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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
KQA XXIV ANNIVERSARY
We organise a quiz-festival titled ASKQANCE in June every year as part of our anniversary celebrations. This year’s edition was held on Sunday, 24 June, at Guru Nanak Bhavan. Three quizzes were conducted in the School and Open categories.
Dibyendu Das conducted Cognito, a general quiz for high school students. 171 teams took part. The quiz was eventually won by an all-girl team from NPS-Indiranagar (Sowmya Emani and Dipika Suresh). Sri Kumaran’s Public School and Presidency School RT Nagar took second and third spots.
Mitesh Agarwal and Thejaswi Udupa hosted Splitscreen, a Sport & Entertainment Quiz. The QFI-Chennai contingent managed a 1-2 finish after a long but closely-fought contest. 95 teams wrote the prelims.
The third quiz held as part of ASKQANCE was Sesame, an open quiz for teams of 4 members. QFI- Chennai (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth and Sumo) led from the start but had to hold off a spirited last-round challenge from Kutub Quizzers-New Delhi (Udatta Duarah, Dr. Bhattacharya, Kunal Malhotra and Bala) to take first place. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Vinay, Hiranyappa G.S., and Avinash) finished third.
The award ceremony for Mahaquizzer 2007 was held during ASKQANCE 2007. Prof. Cheriyan Alexander put together a short docu on Wing Commander Mulky’s life for the ceremony. Mrs. Mulky then handed the Wg. Cdr. Mulky Award for Quizzing Excellence to Samanth Subramanian, this year’s Mahaquizzer winner.
Detailed results are put up separately.
Texas Instruments’ Jack Kilby Science & Technology Quiz
KQA has partnered with the Texas Instruments Foundation since 2003 in conducting the Jack Kilby Science & Technology quiz for students of Std. VIII,IX and X. The fifth edition of the quiz will be held in Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi. Ochintya Sharma will ask the questions.
The dates:
Chennai: 26 October 2007
New Delhi: first week of November (exact date will be announced shortly)
Bangalore: 11 November 2007
The Chennai and Delhi winners will battle it out with the Bangalore winners on 11 November 2007.
The other details will be put up here shortly
