Quizzes on Sunday 8 March 2009

We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday, 8th March 2009, at the
Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore .

The details:

B’ZKASHI

KQA’s Open Business Quiz
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arul Mani

B’zkashi is open to all–corporates, students and the general public.

RULES
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100-1300hrs

Prizes
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1500/-
III: Rs. 1000/-
and Rs. 500 for the other finalists.

KQA Ladies Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani

The Ladies Quiz is open to all women quizzers, irrespective of age or
affiliation.

RULES
Teams of three
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1300hrs
Finals: 1400-1500hrs

Prizes:
I: Rs.1500/-
II: Rs. 1200/-
III: Rs. 900/-
prizes for all finalists

KQA Open Quiz for Families
QM: Arul Mani

RULES
Teams of three (not four as announced earlier)
Team composition: Parent/s & Children or Siblings. Please don’t do the
cousin thing.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1800hrs

Prizes
I: Rs.1500/-
II: Rs. 1200/-
III: Rs. 900/-
prizes for all finalists

For details or directions, please contact Roshan (98452-10091)

All three are English-language events.

March 3, 2009 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Quizzes 2008-2009: Results

July Open Quiz at BrewHaHa

QMS: Manjith and Praveen

Waltwo : 205
MQ : 155
Insert Cool Name and Yaake: 135
Blank due to tie
Team 8:110
Not Raju’s Henchmen: 95
Shot in the Dark: 95
Latecomers: 75

Ranking points: WALTWO (15), MQ (12), ICNH and Yaake (10), Team 8 (5), Not Raju’s Henchmen (3), Shot in the Dark (2) and Latecomers (1).

Lone Wolf conducted on 14 Sept 2008

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

Scores: Varun Rajiv

Arul Mani: 140
Anustup Datta: 80
Rahul Kottalgi:75
Arun Hiregange:65
Debashree Mitra:45
Ochintya Sharma:45
Vijay TSR:40
Manu Sudhakar:15

Ranking points

Arul Mani (15), Anustup Datta: (12), Rahul Kottalgi (10), Arun Hiregange (7), Debashree Mitra and Ochintya Sharma (5), Vijay TSR (2) and Manu Sudhakar (1).

Intercollegiate Quiz on 14 Sept 2008

QM Arul Mani

Scores: Dibyo

NLSIU (Varun Rajiv, Abhishek Krishnan and team): 125
MSRIT (Nishanth, Santosh and Rahul Jadhav): 110
BMS (Manaswi and Rahul): 105
CMRIT (Sohan, Vinay and Razi): 80
NLSIU (Arvind ,Pranav and Rishabh): 75
IIM Bangalore (Debashree Mitra and team): 75
Trivandrum Medical College (Manu Sudhakar): 72.5
Christ College of Law (Anurag and Vinay): (30)

Ranking points

NLSIU-A (15), MSRIT (12), BMS (10), CMRIT (7), NLSIU-B (5), IIM-B (5), Trivandrum Medical College (2) and Christ College of Law (1)

Persiflage 2008 conducted on 14 Sept 2008

QM: Arul Mani

Scores: G. Raghu

MQ (Cheriyan, Mitesh, Varun Rajiv and Dibyo): 145
Sistah and Team(Debashree Mitra et al): 121 following tie
Drunkadelics (Manu Sudhakar and team): 120.5 following tie
Hrithik Sampat, Subarna Sampat, Vivek Cheriyan et al: 120 following tie
WALTWO (Ochintya, Anustup, Appu and Thejaswi): 95
Thought Gang (Ashwan, Siby, Avinash Thirumalai and Sid): 80
Questionable Characters (Hiranyappa, DD, Chandrashekhar and team): 75
Triskaidecaphobia: 65

Ranking points

MQ (7.5), Sistah (6), Drunkadelics (5), Hrithik and team (3.5), Waltwo (2.5), Thought Gang (1.5), QCs (1), Triskaidecaphobia (0.5)

September 29, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Mysore Quizzes: The Results

High School Quiz

50 teams took part in the School Quiz held at the SDM-IMD auditorium in Mysore. The quiz was conducted by Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy.

The results:

Ganesh A and Venkatram Belvadi of Acharya Vidya Kula won the quiz
II: Haridev and Vaishak of Sadvidya
III: Prakrithi and Madhuri Sampath of Sadvidya
IV:Sushruth and Deepak of Sadvidya
IV: Laksh Kumar and Pruthvi Bharadwaj of Acharya Vidya Kula
VI: Manohar and Ishaana of JSS Public School
VII: Aakarsh and Pareekshith of St. Joseph’s Central High School

Intercollegiate Quiz

Forty teams took part in the Intercollegiate quiz. The quiz was conducted by Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai.

The results

I: MSRIT – Rahul, Santosh and Srikanth

II: SJCE-Mysore: Ashwini B.M, Nickil Somanna and Vikas

III: NLSUI – Badrinarayan and Manish

IV:RVCE –Nakul P.S

V:NIE – Nikhil Kaundinya, Chaitanya AK and Swikrath GK

VI: SDM-IMD – Anil Jagadish, Ramakrishna and Tejasvi Nathan

VI: NIE – Arun Kumar, Arjun and Pavan HS

VIII: Sadvidya PU College – Sachin Phatak, Mohith NP and Shashank Das

Open Quiz

25 teams took part in the Open Quiz. The quiz was conducted by Arul Mani.

I: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa

II: Venkatesh, Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha and Nagesh

III: Avinash Thirumalai, Siby Kuriakose, Varun Shenoy and Hari Shenoy

IV; Sandeep Achar, Thanuj and Naren

V: Shashishekhar, Vikas, Kaustubh and Ravi Shekar aka The Mysoreans

VI: Rahul, Srikanth, Nakul and Santosh

VII: Anil Jagadish and team (SDM-IMD)

VII: Rajesh Haldipur, Sundareshan, Manoj and Sandeep

July 14, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

KQA Open Quiz on 20 July

Praveen and Manjith ( formerly of NIT-Kozhikode) will conduct a ranking Open Quiz on Sunday 20 July 2008 at the coffee-shop BrewHaHa in Koramangala.

The quiz starts at 1100hrs sharp. Please be on time–we have to wind up by 2pm.

Rules

Teams of 4
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prelims: 1100hrs sharp
Finals: 1145hrs sharp
Prizes for all finalists

The Venue: BrewHaHa is about two doors away from Jyoti Nivas College.

http://www.brewhaha.in for more details

July 11, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

KQA Quizzes in Mysore

We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday 13 July in Mysore as part
of our Silver Jubilee Season.

The venue is sponsored by the SDM Institute of Management Development,
Mysore.

The details

Date: Sunday 13 July 2008
Venue: Yoga Hall, SDM-IMD , Mysore

Events:

High School Quiz

Open to teams of two members
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1000hrs sharp
QM: Varun Shenoy

Intercollegiate Quiz

Open to teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
No Entry Fee
Prelims: 1230hrs

QM: Siby Kuriakose and Avinash Thirumalai

Open Quiz

Teams of four members
No entry fee
Prelims: 1530hrs sharp

QM: Arul Mani

Teams are requested to report at the venue at least 30 minutes before
the event starts. No prior registration is required. For more details
call Varun (9964666528) /Arul Mani (9731214519).

To reach the venue:
SDM IMD is on Chamundi Hill road. Please carry identification–this is required since the Chief Minister is addressing a gathering at another venue on the same campus.

July 11, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2008 Results

We would like to thank all of you for helping to make ASKQANCE 2008 a
success. A special word of thanks goes out to our sponsors, TVS Tyres,
for their support.

For the record, the collegiate quizzes attracted a total of 110 teams
with the top spots being taken by SVCE (Chennai) and NLSIU-A
(Bangalore) BMSCE finished third. . The Junior College event was won
by SBM Jain College, with NPS-Indiranagar and FAPS taking 2nd and 3rd
spots.

The Bangalore Quiz was won by Rajeev Gowda and Anustup Datta.
G.S.Hiranyappa and Chandrashekhar teamed up to take the second place.
Previous winners Thejaswi Udupa and Karthik Shashidhar finished third.

The entertainment quiz attracted 45 teams. The Chennai outfit
Treebeard (JK, Gopal, Sumo and team) won the quiz, followed by
Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Satyajit Chetri, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul
Mani) in second place. The third place was taken by Bang Hoes (Udatta
and team).

120 teams wrote the High School quiz prelims.The event was dominated
by teams from the various branches of the Sri Kumaran’s institutions
with their ICSE team eventually winning the quiz. NPS Rajajinagar
finished second.

Sriram from NPS-R’nagar won the solo title, followed by Arvind (FAPS)
in second place and Athith from Kumaran’s ICSE in third place.

60 teams took the Open Quiz prelims. Special prizes for best school
and best college were claimed by Sishu Griha and NPS-Indirangar
respectively.

The TVS Ride Smart Round for teams placing 9-16 in the prelims was won
by Questionable Characters, followed by Metaquizziks in second place.
Other qualifiers included Raju and His Henchmen,Guessworks,Mustafa,
Takemytrip.com, Nexus, and Namesake. All eight qualifiers received prizes.

The Finals were a truly national affair–5 out of the 8 places were
taken by non-Bangalore teams. The quiz was eventually won by We Are
Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and
Thejaswi Udupa). Arul and His Technicoloured Kurta (from Chennai- JK,
Sumo, Vinod and Sreeram) finished Second, losing top spot by a narrow
margin of 10 points. QED-Chennai (Samanth, Swami, Gopal Kidao and
Rajiv Rai) shook off a slumbersome start to finish Third. The other
finalists included Revenge of the Sith (New Delhi – Dr. Bhattacharya
and team), Insert Cool Name Here, Swami and Friends (Hyderabad), No
Questions Asked and a team from Mumbai (Amit Varma, Udatta and others)

The Informal Sports Quiz was won by Vinod (36 points), followed by
Harish (24.5) and Manish (22) in second and third spots. The
quizmasters decided to limit the prizes to three because only about a
dozen of the fifty people who took the quiz returned their sheets:)

The results for the Informal Science Quiz set by PS Rajagopal for
ASKQANCE are as follows:

Samanth – 17
Sriharsha V Bhat – 11
Ajay Parasuram – 7
Suraj R Nair (FAPS) – 3

Both informals are available for download at http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Thanks are due to the quizmasters Rajeev Gowda, Ochintya Sharma,
Thejaswi Udupa,Kiran Vijayakumar, Madhav Nair,Vivek Karthikeyan,
Venkatesh, Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal, Rajagopal PS and Arun
Hiregange for the effort they made to ensure that the quizzes were
both challenging and interesting.

July 10, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

The Texas Instruments Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz

The Texas Instruments Foundation announces the 5th edition of the Jack
Kilby Science and Technology Quiz!

* No entry fee.
* High school students of class 8, 9 and 10 are eligible.
* Each school can register multiple teams of 2 students each.
* Not more than two teams from the same school will qualify for the
regional finals.
* The decision of the quiz master is final and binding.

The dates

CHENNAI
Friday, October 26, 2007
09:30 am – 01:00 pm
Kumararaja Muttaiah Hall, R. A. Puram
Contact +91 99400 28541 to register

DELHI
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
09:30 am – 01:00 pm +91 80 2509 9115
Kamani Auditorium, 1, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register

BANGALORE
Sunday, November 11, 2007
12:00 pm – 03:00 pm
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore
Contact +91 80 2509 9115 to register

The regional round in Bangalore will be followed by a National Final
where the three regional winners will vie for top spot.

NATIONAL FINAL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
4 pm onwards
St. John’s Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore

Go to http://www.tiif.org/Registration_Process.htm for information on
how to register.

Ochintya Sharma, President, KQA, will host the quiz.

Prizes
Regional winners get Robotic kits, Telescopes, Binoculars,
Microscopes, High-end TI Calculators, Book coupons and Trophies among
other prizes.

The National winners stand to win prizes worth more than Rs. One Lakh!

SPECIAL PRIZES for the best all-girls team!

More details at http://www.tiif.org/About_JKQuiz.htm

October 6, 2007 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

KQA Events: 14 October 2007

We will hold three events on 14 October 2007 at Daly Memorial Hall, Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore, opposite RBI.

Events

Graphick Rampage–KQA’s Comics Quiz (starts at 1000hrs)
Solus Rex: Semifinal II (starts at 1215hrs)
Unseeded Open Quiz (starts at 1300hrs)

The Rules

Graphick Rampage is open to teams of two members; Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team; 8 teams qualify.

QM: Satyajit Chetri

Solus Rex (semifinal II)

Topic: Africa in the 20th Century

50 questions on the topic, 10 general questions.

Unseeded Open Quiz

Please note that we’re starting the quiz at 1300hrs. The quiz will be completed by 1600hrs–those who wish to take part in the Vista Quiz at IIM-Bangalore may thus get there in time to take part.

Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-; teams of 4 members; 12 teams qualify for the semis, followed by 8 teams in the finals.

Prelims: set by Metaquizziks

Semis: set by We Are Like This Wonly

Finals: set by Corrosion of Conformity

October 6, 2007 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

High School Rankings for 2007-2008

These are the provisional high school rankings for the quizzing season 2007-2008. They list the top 16 school teams in Bangalore based on their performances in the three inter high school quizzes conducted over this season.
Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh win the 2007 championship for their school NPS-Indiranagar with two first-place finishes across the season. They won the KQA 24th Anniversary quiz as well as the Anand Memorial Quiz. Sathwik and Diwakar of Sri Kumaran’s (ICSE) came into the Anand Memorial Quiz with a score of 27 points but were unable to add any significant score to their total on their third outing, thus losing the annual championship by a mere 2 points. Suraj Prabhu led the Carmel School team to good finishes consistently across the season to thus achieve the third place in the rankings.

We were a trifle disappointed to find that schools which have traditionally been among the competitors for the top three rankings– such as St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bishop Cotton Boys and NPS-Rajajinagar–were unable to make much headway this year. We hope to see better performances from these schools, as also increased participation from other schools in Bangalore.

I:NPS-Indiranagar A (Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh) 15+0+15=30
II: Sri Kumaran’s ICSE (Sathwik & Diwakar) : 15+12+1 = 28
III: Carmel School (Kate Roshan/Mrinal Parekh & Suraj Prabhu) 7+10+10=27
IV: Sri Kumaran’s SSLC (Srimukh and team) : 7+12=19 (from two outings)
V: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan Bharadwaj & Mayank Kowshik) 5+12+2=19 (from three outings)
VI: Presidency R.T. Nagar (Akshay Surendra & Ganesh B.) 10+5=15
VII: NPS Indiranagar B (Arjun & Shriyan) 0+0+7=7
VIII: St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Ananth B.R. and team) 0+0+5=5
IX: Aurobindo Public School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 3+1+0=4
X: NPS (CMR) 3+0+0=3
XI: Presidency Nandini Layout (Pranav & Rohit) 2+0+0=2
XII: NPS Koramangala team A: 3
XII: NPS Koramangala team B: 2
XIV: DPS North (Vishwajit Kolathur & Aniruddh Wodeyar) 1+0+0=1
XV: Sri Kumaran’s B ( Arjun & Siddharth) 1/2 & Sudarshan Vidya Mandir 1/2

The results based on which these rankings were decided are given below:

KQA 24th Anniversary Quiz placings

I: NPS-Indiranagar ( Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh) 15
II: Sri Kumaran’s Public School (Sathwik Ashok & Diwakar) 12
III:Presidency R.T. Nagar (Akshay Surendra & Ganesh B.) 10
IV: Carmel School (Kate Roshan & Suraj Prabhu) 7
V: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan Bharadwaj & Mayank Kowshik) 5
VI: Aurobindo Public School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 3
VII: Presidency Nandini Layout (Pranav & Rohit) 2
VIII: DPS North (Vishwajit Kolathur & Aniruddh Wodeyar) 1

KQA Ranking High School Quiz (August 5th 2007)

I: Kumaran’s ICSE ( Sathwik & Diwakar) 15
II: Kumaran’s CBSE ( Pavan & Mayank) 12
III: Carmel School ( Suraj and Mrinal) 10
IV: Kumaran’s SSLC (Deepak & Srimukh) 7
V: Presidency School (Akshay & Ganesh) 5
VI: NPS (CMR) 3
VII: NPS Koramangala 2
VIII: Aurobindo School (Rohith K. & Anurup A.K.) 1

Anand Memorial Quiz
26 August 2007

I: NPS Indiranagar (Sowmya & Dipika) 15
II: Sri Kumaran’s (Srimukh and team) 12
III: Carmel School (Suraj & Mrinal) 10
IV: NPS Indiranagar (Arjun & Shriyan) 7
V: St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Ananth and team) 5
VI: NPS Koramangala 3
VII: Sri Kumaran’s CBSE (Pavan & Mayank) 2
VIII: Sri Kumaran’s ICSE (Sathwik & Diwakar) 1
IX: Sri Kumaran’s ( Arjun & Siddharth) 1/2

The points system used: I place: 15 points , II: 12, III:10, IV:7, V:5, VI: 3, VII:2 and VIII:1.

These rankings are provisional. Contestants wishing to challenge the rankings may write into Arul Mani (arul.mani@gmail.com). If no challenge is received within the next week, these rankings will be taken as final. Trophies and certificates for the first three rankings will be given out at the KQA 25th anniversary celebrations in June 2008.

September 2, 2007 | Filed Under Inter School Quizzes, News | Leave a Comment

Open Rankings as on 14 October 2007

Current Rankings

WaltWo : 7+7.5+12=26.5
Metaquizziks : 3+5+10=18
Corrosion of Conformity : 15+2.5=17.5
QFI Chennai : 15
Questionable Characters : 10+3.5=13.5
No Questions Asked :5+0.5+7=12.5
Kutub Quizzers :12
Sista : 6+3=9
Varun Rajiv and Team : 5
Yaake!, Barisal Guns & Sgt. Heffner’s :2
Nisha & the Thambies :1.5
Insert Cool Name Here and Mustafa : 1

Based on placings from the September Open Quiz, Persiflage and the KQA 24th Anniversary Quiz, details given below.

The placings for the Science Quiz, the History/Culture quiz, the Movie Quiz and Dibyo’s Open Quiz have not yet been added.

KQA 24th Anniversary Open Quiz

QFI Chennai: 15
Kutub Quizzers:12
Questionable Characters: 10
WaltWo:7
No Questions Asked:5
Metaquizziks:3
Barisal Guns:2
Insert Cool Name Here: 1
Mustafa:1

From Book Quiz

I: WaltWO: 7.5
II: Sista: 6
III: Metaquizziks:5
IV: Questionable Characters: 3.5
V: Corrosion of Conformity:2.5
VI: Nisha & the Thambies:1.5
VII: Yaake:1
VIII: No Questions Asked: 0.5

September Open Quiz (Gautam Shenoy)

I: Corrosion of Conformity:15

II: WaltWo: 12

III: MQ: 10

IV: No Questions Asked: 7

V: Varun Rajiv and team: 5

VI: Sista: 3

VII: Sgt. Heffner’s: 2

VIII: Yaake! :1

July 5, 2007 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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