Quizzes on Sunday 30 March 2014
We will host our next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 30 at our usual venue – IAT, Queen’s Road. Please be on time, since we have four quizzes planned.
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM (including corrections) – a 60-minutes written general Quiz on 100 Years since World War 1 – the quiz has been set by Vikram Joshi from the Bombay Quiz Club and has already been held in multiple cities across India. Proctor: Hrishikesh Varma
11:15 AM to 1:45 PM – KQA Cricket Quiz Prelims and Finals – for teams of 4 or less – QMs – Manish Achuth and Sohan Maheshwar
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM – Tech That! KQA Tech Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – QM Thejaswi Udupa
4:00 PM to 7:30 PM – March Open Quiz – for teams of 4 or less – this quiz will be in a Ruckus Tangdi format, where teams will be formed on the spot randomly – so, do come even if you don’t have a team! QMs: Sai Ganesh, Hari Shenoy, Varun Shenoy, Shashank PS, Sohan Maheshwar
Quizzes on Sunday 9 March 2014
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be holding its next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at our regular venue – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
10 AM onwards – Bangalore leg of the Asha Open Quiz
Bay Area Quiz Club will be conducting an Open Quiz as a fund raiser for the organization Asha. Asha raises funds to provide for projects dealing with educating underprivileged children in India. All funds raised via registration fees for this quiz will be sent to Asha Silicon Valley (SV) to help them fund their projects. This is the third year of our quiz and our questions from the past quizzes have been well received by the quizzing world. If you need to know more about Asha Silicon Valley or Asha in general, please follow this link (http://www.ashanet.org/
Details of the quiz
– Teams of two
– 45 question written prelims
– 8 teams make it to the final
– 64 question final
– Registration fee; minimum registration fee Rs 100/team. Teams wishing to pay a higher fee are welcome to do so; all money collected will go to Asha Silicon Valley
Proctor: Rajagopal PS
2:30 PM onwards – Chronosynclastic Infundibulum – the Speculative Fiction Quiz
Written quiz for teams of 2
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
Prizes for Top 3
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
4:00 PM onwards – Bizkashi – the KQA Business Quiz
Teams of 4 or less
Prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
QMs: Karthik Shashidhar and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Quizzes on Sunday 23 February 2014
Quizzes on Saturday 1 February 2014
We will be holding two quizzes on Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 at our usual location – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road
Karan Arjun Quiz for Classes 3 and 4
Teams of 4 – all members from either Class 3 or Class 4 from the same school
Common written prelims of 25 questions
Separate finals for the Top 8 teams in each category
Reporting time: 9:00 AM
No Registration Fee; On-the-spot registration
QMs: Venkatesh Srinivasan and Alagarsamy AP
The KQA Collegiate Solo Championships
Solo quiz for Std XI/XII/PUC/UG/PG students
Written prelims followed by one common final
Reporting time: 11:30 AM
Registration Fee: Rs 50/person
QM: Sai Ganesh
Quizzes on Saturday 18 January 2014
We have our next set of quizzes on Saturday, January 18 at our usual location – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
10 AM onwards – The KQA Music Quiz for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams. Entry Fee – Rs 100/team. Prizes for all finalists.
QM – Thejaswi Udupa
2 PM onwards – The Artifacts and Other Useless Objects Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – Entry Fee Rs. 100/team. Prizes for the top 3 teams.
QMs – Navin Rajaram, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul Mani
3.30 PM onwards – the delayed December Open Quiz for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for the top eight teams. Entry Fee – Rs. 100/team – prizes for all finalists.
QM – Arun Hiregange
Please be on time, since we have a tight schedule with three quizzes. Please note that the quizzes are on Saturday, not Sunday.
Quizzes on Sunday 5 January 2014
We have a set of quizzes this Sunday, Jan 5 at our usual location – IAT, Queen’s Road.
10 AM onwards – Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz for College teams – teams of 3 from the same college – prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams. No entry fee.
QM – Sohan Maheshwar
2 PM onwards – Hubbuba – The Bangalore Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – Entry Fee Rs 100/team. Prizes for the top 3 teams. QMs – Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh Srinivasan
3.30 PM onwards – the January Open Quiz for teams of 4 – prelims followed by finals for the top eight teams. Entry Fee – Rs 100/team – prizes for all finalists. QM – Suresh Ramasubramanian.
Quizzes on Sunday 24 November 2013
The Karnataka Quiz Association will host its next series of quizzes on Sunday, 24 Nov 2013 at the usual venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore. The details of the quizzes are:
Quizzes on Saturday 9 November 2013
The KQA is planning two quizzes on Saturday, Nov 9 – the day preceding the Bengaluru edition of the Landmark Quiz. The quizzes are:
10:30 AM – 1:30 PM – Solus Rex, the KQA’s annual solo quiz in a new format, by Thejaswi Udupa
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM – The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz for teams of 4 or less by Hari Parameswaran
The quizzes will happen at our usual location – IAT on Queen’s Road.
Quizzes on Sunday 20 October 2013
The KQA will hold its next series of quizzes on Sunday, October 20, 2013 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road. The details are:
9 AM – 10:30 AM: The annual Oasis Quiz Lone Wolf Edition 2013 organized by The English Language Activities Society, the official quiz club of BITS, Pilani. This is a 90 minute, 120 question written solo quiz held simultaneously in various venues across the country as well as abroad. The quiz is open to all. However, there are two categories – College and Open, with prizes for both categories provided by the organisers.
10:30 AM – 2:00 PM: The October Open Quiz by Kaustuba Venugopal for teams of 4 or less; Prelims, followed by finals for the top 8 teams; Entry Fee – Rs 100/team
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Pilferages – a quiz on popular and pulp fiction by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh Srinivasan for teams of 2 – this is a 40-questions written quiz. Entry Fee – Rs 100/team
4:15 PM to 8:00 PM: Persiflage – the annual KQA Books Quiz for teams of 4 or less by Sumant Srivathsan and Thejaswi Udupa; Prelims, followed by finals for the top 8 teams; Entry Fee – Rs 100/team
Canara Union Lone Wolf – Results
The Canara Union Lonewolf Quiz was conducted on Sunday 25th August and had 43 solo contestants taking the prelims, which had 35 questions. The cutoff score was 12.75 and the top 13 were selected for the finals.
After a 50-questions finals, the standings were:
WINNER – Anustup Dutta
RUNNER-UP – Keshava Guha
2nd RUNNER-UP – Rajagopal PS
Joint 4th – Arun Hiregange, Hrishikesh Varma and Varun Rajiv
7th – Vivek Karthikeyan
Joint 8th – Abhilash, Suraj and Praveen VR
Other Finalists
Venkatesh Srinivasan
Prithwiraj Mukherjee
Sachin Deshpande
Congratulations to all the winners and participants. A special note of thanks to the Quizmaster, Navin Rajaram.
