RESULTS – MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep 2025

The KQA is delighted to announce the results of its national-level December quizzes—MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep. This year, 241 quizzers took part in MahaQuizzer, while 101 teams participated in AsiaSweep.

MahaQuizzer, now into its twenties, has crowned a new champion—who is also in his twenties. Bengaluru’s Preetham Upadhya is the latest bearer of the MahaQuizzer title, finishing with an outstanding score of 86. Our heartiest congratulations to him!

2023 champion Jayakanthan (Chennai) finished close behind with 83, while last year’s winner, Mumbai’s Vinoo Sanjay, completed the podium with 81.

The ever-consistent Jayashree Jaykar Mohanka topped the Ladies’ category with 62, placing 25th in the overall list. Kolkata’s Kumar Kirti topped the College category with a creditable 48, securing a place in the national Top 50.

The top 16 finishers in MahaQuizzer qualify for MahaMahaQuizzer at our anniversary fest, AsKQAnce in June 2026.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned Preetham teamed up with Calvin Christ to successfully defend their AsiaSweep title, scoring 58 out of 85. Close on their heels were Rahul Kottalgi and Prithwish Datta in second place with 57, followed by Vinoo Sanjay and Abhinav Dasgupta, also on 57, taking third. AsiaSweep consisted of two sections of 35 and 50 points.

The KQA extends its gratitude to fellow quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our question setters for helping make these events a success. We look forward to seeing you again in May for our next round of inter-city events.

NameScore***Total *sCityCategory
1Preetham Upadhya86303BengaluruOpen
2Jayakanthan83101ChennaiOpen
3Vinoo Sanjay81606MumbaiOpen
4Thejaswi Udupa81101BengaluruOpen
5Amrit Pritom Chetia79101DelhiOpen
6Subrat M77325BengaluruOpen
7Rahul Kottalgi76505BengaluruOpen
8Hrishikesh Varma76101MumbaiOpen
9Nikhil Sonde73101MumbaiOpen
10Ravi Mundoli72404ChennaiOpen
10Sourjo Sengupta72404Kolkata (JU)Open
12Manu Sudhakar72303ThrissurOpen
13Aswath Venkataraman72202BengaluruOpen
13Abhinav Dasgupta72202MumbaiOpen
15Shaswat Salgaocar69303BengaluruOpen
16Rajiv Rai68123MumbaiOpen
17Annie Sen Gupta68101GoaOpen
18Wrichik Basu67213Kolkata (JU)Open
19Shouvik Guha67303Kolkata (JU)Open
20Gokul S67101ThrissurOpen
21Calvin66303BengaluruOpen
22Anustup Dutta65303BengaluruOpen
23Praveen V R64202BengaluruOpen
24Aditya Gadre63000DelhiOpen
25Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka62303Kolkata (JU)Ladies
26Aadisht Khanna62112ChennaiOpen
27Abdul Raouf62202ThiruvananthapuramOpen
28Chandrakant Nair62101ThrissurOpen
29Pravin Varma61505ThrissurOpen
30Mario Fernando60415ChennaiOpen
31Sreeradh R P60505BengaluruOpen
32Kunal Sawardekar60303PuneOpen
33Baibaswata Jena60101Kolkata (JU)Open
34Ayush Sharma59202MumbaiOpen
35Prithwish Datta59101BengaluruOpen
36Kiran58213ChennaiOpen
37Govind Grewal58303MumbaiOpen
38Sujay57101BengaluruOpen
39Rohit S56000ChennaiOpen
40Abhay Vikram55303MumbaiOpen
41Vilas Pavithran54101GoaOpen
42Sanat Pai Raikar53303BengaluruOpen
43Muhammed Munavvir VV52303DelhiOpen
44Anirudh Chari51404Kolkata (JU)Open
45Sandipan Goswami50202GuwahatiOpen
46Srihari Raju49404HyderabadOpen
47Karthik S49202BengaluruOpen
48J Krishnamurthi49101HyderabadOpen
49Kavya Ramasubramanian49000BengaluruLadies
50Mustafa48303AhmedabadOpen
50Mohan Ravichandran48303HyderabadOpen
50Kumar Kirti48303Kolkata (JU)College
53Sushant Shekhar48101BengaluruOpen
53Kunal Roy48101MumbaiOpen
55Abhishek Hariharan47303MumbaiOpen
56Vibhendu46101MumbaiOpen
57Kushan Patel46000AhmedabadOpen
57Anand Sivashankar46000ChennaiOpen
59Rajiv D'Silva45202GoaOpen
60Bharath Krishna S45000ThiruvananthapuramOpen
61Abhilash44101BengaluruOpen
61Anush Iyer44101BengaluruOpen
61Krishan Shetty44101MumbaiOpen
64Antara Bhattacharya44000MumbaiLadies
65Advik Kabra43000BengaluruCollege
65Sarvesh Shenoy43000MumbaiOpen
67Sandeep Shankar42303PuneOpen
68Santonab Chakraborty42101DelhiOpen
69Atul Mathew42000BengaluruOpen
69Aniruddha Mitra42000MumbaiOpen
71Abhishek Rath41202BengaluruOpen
72Abid Abdulla41101BengaluruOpen
72Subhadeep Sarkar41101BengaluruOpen
72Aditya Padhi41101KanpurCollege
75Nitish41000GoaOpen
76A P Alagarsamy40101BengaluruOpen
76Arun Ramanathan40101ChennaiOpen
76Raja Sri Charan40101DelhiOpen
76Kaushik Chatterji40101DelhiOpen
80Ranjan Anilkumar39202DelhiOpen
80Sriram Padmanabhan39202PuneOpen
82Balagopal Menon39101DelhiOpen
83R. Samyak39000GoaOpen
84Rashmi Vallabhajosyula38202BengaluruLadies
84Appu S38202ThiruvananthapuramOpen
86Edwin Muriyaden Wilson37101BengaluruOpen
86Kapinjal Kishore Sharma37101GuwahatiOpen
86Raamanujan37101AhmedabadOpen
86Abhishek Sushil37101HyderabadOpen
90Sujit Ray37000DelhiOpen
91Anant Narayan36303DelhiCollege
92Jyotirmoy Bhattacharjee36202BengaluruOpen
92Bedbyas Datta36202Kolkata (JU)Open
94Mohammed Ameen36101ThrissurCollege
94Nikhil Borra36101DelhiOpen
94Aditya Pal36101Kolkata (JU)Open
94Saswata Acharya36101Kolkata (JU)Open
98Gautam Ghosh35404Kolkata (JU)Open
99D Ghosh35202Kolkata (JU)Open
100Anuradha Santhanam35101BengaluruLadies
100Arnab Bhattacharya35101MumbaiOpen
100Pinakpani Kashyap35101ChennaiOpen
103Abhinav Gudur35000BengaluruOpen
103Sanveer Singh Puri35000AhmedabadOpen
105Sriram Swastik34112KharagpurCollege
106Saarthak Upadhyay34000KanpurCollege
107Aabhaas Dasgupta33101MumbaiOpen
107Jitaditya Narzary33101GuwahatiOpen
109Anil Kothuri33000MumbaiOpen
109B A Pranavi33000KharagpurCollege
109Uday Tej Singh33000PuneCollege
112Vishnu32101BengaluruOpen
113Sreekar Raghotham32000HyderabadOpen
114Madhav R Babu31101MumbaiCollege
115Arun AS31000ThrissurOpen
116Charles30202PuneOpen
117Syed Shakeel Imdad30101HyderabadOpen
117Tathagata Chatterjee30101DelhiOpen
117Mohammad Waqar Moid30101Kolkata (JU)College
117Saee Joshi30101PuneLadies
121Amit C J30000BengaluruOpen
121Uttirno Nath30000MumbaiCollege
121Francis Rodrigues30000MumbaiOpen
121Tanishk Saxena30000MumbaiCollege
121Johan Sam Biju30000MumbaiCollege
121Samir Gupta30000PuneOpen
127Aryan Patel29101DelhiOpen
128S A Karthik29000BengaluruOpen
128Sharath Jose29000ChennaiOpen
130Nikhil Jha28000BengaluruOpen
130Raman Vatsal Misra28000KanpurCollege
130Roshan28000CoimbatoreOpen
130Aastha Dua28000GoaOpen
134Ganesh Thambhahalli Satyen27101BengaluruOpen
134Rajat Gururaj27101BengaluruOpen
134Abhijit Bhadran27101MumbaiOpen
137Shantanu Nene27000MumbaiOpen
137Niral Charan27000MumbaiCollege
137Mishal Mohammed27000KharagpurCollege
140Shreyas Mall26112DelhiCollege
141Harsh Khandeparkar26000KharagpurCollege
141Anuradha Dharwadkar26000AhmedabadLadies
143Kartik Pathak25101MumbaiCollege
143Neelam Goswami25101ChennaiLadies
145Viola Rodrigues25000GoaLadies
145Shiladitya Ganguli25000Kolkata (JU)Open
147Ishan Kakodkar24101MumbaiCollege
147Chinmay Kale24101MumbaiCollege
147Nikhilesh S. Rana24101GoaCollege
150Prakhar Sreeguru24000KharagpurCollege
150Ajey Patil24000GoaOpen
152Shivaji Roy Chowdhury23202ChennaiCollege
153Athul Ajay23101ThiruvananthapuramOpen
154Rishav Dewan23000BengaluruOpen
154Parth Arya Bhat23000KanpurCollege
154Shamit Shah23000KharagpurCollege
154Jayanth AK23000ChennaiCollege
154A. Santhanan23000ChennaiOpen
154Debasmita23000DelhiLadies
160C H Rohith22101BengaluruOpen
161Sudarshan Sundarrajan22000BengaluruOpen
161Aryaan Basu22000MumbaiCollege
161Aditya Mahaldar22000MumbaiCollege
161Anirvin Srivatsan22000ChennaiCollege
165Shriram N21000MumbaiCollege
165Atharv Lodhi21000KharagpurCollege
165Neev Pohani21000KharagpurCollege
165Sujith E21000CoimbatoreOpen
165Praveen Jayaraj A21000CoimbatoreOpen
165Aayush Gahan21000AhmedabadCollege
165Sreejan Bose21000Kolkata (JU)College
172Madhusudan K20101BengaluruOpen
172Abhijit Anand20101BengaluruOpen
172Muhammed Akmal Hari20101KanpurCollege
172Malay Neerav Dixit20101KharagpurCollege
172Shrean Paul20101KharagpurCollege
172Ashutosh Sethi20101KharagpurCollege
178Jayakrishnan R20000MumbaiOpen
178Tanish Sharma20000AhmedabadCollege
178Vaishnav AK20000ThrissurCollege
178Priyanshu Mahar20000PuneCollege
182Subramanian (Mani)19101BengaluruOpen
183Aditya Arvind19000ChennaiCollege
183Kanak Varma19000ChennaiCollege
183Prashant Sinha19000DelhiOpen
186Khagendra18101PuneOpen
187Rattandeep Singh Puar18000KanpurCollege
187Sagar Chandan18000KharagpurCollege
187Roshini18000ThiruvananthapuramCollege
187Paul B. E. Gatward18000GoaOpen
191Dhairya Garg17101KanpurCollege
191Amit Agrawal17101PuneOpen
193Uma Venkatraman17000MumbaiLadies
193Rohan Kumar Sah17000KharagpurCollege
195Rishabh Jain16112MumbaiOpen
196Deepa16000BengaluruLadies
196Prabhav Shetty16000HyderabadCollege
198Aditya Ajay15000MumbaiCollege
198Avtansh Gargya15000KanpurCollege
198Harshil Agarwal15000KharagpurCollege
198Mudit Raj15000KharagpurCollege
198Binaya Kumar Nain15000KharagpurCollege
198Hemant Khinchi15000CoimbatoreOpen
198Ronnie Joseph15000ThiruvananthapuramOpen
205Ram K14000BengaluruOpen
205Advait Girish Karmarkar14000KanpurCollege
205Subikash Paul14000Kolkata (JU)Open
208Saatvik Singh13000KanpurCollege
208Naitik Singhal13000KanpurCollege
208Arushi Kondaskar13000KanpurCollege
211Soham Sahasrabuddhe12101MumbaiCollege
212Abhinav Chinta12000BengaluruOpen
212Sourish Das12000KanpurCollege
212Ira Srivastava12000KanpurCollege
212Rakshit Ranka12000KharagpurCollege
212Swathi P.G.12000ChennaiOpen
217Siddanth Shetty11000BengaluruCollege
217Chayan Patil11000BengaluruCollege
217Sparsh Pradeep Jain11000KanpurCollege
217Tanmay Singh Bhadauria11000DelhiCollege
221Rachit Arora10000KharagpurCollege
221Arnab Chakraborty10000KharagpurCollege
221Soumyadeep Biswas10000Kolkata (JU)Open
224Aditya Pratap Singh Baghel9000KanpurCollege
224Abhrajit Hazra9000Kolkata (JU)Open
226Shreyansh Singh8000DelhiCollege
227Ashma Singh7000KanpurCollege
227Kartik Mistry7000AhmedabadOpen
229Kayalvizhi P R6000BengaluruLadies
229Hisana Thasni6000MumbaiLadies
231Nandan Subramanian5000BengaluruSchool
231Ojes Thambhahalli Satyen5000BengaluruCollege
231Ashwin S5000CoimbatoreCollege
231Vishwas B5000ChennaiOpen
235Sai Aarav G4000BengaluruSchool
235Rajadurai S4000ChennaiOpen
237K. Palani3000ChennaiOpen
238Abheri1000BengaluruSchool
238Saurabh Kumar Singh1000ThiruvananthapuramOpen
238Ben Francis Abi1000DelhiCollege
238Abhik Hazra1000Kolkata (JU)School
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2BengaluruRahul KottalgiPrithwish Open263157
2MumbaiVinoo SanjayAbhinav DasguptaOpen233457
3MumbaiRajiv RaiVibhendu TewariOpen223355
4BengaluruAswathKarthik ShashidharOpen223153
5AhmedabadKushan PatelSanat NavalOpen252651
6BengaluruAbidSachin DeshpandeOpen212849
6BengaluruSubrat MohantyJaidev KarunakaranOpen173249
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8BengaluruAnustup DattaThejaswi UdupaOpen202646
9DelhiShashank TPrateek VOpen222345
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10BengaluruAnush IyerSreeradh RpOpen202343
10GuwahatiDeepanjan DebSandipan GoswamiOpen202343
10MumbaiMayank MujumdarShrey ShyleshOpen152843
10DelhiBalagopal MenonSantonabOpen182543
11ChennaiRavi MundoliSamanth SubramanianOpen172441
11ChennaiShivaji Roy ChowdhurySreeram MadhavanCollege212041
11DelhiMunavvirRanjanOpen152641
11Kolkata (JU)Shouvik GuhaJayashree MohankaOpen172441
12MumbaiKunal RoyAyush SharmaOpen241438
12Kolkata (JU)Wrichik BasuAranya MitraOpen182038
12GoaVilas PavithranSrijit KumarOpen191938
13ChennaiMarioRohitOpen132437
13MumbaiFrancis RodriguesKrishan ShettyOpen172037
13ThrissurAnil RaghavanManu SudhakarOpen132437
14MumbaiPreyoshi GangulyTanmay PrustyOpen152136
15BengaluruMaakoSanatOpen161935
15KanpurAditya PadhiParth Arya BhatCollege181735
16DelhiAnantBenCollege102434
16GoaKaivalya KarkareSamyak RajanalaOpen142034
17HyderabadRevanthSrihari RajuOpen161733
18GoaChandrashekhar RaoNitish WagleOpen102232
18KharagpurSriyam SwastikSagar ChandanCollege171532
18ThrissurSahithaRoshithOpen122032
19MumbaiJayakrishnan RSarvesh ShenoyOpen151631
19MumbaiChinmay KaleOjaswi JainCollege112031
20HyderabadMohan RavichandranPrabhav ShettyOpen141630
20AhmedabadSanveerAnuradhaOpen141630
20KharagpurNeev PohaniRakshit RankaCollege181230
20KanpurSourish DasMuhammed Akmal HarifCollege161430
21DelhiShreyashRishi RoyOpen101929
21DelhiAdarsh BKaushikOpen141529
21KharagpurPrakhar SreeguruPranavi BaCollege121729
22GoaAastha DuaParasOpen141428
22KanpurRaman Vatsal MisraSaarthak UpadhyayCollege82028
23PuneSamir GuptaSandeep ShankarOpen101727
23MumbaiSoham SahasrabuddheKartikCollege151227
23MumbaiAditya MahaldarAditya AjeyCollege21627
23GoaAniruddha Sen GuptaRajiv D'SilvaOpen111627
24MumbaiIshan KakodkarAryaan BasuCollege151126
24KharagpurShrean PaulAtharv LodhiCollege141226
25BengaluruRanjiniDiwakerOpen131225
25DelhiRaja Sri CharanPrashant SinhaOpen111425
25Kolkata (JU)Shiladitya GanguliAbhrajit HazraOpen16925
25GoaViola RodriguesAmita KanekarOpen121325
25ThiruvananthapuramRoshiniBharath Krishna SCollege111425
26DelhiShoaibSwapnilOpen101424
27MumbaiNirad InamdarSudhir PaiOpen111223
27KharagpurShamit ShahHarshil AgarwalCollege121123
28GuwahatiNayan Jyoti MedhiJitaditya NarzaryOpen91322
28ChennaiAadivedAdityaCollege13922
28MumbaiNiral CharanShriram NCollege101222
28MumbaiMadhav Babu--College111122
28ThrissurVaishnav AkRamkumar MCollege91322
29ChennaiAbijeetAjayOpen71421
29MumbaiAaghaz MahajanShantanu NeneOpen81321
29HyderabadDebjit DasguptaAbhishek SushilOpen111021
29ThiruvananthapuramJyotishko Josh--College14721
30GuwahatiKapinjal Kishore Sharma--Open81220
31ChennaiGuninVrishabOpen10919
31ChennaiAnirvinVarshiniCollege13619
31MumbaiJohanTanishkCollege15419
31HyderabadRajdeep DasguptaRikesh BhattacharyaOpen61319
32BengaluruGaneshOjasOpen9918
32Kolkata (JU) (JU)Sreejan BoseAyush MondalCollege10818
33AhmedabadAyush GahanTanish SharmaOpen10717
33KharagpurBinay Kumar NaikMalay Neerav DixitCollege8917
34BengaluruMahadevanSiddharthOpen8816
34BengaluruAbhishek Rath--Open61016
35BengaluruAmit CJ--Open12315
35BengaluruPrahladaKeerthiCollege7815
35ChennaiKanak VarmaAkshay AnandCollege7815
35KharagpurRachit AroraRohan KumarCollege8715
35KanpurRattandeep Singh PuarAditya Pratap Singh BaghelCollege11415
36DelhiNikhilSushmitaOpen5914
36AhmedabadSumedha PooniaAryan SinghOpen10414
37KharagpurMishal MohammedAshutosh SethiCollege6713
38PuneSneha Sheoran--College10212
38HyderabadVattem Siddhartha--Open6612
38ThiruvananthapuramPragun Nepal--College9312
39Kolkata (JU)Sauhardya MandalShamim J. ChowdhuryCollege909
39KharagpurMudit RajArnab ChakrabortyCollege639
40KanpurAvtansh Singh GargyaSparsh JainCollege628
40KanpurIra SrivastavaArushi KondaskarCollege628
41KanpurAshma SinghSaatvik SinghCollege437
42DelhiShreyanshTanmayCollege606
42KharagpurAshwani Kumar Sharma--College246
43PuneAfmc Team Of Two--College415
43ChennaiRajadurai S--Open235
44ChennaiKarpaga Vinayagam BSridhar SOpen134

VENUES & PROCTORS: MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2025

Here is the full list of venues. Some venues are yet to confirm, please check with your local proctor. Please note that there is only venue in Kolkata, and it is not the usual one. There is no venue in Manipal/Udaipur.

NOTE: The KQA does not charge for participation. However, local organising bodies might have a registration fee to cover venue/printing costs.

#CityVenueMQ proctorPhoneAS proctorPhone
1AhmedabadIIM AhmedabadVyom Vyas8320110336Nikhil Khatter8905058379
2BengaluruUjjivan Small Finance Bank, Grape Garden, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main Rd, 6th Block, KoramangalaSachin Deshpande84548 23552Arul Mani97312 14519
3ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, MylaporeKalyan V97910 41483Sharath Jose82977 33676
4CoimbatoreBrookefields MallRoshan Krishna86670 18040Roshan Krishna86670 18040
5GoaGoa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.Swati Parab8806559634Devika Shetty9850884349
6GuwahatiNerim Group of Institutions, Guwahati.Debasish Deka8811071321Debasish Deka8811071321
7HyderabadHall SH1, IIIT Hyderabad, GachibowliRevanth6900400773Shakeel Imdad97062 25868
8KanpurIIT KanpurMoksh Dalal7840039508Moksh Dalal7840039508
9KharagpurIIT KharagpurSamyak Sheersh8825018606Samyak Sheersh8825018606
10KolkataProf. Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall (adjacent to Gate 4), Jadavpur UniversitySarbajit Mitra94328 16040Souptik Chaudhury97493 22247
11MumbaiRajyog Family Restaurant & BarSuvajit Chakraborty99308 53913Suvajit Chakraborty99308 53913
12New DelhiL2, Block 2, IIT DelhiShubham Jha70117 85110Sujit88401 40051
13PuneNLH Sushruta, AFMC (Entry from gate no 4)Mahadev99427 44829Mahadev99427 44829
14Siliguri (only MQ)Sonar Tori Apartment, College, Para, Siliguri 734003Udit Sen Gupta7980857897--
15ThiruvananthapuramIISERManish R75981 10699Harini Sridhar78128 87556
16ThrissurGovt. Engineering CollegeDr Vijaynath V94473 80969Dr Vijaynath V94473 80969

MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep 2025

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on December 14, 2025 (Sunday).

NOTE: The cities listed on the registration page are provisional.

MahaQuizzer, now in its twentieth year, will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper.It will be set by a team of Jaidev Karunakaran, Keshava Guha, Sachin Deshpande, Santosh Swaminathan, and Sujata Sharma.

MQ will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM.

Register here for MahaQuizzer 2025.

AsiaSweep will consist of around 50 questions, to be read off a ppt and is open to teams of a maximum of two people. Solo participants are also welcome.

AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck. A projector will be required to conduct AsiaSweep.

AsiaSweep will start at 3pm.

Register here for AsiaSweep 2025.

KQA’S AsKQAnce 2025 on June 27-29 in Bangalore

The KQA is happy to announce the full schedule of its 3-day quizzing extravaganza in Bangalore, AsKQAnce 2025! With 8 quizzes over 3 days at the venerable IAT on Queen’s Road, there’s something for everyone!

Venue: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road https://maps.app.goo.gl/AV995M5BmwUxZFC16

Pub quiz venue: To be announced closer to the date

All quizzes on Days 2 & 3 have a registration fee of ₹200/team, and on-the-spot registration. Registration fee waived for school and college teams.

The schedule:

Friday (27th June)

10 AM to 1 PM: Mahamahaquizzer

The national final for the top 16 qualifiers from KQA’s inter-city written quiz, Mahaquizzer. Come watch the best minds duke it out etc etc.

QMs: Santosh JS, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, Venkataraman Ravindra

2 PM onwards: MegaWhats National Final

The 16 qualifiers from cities across India converge for the national final of MegaWhats, the KQA’s inter-city team written quiz (duke, best minds, etc.).

2 PM to 330 PM: Semifinal 1
345 PM to 515 PM: Semifinal 2
530 PM to 730 PM: Final

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Manish Achuth, Movin Miranda

8 PM: 4 Edge Pub Quiz

A pub quiz in association with Bangalore pub quizzing royalty 4 Edge Quizzing! A fun pub quiz that’s open to all.

A pub quiz for teams of up to 4. ₹200/team, open to all.

QMs: 4Edge Team

Saturday (28th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: By Hooke or by Crookes—the KQA Science and Technology Quiz

SciTech quizzes are a mainstay of festivals, and this one won’t be any different.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Jaidev Karunakaran, Krittika Adhikary, Venky Srinivasan

2 PM to 330 PM: Turned Pages — a quiz on adaptations

If you ever thought literature quizzes these days were movie quizzes in disguise, this is for you. A quiz on stories that have been adapted for stage/TV/movies from books/plays, all from the “lit” angle.

A written open quiz for teams of up to two.

QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan (Kivi)

345 PM to 845 PM: Son of Lumiere – the Movie Quiz

After a brief pause, the venerable movie quiz rides again at AsKQAnce! Hollywood, not-just-Bollywood Indian movies, world cinema, independent productions… It’s all here.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Anustup, Sourjo, Varun Rajiv

Sunday (29th June)

930 AM to 1 PM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial quiz

A quiz in memory of KQA stalwart, GS Hiranyappa, on topics near and dear to his quizzing heart: history, geography and the social sciences.

A prelims/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Debashree Mitra, Maitrey Deshpande, Agila Ulaga Uttama Nayagan Superstar Keshav Athreya 

2 PM to 7 PM: Sesame — the Open General Quiz

Our flagship general quiz is back in a new avatar… that’s the same well-received avatar as last year.

Sesame will have a tiered format with a prelim, a play-in semi-final, and a nine-team final incorporating the top 6 from the prelim and top 3 from the semi-final.

A prelims/semi/finals open quiz for teams of up to four.

QMs: Abid Abdulla, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande, Sripradha S

Prizes for all finalists of all quizzes, slightly better prizes for the top three.

RESULTS – MahaQuizzer 2024

A total of 252 quizzers attempted MahaQuizzer this year.

The winner, for a barely believable fifth time, is Vinoo Sanjay from Mumbai. Vinoo reclaims his title with a score of 80 points out of 150.

Two quizzers tied for 77, but in the end, youth beat out experience. Ravi Mundoli (Chennai) pips ahead of Preetham Upadhya (Bengaluru) on stars. The defending champion, Jayakanthan, finishes fourth with 76 points.

A new entrant into the top ten is also comfortably its youngest. Calvin Christ finishes with 70 points in sixth place. He will celebrate it with a bottle of champagne when he is old enough to.

Two other former MQ champions, Dr Arul Mani and Shouvik Guha (Kolkata), round off the top ten with 65 points. Another former champ, Jayashree Jaykar Mohanka (Kolkata), was the highest-scoring woman, with 59.

The top 16 automatically qualify for Mahamahaquizzer at AsKQAnce 2025.

The KQA thanks all quizzing communities and proctors who helped conduct MQ smoothly.

The Q&A can be found here.

MahaQuizzer 2024 was set by Sachin Deshpande, Santosh J Swaminathan, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman R.

See you in 2025!

#NameScoreTotal *s***Venue
1Vinoo Sanjay80422Mumbai
2Ravi Mundoli77532Chennai
3Preetham Upadhya77505Bengaluru
4Jayakanthan77413Chennai
5Amrit Pritom Chetia73624Delhi
6Calvin70615Bengaluru
7Thejaswi Udupa69202Bengaluru
8Sourjo Sengupta66312Bengaluru
9Arul Mani65413Bengaluru
10Shouvik Guha65211Kolkata (JU)
11Hrishikesh Varma65202Mumbai
12Aswath Venkataraman65101Bengaluru
13Anustup Datta64312Bengaluru
14Rahul Kottalgi62523Mumbai
15Abhinav Dasgupta62422Mumbai
16Siddhartha Shanker61514Bengaluru
17Chandrakant Nair59211Thrissur
18Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka59211Kolkata
19Annie Sen Gupta58101Goa
20Kunal Sawardekar57413Pune
21Subrat M57303Bengaluru
22Aadisht Khanna57202Chennai
23Jaidev Karunakaran57110Bengaluru
24Vinod Sivarama Krishnan56202Mumbai
25Dinesh Krithivasan56110Chennai
26Nikhil Sonde56101Bengaluru
27Shashwat Salgaocar55404Goa
28Samanway55202Kolkata (JU)
29Abid Abdulla54505Bengaluru
30Rohit Suresh54303Chennai
31Prithwish Datta54101Bengaluru
32Ramanand J54000Pune
33Govind Grewal53321Mumbai
34Srihari Raju53211Hyderabad
35Praveen VR53202Bengaluru
36Mario F53110Chennai
37Karthik S53000Bengaluru
38Aditya Gadre52303Delhi
39Sreeradh RP52303Bengaluru
40Arnold D'Souza52202Pune
41Harish Alagappa51101Hyderabad
42Abdul Raouf50303Bengaluru
43Sanat Pai Raikar50000Bengaluru
44Anand Sivashankar48211Chennai
45Anirudh Chari48211Kolkata
46Manu Sudhakar47202Thrissur
47Sanjay47202Bengaluru
48Kunal Savarkar46110Mumbai
49Krishan Shetty46101Ahmedabad
50AP Alagarsamy46000Bengaluru
51Vibhendu Tewari45211Mumbai
52Vilas Pavithran45211Goa
53Sreekanth RP45202Bengaluru
54Sushant45101Delhi
55Anannya Deb44101Mumbai
56Venky Srinivasan44000Bengaluru
57Hussain Ahmed43101Hyderabad
58Wrichik Basu42110Kolkata
59Nirmalya Biswas42101Siliguri
60Abhay Vikram41202Delhi
61Arunoday Chaudhuri41000Kolkata (JU)
62Saarthak Chhabra40303Hyderabad
63Kushan Patel40202Ahmedabad
64Preyoshi Ganguly39202Mumbai
65Abhilash39101Bengaluru
66Sanjay KR38303Manipal
67Somasish Ghosh38110Udaipur
68Sangeeth38101Thiruvananthapuram
69Aniruddha Mitra37303Ahmedabad
70Atul Mathew37202Bengaluru
71Sreeram Madhavan37202Chennai
72Tanmay Prusty37000Mumbai
73Sarath VR35303Thiruvananthapuram
74Advik Kabra35202Bengaluru
75Francis Rodrigues35101Mumbai
76Gudur Abhinav35101Bengaluru
77N Viswanathan35000Udaipur
78Vidyadhar Gadgil34220Goa
79Anil Kothuri34101Mumbai
80Siddharth K34101Bengaluru
81Sushant Shekhar34101Bengaluru
82Balu John34000Thiruvananthapuram
83Ishaan N33202Bengaluru
84J K Lakshmi33101Hyderabad
85Sahil HR33101Bengaluru
86Shashank Tyagi33000Delhi
87Sudip Kalyan Dey33000Kolkata (JU)
88Dr V Srinagesh32101Hyderabad
89Ananya Upadhya31312Bengaluru
90Aninthitha Nath31202Mumbai
91Appu S31101Bengaluru
92Arun Ramanathan31101Chennai
93Gokul Panigrahi31000Mumbai
94Mukund Krishnan Kumar31000Delhi
95Samir Gupta31000Pune
96Shamsuddin Haider31000Kolkata (JU)
97Ayush Sharma30404 Kharagpur
98S Chakraborty30211Mumbai
99Shayak Chakrabarty30211Kolkata
100Ankita Shandilya30202Delhi
101Rishi Roy30202Delhi
102Sarvesh Shenoy30110Mumbai
103Aditya Pal29404 Kharagpur
104Saswata Acharya29202Kolkata (JU)
105Arun AS29101Thrissur
106Elvis Francis29101Thrissur
107R Samyak29101Goa
108Rakesh TP29101Thiruvananthapuram
109Siddharth Mishra29101Bengaluru
110Mahendra Balu P28413Bengaluru
111Sankar Roy28110Kolkata
112Aniruddha Mondal27202Bengaluru
113Rama Subramanian27101Bengaluru
114Udayan Mishra27101Bengaluru
115D Ghosh27000Kolkata
116Sourasis Bose27000Bengaluru
117Sriram Padmanabhan27000Pune
118Raamanujan C26202Chennai
119Abhinav Dhar26000Delhi
120Shujoy Dutta26000Goa
121Abhineet25101Bengaluru
122Sanveer Singh Puri25101Ahmedabad
123Sumukh H25000Pune
124Puranjay Dixit24101Ahmedabad
125Sreeram M24101Thiruvananthapuram
126Aditya Narayan Sen24000Kolkata (JU)
127Nirupama V24000Chennai
128Saee Joshi24000Pune
129athul ajay23211Thiruvananthapuram
130Uttirno Nath23202Kolkata (JU)
131Anuradha Dharwadkar23101Ahmedabad
132Soumya23101Bengaluru
133Vinay Nair Karath23101Bengaluru
134Shiladitya Ganguli23000Kolkata (JU)
135Jayaprakash BR22202Bengaluru
136Pranavi BA22202 Kharagpur
137Manoj R22110Kozhikode
138Amit CJ22101Bengaluru
139Nikhilesh Singh Rana22101Goa
140Nikhil Jha22001Bengaluru
141Izhar Ansari22000Kolkata
142Manohar Burra22000Bengaluru
143Pranava 21101Bengaluru
144Shantanu Yadav21000Bengaluru
145Basab20211Hyderabad
146Debasmita B20202Delhi
147Sreevatsa G20101Bengaluru
148Anirvin Srivarsan20000Chennai
149Monish Singhaz20000Hyderabad
150Rohit Kaulgud19312Ahmedabad
151Sagar Agarwal19303Siliguri
152Shashwat S Shetty19202Ahmedabad
153Manas Pradhan18303Bengaluru
154Magizhan Natarajan18202Chennai
155Sudarshan Sundarrajan18101Bengaluru
156Viola Rodrigues18101Goa
157Avinash Mishra17303Bengaluru
158Shubang Shukla17211Delhi
159Pranjal Jharkharia17202 Kharagpur
160Anvithraj Reddy17101Hyderabad
161Kiran Ramaswamy17000Bengaluru
162Prayag Mohanty17000Mumbai
163Pavan Madhukar Bhat16101Manipal
164Sourabh Chowdhury16101Kolkata
165Paul G16000Goa
166Haripriya S15202Manipal
167Praveen S Pai15202Bengaluru
168Uma Shankari Kalavath Promoth15202Thrissur
169Rahul R15101 Kharagpur
170Swathi PG15101Chennai
171Bharat Jayan15000Mumbai
172Mohammad15000Hyderabad
173Nisaad K15000Delhi
174Prasun Thakur15000Ahmedabad
175Syed Shakeel Imdad15000Hyderabad
176Asha Janardhan14202Thiruvananthapuram
177A Santhanam14101Chennai
178Rakshan Trivedi14101Delhi
179Vrishab Anurag Venkataraghavan14101Chennai
180Aditya Bhattacharyya14000Siliguri
181Anagha KH14000Thrissur
182Raghav Gupta13202Delhi
183Abhijeet Kumar13101 Kharagpur
184Amir Sen13000Siliguri
185Bismay Parija13000 Kharagpur
186Rahul Kulkarni13000Bengaluru
187Raja Narasimhan B13000Pune
188Samartha S Rao12101Bengaluru
189Subikash Paul12101Kolkata
190S Jayakrishna12000Bengaluru
191John Philip George11202Thrissur
192Navya11202Delhi
193Debabrata Malik11101Bengaluru
194Hari Prasad V11101Manipal
195Kanak Varma11101Pune
196Niranjan N 11101Hyderabad
197Rushikesh W11101Hyderabad
198Prashant Sinha11000Delhi
199Srivats Ramanujan11000Chennai
200Tejoos11000Bengaluru
201S Keerthana10202Bengaluru
202Sonakshi Yadav10202Ahmedabad
203K Palani10000Chennai
204Pradhi Goel10000Udaipur
205Rajeev Nair10000Bengaluru
206Amit Agarwal9000Pune
207Karthik Mistry9000Ahmedabad
208Ramakrishna R9000Chennai
209Rohan Umesh9000Mumbai
210Swahat Subhakanta Das9000Bengaluru
211Vineet V9000Bengaluru
212Vivet9000Delhi
213Diganto Sarkar8101Ahmedabad
214Harshil Agarwal8101 Kharagpur
215Udit Sengupta8000Siliguri
216Anna Regi7101Thrissur
217Mohammed Azharuddin S7101Chennai
218Niyati Jois7101Bengaluru
219Sagar Chandan7101 Kharagpur
220Diptojyoti P7000Siliguri
221Jithin S7000Thiruvananthapuram
222Malay Nirav Dixit6202 Kharagpur
223Rohitash Sriram6202Pune
224Arun J Sankar6000Kozhikode
225Monthan Saste6000Mumbai
226Pankaj Waghmare6000Pune
227Chinmay Modi5101Ahmedabad
228Sumanth5101Bengaluru
229Adnan Dalal5000Bengaluru
230Badarla Rohan Naidu5000Hyderabad
231Deepa Rao5000Manipal
232Ritwik Mukherjee5000Pune
233Udit Jain5000Mumbai
234Vidyuth Ajith Soman5000Manipal
235Aneesha Roy4202Kolkata (JU)
236Mansi4000Delhi
237Satwik Mehta4000Mumbai
238Medha Kumari3000Udaipur
239Raza Faiz Arakkal3000Kozhikode
240Niharika2101Udaipur
241Abhilasha2000Delhi
242Bhargav Saikia2000Udaipur
243Harish Kandoi2000Siliguri
244Uzayr Faiz Arakal2000Kozhikode
245Satvik Parihar1101Ahmedabad
246Abheri Karthik1000Bengaluru
247Dhruvish Patel1000Ahmedabad
248Hiba Fathima PH1000Thrissur
249Prince Kumar Singh1000Delhi
250Harsh Kumar Rajput0000Delhi
251Rishabh Kumar0000Hyderabad
252Suchana Ghosh0000Kolkata (JU)

VENUES – MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2024 (FINAL)

Here is the list of venues for the two quizzes.

#CityVenueContact Phone
1AhmedabadCR7 - IIM A (New Campus)88492 09809
2BengaluruUjjivan Small Finance Bank, Grape Garden, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main Rd, 6th Block, Koramangala99024 44486
3ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore98800 61309
4DelhiStudents Activity Centre (SAC), IIT Delhi98681 49674‬
5DhemajiSIPRD Centre, Dhemaji9954922506
6GoaGoa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.9890141715
7HyderabadH105, Himalaya Block, IIITH(triple -I T, not IIT)

(https://maps.app.goo.gl/D1R3QzTMgJHhwF1G6)
90008 77436
8Kharagpur (only MQ)IIT Kharagpur9082685503
9KolkataThe Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch,
Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments,
31/3 Sahapur Colony,
Block J, New Alipore,
Kolkata 700 053.
9831082098
10Kolkata (JU)Professor Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, Adjacent to Gate no. 4, Jadavpur University Main Campus, Kolkata- 70003262900 36256
11KozhikodePPT Academy, 3rd floor, Indus Academy, Pushpa Junction, Calicut.79076 35399
12ManipalInteract Lecture Halls, KMC Manipal, Health Sciences Campus, MAHE, Manipal.9711116181
13MumbaiRajyog Family Restaurant & Bar 99308 53913
14Pune (only MQ)Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan94212 77399
15SiliguriSonar Taree Apartment 4th Road, College Para South, Opposite Baghajatin Park, Siliguri - 73400179808 57897
16ThrissurRoom 213, Main Block, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur9447380969
17ThiruvananthapuramReading room, Cheruvaikal94952 58436
18UdaipurIIM Udaipur7741884541

MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep 2024

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on December 8, 2024 (Sunday).

NOTE: The cities listed on the registration page are provisional.

MahaQuizzer, as always, will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper.It will be set by a team of Sachin Deshpande, Santosh Swaminathan, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sujata Sharma, and Venkataraman Ravindra.
MQ will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM.
Register here for MahaQuizzer 2024.

AsiaSweep will consist of around 50 questions, to be read off a ppt and is open to teams of a maximum of two people. Solo participants are also welcome.

AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck.  A projector will be required to conduct AsiaSweep.
AsiaSweep will start at 3pm.
Register here for AsiaSweep 2024.

MAHAQUIZZER 2023 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

The results of the 18th edition of MahaQuizzer are below. Nearly 300 people took Mahaquizzer.

Jayakanthan of Chennai has won the title of MahaQuizzer with a score of 112, the highest in the competition’s history. This is his first title. Our congratulations to him.

Two former champions also reached the century score: Vinoo Sanjay (100 (12*), Mumbai), and Rahul Kottalgi (100 (9*), Bengaluru). The highest-scoring woman is 2012 champ Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, who made 79.

The next four highest scorers in Bengaluru were Thejaswi Udupa (94), Santosh Swaminathan (92), Achyuth Sanjay (88) and Anustup Datta (83).

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we did not receive the answer sheets from Delhi. They are presented as we received them. We are yet to receive scores from Siliguri and Raiganj. Scores will be updated if we receive them.

The top sixteen players also qualify for Mahamahaquizzer 2024. The winners will be given the trophy at AsKQAnce 2024, which will be held in June 2024.

We thank all our quiz setters, proctors, and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success.

We’ll see you again in December 2024.

#NameScore***CityCategory
1Jayakanthan11262Chennai Open
2Vinoo Sanjay10093Mumbai Open
3Rahul Kottalgi10072BengaluruOpen
4Rajiv Rai9782Chennai Open
5Suraj Menon9682Mumbai Open
6Thejaswi Udupa9461BengaluruOpen
7Rajagopal PS9273Chennai Open
8Santosh JS9251BengaluruOpen
9Amrit Pritom Chetia9100Delhi Open
10Hrishikesh Varma8962Mumbai Open
11Manu Sudhakar8962Thrissur Open
12Achyuth Sanjay8871BengaluruOpen
13Dinesh Krithivasan8861Chennai Open
14Prithwish Datta8833Mumbai Open
15Gokul S8800Delhi Open
16Calvin8600Delhi Open
17Anustup Datta8361BengaluruOpen
18Sourjo Sengupta8271Kolkata (JIMS) Open
19Shaswat Salgaocar8261Mumbai Open
20VR8171BengaluruOpen
21Mario F8072Chennai Open
22Abhinav Dasgupta7963Mumbai Open
23Jayashree Mohanka7933Kolkata Ladies
24Kunal Sawardekar7861Pune Open
25Chandrakant Nair7761Thrissur Open
26Krishnamurthi G (Goach)7742Chennai Open
27Govind Grewal7571Mumbai Open
28Shouvik Guha7564Kolkata Open
29Arul Mani 7542BengaluruOpen
30Samanway Banerjee7432Kolkata (JIMS) Open
31Kiran V7360Chennai Open
32Anush Iyer7260Mumbai Open
33Abdul Raouf7220Kozhikode Open
34Piyush Kedia7141Kolkata (JIMS) College
35Sania Narulkar7121Mumbai Ladies
36J Ramanand7040Pune Open
37Rohit S6951BengaluruOpen
38Sandipan Goswami6931Guwahati Open
39J Krishnamurthi6840Hyderabad Open
40Jaidev Karunakaran6832BengaluruOpen
41Sreekanth R P 6621BengaluruOpen
42Baibaswata Jena6600Delhi Open
43Sangeeth6550Thiruvananthapuram Open
44Karthik S6541BengaluruOpen
45Vibhendu6340Mumbai Open
46Roshith Mohan6310Thrissur Open
47Dibyo Halder6231BengaluruOpen
48Vilas Pavithran6121Goa Open
49Mustafa6051Hyderabad Open
50Venky Srinivasan6050Mumbai Open
51Ashvini R Natu6031Mumbai Ladies
52Maitrey D5932BengaluruOpen
53Rajiv D'Silva5930Goa Open
54Abid Abdulla5930BengaluruOpen
55Bedbyas Dutta5841Kolkata Open
56Siddhanth Rao5821Chennai Open
57Shankha Ghosh Dastidar5740BengaluruOpen
58Shamsuddin Haider5651Kolkata (JIMS) Open
59R Samyak5632BengaluruOpen
60Anannya Deb5521Mumbai Open
61Jithin Jacob5452Thiruvananthapuram Open
62Zaman S Khan5432Thiruvananthapuram Open
63Annway Ghosh5430Pune College
64Subhadeep Sarkar5430BengaluruOpen
65Murty MVR5430BengaluruOpen
66Arun Ramanathan5341Chennai Open
67Sriram Padmanabhan5330Pune Open
68Shrey Shylesh5320AhmedabadOpen
69Vijay Sarathy5320Chennai Open
70Somasish Ghosh5300Delhi Open
71Muhammed Munavvir VV5300Delhi Open
72Abhay Vikram 5300Delhi Open
73Alagarsamy5242BengaluruOpen
74Anil Kothuri5240Mumbai Open
75Kunal Savarkar5222Mumbai Open
76Srihari Raju5220Hyderabad Open
77Sanat Pai Raikar5131BengaluruOpen
78Gautam Ghosh5052Kolkata Open
79Abhilash5020BengaluruOpen
80Dr. V Sri Nagesh4931Hyderabad Open
81Kavya Ramasubramanian4920BengaluruCollege
82Prasanth John Abraham4920BengaluruOpen
83Arun A S4840Thrissur Open
84Kunal Roy4840BengaluruOpen
85J K Lakshmi4831Hyderabad Open
86Saransh Mohapatra4821Kolkata (JIMS) Open
87Vinod Hariharan4751BengaluruOpen
88Sujay4710BengaluruOpen
89Saswata Acharya4630Kolkata (JIMS) Open
90Siddharth Mishra4630BengaluruOpen
91Siddharth K4611BengaluruOpen
92Sumeer Kumar4550BengaluruOpen
93Prithwiraj Mukherjee4541AhmedabadOpen
94Balu John4511Thiruvananthapuram Open
95Sarvesh Shenoy4510Mumbai Open
96Santonab Chakraborty4431Mumbai Open
97Sushant Shekhar4430Manipal College
98Atul Mathew4430BengaluruOpen
99Varun Parthasarathy4411Chennai Open
100Mukilan Ayapparaj4330Coimbatore Open
101Shobhyam Chakravarty4230Kolkata (JIMS) College
102Ayush Agrawal4110Pune Open
103Rajat Gururaj4110Hyderabad Open
104Shayak Chakraborty4100Kolkata Open
105Anisha Karnail4011Pune Ladies
106Sudip Kalyan Dey4010Kolkata Open
107Adarsh3920Hyderabad Open
108Venkatasubramanian TC3920BengaluruOpen
109Sujith E3912Kozhikode Open
110Viswas Viswam K C3731Kozhikode Open
111Sagnik Chakraborty3730Hyderabad Open
112Francis Rodrigues3720Mumbai Open
113Ishaan Najeeb3710BengaluruOpen
114Samir Gupta3701Pune Open
115Rama Subramanian3621Hyderabad Open
116Rajesh Panchanadhan3530BengaluruOpen
117Chandrashekhar Rao3520Goa Open
118Mudit Bhardwaj3430BengaluruOpen
119Meghana Iyengar3420BengaluruCollege
120Sahil Ramchandani3420BengaluruOpen
121Rishav Dewan3420BengaluruOpen
122Viola Rodrigues3401Goa Ladies
123Sreejesh PS3330Thiruvananthapuram Open
124Monoswini Misra3320Silchar College
125Tony Nixon Mavely3320Thiruvananthapuram College
126Saee Joshi3310Pune Open
127Shubham Jha3300Pune Open
128Jitaditya Narzary3221Guwahati Open
129Devarshi Ghosh3220Kolkata Open
130Shiladitya Ganguli3220Kolkata Open
131Bishanka Dassarma3200Kolkata (JIMS) Open
132Ganesh Thambhahalli Satyen3131BengaluruOpen
133Ashutosh Das3121Guwahati Open
134Ayush Sharma3120Kolkata (JIMS) College
135Vivek Pinto3111Manipal Open
136Rahul Preman3110Kozhikode College
137Nikhil Jha3110BengaluruOpen
138S Ramesh3110BengaluruOpen
139Shom Biswas3101BengaluruOpen
140Dimpal Dutta3100Silchar College
141Sankar Roy3030Kolkata Open
142Elvis Francis3020Pune College
143Sreeram M3020Kozhikode College
144Pranava3010BengaluruCollege
145Nayan3001Guwahati Open
146Srijon Jana2920Kolkata (JIMS) College
147Kaivalya Karkare2920Goa Open
148Prajwal V2920BengaluruCollege
149Utkarsh Ruhela2910Mumbai Open
150Abhijith Bhadran2900Mumbai Open
151Anuradha Dharwadkar2900AhmedabadLadies
152N Viswanathan2900UdaipurOpen
153Akshay P2820Pune Open
154Athul Ajay2820Thiruvananthapuram Open
155Roshan2810Coimbatore Open
156Manoj R2810Kozhikode Open
157Sundar Srinivas Harish2810BengaluruOpen
158Abhishek Gupta2800Hyderabad Open
159Sriniketh B2720BengaluruCollege
160Abhijit Anand2701BengaluruOpen
161Imthiaz Ahammed2700Kozhikode Open
162Soumya S2700BengaluruLadies
163Aniruddha Mondal2640BengaluruCollege
164Jerry Jose2620Thrissur College
165Revanth Turlapati2600Hyderabad Open
166Rana Mayank Pratap2510Silchar College
167Shreyas Iyer2510BengaluruCollege
168Vinay Nair Karath2510BengaluruOpen
169Izhar Ansari2501Kolkata (JIMS) Open
170Paul B E Gatward2500Goa Open
171Pinakpani Kashyap2420Guwahati Open
172Sanveer Singh Puri2410AhmedabadOpen
173Sumanth Jayaramaiah2410BengaluruOpen
174Praveen Jayaraj A2400Coimbatore Open
175Amit C J2400BengaluruOpen
176Neelam Goswami2400Guwahati Ladies
177S V Roshini2330Chennai College
178Aravind S N2320Chennai College
179Manu Varma2300Kozhikode Open
180Arnav Patel2300Kolkata (JIMS) College
181Vibhu Prakash2300BengaluruCollege
182S V Ananthakrishna2300BengaluruCollege
183Pavan Madhukar Bhat2210Manipal Open
184Samyukta Anand2210Coimbatore College
185Arjun Jeewan2200Goa College
186Preetpal2200UdaipurOpen
187Arnav Metrani2140BengaluruCollege
188S T Prasad2110Hyderabad Open
189Aumkaar Pranav Shukla2100Kolkata (JIMS) College
190Syed Mohammad Hashmi2020Hyderabad College
191Aditya Pal2000Kolkata (JIMS) College
192Swethaa2000BengaluruLadies
193Kiran Ramaswamy 2000BengaluruOpen
194Kevin2000UdaipurOpen
195Aravind Suresh1920Thiruvananthapuram College
196Nikhil Shirsat1910Goa Open
197Bhargav Sadari1900Manipal College
198Ram Mohan1900Hyderabad Open
199Vatsal1900Kolkata (JIMS) College
200Asif Ahmed1900Guwahati Open
201Harshad1810BengaluruOpen
202Parijat Choudhury1710BengaluruOpen
203Subikash Paul1700Kolkata Open
204Manad1700Hyderabad Open
205Kanishkaa Balachandran1700BengaluruOpen
206Aoditya 1700BengaluruCollege
207Sukrit Sivaprasad1700BengaluruSchool
208Sankalp Chowdhury1610AhmedabadOpen
209Jayagopalan V1610Chennai Open
210Aaditya S Rao1600BengaluruCollege
211Priyanuj Parasar1512Guwahati College
212Vrinda Varma1510Kozhikode Ladies
213Amit Agrawal1500Pune Open
214Debabrata Malik1500BengaluruOpen
215Aatir Zaki1410Kolkata (JIMS) College
216Swagat Shubakanta Das1400BengaluruOpen
217Meghna Sudhir1310Kozhikode School
218Samyak Jain1300Kolkata (JIMS) College
219Tejas Lodaya1300BengaluruOpen
220Niyati Jois1300BengaluruSchool
221S Joshua1210Coimbatore College
222Prayag Mohanty1200Goa College
223Kamal Mehdi1200Guwahati Open
224Sagufta1200UdaipurOpen
225Pranshu Singh1110Mumbai Open
226Rayshma R1100Coimbatore Ladies
227Jash Sirui1100Kolkata (JIMS) College
228Vineet1100BengaluruOpen
229Anoop N Nambudari1000Thrissur Open
230Atharva Pandare1000Manipal Open
231Bhavya H Varma910AhmedabadCollege
232Sreeram N Pai910Kozhikode College
233Vishwanath Varma910Kozhikode School
234Jayant Rankwa901AhmedabadCollege
235Alok Vijay Saldanha900Manipal Open
236Rohit R K 900Coimbatore College
237Riddhi Mondal900Kolkata (JIMS) Ladies
238Varun Ramachandran900BengaluruOpen
239Saumay900UdaipurOpen
240Nikhil A Khattar810AhmedabadOpen
241Kabilesh Nataraj800Coimbatore College
242Pankaj Waghmare800Pune Open
243Vijeet V800BengaluruOpen
244Vigenshwaran A700Coimbatore College
245Bijili V Komath700Kozhikode Ladies
246Nilova Jasu700Kolkata (JIMS) Ladies
247Khevan Thanki700BengaluruCollege
248Harishkumar A600Coimbatore College
249Ridah P600Kozhikode Ladies
250Sounak Bhawal600Kolkata (JIMS) College
251Uddipana N600BengaluruCollege
252Hemant600UdaipurOpen
253Gowtham V500Manipal College
254Nancy R500Kozhikode College
255Dhruv500UdaipurOpen
256Siddharth S400Kozhikode School
257Raza Faiz Arakkal400Kozhikode School
258U Kanishkar400Hyderabad Open
259Harshil Agarwal400Kolkata (JIMS) College
260Shivansh Srivastava300AhmedabadCollege
261Mohamad Asik300Coimbatore College
262Divyansh Agarwal300Hyderabad Open
263Tanvi300UdaipurOpen
264Ashok Kumar Gupta200Hyderabad Open
265Rohit J S100Coimbatore College
266Hariharan P100Coimbatore College
267Ayisha Farsana P P 100Kozhikode College
268Uzayr Faiz Arakkal100Kozhikode School
269Edsel Shannen D'Souza000Manipal College
270Ahil Anwar P000Kozhikode School
271Aseel Muhammed P000Kozhikode School
272Saamved Chakraborty000Hyderabad School
273Dhananjoy Chakraborty000Hyderabad Open
274Abheri Karthik000BengaluruSchool

VENUES – MQ and AS 2023

The list of venues for the 2023 editions of Mahaquizzer and AsiaSweep are listed below.

If there is any error or you would like to add your city to the list of venues, please contact kqaquizzes@gmail.com.

We have no venues in Jamshedpur,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram.

CityVenueHostingContactContact
Ahmedabad
IIM, Ahmedabad (New Campus)MQ, ASKushan Patel88492 09809
BengaluruUjjivan Small Finance Bank Head Office in Koramangala (Grape Garden address on Google maps)MQ, ASMaitrey Deshpande97428 33686
ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School,
Mylapore,
Chennai 600 004
MQ, ASRajagopal PS98800 61309
CoimbatoreLH-01, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-641049MQ, ASSanthiya Krishnamoorthy8870829385
DelhiLH313.3, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT DelhiMQ, ASShubhankar Bahl9910038334
GoaGoa Business School, Taleigao Plateau.MQ, ASRajiv D'Silva98901 41715
GuwahatiAurus Mall Food CourtMQ, ASAkshay Seal8860774325
HyderabadColumbus hospital, Begumpet -- top floor conference room.MQ, ASPrasanna Karmakar90008 77436
KolkataThe Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New AliporeMQ, ASAbijit Banerjee9830487023
Kolkata (JIMS)JIMS Hospital and Medical College, KP Mondal Road, Buita, Budge Budge, KolkataONLY MAHAQUIZZERUjan Sen90510 22364
KozhikodeGovt Arts and Science CollegeMQ, ASPraveen85476 68852
ManipalKMC ManipalMQ, ASSanjay9880197605
MumbaiRajyog Family Restaurant & BarMQ, ASAbhinav Dasgupta98195 79559
PuneGoethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune.ONLY MAHAQUIZZERPranav Pawar94212 77399
RaiganjHall room of Banijya Bhawan, Mohonbati, RaiganjMQ, ASDebabrata Das9832422988
SilcharSilchar Medical College and HospitalMQ, ASShubhamoy Chanda7002139471
SiliguriSiliguri Girls High School, SiliguriONLY MAHAQUIZZERPratyush Kundu75860 93596
ThrissurAcademic Block, Room #24, St.Thomas CollegeMQ, ASDr Vijaynath94473 80969
UdaipurIIM UdaipurMQ, ASRuzul9049101133

MahaMahaQuizzer and MegaWhats Finals 2023

The finals of MahaMahaQuizzer 2023 will take place at 10 am on 30 June, the first day of Askqance 2023. The participants are listed below.

  1. Sachin Deshpande
  2. Jayakanthan (Chennai)
  3. Rahul Kottalgi (Bangalore)
  4. Santosh JS (Bangalore)
  5. Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore)
  6. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
  7. Keshava Guha (Delhi)
  8. Amrit P C (Delhi)
  9. Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
  10. Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
  11. Praveen VR (Bangalore)
  12. Manu Sudhakar (Kochi)
  13. Dinesh Krithivasan (Chennai)
  14. Chandrakant Nair (Thrissur)
  15. Sourjo Sengupta (Kolkata)
  16. Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)

The semifinals of MegaWhats 2023 will take place on the first day of Askqance 2023. The teams for each semifinal are listed below.

Semifinal 1 @ 230pm

1. ZeF
2. Zero Gravitas
3. Hammer and tongs
4. Feni vidi vici
5. String quartet
6. QA, Bangalore
7. CIDs
8. Nexus

Semifinal 2 @ 345pm

1. Adutha Varsham
2. Matunga Manram
3. Aardvarks
4. In search of lost prime
5. QED
6. QA, Chennai
7. BMQJ
8. Peter Panchali

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