Solus Rex Semis, Sense Of Femur and From CD to DC Open Quiz – Results

The results of three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists.

EVENT I: Solus Rex Semifinals

QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das

Semi-Final 1 : Biopics

1. Arul Mani – 280
2. Keshav – 165
3. Vivek Karthikeyan – 95
4. Sandeep Mathias – 85
5. G. Sreekanth – didn’t turn up

Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India

1. Sudarshan M.A. – 175
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 170
3. Nakul P.S. – 145
4. Venkatesh S. – 120
5. Roshan N. Bhoj – didn’t turn up

The two winners qualify for the finals. Mitesh Agarwal is currently the best loser who gets into the finals, based on various factors like margin of defeat, %age of total points scored and absolute score.

EVENT II: The Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur

QM: Arul Mani

1. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 55
2. Red Pan Humour, Da (Varun Rajiv & Mitesh Agarwal) – 42
3. Landmark Venky Has A Porn ‘stache (Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange) – 38
4. Swami & Raju – 35
5. Ochintya & Tups – 32
6. Eureqa! (Sreekanth G. & Satyajit Chetri) – 28
7. A Marxist of the Groucho Kind – 20

EVENT III: Ranking Specialist Open Quiz, From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy – The way we were and the way we are

QMs: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan

1. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Varun, Santosh, Arul) – 206
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup, Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu) – 205
3. Holy Nexus (Gautham, Rajagopal, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S.) – 159
4. KD + Swami – 137
5. Eureqa! (Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth, Shamanth Rao, Satyajit Chetri) – 131
6. Flight of the Vayu Vajras (Aditya, Abhishek, Sohan, Karthik) – 122
7. Other CIDs from Kerala (KP, Ravi, Abid, Roshith) – 107
8. Desperately Seeking Qualification (Sana, Pantan, Vinod & Sumeer) – 92


December 20, 2010 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2010–Registrations

Registrations via email are now closed. City Coordinators may accept entries based on available seating. In Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, wait-listed teams will be given seats if confirmed teams do not show up.

Thank you for the enthusiastic response! We will try and ensure bigger venues next year.

All confirmed teams will receive an e- mail notification by Thursday (9th December). Waitlisted teams are advised to report at 1430hrs to check on available seating.

A full list of venues will go up tomorrow.

BANGALORE

  1. MW10BAN01     RVCE  (Sudarshan M.A)
  2. MW10BAN02     Unusual Suspects  (Debajyoti Adhikari)
  3. MW10BAN03     Metaquizziks  (Mitesh Agarwal)
  4. MW10BAN05     eureQa!  (Sreekanth G.)
  5. MW10BAN06     Comfortably Dumb  (Siddarth Pai)
  6. MW10BAN07     Questionable Characters  (Dibyendu Das)
  7. MW10BAN08     Flight of the Vayu-Vajraas  (Aditya S.)
  8. MW10BAN09     Nishanth Appaiah and team
  9. MW10BAN10     Holy Nexus  (Landmark Venky)
  10. MW10BAN11     We Are Like This Wonly (‘Zizzyphus’  Udupa)
  11. MW10BAN12     Sri Kumaran–State Board (Pranav V.C.)
  12. MW10BAN13     Retards From Limbo (Vinay Goddemme)
  13. MW10BAN14     Flight of the Kozhi Curries (Keshav Athreya)
  14. MW10BAN15     Keep Distance (Rahul Kottalgi)
  15. MW10BAN16     Mysore I-clue-galu (Arun Kumar)
  16. MW10BAN17     Rajat Upadhyaya and team
  17. MW10BAN18     Never Mind the Sex Pistols (Goutam)
  18. MW10BAN19     Viswesh Rammohan and team
  19. MW10BAN20     RV Good Enough?
  20. MW10BAN21     Urmila Lakshmanan and team
  21. MW10BAN22     Sri Kumaran–ICSE (Athith K)
  22. MW10BAN23     Lahar Appaiah and team
  23. MW10BAN24     Team ADMK (Kripakaran)
  24. MW10BAN25     Shwetha Maiya and team
  25. MW10BAN26     Cro-Magnon Crooks (Ayan Ghosh)
  26. MW10BAN27     Avneesh Duggal and team
  27. MW10BAN28     Quizzoholics (Jayendra Bisnik)
  28. MW10BAN29     Schrodinger’s Felines (Gautam Shenoy)
  29. MW10BAN30     Sandeep Mathias and team
  30. MW10BAN31     IISc (Srinivasan)
  31. MW10BAN32     Kalyanjit Ghosh and team
  32. MW10BAN33     Tanmay Agarwal and team
  33. MW10BAN34     Inglourious Mustards (Anup)
  34. MW10BAN35     Les Questionnables (Indu S)
  35. MW10BAN36     Hammurabis (Vinay Vasisht)

Bangalore Waitlist

  1. Tejeshwar and team
  2. Nipun V and team
  3. NPS Rajajinagar (Sagar)
  4. Siri Srinivas and team
  5. Vikram Sreeram and team
  6. Umang Srivastava and team
  7. Jeydev C S and team
  8. ABCD (Niranjan and team)
  9. Comm On The Cobb (Megha and team)
  10. Hunchmen (Vrashabh Irde and team)
  11. 4G ke Scam (Jassim Moideen)
  12. Girish Menon and team.
  13. Vivek Choudhary and team
  14. Gopal Kalita and team
  15. Siddarth Krishnkumar and team
  16. SJBHS—Akshay Tiwari and team
  17. Krishna Prasad. N & Team
  18. Sharath Babu and team
  19. Rahul Gaur and team
  20. Ameya Koushik and team
  21. Shashank Sridhar and team

CHENNAI

  1. MW10CHE01    Rajagopal P.S and team
  2. MW10CHE02    Dhakkan Chargers (Anil Kumar)
  3. MW10CHE03    QED (Gopal Kidao)
  4. MW10CHE04    Quarter , Half  & a Feeding Bottle (Arun R)
  5. MW10CHe05    S.B.O.A. School (Aditthya R)
  6. MW10CHE06    Insignificant Others (Sreeram)
  7. MW10CHE07    Obama’s Memory Banks (Navin Jayakumar)
  8. MW10CHE08    Prashanth Mukundan and team
  9. MW10CHe09    Raghuvansh, Aditya and team
  10. MW10CHE10    Main Gate to Barkhagate (Jayadev B)
  11. MW10CHE11    Ashwin Shanker and team
  12. MW10CHE12    Harish Swaminathan and team
  13. MW10CHE13    R Tamizhmarai and team
  14. MW10CHE14    Desperately Seeking Qualification (Ananth)
  15. MW10CHE15    Sridhar Joshi and team
  16. MW10CHE16    Ina Mina Dika Dika (Akshay Rangamani)
  17. MW10CHE17    Sridhar C. and team
  18. MW10CHE18    Clockwork Oranges (Siddharth)
  19. MW10CHE19    Swarun Krishna and team
  20. MW10CHE20    We’re Fourking Awesome (Athreya)
  21. MW10CHE21    Money in the Bank (Venkataramanan)
  22. MW10CHE22    Vignesh Vijayakumar and team
  23. MW10CHE23     K Shivaprakaash and team
  24. MW10CHE24     Countryfellows (Siddharth)
  25. MW10CHE25     Hardly any Time To Prepare (Adithya Rangamani)

Chennai Waitlist

  1. Raghavendran R. and team
  2. Rashmin Gandhi and team

HYDERABAD

  1. MW10HYD01     Vivek Sekar and team
  2. MW10HYD02     Uncomfortably Dumb (Varun Shenoy)
  3. MW10HYD03     Swami and Friends (Nitish Khadiya)
  4. MW10HYD04     Jayaraman Sabarisan and team
  5. MW10HYD05     Teja Talent School (Vinod Reddy)
  6. MW10HYD06     Rohan Naidu and team
  7. MW10HYD07     Vikas Khurana and team
  8. MW10HYD08     Super Three (Rajeswar Rao)
  9. MW10HYD09     Aditya Vikram and team
  10. MW10HYD10     Error 404 – Team Not Found (Shreyas)
  11. MW10HYD11     Ravi Chandra V and team
  12. MW10HYD12     Syed Murtuza Hashmi and team
  13. MW10HYD13     Anoop Thomas and team
  14. MW10HYD14     Debjit Das Gupta and team
  15. MW10HYD15     Pankaj Rodey and team
  16. MW10HYD16     Rakesh Krishnan and team
  17. MW10HYD17     Karthik Muthuraman and team
  18. MW10HYD18     We 4 Wictory (Santhosh Kumar)
  19. MW10HYD19     Mithun Paul and team
  20. MW10HYD20     Sudhir Pai and team

Hyderabad Wait-list

  1. Vijay Jeedigunta and team
  2. Pooja Gupta and team
  3. Sreemathy Surender and team
  4. Manohar Burra and team
  5. Aakash Puttige and team
  6. Prashanti Kalyan and team
  7. Anang Rawat and team
  8. Pallav Bhattacharya and team

KOLKATA

  1. MW10KOL01      Sudip Kalyan Dey  and team
  2. MW10KOL02      Inmaniacs  (Gautam Ghosh)
  3. MW10KOL03      Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas)
  4. MW10KOL04      Bong Connection (Ashoke Sanyal)
  5. MW10KOL05      Logos (Rajib Roy)
  6. MW10KOL06      Permanent Lapse Of Reason (Sreshth Shah)
  7. MW10KOL07      IIM Calcutta (Charan Kumar)
  8. MW10KOL08      Tcha! God I Forgot! (Nidhi Rao)
  9. MW10KOL09      IIM Calcutta (Gairik Datta)
  10. MW10KOL10      Abhijith Kamath and team
  11. MW10KOL11      IIM Calcutta (Joydeep Nandi)
  12. MW10KOL12      Potoldanga Thunder Club (Prithwish Datta)
  13. MW10KOL13     Quizzers’ Utopia (Sagnik C)
  14. MW10KOL14     Lateral Thinkers (Kaushik Mukherjee)
  15. MW10KOL15     Boye Geche (Anagh Mukherjee)
  16. MW10KOL16     Last Action Heroes (Partha Ghatak)
  17. MW10KOL17     La Martiniere (Proneet De)
  18. MW10KOL18     Priyanka Mukherjee and team
  19. MW10KOL19     Prasun Singha and team
  20. MW10KOL20     Soubhadra Chakrabarty and team
  21. MW10KOL21     Barrackpore Boys (Pradipta Chattopadhyay)
  22. MW10KOL22     Siddhant Agarwal and team

MUMBAI

  1. MW10MUM01    Vikram Joshi and team
  2. MW10MUM02    Atul Mathew and team
  3. MW10MUM03    Abhinav Dasgupta and team
  4. MW10MUM04    Mangal Parekh and team
  5. MW10MUM05    Dileep V and team
  6. MW10MUM06    Govind Grewal and team
  7. MW10MUM07     Prasad Sawant  and team
  8. MW10MUM08    Anirudh Patil and team
  9. MW10MUM09    Mera Naam Joka (Arnav Sinha)
  10. MW10MUM10     Prasann Potdar and team
  11. MW10MUM11     Chintan Kouloorkar and team
  12. MW10MUM12     Abhijith Singh and team
  13. MW10MUM13     Debasish Misra and team
  14. MW10MUM14     Abhishek Joshi and team
  15. MW10MUM15     Kapil Dahiya and team
  16. MW10MUM16     Sushil Shanbhag and team

NEW DELHI

  1. MW10DEL01      Free Trade Warriors (Abhijith B)
  2. MW10DEL02     God of All Things (Mukund Marodia)
  3. MW10DEL03     Puneeth Nagaraj and team
  4. MW10DEL04     Siddhartha Bannerjee and team
  5. MW10DEL05     QuizTeamAguilera (Ajay Poonia)
  6. MW10DEL06     Whatever! (Tushar Krishnan)
  7. MW10DEL07     Joy Bhattacharya and team
  8. MW10DEL08     Brajendu Bhaskar and team
  9. MW10DEL09     If Only We Were Rajnikant (Akash Pandey)
  10. MW10DEL10     Kumal Malhotra and team
  11. MW10DEL11     Suman Ray and team
  12. MW10DEL12     Guneet Malik and team
  13. MW10DEL13     Shubhendu Saha and team
  14. MW10DEL14     Ravi Handa and team
  15. MW10DEL15     Abhinav Gandhi and team
  16. MW10DEL16     The Internet Boys (Apoorv Avram)
  17. MW10DEL17     Matter of Perception (Akshit Goyal)
  18. MW10DEL18     Suman Saraf and team
  19. MW10DEL19     Kumar Vaibhav Tanwar and team
  20. MW10DEL20     Lijo James and team
  21. MW10DEL21     Abhaas Mohan and team
  22. MW10DEL22     Ajay Jaisinghani and team.
  23. MW10DEL23     Shubham Prakhar and team
  24. MW10DEL24     Raghu Pant and team
  25. MW10DEL25     K. Suresh and team
  26. MW10DEL26     Shubham Jain and team
  27. MW10DEL27     The Unusual Suspects (Tanya Mehta)
  28. MW10DEL28     Abhimanyu Sanghi and team

PANAJI

  1. MW10PAN01      Don Bosco High School (Reuben Rodrigues)
  2. MW10PAN02      Feni, Vidi, Vici, Twitchy (Rajiv D’ Silva)
  3. MW10PAN03      KV INS Mandovi (Atharv Joshi)
  4. MW10PAN04      Prajakt Kamath and team
  5. MW10PAN05      Conrad Fernandes and team
  6. MW10PAN06      Gourish Amonkar and team
  7. MW10PAN07      Ira Almeida and team
  8. MW10PAN08      Akash Kulkarni and team
  9. MW10PAN09      Aniket Pant and team
  10. MW10PAN10      Kunal Naik and team
  11. MW10PAN11      Rajesh Panicker and team
  12. MW10PAN12     Victorious Secrets (Akshay S)
  13. MW10PAN13      Prajakt Kamat and team
  14. MW10PAN14     Anjali SenGupta and team
  15. MW10PAN15     Rajdeep B. Prabhugaonker and team.
  16. MW10PAN16     Gaurav Kenkre and team

PUNE

  1. MW10PUN01     Ramanand J and team
  2. MW10PUN02     Dark Horses (Anup Jha)
  3. MW10PUN03     Nikhil Motlag and team
  4. MW10PUN04     COEP (Rohan Prabhu)
  5. MW10PUN05    Sanskriti Dawle and team
  6. MW10PUN06    Sushruth Ravish and team
  7. MW10PUN07    Prashant Sinha and team
  8. MW10PUN08    Ayush Agrawal and team
  9. MW10PUN09    Vikas Khurana and team
  10. MW10PUN10     Siddharth Singh and team

THRISSUR

  1. MW10THR01     Noufel Samed and team
  2. MW10THR02     Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan)
  3. MW10THR03     Guessworks, Inc. (Hrishikesh Varma)
  4. MW10THR04     Marygiri Senior Secondary School (Jerrin V)
  5. MW10THR05     Chandrakant Nair and team
  6. MW10THR06     Nithish Jacob and team
  7. MW10THR07    Anand Raja and team
  8. MW10THR08    Midhun V Zachariah and team
  9. MW10THR09    Eldo N Baby and team
  10. MW10THR10    CUSAT (Praveen V.)
  11. MW10THR11    Manu Sathian and team
  12. MW10THR12    Akarsh Valsan and team (Sandeepani)
  13. MW10THR13    Abhijeet Balakrishnan and team
  14. MW10THR14    Leena M. and team
  15. MW10THR15    Rithwik K and team
December 8, 2010 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

Mega-Whats 2010: KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship

This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship.

The quiz will be held across ten cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have  venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Coimbatore and Kolkata

The details:

Date: Sunday, 12 December 2010

QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani

1. General quiz, open to all.
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2010 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college  or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Tuesday 7th December 2010.  Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.
11. Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.
13. The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.
14. We will rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.
16. The city-winners will face off in June 2011 as part of the KQA 28th Anniversary.

For more details, please call 97312-14519

VENUES

Bangalore

First Floor, Institute of Agricultural Technologists
Queen’s Road
Bangalore

Contact: Mitesh Agarwal (98452-59423)

Chennai

PS Senior Secondary school,
# 33, Alarmelmangapuram,
Mylapore,Chennai 600004

Contact: Jayakanthan (94444-43347)

Coimbatore

PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu Coimbatore

Contact: Arjun (09944709086)

Hyderabad

Landmark Store,
Road No 12,
Banjara Hills
Hyderabad.

Contact: Nitish Khadiya (91-98856-79460)

Kolkata

Unitedworld School of Business
Infinity Benchmark Tower
10th floor, Plot G1, Block EP&GP
Sector-V, Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091

Contact: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee (91-98363-44694)

Mumbai

Hall, 6th floor, Management College,
IES MCRC “Vishwakarma” M.D. Lotlikar Vidya Sankul,
791, S. K. Marg,
Bandra Reclamation (Opp Lilavati hospital),
Mumbai – 400 050

Contact: Vibhendu  (9820410952)

Panaji

The International Centre – Goa,
Dona Paula, Panaji.

Pune

Seminar Hall II
(Next to main Auditorium),
College of Engineering, Pune (COEP),
Shivajinagar, Pune-5

Contact: Mohit Karve (9890777964)

Thrissur

Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute,

Near Shakthan Thampuran Bus Stand,Thrissur 680005

Contact: Arun AS (09895859164)

November 29, 2010 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Comments Off on Mega-Whats 2010: KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship 

Quizzes on Sunday 28 November 2010

We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists

EVENT I
Solus Rex Semifinals

The lineups and topics for the first two semifinals are given below.

Semi-Final 1 : Biopics

1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5

Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India

2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11

Qualifiers unable to make it on the 28th will be allowed to sit for the second set of semis IF another qualifier from the second set drops out.

QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das

Prizes: Rs. 500 for the winner and Rs. 250 for the other semi-finalists.

TIME: 1000hrs-1230hrs

EVENT II
The postponed Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur, if the QM’s femur holds up.

1400hrs-1500hrs

EVENT III
Ranking Specialist Open Quiz
CD to DC- the last 201 years by UL and KS.
From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy- The way we were and the way we are.

Quizmasters: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan.

Teams of four members.
Open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs

Prizes
Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-

November 11, 2010 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off on Quizzes on Sunday 28 November 2010 

Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 1 & 2

The lineups of the four semi-finals and topics for the first two are given below. They were derived by arranging scores in boustrophedon order, with tied scores resolved first using *-ed questions and then using alphabetical order of first names.

The first two semi-finals will be held on Sunday 28th Nov 2010.

Semi-Final 1 : Biopics

1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5

Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India

2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11

Semi-Final 3

3. Thejaswi Udupa – 18
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 15
11. Rajagopal P.S. – 12.5
14. Maitrey Deshpande – 12
19. Sohan – 11

Semi-Final 4

4. Anustup Datta – 17
5. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 16
12. Hrishi Varma – 12.5
13. Praveen V.R. – 12.5
20. Raouf – 10.5

November 10, 2010 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News | Comments Off on Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 1 & 2 

Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein and Open Quiz – Results

The results of two quizzes held on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I: Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein, a quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

1. Arun Hiregange & Movin Miranda – 157.5
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 140
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Nishanth – 105
4. Rajagopal & Pallavi – 90
5. eureQa! (G. Sreekanth & Alagarsamy) / Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das & Praveen) – both tied on 85
7. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma & Jithin Jacob) – 77.5
8. Non-Aligned Quizzers (Rajeev Gowda & Urmila) – 75

Event II: The October Open Quiz

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

1. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 155
2. eureQa! (Satyajit Chetri, Rajagopal, Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth) – 135
3. Questionable Characters (Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Praveen) – 125
4. Keep Distance (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Nishanth, Rajath & team) – 120
5. Santosh Swaminathan, Sohan, Husain Poonawalla, Gautham – 110
6. Sandeep Mathias & team – 85
7. Why So Curious (Ashwan, Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram & Pallavi) – 80
8. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jithin Jacob, Raouf & team) – 60

October 31, 2010 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off on Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein and Open Quiz – Results 

Quizzes on Sunday 24 October 2010

We will hold two quizzes on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I
Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein
A quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s.

Rules
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-

Prelims: 1015-1100hrs
Finals: 1130-1330hrs

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

Event II
The October Open Quiz

Rules
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1200/-, Rs 1000/- and Rs. 800/- plus prizes for all finalists

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

IF the first quiz finishes on time we will hold an intercalary written quiz on comedy and laughter titled Sense A Femur.

Teams of two members
50 written questions
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
QM: Arul Mani

Schedule
Sense of Femur: 1400-1500hrs
Registrations for Open Quiz: 1500hrs
Open Quiz Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs.

Sense A Femur will otherwise be put up on Slideshare.

October 20, 2010 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off on Quizzes on Sunday 24 October 2010 

Canara Union Lone Wolf and Solus Rex Prelims – Results

These are the results of the quizzes held on Sunday 10th October 2010 at the Canara Union premises, 8th Main Malleswaram.

Event I: Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz

QM: Navin Rajaram

1. Arul Mani – 195
2. Arun Hiregange – 110
3. Santosh Swaminathan – 100 (by winning tie-breaker)
4. Anustup Datta – 100
5. Thejaswi Udupa – 75
6. Rajagopal P.S. – 60
7. Satyajit Chetri – 40
8. Mitesh Agarwal – 25

Event II: Solus Rex 2010 Prelims

QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange

The 20 qualifiers:

1. Arul Mani – 21
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
3. Thejawsi Udupa – 18
4. Anustup Datta – 17
5. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 16
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 15
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
11. Rajagopal P.S. – 12.5
12. Hrishkesh Varma – 12.5
13. Praveen V.R. – 12.5
14. Maitrey Deshpande – 12
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
19. Sohan – 11
20. Raouf – 10.5

People on the same score were separated first by using the * questions and then alphabetical order of their first name.

October 20, 2010 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News | Comments Off on Canara Union Lone Wolf and Solus Rex Prelims – Results 

Canara Union Lone Wolf and Solus Rex Prelims on Sunday 10 Oct 2010

The 28th edition of the Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz will be held on Sunday 10th October 2010 at the Canara Union premises, 8th Main Malleswaram. The quiz will be conducted in the smaller hall on the first floor.

The prelims for Solus Rex 2010 will be held immediately before the Lone Wolf Prelims.

The schedule:
Registrations: 1000hrs
Solus Rex Prelims: 1015-1100hrs
Lone Wolf Prelims: 1115hrs-1200hrs
Finals: 1215-1330hrs

The rules:
Both quizzes are open to all.
Entry Fee:
Rs. 25/- for Lone Wolf
Rs. 75/- for Solus Rex
Free entry for school students and Canara Union members.

Lone Wolf Prizes: Rs. 750, Rs. 500, Rs.350 plus prizes for all qualifiers

20 people will qualify for the Solus Rex Semifinals (Nov-Dec)–out of which 4 semifinal winners and the best runner-up will qualify for the finals (Jan 2011).

The quiz-masters:
Lone Wolf: Navin Rajaram
Solus Rex: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange.

We will hold another set of KQA events on Sunday, 24th October 2010.

October 4, 2010 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment 

Open Quiz, Eff Glorious Eff, Persiflage – Results

The results of three open quizzes on Sunday 26 September 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

EVENT I: KQA Open Ranking Quiz

QM: Kaustuba K.V.

1. KD – 175
2. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Arul Mani) – 159
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 119
4. Abhishek Krishnan, Manish, Sohan, Sarim – 100
5. Ashwan, Sairam, Supratim & team – 50
6. Questionable Characters (G.S. Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das & team) – 45
7. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishikesh Varma & team) – 40
8. Rajat, Jayant, Prithwiraj, Pallavi – 20

EVENT II: Eff, Glorious Eff, The Food Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. Mitesh Agarwal & Santosh Swaminathan – 25.5
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 25
3. Thejaswi Udupa & Ochintya Sharma – 22
4. Rahul Kottalgi & Manu Sudhakar – 21
5. Rajesh & Prithwiraj – 18
6. Rajagopal & Karthik – 16.5
7. Smita & Lakshana – 15.5
8. Supratim & Ashwan / Vinay & Dr. Krishnan – tied on 15

EVENT III: Persiflage, The Blossom Book House Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 112
2. Urmila, Shiv, Shobhana, Vivek – 95
3. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan & team) – 80
4. Rajagopal, Kivi, Skimpy, Rahul – 51
5. Debashree Mitra, D. Dharmendra & team / Goat Boys (Abhishek, Umang, Sandeep Mathias, Brunzo) – tied on 50
7. Mustafa (Dr. Krishnan, Vinay & team) – 45
8. Arun, Aditya, Sohan, Husain – 25

October 2, 2010 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Comments Off on Open Quiz, Eff Glorious Eff, Persiflage – Results 

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