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.
- Sachin Deshpande
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bangalore)
- Santosh JS (Bangalore)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore)
- Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
- Keshava Guha (Delhi)
- Amrit P C (Delhi)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Praveen VR (Bangalore)
- Manu Sudhakar (Kochi)
- Dinesh Krithivasan (Chennai)
- Chandrakant Nair (Thrissur)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Kolkata)
- 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
MahaQuizzer and Junior MahaQuizzer – the results
The results of the 16th edition of MahaQuizzer and the inaugural edition of Junior MahaQuizzer are below. Unfortunately, we are yet to receive scores from some centres, and we will update the scores as and when we do.
323 people took Mahaquizzer, and more than a 100 attempted the Junior version. We hope to see more takers, young and old, in the coming years.
The winner of the inaugural edition of Junior Mahaquizzer, with a score of 38, is Antara Bhattacharya, from Mumbai. Yeldho Shem from Kochi finished second with 34, and Ananya G Upadhya from Bangalore finished third with 33 points.
It is well known that when Usain Bolt turned up for a race, the other runners had three options – Best case: Bolt pulls a muscle. Worst case: they finish with a PB. This year’s MahaQuizzer winner, although not exactly a fast mover like the aforesaid Bolt, is a passable quizzer himself. Dr. Arul Mani, with a score of 99, is the MahaQuizzer for 2019.
This is his third time as the title-holder, and he matches his own record of the highest ever score. He joins Anustup Datta and Vinoo Sanjay as three-time winners.
The next three in the list are also previous MahaQuizzers: Thejaswi Udupa, Rahul Kottalgi, Vinoo Sanjay. Preetham Upadhya, Bangalore’s very own Boy Wonder, is the College topper, finishing with 84 and at #11 in the overall list. The highest scorer among women was Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, a previous winner. She finished with 79.
The winners will be given the trophies at Askqance 2020, which will be held in June.
We also thank all our proctors and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success. See you in December!
**Jan 19 update: There are small changes in the rankings. We had left out the ‘total stars’ column in our earlier list.
**Feb 3 update: There have been changes in School top 10 rankings. Kochi scores were not updated.
| # | Name | Score | Total * | **s | *s | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antara Bhattacharya | 38 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 2 | Yeldho Shem | 34 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Kochi |
| 3 | Ananya G Upadhya | 33 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 4 | Anand R | 32 | 4 | 3 | 1 | Kochi |
| 5 | Sreeram Madhavan V | 31 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Thrissur |
| 6 | Tejas Jade | 26 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 7 | Shashank SK | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 8 | Ryan Joe George | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 9 | Vidur Kaimal | 23 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 10 | Aneek Chatterjee | 23 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata |
| 11 | Navneeth M Kumar | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kochi |
| 12 | Aarav Jaiswal | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 13 | Kushagra Agarwal | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 14 | Aadit Karve | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
| 15 | Karnav Popat | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 16 | Aarman Chopra | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 17 | Nidhish P | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 18 | Pranav P | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 19 | Aditya Kannan | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 20 | Asha Janardan | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Trivandrum |
| 21 | Shashvat Singh | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 22 | Aditya Sivaramakrishnan | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Trivandrum |
| 23 | Leo Steve Saiju | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 24 | Shrish S Naik | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 25 | Jacob J Thayil | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 26 | S Suraj Kiran | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 27 | Adithya Kishor | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Trivandrum |
| 28 | Aditya Acharya | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 29 | Abhinav N | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 30 | Kushal U | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 31 | Advik Acharya | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 32 | Shreyas MN | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 33 | Devadeep Menon | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Calicut |
| 34 | Rishabh B | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 35 | Nivedita R | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Calicut |
| 36 | Aaditya S Rao | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 37 | Kiran Thomas Tyson | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Kochi |
| 38 | Mihir Raddi | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
| 39 | Shraddha Rajeev | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 40 | Shayak Mitra | 11 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Raiganj |
| 41 | Amogh R Kadkol | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 42 | Aditya Sharath M | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 43 | Saswat Ray | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 44 | Harigovind P | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
| 45 | Arihant Satpathy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 46 | Abhinav Mohan George | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 47 | Sukrit Sivaprasad | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 48 | Noel Antony Alex | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 49 | Balram Kumar Choudhury | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 50 | Shruti Kartik | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 51 | Pratham Atal | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
| 52 | Spandan Das | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 53 | Gokul Thejus Menon | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
| 54 | Esha Chakraborty | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 55 | Anousha Batta | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 56 | Malavika Sha | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 57 | Rajarshee Bose | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 58 | Adwaith M. George | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 59 | Hrishikesh Varma | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 60 | Soujanya Das | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 61 | Arjun Vivek | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kochi |
| 62 | Advika Mulgund | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 63 | Kyishong B Das | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 64 | Bharath Krishna KA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
| 65 | Vaishnavi Yogesh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 66 | Sahil Thakkar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 67 | Neha S | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 68 | Arnay Agarwal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 69 | Sai Gowrav KS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 70 | Darshini Bharani Anand | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 71 | Avranil Saha | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 72 | Swapnil Deb | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 73 | Himanshu Sankhala | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 74 | Nirmal Anand Kumar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 75 | Jashn R | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 76 | Sunidhi Das | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 77 | Tanish Jain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 78 | Prithvika K | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 79 | Karthik Amit | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 80 | Mahadevam Ranjith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 81 | Samyuktha V | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 82 | Vedhanth J | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 83 | Arviya Saara | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 84 | Sakshi C Choradia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 85 | Srikar G Raghuram | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 86 | Jhanvi Chopra | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 87 | Satvik M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 88 | Samit Ranjan M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 89 | Falak Sharma | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 90 | Roudra Mallik | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 91 | Muhammed Safvan KP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 92 | Grushma S Ganjam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 93 | Ridhwan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 94 | Nithya S | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 95 | Guru Charan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 96 | Puneet MP Bharadwaj | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 97 | Jatin Jain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 98 | Shravan H Ahuja | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 99 | Rachith R | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 100 | Tamanna Raghunath Aiyer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 101 | Harshitha G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 102 | Harshitha K Jain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 103 | Poonam Jain N | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 104 | Preeth B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 105 | Sonal Sunil Kumar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 106 | Lahari BA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 107 | Aditi R Jain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 108 | Sarvesh Patil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 109 | Rutwik Desai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 110 | Shrujan SG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 111 | Maanasi D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 112 | Inchara Prasad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 113 | Subhrakanti Adhikary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 114 | Afsa Mishael | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 115 | Koustav Banerjee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 116 | Abhijit Das | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 117 | Rishith R Shekar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 118 | Akshaay BS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 119 | Sai Anurag R Angadi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 120 | Stuti Nayak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 121 | Sahil Dashetty | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 122 | Dhanraj N | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 123 | Pranith C Menon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
| 124 | Rebacca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 125 | Tanmay Roy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| # | Name | Score | Total *s | **s | *s | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arul Mani | 99 | 8 | 4 | 4 | Bangalore |
| 2 | Thejaswi Udupa | 96 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Bangalore |
| 3 | Rahul Kottalgi | 95 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 4 | Vinoo Sanjay | 94 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 5 | Jayakanthan | 94 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Chennai |
| 6 | Shouvik Guha | 90 | 4 | 3 | 1 | Kolkata |
| 7 | Samanth | 89 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Chennai |
| 8 | Ravi Mundoli | 87 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Chennai |
| 9 | Rajiv Rai | 87 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 10 | Amrit P Chetia | 85 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Delhi |
| 11 | Preetham Upadhya | 84 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Bangalore |
| 12 | Abhishek Kapoor | 83 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 13 | Manu Sudhakar | 83 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Chennai |
| 14 | Anustup Datta | 81 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 15 | Suraj Menon | 81 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Hyderabad |
| 16 | Navin Rajaram | 79 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 17 | Jayashree JM | 79 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kolkata |
| 18 | Vibhendu Tiwari | 78 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 19 | Arun Hiregange | 77 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Bangalore |
| 20 | Krittika Adhikary | 77 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 21 | Chandrakant Nair | 77 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Thrissur |
| 22 | Kiran V | 76 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Chennai |
| 23 | Sachin Deshpande | 76 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Bangalore |
| 24 | Aditya Gadre | 75 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Pune |
| 25 | Kunal Sawardekar | 73 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Pune |
| 26 | Anannya Deb | 73 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 27 | Syed Mustafa Hashmi | 71 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Hyderabad |
| 28 | PS Rajagopal | 70 | 7 | 2 | 5 | Bangalore |
| 29 | Varun Rajiv | 70 | 6 | 3 | 3 | Chennai |
| 30 | Santosh | 69 | 10 | 5 | 5 | Bangalore |
| 31 | Nikhil Sonde | 69 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Mumbai |
| 32 | Bala | 69 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 33 | Venky Srinivasan | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 34 | Govind Grewal | 67 | 5 | 2 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 35 | Achyuth Sanjay | 67 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 36 | Samanway Banerjee | 67 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Andul |
| 37 | Gokul S | 66 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Delhi |
| 38 | Vinod Sivarama Krishnan | 66 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Delhi |
| 39 | Dinesh Krithivasan | 66 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Chennai |
| 40 | Anirudh Chari | 66 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Kolkata |
| 41 | Praveen VR | 63 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 42 | Prithwish Datta | 63 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Delhi |
| 43 | Suresh Ramasubramanian | 62 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Hyderabad |
| 44 | Ranajeet Soman | 62 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Pune |
| 45 | EM Bhargava | 61 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 46 | Piyush Kedia | 61 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Andul |
| 47 | Parth SS | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Andul |
| 48 | Shrirang Raddi | 59 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Pune |
| 49 | Kunal Malhotra | 59 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Delhi |
| 50 | Omkar D | 59 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Pune |
| 51 | Anand Sivashankar | 59 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 52 | Gerleo Nimilan | 58 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Chennai |
| 53 | Gopal Kidao | 58 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Chennai |
| 54 | Avinash TN | 58 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 55 | Somasish Ghosh | 58 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Delhi |
| 56 | Sourjo Sengupta | 57 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Andul |
| 57 | Alok Prasanna Kumar | 57 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 58 | Abhinav Dasgupta | 56 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
| 59 | Raghuvansh Ramaswamy | 55 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Chennai |
| 60 | Sandeep Albert Mathias | 54 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 61 | Nikhil Indla | 53 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Hyderabad |
| 62 | Yogesh Pai | 53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Coimbatore |
| 63 | Gautam Ghosh | 52 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Chennai |
| 64 | Julian D'Coasta | 52 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 65 | Arnab Bhattacharya | 52 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 66 | Maitrey Deshpande | 50 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 67 | Apratim Mukhopadhyay | 50 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Andul |
| 68 | Shayak Chakrabarty | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 69 | Vilas Pavithran | 49 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Goa |
| 70 | Ani (JK Lakshmi) | 49 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Hyderabad |
| 71 | Abhimanyu Bharade | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 72 | Riaz Shaik | 49 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Hyderabad |
| 73 | Hem Maradja | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 74 | Kishore R | 48 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 75 | Kumar Kirti Jain | 48 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 76 | Sharath Jose | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 77 | Prasanna Karmakar | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
| 78 | Krishna S Girish | 47 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 79 | Ashwin | 47 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 80 | Gokul Panigrahi | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 81 | Sreekanth Reddy | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 82 | D Ghosh | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 83 | Prashant John Abraham | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
| 84 | Vijay Sampath | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Mumbai |
| 85 | Abhilash | 45 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 86 | Arun Ramanathan | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 87 | Hiran Roy | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 88 | Viswas Viswam KC | 45 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Calicut |
| 89 | Arun AS | 45 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Thrissur |
| 90 | Tanmay Prusty | 45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 91 | Navin Sharma | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 92 | Mihir | 44 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Kharagpur |
| 93 | Shreeram Shetty | 44 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 94 | Muhammed Munavvir VV | 44 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
| 95 | Jinson Chacko | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 96 | Preyoshi Ganguly | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 97 | Ankush Kothari | 43 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 98 | Gigi George | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
| 99 | Anil Kothuri | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 100 | Vijay Sarathy | 43 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
| 101 | Rashmi Vallabhajosyula | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 102 | Sandipan Goswami | 42 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Guwahati |
| 103 | Karthik Srinivasan | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 104 | Abhay S Kulkarni | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 105 | Varun PD | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
| 106 | Balu John | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kochi |
| 107 | Bryan Robert | 41 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Bangalore |
| 108 | Yogesa M | 41 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 109 | L Calvin | 41 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Chennai |
| 110 | Atul Mathew | 41 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
| 111 | Arjit Mondal | 41 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Andul |
| 112 | Roshan Dattatri | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Chennai |
| 113 | Antara Bhattacharya | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 114 | Bhrigu J | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 115 | Nitish Wagle | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Goa |
| 116 | Sagar Sinha | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
| 117 | Siddharth K | 40 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 118 | Shrey Shylesh | 40 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Delhi |
| 119 | Abhinav Dhar | 40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 120 | Dharmendra | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 121 | Pranav Pawar | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
| 122 | Arjun Bharadwaj | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 123 | Subhudeep Sarkar | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 124 | Adheesh Ghosh | 37 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Delhi |
| 125 | SA Karthik | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 126 | Razia Shaikh | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad |
| 127 | Sarvesh Shenoy | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 128 | Abio Abdulla | 35 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Delhi |
| 129 | Pavan BG | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Hyderabad |
| 130 | Latish Venugopal | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 131 | Karthik Ganesan | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 132 | Yashashvi Srivastava | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 133 | Tathagata Chatterjee | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 134 | R Keshav Narayan | 34 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Chennai |
| 135 | KV Sreeram | 34 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kochi |
| 136 | Pranami Jamuli | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Delhi |
| 137 | Varun Murthy | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 138 | Nirmalya Biswas | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Siliguri |
| 139 | Devi Prasad V | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 140 | Ujjwal Kiran Das | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 141 | Dr Unnikrishnan Menon | 33 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Kochi |
| 142 | Kasthuri Shankar | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Chennai |
| 143 | Arunoday Chaudhuri | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Siliguri |
| 144 | Soumik Choudhury | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Raiganj |
| 145 | S Chandrasekhar | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 146 | Siddharth Mishra | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 147 | Ritwik Ghosh | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 148 | Arvind Thekkinghat | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 149 | Ajay Kumar KS | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 150 | Pavan Krishnamurthy | 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 151 | Saishyam Srikanth | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 152 | Shamsuddin Haider | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Andul |
| 153 | Ramkumar Shankar | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 154 | Col Shankar | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 155 | Praneet | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 156 | Suraj Menon | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 157 | Sairam D | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 158 | Bedanga Kashyap Das | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati |
| 159 | Shameem Abdul | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Calicut |
| 160 | Manas Deep | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
| 161 | Paul BE | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Goa |
| 162 | Akshat A | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 163 | Karthik Subramanya Karvaje | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 164 | Shobhyam Chakravarty | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 165 | Sourasis Bose | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 166 | Akhil Ghosh | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 167 | Sumeet Kumar | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 168 | Abhijit B | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 169 | Parth Dhar | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Delhi |
| 170 | Dr Madhavan VP | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
| 171 | Maitreyi Gupta | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 172 | Sanjay Samuel Mathew | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 173 | Mayur Shett | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Goa |
| 174 | Sudharshan Narayanan | 24 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 175 | Arnav Singh | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 176 | Dwijesh Athrey | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 177 | Chinmay Deshpande | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 178 | Md Izhar Ansari | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 179 | Nikhil Jadav | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 180 | Arjun A | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 181 | Parminder Singh | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Jamshedpur |
| 182 | Allan Joseph | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 183 | Sabareenath Madhusoothanan | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 184 | Shubham Jha | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kochi |
| 185 | Praneeth S Bharadwaj | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 186 | Animesh Jha | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
| 187 | Golak Bihari Sarangi | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 188 | Chetan Agarwal | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 189 | Sumukh Herlekar | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 190 | Aditya Singh | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 191 | Ritwik Johari | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 192 | Manoj R | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Calicut |
| 193 | Nikhil Sarkar | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 194 | Paschatya Manna | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 195 | Kaustav Mandal | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 196 | Rithwik Rao | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Bangalore |
| 197 | Krishnan P | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
| 198 | George Mohan | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kochi |
| 199 | Satish Pai | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 200 | Govind M Nair | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 201 | Rama Mohan | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 202 | Kartikay Chadha | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 203 | P Srivatsav | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Chennai |
| 204 | Shivam Saxena | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
| 205 | Deepanshu Sinha | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kharagpur |
| 206 | Madhur Tike | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 207 | S Ashwin | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 208 | Sutanu Banerjee | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 209 | Adhiban | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 210 | Ananthu CV | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Thrissur |
| 211 | Ayan | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Mumbai |
| 212 | Sandeep Kaimal | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 213 | Manjula S | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 214 | MD Samir Alam | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 215 | Abir Sen | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 216 | Tanuj Kumar | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Pune |
| 217 | Amit Kumar Jha | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Raiganj |
| 218 | Smitha M George | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 219 | Sagnik Shankar | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 220 | Ananya Kumari | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 221 | Prajot Patne | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 222 | Anirudh Kumar | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 223 | M Sharat Chandar | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 224 | Bikram Roy | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 225 | Chaitanya Khemani | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 226 | Arvind S | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Goa |
| 227 | Ronit Muduli | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Jamshedpur |
| 228 | Jyotirmoy Sen | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 229 | Prajwal V | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 230 | Amit Agarwal | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 231 | Anubhav Saboth | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 232 | Hemansh Kashyap | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 233 | Avi Sankritya | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 234 | Chetana Rohit T | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Delhi |
| 235 | Arighna Chattopadyay | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 236 | Souvik Ghatak | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 237 | Ihsan Ahmed K | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 238 | Sulagna Nandi | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 239 | Appu S | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 240 | Vishwas Bunyan | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 241 | Divya P | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 242 | Kaustav Nath | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 243 | Avijit Sutradhar | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 244 | Abhranil Ray | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Raiganj |
| 245 | Aravind A | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 246 | Sneha Ranjan | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 247 | Rinusha Rajan | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 248 | Rudra Sankar Saha | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Raiganj |
| 249 | Kaustub | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 250 | Joshua Fernandes | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 251 | Aman Goyal | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 252 | Maitreyi Swaroop | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 253 | Venkatesh Jaiswal | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 254 | Subhashis Chakraborty | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 255 | Dr RR Varma | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 256 | Resmi Menon | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 257 | Inakshi Kar | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Kharagpur |
| 258 | Sheersha Saha | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Raiganj |
| 259 | Subikash Paul | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 260 | Biswajyoti Bhowmik | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 261 | Praveen Jaya Raj | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 262 | Parijat Choudhury | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 263 | Ashish Harshavardhan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 264 | Sekhar S | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 265 | Krishna Kumar Choudhury | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata |
| 266 | Biswadeb Sarkar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 267 | Pankaj Agarwal | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 268 | Anwita Bhowmick | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Raiganj |
| 269 | Rasna Kishor | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 270 | Yashwi Mishra | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 271 | PS Balaji | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 272 | Rayshma R | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 273 | Ankesh Saha | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 274 | Prachi Niradi | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Belagavi |
| 275 | Afsal Sebastian | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 276 | Advay Deshpande | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pune |
| 277 | Tamal Dey | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 278 | Kiron Susan Joseph Sebastine | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kochi |
| 279 | Alisha A Asukar | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Belagavi |
| 280 | Omkar M Kokitkar | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Belagavi |
| 281 | Aarti M Nimbalkar | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Belagavi |
| 282 | Vinoth | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 283 | Mayur Munde | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 284 | Moumita Das | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai |
| 285 | Poonam Mense | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 286 | Pooja R Chigunkar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 287 | Harleen Kaur | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 288 | Rahul Vishal | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 289 | Deepro Ghosh | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharagpur |
| 290 | Ahemadraza Mukkeri | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 291 | Aravindhan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 292 | Vikram Saha | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Siliguri |
| 293 | Kishore MA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 294 | Aakash Pralhad | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai |
| 295 | Vishwajeet Parasharam Patil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 296 | Sonali Goral | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 297 | Sivasubramaniyam C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore |
| 298 | Arun AS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Trivandrum |
| 299 | Sumaiya Banu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 300 | Aditya Udayakumar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur |
| 301 | Cyril Sandesh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 302 | Bhanu Prakash Nandam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chennai, Anna Nagar |
| 303 | Subhajit Patra | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 304 | MD Zaid A Honnapur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 305 | Rumana Noor Monim | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 306 | Shivakumar Panchakattimath | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 307 | Shubham S Kamati | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 308 | Goutam A Bhaderi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 309 | Vishaya V Desai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 310 | Abhijeet Yuvaraj Kadam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 311 | Sachhidanand P Gangadharmath | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 312 | Aidesham Jamadar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 313 | Vinayak Sarvade | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 314 | Laxmi Sheetal Velapure | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 315 | Santosh R Bevoor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 316 | Annappa T Patil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 317 | Anjaney Betasur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 318 | Eva Mohini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bangalore |
| 319 | Prantik Pandit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andul |
| 320 | Pooja C Birade | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 321 | Aishwarya B Naik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 322 | Mahalaxmi N Unakal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
| 323 | Santosh M Sutar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belagavi |
Mahaquizzer and Junior Mahaquizzer 2019 – Venues
Mahaquizzer 2019 will take place across 19 cities on Sunday, 8th December 2019. As always, the open set will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. The quiz will begin at 10:30am sharp at all venues; please be at the venue by 10:00am to enable the co-ordinators to seat you.
Junior Mahaquizzer 2019 will also take place at the same time, and is being held in 11 cities across India. Junior Mahaquizzer is open to school students of up to class XII, and will require them to attempt 75 questions over 90 minutes.
If you haven’t registered yet, please do so at http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer
The complete list of venues hosting Mahaquizzer and Junior Mahaquizzer this year is given below. Cities marked with a * are hosting only Mahaquizzer.
Junior Mahaquizzer may not be held at the same venue as Mahaquizzer, so please check before you travel to the venue.
Some venues also have strict security protocols. Please ensure you are carrying a valid photo ID. Please contact your city co-ordinator for more details.
AHMEDABAD*
IIM Ahmedabad
Co-ordinator: Rishabh Barodawala (9909101262)
ANDUL*
Mohiary Public Library, Andul
Co-ordinator: Baneswar S (6290036256)
BANGALORE
Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road
Co-ordinator: Nishanth Raman (9880499935)
BELAGAUM
Trinity BBA & B.Com College
Co-ordinator: Ketan Naik (9483484308)
COIMBATORE
Brookfield Banquet Room, Brookfield Mall, 67-71 Krishnaswamy Road, Coimbatore -1
Co-ordinator: Anuradha Yogesh )97914 20459)
CHENNAI
Chennai has two venues – PS Senior will not be hosting Junior MQ. Focus IAS Academy will host both MQ and Junior MQ. Please contact proctors regarding your attendance at the venues.
PS Senior Secondary School (only regular MQ)
Co-ordinator: Vikram Rajan (8939513211)
Focus IAS Academy No. 60, 3rd Floor – Middle Bay, TNSCB Shopping Complex Junction, Anna Nagar West
Co-ordinator: K V Raja Ravi Shankar (9791525820)
GOA
The International Centre, Dona Paula, Panjim.
Co-ordinator: Paul Gatward (97652 33733)
GUWAHATI
To be confirmed
Co-ordinator: Raktim Baishya (7002658947)
HYDERABAD
Columbus Hospital, Begumpet
Co-ordinator: Raad Shaikh (7207507266)
JAMSHEDPUR*
XLRI, Jamshedpur
Co-ordinator: Pranav J (8310922738)
KHARAGPUR*
IIT Kharagpur
Co-ordinator: Baibhab Pattnaik (8763489376)
KOCHI
ChaiCofi Cafe, Kaloor
Co-ordinator: Aravind Anil (9447022106, 7012522296)
KOLKATA
The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch
Co-ordinator: Ratul Ghosh (9051298623)
KOZHIKODE
Government Medical College
Co-ordinator: Deepak K (9746396146)
MUMBAI
Pinstorm, Swati Building, North Ave, near Kotak Mahindra Bank, Santacruz West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400054
Co-ordinator: Suvajit Chakraborty (9930853913)
NEW DELHI
IIT Delhi
Co-ordinator: Harshit Sachdeva (8826131030)
PUNE*
Skovian Ventures, Suyog Building, Next to BU Bhandari Mercedes Showroom Mumbai, Pune Banglore Highway Pashan Exit, Baner, Pune
Co-ordinator: Samiran Mondal (9823594551)
RAIGANJ*
Akashnil Bhawan College, Para Raiganj (Nemesis Quiz Club)
Co-ordinator: Pratyanik Chakraborty 9475588674
SILIGURI
Sanhati Nagarik Committee Building, Siliguri
Co-ordinator: Supratim Basu (9749605950)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala
Co-ordinator: Noyel Sebastian (8606872028)
THRISSUR
Government Engineering College, Thrissur
Co-ordinator: Dr Vijaynath V (9447380969)
VARANASI*
G-11, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT BHU
Co-ordinator: Malayaj Mishra (8563919385, 8173942010)
Announcement of Mahaquizzer & Asiasweep 2019
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 Sunday, 8th December 2019.
We are introducing something new to MahaQuizzer this year. The open set will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. However, there is another set of 75 questions, a Junior version if you will, to be taken over the 90 minutes, that is exclusively for school children. We hope to encourage a younger generation to the pain of hit-and-miss that all MQ takers are only too familiar with. More details on this over the next week.
MQ will be set by a team consisting of Debashree Mitra, Sreyashi Dastidar, Movin Miranda, Nishanth Raman and Venkataraman Ravindra.
AsiaSweep will consist of around 75 questions (to be read off a ppt) and is open to teams of a maximum of two people. Solo participants are also welcome. The quiz is being set by Dr Arul Mani, Nagaratna Patil, Sujata Sharma, Urmila Lakshmanan and Dibyendu Das.
MahaQuizzer will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM. AsiaSweep will start at 3pm.
The person recording the highest score in MQ across all centres will hold the title of MahaQuizzer for 2019. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2020. We will publish the MQ schools ranking list separately.
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.
If you are interested in hosting MahaQuizzer or AsiaSweep (or both) in your city, please email Hrishikesh Varma or Dr. Arul Mani.
We will open registrations for MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep in a few days’ time, once host cities and venues have been confirmed. Check back here in a few days time!
ASKQANCE 2019 – THE SCHEDULE
Once more ’round the sun – AsKQAnce 2019 continues to put the ‘annual’ in ‘KQA’s annual quiz fest’ by returning for another go – and has gone above and beyond the call of duty by continuing to be a quiz fest!
Here’s the schedule:
Friday, June 28th
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer – a showdown between the top 16 quizzers in India, as determined by Mahaquizzer 2018.
230 PM: MegaWhats – a showndown between the top 16 quizzers quiz teams in India, as determined by MegaWhats 2019.
Audience is always welcome for MahaMahaquizzer and MegaWhats.
9 PM: The Sai-Tanic Verses (Quiz Night at the Courtyard)
Yes, AsKQAnce now has a nightlife! Come to the Courtyard in Shantinagar for a fun quiz at a great venue to wine and dine – it’s like dinner theatre, only a quiz. (https://goo.gl/maps/yAa52nLVm6oigQcx8)
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Saturday, June 29th
10 AM: Persiflage – the books quiz
High brow, low brow, middle brow… books and the people behind them. A few alternative titles: Rifle Pages, Book Lagi Hai, Tome Deaf, Readheads, Sheet Happens, Shelf Aware… sigh, #LitAF (millennials, please attend). Rest assured, the QMs are hard at work with the questions rather than the title.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
330 PM: Son of Lumiere – the movies quiz
The 11th edition of a movie quiz that just keeps getting better, like your favourite Indiana Jones Carry On the 11th movie in the MCU the reputation of Harvey We… FINE WINE. It keeps getting better like fine wine. The biggest and best movie quiz in the biz. Ask anyone.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
Sunday, June 30th
10AM: By Hooke or by Crookes – the Sci/Tech quiz
Science, as in the science of everyday things. Technology, as in how the USB is inserted the wrong way up. Anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, anti-evolution crusaders and makers of mythological nukes are all welcome. No PhD required.
An open quiz for teams of up to 4.
230 PM: Gridlock – the Crossword Quiz
A take-to-lunch quiz that requires solving a printed grid containing approximately 30 clues. Most clues will have a predominant quizzing component and/or a cryptic clue. Winners determined on the number of correct answers. Ties, if any, will be broken by time taken.
An open quiz for teams of 2… well, the prizes are for two people, at any rate.
330PM: Sesame – the General Quiz
A general quiz. The general quiz of the calendar, even. After all, specialisation is for insects.
An open quiz for teams of 4.
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Follow along for the latest updates at www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes or the AsKQAnce 2019 Facebook event page at www.facebook.com/events/421983465210687
Venue and other details to follow soon, but mark your calendars and make your plans – Bangalore, June 28-30th. Don’t miss it!
ASKQANCE 2018 – Results
The Woodstock of quizzing saw a total of 8 quizzes being held over three days, with old and new names turning up in the winners and finalists’ lists. Here are the full results:
1. Mahamahaquizzer, the showdown between the top 16 finishers of Mahaquizzer.
I – Vinoo Sanjay – 295 points
II – Manu Sudhakar – 260 points
III – Jayakanthan R – 241 points
IV – Arul Mani – 240 points
V – Samanth Subramanian – 235 points
V – Rahul Kottalgi – 235 points
VII – Anustup Datta – 220 points
VIII – Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
2. MegaWhats, the National open quizzing championship.
I – Preetham Upadhya, Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 201 points
II – Swaminathan Ganesh, Gopal Kidao, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 164 points
III – Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 160 points
IV – Vinoo Sanjay, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma (Matunga Manram) – 159 points
V – Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari (Traveling Pillsbury) – 153 points
VI – Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Naveen Jayakumar (Memory Bank) – 152 points
VII – Anannya Deb, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Suraj Menon, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 147 points
VIII – Ramkey, Goach, Shafeeq, Alok (Sheikh Yerboutis) – 101 points
3. Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the Arts Quiz at asKQAnce
I – Rahul Kottalgi, Anirudh Chari, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 208 points
II – Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 200 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 142 points
IV – Mario Fernando, Vijaysarathy, Sreeram, Sankhya (Insignificant Others) – 130 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar (Memory Blank) – 84 points
VI – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 75 points
VII – Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 65 points
VIII – Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Rohit Rao, Hari Nair – 60 points
4. Son of Lumiere, the movie quiz at asKQAnce.
I – Balaji Thirumalai, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 291 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde (Matunga Manram) – 247 points
III – Jinson Chacko, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Chandrakant Nair (CIDs from Kerala) – 189 points
IV – Kushan Patel, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 188 points
V – Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar – 187 points
VI – Abhinav Dasgupta, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 125 points
VII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Rajagopal PS, Arun Ramanathan (Mission 2018) – 92 points
VIII – Anagh Mukherjee, Prithwish Dutta, Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh (Caveat Attemptor) – 90 points
5. GS Hiranyappa Memorial History-Geography Quiz at asKQAnce 2018
I – Kunal Sawardekar, Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 305 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 250 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 235 points
III – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 235 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli (Memory Blank) – 225 points
V – Kunal Savarkar, Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani (Hammer and Tongs) – 225 points
VII – Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh (QED) – 217 points
VIII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We are Like This Wonly) – 140 points
6. Sesame, the General Open quiz at Askqance
I – Swaminathan Ganesh, Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao (QED) – 356 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 326 points
III – Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 302 points
IV – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 301 points
V – Jayashree Mohanka, Sreyashi Dastidar, Debashree Mitra, Preyoshi Ganguly (ShriDevis) – 293 points
VI – Sreshth Shah, P Srikanth, Partha Ghatak, Arindam Dutta (Last Action Heroes) – 267 points
VII – Debanjan Bose, Rohit Rao, Sachin Deshpande, Siddharth Pai (Peter Panchali) – 250 points
VIII – Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Abhinav Dasgupta (Traveling Pillsbury) – 201 points
Congrats all.
ASKQANCE 2018 – REMINDER
This is the schedule for the weekend:
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the arts quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Lakshana Kripash, Praveen VR.
3 PM: Son of Lumiere, a quiz on movies for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv.
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz, a quiz on history/geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS.
230 PM: Sesame, the general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan.
All these quizzes are open to all .
Venue for all quizzes is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/T1e3xXnejQS2
Please call ++91 8884125047 if you have trouble finding the place
Apart from the open quizzes over the weekend, Mahamahaquizzer and the semis and finals of Megawhats will be conducted on Friday (29th) at IAT – do turn up to watch some of the country’s top quizzers in action.
AsKQAnce 2018 – Schedule
AsKQAnce 2018, KQA’s annual quiz fest – the Woodstock of quizzing (it’s fun?), the Burj Khalifa of buildings (it’s big?), the Pacific of oceans (it’ll be peaceful?), the Silk Board of traffic jams (lots of people?), the Manoj Prabhakar of 90s all-rounders (er… what?), the Tesla Model 3 of heightened expectations (maybe not), the original iPhone launch event of #hype (please stop), the… uh, Thejaswi Udupa of Twitter (…) – is just one month away!
Here’s the final schedule:
Friday, June 29th
1030 AM: MahaMahaquizzer
A showdown between the Top 16 (well, #17 and #18 made it after some dropouts) of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Avinash Thirumalai, Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar.
230 PM: MegaWhats (semi finals and finals)
For the 16 qualifiers from MegaWhats 2018.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan.
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien
An open quiz on the Arts, for teams of 4.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3 PM: Son of Lumiere
An open quiz on Movies, for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz
An open quiz on History/Geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS
230 PM: Sesame
The Open general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
The venue for all three days is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road.
So book your tickets, make your plans, and just come off!
asKQAnce 2018
asKQAnce 2018, the annual KQA jamboree, the original Woodstock of quizzing, is scheduled for June 29th, June 30th, and July 1st.
Here’s what we have lined up.
June 29th, 2018, Friday.
Morning session: Mahamahaquizzer, a showdown between the Top 16 of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar, Avinash Thirumalai
Afternoon/Evening session: MegaWhats (semi-finals and finals), for the qualifiers from MegaWhats, the team written quiz that will be held countrywide on May 13th, 2018
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S
June 30th, 2018, Saturday
930 am: The KQA Arts Quiz for teams of 4
There will be a written prelim followed by a final for the top 8 teams.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3pm: Son of Lumiere, the KQA Movies Quiz for teams of 4
There will be a (very short) written prelim followed by a (short) final for the top 8 teams.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa
July 1st, 2018, Sunday
930am: The GS Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz, the History & Geography Quiz for teams of 4
There will be a written prelim followed by a final for the top 8 teams.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Rajagopal PS, Nagaratna Patil
3pm: Sesame, asKQAnce’s flagship General Open Quiz, for teams of 4
There will be a written prelim followed by a final for the top 8 teams.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
Outstation teams, go ahead and book your tickets. We’d love to have you all back again this year.
