2025!

#	Name	Centre	Total	Arts	Movies & TV	Food & Beverages	Literature	Music	The Sciences	The Social Sciences	Sports
1	Jayakanthan R	Chennai	103	14	14	10	12	13	17	18	5
2	Rajiv Rai	Mumbai	101	18	13	8	11	11	16	14	10
3	Prithwish Datta	Mumbai	99	15	16	7	16	8	14	11	12
4	Calvin	Delhi	94	17	10	8	9	9	16	15	10
5	Sachin Deshpande	Bengaluru	81	11	8	9	8	5	12	14	14
6	Krishnamurthy Viswanathan	Bay Area	81	11	10	7	10	6	18	11	8
7	Thejaswi Udupa	Bengaluru	80	13	8	11	7	7	16	10	8
8	Dinesh Krithivasan	Chennai	80	15	5	6	9	5	17	16	7
9	Abhinav Dasgupta	Mumbai	80	14	13	6	10	4	14	12	7
10	Praveen VR	Bengaluru	79	10	15	5	9	10	13	11	6
11	Santosh JS	Bengaluru	78	12	10	15	5	12	9	9	6
13	Anush Iyer	Chennai	77	13	10	8	7	9	14	9	7
14	Govind Grewal	Mumbai	77	14	10	3	10	11	9	11	9
16	Jaidev Karunakaran	Bengaluru	76	16	8	7	10	5	8	13	9
17	Nikhil Sonde	Mumbai	76	12	9	9	6	8	12	11	9
18	Anustup Datta	Bengaluru	75	11	10	8	9	3	16	10	8
19	Swaminathan G	Chennai	75	13	4	9	9	7	14	11	8
20	Aswath Venkataraman	Bengaluru	73	11	3	8	8	6	13	14	10
21	Somashish Ghosh	Delhi	71	11	6	6	7	5	15	13	8
22	Piyush Kedia	Delhi	71	13	11	3	6	7	9	14	8
23	Gokul S	Delhi	70	16	8	8	4	5	10	11	8
24	Annie Sen Gupta	Goa	43	10	7	6	9	8	9	9	8
25	Aadisht	Delhi	63	9	7	11	12	6	6	10	2
26	Rohit S	Bengaluru	59	11	5	7	4	4	11	8	9
27	Baibaswata Jena	Bhubaneswar	59	8	10	7	7	3	6	8	10
28	Sanat Pai Raikar	Bengaluru	58	6	6	4	10	4	10	11	7
29	Alok Prasanna Kumar	Bengaluru	58	9	7	5	5	3	11	12	6
30	Rajiv D'silva	Goa	41	12	5	8	5	7	4	11	6
31	SANDIPAN GOSWAMI	Dhemaji	57	8	11	4	7	11	6	7	3
32	Akshat Jain	Bay Area	57	10	8	3	6	6	8	10	6
33	Harish Alagappa	Hyderabad	56	6	5	1	4	7	10	12	11
34	Anand Sivashankar	Chennai	55	6	6	7	7	8	9	8	4
35	Abhinav Dhar	Delhi	54	9	8	6	5	4	7	9	6
36	Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra	Bhubaneswar	54	8	5	9	6	3	11	7	5
37	Anannya Deb	Mumbai	51	10	3	0	4	6	4	13	11
38	Vinod Krishnan	Mumbai	51	7	5	7	6	4	6	8	8
39	Balagopal Menon	Thrissur	51	7	10	2	10	1	9	9	3
40	Mukilan Ayyapparaj	Coimbatore	49	13	9	5	4	2	5	6	5
41	Subhadeep Sarkar	Bengaluru	48	10	8	4	6	3	5	6	6
42	Rushi Anandan	Mumbai	47	7	6	3	5	5	8	9	4
43	Hussain Ahmed	Hyderabad	46	6	5	4	4	2	12	8	5
44	Syed Shakeel Imdad	Hyderabad	45	7	6	6	8	5	3	5	5
45	Samrat Sengupta	Pune	45	5	9	1	7	3	3	9	8
46	Sreenath	Bengaluru	43	3	4	4	5	5	6	12	4
47	Saarthak Chhabra	Delhi	43	7	4	5	5	5	5	6	6
48	Abhilash	Bengaluru	42	4	9	3	2	4	3	10	7
49	Vilas Pavithran	Goa	26	8	4	4	6	2	3	8	7
50	Rajat Gururaj	Bengaluru	41	6	2	3	6	0	14	8	2
51	Siddharth Mishra	Coimbatore	41	7	4	3	5	5	6	7	4
52	Dr. V. Sri Nagesh	Hyderabad	41	9	4	6	6	1	4	9	2
53	Sujay	Bengaluru	40	6	5	8	6	2	5	6	2
54	Aninthitha Nath	Mumbai	40	7	6	4	4	6	2	6	5
55	Abhishek Hariharan	Mumbai	40	6	3	4	6	4	4	9	4
56	Sayan Mazumdar	Guwahati	39	8	5	3	3	2	10	4	4
57	Gokul Panigrahi	Mumbai	39	7	2	2	6	5	5	10	2
58	Appu S	Bengaluru	38	5	6	3	5	2	6	6	5
59	Dhananjay	Chennai	38	4	6	4	3	2	7	7	5
60	Sriram Madhavan	Chennai	37	5	7	4	4	2	4	6	5
61	Shshank Tyagi	Guwahati	37	5	3	4	4	2	5	10	4
62	Pulkit Malhotra	Mumbai	37	5	10	1	6	4	5	2	4
63	Debjit Tripathy	Delhi	37	5	4	1	7	5	5	8	2
64	Kaushik Chatterjee	Delhi	36	4	9	2	6	4	1	7	3
65	Abhay Kulkarni	Bengaluru	35	4	4	4	6	2	5	6	4
66	Ankita Shandilya	Delhi	35	5	5	3	4	6	5	5	2
67	Samir Gupta	Pune	35	4	4	3	4	5	3	6	6
68	CR Naveen	Coimbatore	34	5	6	5	3	4	3	6	2
69	Anurakshat Gupta	Pune	34	5	4	2	6	1	2	9	5
70	Sumeer Kumar	Bengaluru	33	3	3	2	6	0	6	9	4
71	Nandana Sony	Delhi	33	6	7	3	8	4	3	2	0
72	Jitaditya Narzary	Guwahati	32	4	9	2	3	1	1	5	7
73	Rama Subramanian	Hyderabad	32	9	5	1	1	1	6	4	5
74	Francis Rodrigues	Mumbai	32	3	2	4	0	4	10	7	2
75	Uday Tej Singh	Pune	32	4	1	2	5	0	9	5	6
76	VARUN MURTHY	Ahmedabad	31	5	4	4	5	1	0	7	5
77	Sahil Ramchandani	Bengaluru	31	6	5	0	7	2	5	4	2
78	Shubham	Bengaluru	31	5	4	2	4	1	3	10	2
79	Rahul Jadhav	Bengaluru	31	9	1	3	1	0	2	9	6
80	Kaushik Saha	Delhi	31	5	10	1	1	1	0	8	5
81	R Samyak	Bengaluru	30	4	3	3	0	1	5	10	4
82	Kapinjal Kishore Sharma	Guwahati	30	6	5	2	6	3	3	5	0
83	Jyotishko Ghosh	Bengaluru	29	3	3	2	6	1	4	6	4
84	Srijit Kumar	Goa	15	5	8	1	2	6	0	5	2
85	sanat naval	Ahmedabad	28	4	1	7	2	3	3	7	1
86	Prabhat B	Chennai	28	5	3	4	2	3	6	1	4
87	Praveen Jayaraj	Coimbatore	28	9	7	2	2	3	2	1	2
88	Roshan	Coimbatore	28	9	6	3	1	0	0	3	6
89	Priyanuj Parashar	Guwahati	28	4	3	0	2	2	4	5	8
90	Adarsh B	Delhi	28	5	4	4	1	2	0	10	2
91	Vaibhav Ayer	Delhi	28	1	6	1	3	3	3	2	9
92	Nikhil Jha	Delhi	28	1	8	0	3	4	2	5	5
93	Anoushka	Delhi	28	8	5	0	5	4	1	4	1
94	Raj	Pune	28	2	1	3	4	4	8	4	2
95	Venky Srinivasan	Bengaluru	27					3	8	9	7
96	Chinmay Naik	Goa	27	6	2	3	2	0	7	7	0
97	Viola Rodrigues	Goa	27	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	2
98	Ganesha Durbha	Bay Area	27	3	3	1	2	2	4	7	5
99	sanveer	Ahmedabad	26	2	2	4	2	3	2	4	7
100	Varun Parthasarathy	Chennai	26	1	1	5	1	0	2	8	8
101	M P Shreesh Bhat	Goa	19	1	5	1	5	3	3	4	4
102	Akhil Siddhartha	Delhi	26	1	1	1	3	0	8	10	2
103	Ramish Abdali	Delhi	26	3	4	4	2	1	1	6	5
104	Ruchira Porob	Goa	25	5	3	2	3	0	2	8	2
105	Mayur Shett	Goa	14	1	6	4	3	2	3	3	3
106	Sujit Ray	Delhi	25	6	5	3	1	2	1	4	3
107	Rithwik Rao H	Bengaluru	23	3	2	0	3	4	2	5	4
108	Abhijeet Shyam	Chennai	23	0	8	0	2	1	1	5	6
109	Paul Gatward	Goa	14	5	0	4	2	1	2	5	4
110	Navneet Sharma	Delhi	23	1	4	3	3	1	3	6	2
111	Shubham Jha	Pune	23	3	1	2	4	0	7	5	1
112	Suresh Ramasubramanian	Chennai	22	5	4	7	6
113	Aastha Dua	Goa	22	2	4	2	5	3	0	4	2
114	Akshay Shreyas	Delhi	22	2	2	1	4	4	5	2	2
115	Vembu Shankar	Chennai	21	2	1	4	2	2	1	4	5
116	Shujoy Dutta	Delhi	21	5	8	4	4	-	-	-	-
117	Prisha Joshi	Pune	21	1	2	3	3	2	4	4	2
118	Malhar Mazumdar	Delhi	19	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	2
119	Harshit Agarwal	Delhi	19	1	5	1	3	2	1	2	4
120	Kartik Gulia	Delhi	19	4	2	0	5	0	6	2	0
121	Shantanu Kartha	Thrissur	19	1	2	4	2	1	2	3	4
122	Karthik Desikan	Bengaluru	18	1	1	2	3	2	1	4	4
123	Krishna	Chennai	18					5	2	7	4
124	Amit Agarwal	Pune	18	3	5	0	3	0	0	2	5
125	Divyanshu Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	18	1	3	2	1	1	1	6	3
126	Sankalp Chowdhury	Mumbai	17	1	4	3	2	0	4	2	1
127	Faris Abdul Nassar	Thrissur	17	3	2	2	3	1	3	2	1
128	Mukti Swaroop Pradhan	Bhubaneswar	17	4	4	1	1	0	1	4	2
129	Nitish Wagle	Goa	16	0	0	0	0	1	3	10	2
130	Revanth T	Hyderabad	16	4	2	2	1	0	2	2	3
131	Vaibhav Bajpai	Pune	16	0	7	1	1	0	0	4	3
132	Harshad	Bengaluru	15	3	2	1	3	0	2	2	2
133	Raman S	Coimbatore	15	0	2	1	0	0	2	5	5
134	Abinash Bharati	Pune	15	0	2	4	2	0	2	4	1
135	Krishna Aditya Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	15	6	2	0	1	0	1	3	2
136	Debabrata Malik	Bengaluru	14	2	2	2	2	1	0	3	2
137	Bunny Furtado	Goa	11	2	0	1	1	0	3	5	2
138	Pritam Ghosh	Pune	14	0	2	3	3	2	1	3	0
139	Niyati Jois	Bengaluru	13	3	1	1	2	1	1	2	2
140	Neev Raj Singh	Bengaluru	13	0	1	1	0	2	1	6	2
141	Siddhartha Mahajan	Delhi	13	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	5
142	Bhishama Pradhan	Pune	13	0	2	3	2	2	1	3	0
143	Mahadev Menon	Pune	13	3	1	1	1	0	2	4	1
144	Naman Chaturvedi	Pune	13	0	2	2	2	1	2	3	1
145	Swagat Subhakanta Das	Bengaluru	12	1	1	1	1	0	1	4	3
146	Hriday Shah	Bengaluru	12	0	4	0	1	0	0	3	4
147	Tejas S	Bengaluru	12	1	1	1	0	0	2	6	1
148	Sharat Chandar	Coimbatore	12	0	2	1	0	0	3	3	3
149	Satish Mudaliar	Bengaluru	11	2	0	5	2	0	0	0	2
150	Vidyadhar Gadgil	Goa	3	0	3	5	3	0	0	0	0
151	Pragyajeet Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	11	1	0	2	0	1	1	3	3
152	Abhijvala Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	11	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	5
153	Razdan	Guwahati	10	0	2	0	1	2	0	4	1
154	Dr. Nishad K	Delhi	10	1	2	1	2	0	0	3	1
155	Avinash Kadam	Pune	10	0	2	2	1	0	0	5	0
156	Kaushik Raam	Bay Area	10	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	3
157	Barnil Sarma	Guwahati	9	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	1
158	Prashant Sinha	Delhi	9	0	0	2	2	0	3	1	1
159	Man Agochar Singh	Pune	9	0	1	2	1	0	3	0	2
160	Venkateshwaran	Pune	9	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	3
161	ARYAKALPA BHATTACHARYA	Dhemaji	9	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	4
162	Ripunjeet barman	Guwahati	8	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	3
163	Saswat Samal	Bhubaneswar	8	0	2	0	1	0	3	2	0
164	Srinidhi AV	Bengaluru	7	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1
165	Kushagra Bindal	Delhi	7	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2
166	Smarth Nagpal	Pune	7	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	0
167	Abhijeet Kumar	Pune	7	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	0
168	Rabmit Das	Bhubaneswar	7	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	2
169	Neerav Raj Singh	Bengaluru	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2
170	Amol Sakhalkar	Goa	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1
171	Ashutosh	Pune	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0
172	Dev Singh	Pune	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	0
173	JITUL KONCH	Dhemaji	6	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	1
174	Arya RN	Bengaluru	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
175	Mukilan M	Chennai	5	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
176	Srivatsan	Coimbatore	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
177	Srinjoy Choudhury	Guwahati	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
178	DEBAAKANTA BORAH	Dhemaji	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2
179	Ambarish Kulkarni	Mumbai	4	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
180	Kabilesh Nataraj	Coimbatore	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
181	Prerit	Pune	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
182	Ram Mohan V	Hyderabad	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
183	Shubhankar Mani Tripathi	Delhi	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
184	Tapan Kumar Bhuyan	Bhubaneswar	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

June 5, 2024 | Filed Under MindSweep, News, Results | Leave a Comment

MegaWhats 2024 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

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

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

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

Top ten city winners:

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

Other qualifiers

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

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

#	Team 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

May 25, 2024 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

No MindSweep in Kolkata

There will be no edition of MindSweep in Kolkata. The centre will host MegaWhats as scheduled.

May 18, 2024 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

MindSweep, MegaWhats 2024 – VENUES

Here is the list of venues for MindSweep and MegaWhats 2024. Please note that the Kolkata venue is hosting only MegaWhats. Please check with your local organiser for any further details.

The KQA does not collect registration fees for these events, but local organisers may collect fees to cover costs.

#	City	Venue	Contact
1	Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad University	88492 09809
2	Bhubaneswar	Conference Hall of Bhawani Enclave Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar	9437042444
3	Chennai	P.S. Senior Secondary School, Mylapore	98800 61309
4	Coimbatore	Kumaraguru City Centre, Race course, Coimbatore.	9363130594
5	Delhi	IIT Delhi	8910546353
6	Dhemaji	DPRC Dhemaji	99549 22506
7	Goa	Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau, Panjim.	98901 41715
8	Guwahati	Nerim Group of Institutions, Padma Nath sarmah Bhawan, Tripura Rd, Jaya Nagar, Khanapara, Guwahati, Assam	7042226178
9	Hyderabad	Columbus hospital, Begumpet	90008 77436
10	Kolkata	The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore, Kolkata	9830186475
11	Mumbai	Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar	98195 79559
12	Pune	Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune	94212 77399
13	Thrissur	Government Medical College, Mulakunnathukavu, Thrissur - Academic block	9061015719
14	Thiruvananthapuram	IISER Thiruvananthapuram	83559 78223

May 17, 2024 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

VENUES – MQ and AS 2023

The list of venues for the 2023 editions of Mahaquizzer and AsiaSweep are listed below.

If there is any error or you would like to add your city to the list of venues, please contact kqaquizzes@gmail.com.

We have no venues in Jamshedpur,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram.

City	Venue	Hosting	Contact	Contact
Ahmedabad	IIM, Ahmedabad (New Campus)	MQ, AS	Kushan Patel	88492 09809
Bengaluru	Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Head Office in Koramangala (Grape Garden address on Google maps)	MQ, AS	Maitrey Deshpande	97428 33686
Chennai	PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004	MQ, AS	Rajagopal PS	98800 61309
Coimbatore	LH-01, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-641049	MQ, AS	Santhiya Krishnamoorthy	8870829385
Delhi	LH313.3, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Delhi	MQ, AS	Shubhankar Bahl	9910038334
Goa	Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.	MQ, AS	Rajiv D'Silva	98901 41715
Guwahati	Aurus Mall Food Court	MQ, AS	Akshay Seal	8860774325
Hyderabad	Columbus hospital, Begumpet -- top floor conference room.	MQ, AS	Prasanna Karmakar	90008 77436
Kolkata	The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore	MQ, AS	Abijit Banerjee	9830487023
Kolkata (JIMS)	JIMS Hospital and Medical College, KP Mondal Road, Buita, Budge Budge, Kolkata	ONLY MAHAQUIZZER	Ujan Sen	90510 22364
Kozhikode	Govt Arts and Science College	MQ, AS	Praveen	85476 68852
Manipal	KMC Manipal	MQ, AS	Sanjay	9880197605
Mumbai	Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar	MQ, AS	Abhinav Dasgupta	98195 79559
Pune	Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune.	ONLY MAHAQUIZZER	Pranav Pawar	94212 77399
Raiganj	Hall room of Banijya Bhawan, Mohonbati, Raiganj	MQ, AS	Debabrata Das	9832422988
Silchar	Silchar Medical College and Hospital	MQ, AS	Shubhamoy Chanda	7002139471
Siliguri	Siliguri Girls High School, Siliguri	ONLY MAHAQUIZZER	Pratyush Kundu	75860 93596
Thrissur	Academic Block, Room #24, St.Thomas College	MQ, AS	Dr Vijaynath	94473 80969
Udaipur	IIM Udaipur	MQ, AS	Ruzul	9049101133