Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments
232 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 12 cities this year.
Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.
Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) —Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.
This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.
The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 12 cities. The four other places in the semi-finals will go to the teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city. These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi) and Mad O’ What (64/Mumbai). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011
Mega-Whats 2011–Results
Q.E.D (Chennai) have won the Mega-Whats title for the third year running. They scored 85. The runner-up position was shared by MetaQuizziks (Bangalore) and Insignificant Others (Chennai) on 78. The top 80 scores (provisional) can be viewed here: TOP 80 MW2011
232 teams took part in all.
The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.
PANAJI
20 teams appeared
- OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M) 52
- COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash, Ashin, Akshay Surendra) 27
- SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal) 11
PUNE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar) 57
- COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar) 33
KOLKATA
12 teams appeared
- OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) 75
- COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal) 30
- SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu) 16
HYDERABAD
17 teams appeared
- OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava ) 69
- COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram) 35
- SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath) 16
NEW DELHI
26 teams appeared
- OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi) 70
- COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
- SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev) 11
DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7th question using the score-comparison method.
CHENNAI
21 teams appeared.
- OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan) 85
- COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan) 29
- SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
20 teams appeared
- OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi) 39
- COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
- SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath) 05
CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2nd question using the score-comparison method.
THRISSUR
12 teams appeared
- OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar) 60
- COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram, Sruthi: 10
- SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09
MUMBAI
14 teams appeared
- OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu), 70
- COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya 37
BANGALORE
41 teams appeared
- OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh) 78
- COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team) 37
- SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team) 08
COIMBATORE
11 teams appeared
- OPEN: TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
- COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj) 09
- SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram) 03
MYSORE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: TWO AND A HALF MEN (Aarthi, Shyam, Hari) 24
- COLLEGE: SJCE (Abhishek CHauhan, Rajat VS, Kevin Paul, Adithya) 15
- SCHOOL: SADVIDYA HIGH SCHOOL (Manish, Jayadatta, Pranav, Rohan) 04
Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz
Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.
You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.
Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.
College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
College Lone Wolf
1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5
PU Lone Wolf
1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8
EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9
EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third
Quizzes on Saturday 12 November 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
Rules
Open to solo entrants who are currently either PUC/XI & XII or Undergraduate/PG students
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per head
Common Prelims, followed by separate finals
Unlimited entries, but no more than two from an institution in the finals.
Prizes for all finalists.
Schedule
Prelims: 1030-1115hrs
PU Lone Wolf Finals: 1145-1230hrs
College Lone Wolf Finals: 1230-1315hrs
EVENT II
Sense a Femur
The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
Rules
Written, 40 questions
No bicycling!
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for the top three teams
Schedule
1400-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Who or what is an AJM?
What the duck is an Open House quiz?
How can you have an Open Quiz without prelims?
What about my team?
Is this some woolly, hippie, liberal nonsense?
For answers to these, and some of the other mysteries of life, please meet
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal, Arul Mani, Varun Shenoy and Abhishek Upadhya.
Rules
Prior registration essential
To register, please RSVP at http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/eb8j8jjh6kck776hg
Please take your seats by 1515hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head, pay on the spot.
High Tea at 1830
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial, Comics, Ganesh Nayak Memorial Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzing events held on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth
1. NITK (Samarth, Srinivas, Chaitanya) – 114
2. RNSIT (Amit, Ashish) – 88
3. IIMB (Vishwas, Kalai, Katoch) – 79
4. FAPS (Jeydev, Mollika, Pranav) – 68
5. RVCE (Abhineet, Pallavi, Sreenivas) – 51
6. NLS (Pranav, Srikanth, Vikram) – 50
7. BMSCE (Himadri, Akshath, Sharath) – 48
8. RNSIT (Nitin, Rohit, Abhin) – 39
Event II. Cartoons Quiz
QM: Sandeep Mathias
1. Sana & Sumeer – 27
2. Santosh & Sohan – 20
3. Pranav & Mollika – 18
4. Ajay & Ananth – 16
5. Raju & TKB – 11.5
6. Nakul & Nishanth – 10
7. Amit & Suraj – 7
8. Dibyendu & Nambirajan – 6
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin “The Machine” Rajaram
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 327
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 300
3. Alagarsamy, TK Balaji, Rajagopal, Latish – 295
4. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Sandeep Mathias and team) – 207
5. Uncool Is the New Cool (Shamanth, Sudarshan, Lakshana, Chitra) – 170
6. Shura (Ashwan, Ramesh, Shiv, Urmila) – 150
7. Dharmendra, Raghu, Mukka, Ganja – 148
8. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jitin Jacob & team) – 95
Quizzes on Saturday 29 October 2011
We will hold three quizzing events on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events:
Event I. Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
RULES
Teams of three members
Open to teams from XI/XII/PUC, Undergraduate and PG institutions
No mixed teams
Colleges can send any number of teams–only the best two will qualify for the finals.
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for all finalists
QMs: Santosh Smarmynathan, Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna and Nishanth.
Schedule
Registrations: 1015hrs-1030hrs
Prelims: 1030hrs-1130hrs
Finals: 1145hrs-1330hrs
Event II. Cartoons Quiz-Written
QM: Sandeep Matthias
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top three teams.
Schedule
1415hrs-1515hrs
Event III. The Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Conducted by Team Nexus: Landmark Venky, Kivi, Navin Rajaram
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-per team
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1645hrs-1830hrs
We will hold another set of KQA events in the second week of November 2011.
Mega-Whats 2011, the National Open Quizzing Championships, will be held on Sunday, 11 December 2011. We have limited seating at the Bangalore venue. Please register early to ensure seating–send team name, names of all four members and one contact number in a mail with the subject header Mega-Whats 2011-Bangalore to kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
ABBA Ke Zamane Mein, Hubbub-a, Ruckus Tangdi – Results
The results of three open quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
1. Alagarsamy & Rajagopal – 200 (won by sudden-death tie-break)
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 200
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 165
4. Nishanth & Rajath – 115
5. Suresh Ramasubramaniam & Iftikhar Burhanuddin – 110
6. Venkatesh S. & Ashwan Lewis – 85
7. Urmila & Shiv – 80
8. Rossellini – Posalini – 70
EVENT II: Hubbub-a, The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar
1. Arul Mani & Arun Hiregange – 33.5
2. Nishanth & Rajath – 32
3. Rajat & Jayant – 31
4. Venkatesh S. & Vivek Karthikeyan – 29.5
5. Aditya & Co. – 29
6. Padmashri R & Sudarshan MA / Amicus Curious – tied on 28
8. Ochintya Sharma & Dr. NVS Krishnan – 25.5
EVENT III: Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.
1. SRS, Keshav, Ram, Arul – 385
2. Ajay, Rohan, Suraj, Appu – 215
3. Srikari, Vikram, Sachin, Santosh – 205
4. Sumer, Rajat, Raouf, Suhit – 180
5. Aditya, Anirudh, Rajath, Trisha – 140
6. Tanmay, Hrishi, Nishanth, Navin – 130
7. Danny, Hemant, Venky, Farhan – 120
8. Dhammo, Ifti & team – 90
Quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 16 October 2011 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
Teams of two members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
This year we return to our original focus, so the questions in Abba Ke will cover the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s.
Prizes: for teams finishing I, II and III
Schedule:
Prelims: 1015hrs-1100hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs
Ochintya will start the prelims at 1015hrs as announced, and no questions will be repeated. We have a long Sunday of quizzing, and need to finish early.
EVENT II
Hubbub-a
The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Karthik “Wimpy” Shashidhar
Teams of two members
Open to all
Written Quiz on people, places, and local lore.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams finishing I, II and III.
Schedule: 1400hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The September Open Quiz
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Rahul Kottalgi, Vivek Kartikeyan, Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajagopal P.S.
Team of four members
Open to all
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals: 1700-1830hrs
Please note that questions will not be repeated/cycled through.
PS: Other KQA quizzing dates in the near future
29 October 2011: Vidyasagar Rajan College Quiz, and Ganesh Nayak Open
12 November 2011: High-School and PUC quizzes
No, I’m Chomsky, Food Glorious Food and Persiflage – Results
The results of three Open Quizzes held on Sunday, 11 September 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
No, I’m Chomsky – The Without Americana Quiz
QM: Urmila Lakshmanan
1. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Rajagopal, Swaminathan & team) – 133
2. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 113
3. How Can We Slap (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan, Krishnan) – 94
4. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 79
5. No Questions Asked – 70
6. PVC – 64
7. Chennai Team (Sumeer, Pantan, Vinod, Sana) – 50
8. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Iftikar Burhanuddin, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 49
EVENT II
Food, Glorious food – The Annual Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
1. Arul Mani & Mitesh Agarwal – 26
2. Rajesh Mehar & team – 24.5
3. Lakshana & team – 22
4. Gautam Bharali & Ulka Kelkar – 21
5. We Eat This Much Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa & Ochintya Sharma) – 20.5
6. Harikrishnan & Manu Sudhakar / Arun Hiregange & Anustup Datta / Rahul S. Kottalgi & Swaminathan G. – all tied on 18
EVENT III
Persiflage – The Blossom Book House Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Metaquizziks (Swaminathan G., Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 315
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 275
3. KD (Rahul S. Kottalgi & team) – 230
4. Insert Cool Name Here (Anil, Jaidev, Hari, Manu) – 210
5. Resthouse Croissants – 140
6. Gautam + 3 (Gautam Bharali, Ulka Kelkar & team)- 105
7. Aneesh, Sinchana, Debashree, Srikrishna – 100
8. How Can We Slap (Aditya & team) – 65
