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 |
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 |
No MindSweep in Kolkata
There will be no edition of MindSweep in Kolkata. The centre will host MegaWhats as scheduled.
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 |
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 |
AsKQAnce – Winter of this Content 2023
With less than a month remaining for KQA’s special 40th anniversary “all the nice topics” quizzing extravaganza The Winter of This Content, here’s the schedule in full detail!
Saturday (16th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien — the Arts Quiz
As the name suggests, art does not stop at paintings or with the Renaissance. A quiz about all walks of art, from still life with fruit to bananas taped to walls!
QMs: Anush Iyer, Mahendra Balu, Nikhita Thomas
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
145 PM: The Extremely Online offline quiz
Whether you know the phrase “extremely online” or are thinking “huh this is some gen Z yooth play”, this is a quiz for you — for every MostlySane posting content, there is a pre-millennial struggling with caps lock on Twitter/X. From T-Series subscription numbers to T-4826 (and counting; IYKYK), if it’s online, it’s fair game.
QMs: Abid Abdulla, Nagaratna Patil
A written open quiz for teams of up to two.
330 PM – 830 PM: SoL — the Movie Quiz
Son. Of. Lumiere. Is. Back. The venerable movie quiz rides again! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… it’s all here.
QMs: Anustup, Sripradha, Varun
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Sunday (17th December)
915 AM: Registration starts
930 AM: Persiflage — the Books Quiz
Another long-standing favourite, the books quiz is back and off the chain with low/high brow and everything in between, from Murdoch to BookTok and beyond!
QMs: Mollika, Sreyashi, Urmila
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
2 PM – 7 PM: Sesame Mucho — the Music Quiz
Another banger is back and promises to be an all-killer, no-filler music quiz!
QMs: Anuradha, Santosh, Udupa
A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.
Venue: The Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queen’s Road (https://goo.gl/maps/YndqYDAGH1giNi3U6)
There will be prizes for all the finalists and slightly better prizes for 1-2-3. Book coupons galore, so keep your suitcase empty if you fancy your chances.
Every quiz is open to all!
Registration for the written quiz is Rs. 200/team and each prelim/finals quiz is Rs. 300/team (waived for school and college teams) — only on-the-spot registrations, so just turn up on the day!
Hope to see you (yes, you) there, and please spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Discord, Hood (is anyone on Hood?)… even send this along with a “GM 🙏🏼” to your quiz and non-quiz WhatsApp groups.
MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2023
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on 10 December 2023 (Sunday).
MahaQuizzer will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. Mahaquizzer will be set by a team comprised of Debashree Mitra, Sachin Deshpande, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman R.
MahaQuizzer is open to individual entrants, irrespective of age or other affiliations. The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2023. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2024.
AsiaSweep will consist of around 75 questions, to be read off a ppt. A projector will be required to hold the quiz. The quiz is being set by Dibyendu Das, Urmila Lakshmanan, Dr Arul Mani, and Nagaratna Patil.
AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck.
We look forward to your cooperation in conducting another successful edition of these quizzes. We will require a proctor at each centre to conduct the quizzes. Please nominate one/two person(s) for this responsibility. We will send the question paper to the proctor(s) a few days before the quiz. The proctor will need to take copies of the question paper as per the number of participants in each centre. Kindly announce news of the quiz in your respective quiz groups as soon as possible.
Mahaquizzer will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM. AsiaSweep will start at 3 pm.
Prior registration is essential. Go here to register for Mahaquizzer, and here for AsiaSweep. If you would like to host either event in your city, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
Call for QMs for 2023-’24 Season
The KQA calendar is back, and we need QMs!
Running from September till June, it will have written + prelims/finals quizzes on Sundays, and midweek pub quizzes on Wednesdays.
If interested in signing up, email kqaquizzes@gmail.com by Sunday (July 16) for further instructions.
(1) We encourage first-time QMs to apply
(2) It’s not first come/first served
(3) Once emails are in, we’ll send the entire pool the available slots and what setting entails, and subsequently finalise the roster.
So, even if you’re 50-50 about it, email now and decide later.
(4) Please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com only. No DMs on Twitter or replies on WhatsApp or whatever else. It’s easier to coordinate.
MahaMahaQuizzer and MegaWhats Finals 2023
The finals of MahaMahaQuizzer 2023 will take place at 10 am on 30 June, the first day of Askqance 2023. The participants are listed below.
- Sachin Deshpande
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bangalore)
- Santosh JS (Bangalore)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore)
- Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
- Keshava Guha (Delhi)
- Amrit P C (Delhi)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Praveen VR (Bangalore)
- Manu Sudhakar (Kochi)
- Dinesh Krithivasan (Chennai)
- Chandrakant Nair (Thrissur)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Kolkata)
- Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)
The semifinals of MegaWhats 2023 will take place on the first day of Askqance 2023. The teams for each semifinal are listed below.
Semifinal 1 @ 230pm
1. ZeF
2. Zero Gravitas
3. Hammer and tongs
4. Feni vidi vici
5. String quartet
6. QA, Bangalore
7. CIDs
8. Nexus
Semifinal 2 @ 345pm
1. Adutha Varsham
2. Matunga Manram
3. Aardvarks
4. In search of lost prime
5. QED
6. QA, Chennai
7. BMQJ
8. Peter Panchali
VENUES – MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
These are the confirmed venues for MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
NOTE: There is no venue in Kozhikode.
| # | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad University |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road |
| 3 | Chennai | PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore |
| 4 | Coimbatore | PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore |
| 5 | Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau. |
| 6 | Guwahati | Assam Engineering College |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Columbus Hospital, 1-10-63/4/1,Prakash Nagar Metro Station, Chikoti Gardens (Begumpet) Hyderabad |
| 8 | Kochi | 2nd Floor, Ashis Building, Above Ashwas Counseling Centre, Alphonsa Street, Marine Drive, High Court Jn, Kochi |
| 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. |
| 10 | Mangalore | Conference hall, Vinaya hospital, Pintos lane, Kadri, Mangalore |
| 11 | Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar |
| 12 | New Delhi | The Print Shop https://maps.app.goo.gl/xJkPhMtnxNqdFChw9 A29 Naraina Industrial Area, Phase 2, New Delhi 110027 Near Shadipur Metro Station (Blue line) |
| 13 | Pune | Seminar Hall 1, Ground Floor, Instrumentation Building, COEP |
| 14 | Silchar | New Gallery classroom complex, NIT Silchar |
| 15 | Tezpur | Tezpur University |
| 16 | Thiruvananthapuram | College of Engineering Trivandrum |
| 17 | Thiruvananthapuram-IISER | IISER |
| 18 | Thrissur | Jose Lecture Hall, Government Medical College, Thrissur. |
