Quizzes on Saturday 11 May 2013
There are four quizzes scheduled for this Saturday (11 May 2013) at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The schedule:
1000 hrs – 1330 hrs
Open Lone Wolf for solo entrants by Alagarsami A.P.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
1415 hrs – 1530 hrs
Sense of Femur–written Humour quiz by Santosh Swaminathan
For teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
1530 hrs – 1615 hrs
History of Ideas written quiz by Arul Mani
For teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
1630 hrs
The AJM Open House Quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head.
High Tea will be served after the quiz
Quizzes on Saturday 27 April 2013
We have a KQA Saturday coming up this weekend on April 27, 2013. Three quizzes:
The Pop Culture Quiz – Quizmaster – Sai Ganesh
Teams of 4 or less – Prelims and Finals
Entry Fee – Rs 100/team
Starts at 1030 AM sharp
The Non Fiction Quiz – Quizmaster – Arul Mani
Written off a printed sheet for 45 minutes for Teams of 2
Entry Fee – Rs 50/team
Starts at 2:30 PM
The Cricket Quiz – Quizmasters – Manish Achuth and Sohan Maheshwar
Teams of 4 or less – Prelims and Finals
Entry Fee – Rs 100/team
Starts at 330 PM
The venue for all events is the upstairs hall at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queen’s Road.
Quizzes on Sunday 14 April 2013
We will host two open quizzes on Sunday 14 April 2013 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road (upstairs hall).
The KQA Food Quiz
Teams of 4
Written prelims followed by finals
Prelims start at 1:30 PM
Quizmasters: Santosh Swaminathan and Arul Mani
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
The April Open Quiz
Teams of 4
Written prelims followed by finals
Prelims start at 4:45 PM (the finals are expected to finish by 8:30 PM)
Quizmaster: Major Chandrakant Nair (Retd.)
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
Cannabis Indica, Glamour Giri, March Open Quizzes – Results
The results of the open quizzes held on Sunday, 10 March 2013 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists(IAT), Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Cannabis Indica : The India Quiz
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
1. We Are Like This Wonly – 260
2. Swami and Friends – 210
3. Gopal, TKB, DP, Raju – 190
4. Nexus Baggage – 165
5. No Team (Suraj, VR, Shishir, Sarin) – 130
6. Gafoor Ka Dost – 110
7. Sound OK (Siri, Santosh & team) – 70
8. Sin & Tonic – 50
Glamour Giri
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1. Siri & Lakshana – 51
2. Santosh & Mitesh – 32
3. Gopal & Raju – 30
4. Con Canny Boys / Tups & Udupa – tied on 29
5. Han Solo & Chewbacca – 24
6. Movin’ & Groovin’ – 23
7. Nishanth & Sohan – 20
8. Glam Ganesh Plus One – 19
The March Open Quiz
QM: Movin Miranda
1. We Are Like This Wonly – 260
2. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Santosh, Alagar, Arun) – 183
3. Nexus Baggage – 150
4. DP’s Friends (DP, TKP, Raju, Gopal) – 130
5. My Family and One Other Animal (Venkatesh, Seema, Ravi Mundoli, Vikram Joshi) – 125
6. Mao’s Mangoes – 65
7. Thomas Kutty, Govindan Kutty, Mahadevan & Appukkuttan – 70
8. Lehar, Renuka, Sujata, Vijay – 28
Quizzes on Sunday 31 March 2013
KQA Quizzes this Sunday – March 31, 2013 at IAT, Queen’s Road, Bangalore (upstairs hall)
Bizkashi – the Business Quiz by Arul Mani for teams of 4 – prelims starts at 1:30 PM, followed by the finals for the top 8 teams
The Metaquizziks Unseeded Open by Team Metaquizziks for unseeded teams only – participation in teams of 4 – prelims starts at 4:45 PM.
Please note that the following teams cannot take part in this quiz: (this applies to regular and floating members of the teams, who have been part of the team during a Top 3 finish at any KQA 4-member Open Quiz, starting from ASKQANCE 2012)
1. QED
2. Metaquizziks
3. We Are Like This Only
4. Insignificant Others
5. Hammer and Tongs
6. Insert Cool Name Here
7. Keep Distance
8. Swami Obamananda
9. Nexus Baggage
10. Satyajit Chetri, Madhav Nair, Dhritiman & team
11. Ashwan Lewis, Dharmendra D, Debashree Mitra & team
12. CIDs from Kerala
13. Gopal Kidao, Rajagopal PS, Deviprasad and Balaji TK
14. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar and team)
15. Travelling Pillsburies
16. Questionable Characters (Sumeer, Hiranyappa, Ajay Parasuraman and team)
Please do pass the word on and come by!
The next set of KQA quizzes is scheduled for April 14, 2013. KQA will also be hosting the Norwegian Open 2013 on April 6. More details later.
Lao Me Thanda, Yell Iruve!, College Solo, Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, Seek Under Porus – Results
The results of the quizzes held on Sunday 17 Feb 2013 and Sunday 24 Feb 2013, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Open Quiz on Love and other disorders
QM: Arul Mani
1. Udupa & Santosh – 245
2. Mathias & Sumeer – 75
3. Ochintya & Arun – 60 (ahead on tie-break)
4. Pai & team – 60
5. Lakshana & Dhammo – 50
6. Akshat & Himadri – 25
7. Rashmi & Soumitrie – 20
8. Wetshire – 10
Yell Iruve: The annual quiz on insects and other such life forms
QMs: Ashwan Lewis and Avinash Thirumalai
1. Prani Healing (Santosh & Udupa) – 23.5
2. Siddarth Pai & Rohit Suresh – 19.5
3. Surfeit of Lampreys (Ochintya & Arun) – 18.5
4. Maitrey & Jadhav – 18
5. Jai & D – 16
6. Sandeep & Sumeer – 9.5
7. Vinay & Sumanth – 6.5
8. Wetshire – 4
The KQA Collegiate Solo Championships
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan and Varun Rajiv
PU results:
1) Sridhar, Sardar Patel College – 96
2) Ritwik, FAPS – 69
3) Prajwal, Sardar Patel College – 46
4) Tejas K., Sardar Patel College – 26
5) Anikethan, Sardar Patel College – 21
6) Varun S., Sardar Patel College – 6
College Results:
1) Manaswi M. Gundi, HEW Hamburg – 104
2) Rohit Suresh, IIMB – 98
3) Siddharth Pai, SJCC – 95
4) Arvind, BMSCE – 48
5) Akshath, BMSCE – 36
6) M. Farhan, East West College – 33
7) Ritwik, FAPS – 31
8) Allen, SJC PG – -4
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum: SciFi Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh & Anustup – 22
2. Ashwan & Raju – 20
3. Doc & Shenoy – 16
4. Debashree & Dhammo – 15
5. Ijaz & Gobind – 13.5
6. CIDs From Kerala – 12.5
7. Sandeep Mathias & Ajay Parasuraman – 11
8. Rashmi & Sowmitrie – 10.5
Seek Under Porus: The KQA History Quiz
QMs: Praveen VR and Manjith
1. Ashwan, Dhammo, Debashree & team – 205
2. Questionable Characters – 195
3. We Are Like This Wonly – 130
4. Doc Krishnan, Vinod, Suresh, Manu – 115
5. Gobind, Ijaz, Soumitrie, Rashmi – 75
6. CIDegrees From Kerala – 70
7. Quale & Company – 55
8. Mathias, Vinay, Sheshu, Aditya – 50
Quizzes on Sunday 10 March 2013
We will hold 3 open quizzes on Sunday, 10 March 2013 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists(IAT), Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Cannabis Indica – The India quiz
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
Teams of 4
Registration: Rs 100/- per team (school entry free)
Schedule:
10:00am-11:15am – Prelims
11:30am-2:00pm – Finals
Glamour Giri
QM: Ochintya Sharma
Teams of 2, written quiz
Registration: Rs 50/- per team (school entry free)
Schedule: 2:30pm-4:00pm
The March Open Quiz
QM: Movin Miranda
Teams of 4
Registration: Rs 100/- per team (school entry free)
Schedule:
4:15pm-5:30pm – Prelims
5:30pm-8:00pm – Finals
Quizzes on Sunday 24 Feb 2013
We will hold two quizzing events on Sunday, 24 Feb 2013, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The quizzes will be held in the upstairs hall.
2:30 – 4:00 PM – Chronosynclastic Infundibulum – Scifi written quiz for teams of 2 – by Thejaswi Udupa
4:15 PM to 5:30 PM – Seek Under Porus – The KQA History Quiz for teams of 4 – Prelims – by Praveen VR and Manjit
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM – History Quiz Finals
Quizzes on Sunday, 20 January 2013
We will hold three Open quizzes on Sunday, 20 January 2013.
UPDATE: The venue for this Sunday’s quiz has been changed to The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) at Domlur.
The address is:
4th Main, 2nd Cross,
Domlur II Stage
Bangalore- 560071
Here is the Google Maps link – http://goo.gl/maps/vVaOp
The venue is a really short walk from the Domlur Bus Stand. If you are coming from the city, take a left at the traffic signal at Domlur Bus Stand, and take the first right (2nd Cross) and walk roughly 100 metres. You will find TERI at the junction of this road with 4th Main, Domlur.
Once again, the venue is NOT IAT, and NOT Rotary House on Lavelle Road.
The events scheduled are:
KQA’s Annual Open Music Quiz by Thejaswi Udupa.
A Written Quiz on Artifacts and Useless Objects by Arul Mani
The January Open Quiz by Navin Rajaram.
The Open Music Quiz
Schedule:
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100hrs-1300hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
The Artifacts Quiz
Schedule: 1345hrs-1500hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
The January Open Quiz
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals: 1700hrs-1900hrs
Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school teams
We have two quizzing Sundays coming up in February–quizzes planned include Lao Me Thanda, Yell Iruve, the Food Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan, a Lone Wolf Quiz, Chronosynclastic Infiundibulum by Udupa, and the annual History Quiz–Seek Under Porus– by Manjith and Praveen V.R.
Oikoumene 2012 Results
The School Category was won by Pranav Ramamurthy and Hayden D’Souza of St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School while II Place went to Presidency School,Bangalore South and National Hillview Public School took III Place.
The College Category was won by Rohan Menzies and Ezra Rynjah of SJC, while II place went to Akshay and Natesh of BITS-PILANI Goa. The III Place was claimed by Maitrey Deshpande from MSRIT.
The Open Category was won by Ochintya Sharma and Arun Hiregange while Rohan Menzies and Ezra Rynjah from St. Joseph’s finished in II Place. The III Place was won by Jayendra and Sheshadri.
Full scores can be accessed here
