ABBA Ke Zamane Mein & Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open – Results

The results of two Open Quizzes held on Sunday 21 October at the first floor hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I: Abba Ke Zamane Mein

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

1. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & VR) – 155
2. Baldies (Borun & Appu) – 130
3. Sumer & Anil Raghavan – 120
4. Konga & Khadia – 100
5. Mitesh & Santosh – 95
6. Raju & Vinod – 85
7. Navin & Kivi – 75
8. Venky & Ashwan – 50
9. Sohan & Santha – 45

EVENT II: The XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz

QMs: Landmark Venky & Kivi

1. Nexus (Alagarsamy, Konga, Ashwan, Navin) – 191.5
2. MQ (Mitesh, Santosh, Borun & team) – 185
3. Waltwo (Ochintya, Appu, Sandeep Mathias, Rohit) – 184
4. Raju, Nishanth, Nitish, Sohan – 151.5
5. Questionable Characters (DD, Hiranyappa & team) – 134
6. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, Raouf, VR, Jithin) – 119
7. Insert Cool Name Here (Yogesh, Anil, Dr. Krishnan, Jaidev) – 106
8. IQL (Sana, Patrick, Vinod, Vijay) – 64

Quizzes on Sunday 21 October 2012

We will hold two Open Quizzes on Sunday 21 October at the first floor hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I

Abba Ke Zamane Mein

A quiz on the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

Rules

Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school and college teams

Schedule

Prelims: 1130hrs
Finals: 1230hrs-1400hrs

Prizes for the top three teams.

EVENT II

The XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz

conducted by Team Nexus, led by Landmark Venky.

Rules

Open to all
Teams of 4 members
Entry fee: Rs. 100/- team
Free entry for school and college teams–this concession does not extend to mixed teams

Schedule

Prelims: 1500-1600hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1830hrs

Prizes for all finalists

XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz and Solus Rex – Results

The XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial quiz for colleges was held on 14 October 2012. 14 teams took part in the prelims, which was set by Dr. Arul Mani, from which 8 teams qualified to the finals. The prelims had 30 questions to be answered in 20 minutes from a printed sheet. The cut-off was 10.5.

At the end of a closely fought final, this is how the teams finished:

1. BMS College of Engineering – 139.5
2. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology – 117
3. National Law School – 102.5
4. St. Joseph’s College – 87
5. PES Institute of Technology – 67
6. St. Joseph’s College (Viswesh and team) – 65
7. BMS College of Engineering – 20
8. East-West Institute of Technology – 17

The finals was researched and co-hosted by Venkatesh S and Varun Rajiv.
All finalists received prizes.

The 2012 edition of KQA’s Solus Rex quiz was conducted yesterday by Thejaswi Udupa in an all-new format! 37 participants took a 30-questions preliminary round, from which the top 15 qualified into three semis (cutoff was 10.5 and the highest 18) grouped in the boustrophedon format.

Each semis had 5 participants attempting a written round, a list-it and 20 questions. These 20 questions were also open to the other semi-finalists to “pounce” on.

At the end of the three semis, the top 6 finalists (top 2 from each semi-final) were identified and a short finals followed.

Standings at the end:
1. Arul Mani
2. Anustup Dutta
3. Varun Rajiv
4. Santosh Swaminathan
5. Rajagopal PS
6. Sandeep Mathias

The other nine semi-finalists in order of their scores were:
7. Praveen VR
8. Abhijit Bhattacharya
9. Venkatesh Srinivasan
10. Pradeep Ramarathnam
11. Rashmi Vallabhjosyula
12. Raouf
13. Navin Rajaram
14. Hrishikesh Varma
15. Sumer Kumar

Quizzes on Sunday 14 October 2012

Here are the details for the two quizzes planned for Sunday 14 October at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore. The quizzes will be held in their first floor hall.

Event I

The XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Inter-collegiate Quizzing Championships

QMs: Varun Rajiv, Landmark Venky and Arul Mani

Rules

Teams of three members
Unlimited teams per institution in the prelims
Maximum two teams from a college in the finals
Open to XI/XII, PUC, undergraduate and PG institutions
No cross-college teams
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Schedule

Prelims: 1200hrs

Finals: 1245-1400hrs

Event II

Solus Rex

KQA’s unique solo quizzing marathon with prelims, semis, final and no quarter.

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

Rules:

Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Entry free for school students

Schedule
Prelims: 1430hrs
Finals: 1530s-1830hrs

Prizes for all finalists

Our next set of events, Abba Ke Zamane Mein and The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz are scheduled for Sunday, 21 October at the same venue.

Snatch Clean Jerk, Pilferages, Persiflage – Results

The results of the KQA open quizzes held on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Event I: Snatch, Clean, Jerk, a Quiz on the Olympics

1. Appudu (Arun Hiregange & Thejaswi Udupa) – 31
2. ICNH (Manu Sudhakar & Anil Raghavan) – 27
3. Radians (Raju & Wimpy) – 24.1 (by tie-break)
4. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & team) – 24
5. Swami – 23.5
6. Cunning Stunts (Justin & Arjo) – 22
8. Sin & Tonic (SriKrishna & Sandeep) – 12.5
7. Sandeep Kumar – 12.5

QMs: Manish Achuth and Rajan TR

Event II: Pilferages, a written Lit Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 34.5
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 28.5
3. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 28
4. Debashree & Co – 27
5. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 21
6. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 19
7. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Alagarsamy) & Motley Crew – tied on 18.5

Event III: Persiflage, the Annual Book Quiz sponsored by Blossom Book House

QM: Arul Mani

1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 320
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 290
3. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 265
4. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 240
5. Motley Crew (Rajagopal & team) – 227.5
6. Debashree, Dhammo & Co – 190
7. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 172.5
8. RHC (Urmila & team) – 155

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

Quizzes on Sunday 30 September 2012

A quick reminder of the KQA open quizzes scheduled for Sunday, 30 September 2012. The venue is the hall on the first floor at Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Event I
Snatch, Clean, Jerk
A Quiz on the Olympics

Rules
Written quiz for teams of two members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for the top three teams

Schedule
1130hrs onwards

QMs: Manish Achuth and Rajan TR

Some of us at KQA would like to compliment the quiz-masters on their choice of title, particularly for the neat insertion of the highly distracting term ‘clean’.

Event II
Pilferages

And what the duck is that? Largely a case of Life imitating Art. After someone made a crack about Persiflage being Persiflage last year on the Good Book online (aka AJM) , and somebody else pointed out that Pilferages was a neat anagram for the title, we decided that we should have two book quizzes going in opposite directions on the same day.

Rules
Written quiz for teams of two members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for the top three teams

Schedule
1400hrs-1445hrs

QM: Arul Mani

Event III
Persiflage
The Annual Book Quiz sponsored by Blossom Book House

Rules
Teams of four members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for all finalists

Schedule
1515hrs-1845hrs

QM: Arul Mani

September 29, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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.

September 21, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News | Leave a Comment 

Bizkashi, Non-Fiction, AJM Quizzes – Results

The results of three open quizzes held on Sunday 13 May 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I: BIZKASHI, KQA’s Annual Business Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Tups & Udupa / Sreekanth & Jayakanthan – tied on 160
3. Santosh & Adi – 140
4. Ashwan & Kivi – 115
5. Keshav Athreya & Govind Paliath – 95
6. Alagarsamy & Vinod – 85
7. Yaggy & Mitesh – 70
8. Karthik & Dhammo / Venky & Raju – tied on 40

EVENT II: The Non-Fiction Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan – 27
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 23
3. Raju & Manish – 22
4. Manu Sudhakar & Anil Raghavan – 21
5. Doc Krishnan & Sandip – 16
6. Karthik & Dhammo – 14
7. CIDs From Kerala – 14
8. DD & Sumeer – 13.5

EVENT III: The Second AJM Open House

QM: Abhishek Upadhya

Team 13 won
Team 10 placed second

June 4, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz

Canara Union will host the seventh edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz in partnership with KQA on Sunday 29 April 2012 at the club premises on 8th Main Road, Malleswaram,

This quiz is held in memory of Wing Commander G.R. Mulky, who founded KQA in 1983.

QMs: Dibyendu Das and Vinay Das

Schedule
Registration: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1145-1345hrs

Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry free for School students (up to Std. X)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team.

Prizes for all finalists

April 27, 2012 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

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