AsKQAnce 2026
The KQA is happy to announce the 2026 edition of its annual quiz fest, AsKQAnce.
- Dates: 26, 27, 28 June, 2026 (Friday-Sunday)
- Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru.
- The quizzes are open to all. On-the-spot registration only.
- ₹200/team for each quiz.
- Reg fees are waived for school and college teams.
26 June, Friday:
10 AM: MahaMahaquizzer (Qualifiers list)
QMs: Jaidev Karunakaran, Keshava Guha, Santosh J Swaminathan, Sujata Sharma
2 PM: MegaWhats National Finals (Qualifiers List)
QMs: Debanjan Bose, Movin Miranda, Sreyashi Dastidar, Sushant Shekar, Thejaswi Udupa
730 PM: 4Edge Pub Quiz at Arbor Brewing Co. (tables of up to 6)
27 June, Saturday:
930 AM: By Hooke or by Crookes: SciTech Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Navin Rajaram, Venky Srinivasan
2 PM: Stick No Bills: Quiz on Posters (written, teams of up to 2)
QMs: Mahendra Balu, Nagaratna Patil, Vivek Karthikeyan
345 PM: Son of Lumiere: Movie Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Anustup Datta, Sourjo Sengupta, Varun Rajiv
28 June, Sunday:
930 AM: GS Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz on History, Geography, and the Social Sciences (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Debashree Mitra, Keshav Athreya, Maitrey Deshpande
2 PM: Sesame, the Open Quiz (teams of up to 4)
QMs: Abdul Raouf, Abid Abdulla, Preetham Upadhya, Sachin Deshpande
There’ll be prizes for the winners of each quiz (and for all finalists too).
Contact kqaquizzes@gmail.com OR Varun at +91 99024 44486 for any queries.
QUALIFIERS: MahaMahaQuizzer & MegaWhats 2026
Here is the list of quizzers who have qualified for MahaMahaQuizzer at AsKQAnce 2026.
MMQ 2026 will start at 10am, 26 June 2026.
- Preetham Upadhya (Bengaluru)
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bengaluru)
- Amrit Pritom Chetia (Delhi)
- Subrat M (Bengaluru)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bengaluru)
- Hrishikesh Varma (Bengaluru)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Ravi Mundoli (Chennai)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Bengaluru)
- Manu Sudhakar (Thrissur)
- Aswath Venkataraman (Bengaluru)
- Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)
- Shaswat Salgaocar (Bengaluru)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Annie Sen Gupta (Goa)
- Shouvik Guha (Kolkata)
Here are the line-ups for the semifinals of MegaWhats at AsKQAnce 2026.
The first semi will start at 2 pm, 26 June 2026.
Semifinal I
- Aardvarks (Amrit P Chetia, Rahul S Kottalgi, Rithwik Kambil), New Delhi
- Congrats All (Abid Abdulla, Calvin Christ, Shaswat Salgaocar, Sourjo Sengupta), Bengaluru
- Dos Zeros Y Ciatres (Balagopal Menon, Ayush Sharma, Somashish Ghosh, Santonab Chakraborty), Delhi
- My Way or Samanway (Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Vibhendu Tewari, Samanway Banerjee), Mumbai
- Onko Masters (Sandipan Goswami, Jitaditya Narzary, Bishwayan Bhattacharjee, Aabhaas Dasgupta), Guwahati
- Relapsed Quizzaholics (Abijit Hariharan, Nishant, Zaman S Khan), Chennai
- Rude Mechanicals (Sankhya, Swaminathan G, Preetham Upadhya, R Jayakanthan), Chennai
- Swami and Friends (AP Alagarsamy, Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, J Krishnamurthi), Hyderabad
Semifinal II
- Bombay Ducks (Aditya Gadre, Brajendu Bhaskar, Kunal Sawardekar, Pradeep Ramarathnam), Delhi
- Feni Vedi Vici (Rajiv D’Silva, Srijit Kumar, Nitish Wagle, Annie Sengupta), Goa
- Live to Eat (Mukilan Ayyapparaj, Siddharth Mishra, Yogesh Pai, Ashwin Balasubramaniam), Coimbatore
- Matunga Manram (Nikhil Sonde, Govind Grewal, Krishan Shetty, Ravi Mundoli), Mumbai
- Nexus Gravitas (Anustup Datta, Subrat Mohanty, Swapnil Das, Venky Srinivasan), Bengaluru
- Peter Panchali (Sid Pai, Rohit Rao, Abdul Raouf, Sachin Deshpande), Bengaluru
- QEDs from Kerala (Samanth S, Varun Rajiv, Praveen VR, Hrishikesh Varma), Bengaluru
- Smells Like Team Spirit (Amlan Sanyal, Annway Ghosh, Subhadeep Sarkar, Saswata Acharya), Kolkata
RESULTS – MindSweep and MegaWhats 2026
We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep and MegaWhats 2026.
Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the defending champion, retains his MindSweep with a score of 89. Close behind were Calvin with 88 and Sourjo Sengupta with 86.
Category toppers:
- Arts – 12 (Gokul)
- Food & Beverages – 15 (R Jayakanthan)
- Movies & TV – 14 (Govind Grewal, Raamanujan)
- Literature – 12 (Sourjo Sengupta, Hrishikesh Varma, Abhinav Dasgupta)
- Music – 13 (Calvin, Govind )
- Sciences – 13 (Calvin, Sparsh Pradeep Jain)
- Social Sciences – 13 (Jayakanthan, Hrishikesh)
- Sports & Games – 12 (Calvin, Sourjo, Thejaswi Udupa, Baibaswata Jena, Rama Subramanian)
The results of the prelims of MegaWhats 2026, the KQA’s annual inter-city written quiz, are also below. Our congratulations to Rude Mechanicals from Chennai for topping the prelims. Here are the automatic qualifiers: the top 10 city winners and the top 6 non-city winners.
City Winners:
- Rude Mechanicals (Chennai)
- Congrats All (Bengaluru)
- Bombay Ducks (New Delhi)
- Matunga Manram (Mumbai)
- Feni, Vidi, Vici (Goa)
- Swami and Friends (Hyderabad)
- Smells Like Team Spirit (Kolkata)
- Onko Mastors (Guwahati)
- Live to Eat (Coimbatore)
- Sanat, Rishika, Anant (Ahmedabad)
Top 6 non-city winners:
- Aswath, Keshava, Praveen, Hrishi (Bengaluru)
- Peter Panchali (Bengaluru)
- Vast Deference (New Delhi)
- My Way or Samanway (Mumbai)
- Relapsed Quizzaholics (Chennai)
- Nexus Gravitas (Bengaluru)
The KQA invites the winners to participate in the MW semifinals at AsKQAnce on 26 June 2026. Each team is allowed a maximum of two changes per team; please confirm your participation by replying to the email sent. The other qualifiers are listed below. The semifinal line-up will be published closer to AsKQAnce.
Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2027!
| # | Category | Name | Centre | Total | Arts | Food & Beverages | Movies & TV | Literature | Music | Sciences | Social Sciences | Sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | R. Jayakanthan | Chennai | 89 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 8 |
| 2 | Open | Calvin | Bangalore | 88 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 12 |
| 3 | Open | Sourjo Sengupta | Bangalore | 86 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| 4 | Open | Hrishikesh Varma | Bangalore | 80 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 11 |
| 5 | Open | Thejaswi Udupa | Bangalore | 75 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 6 | Open | Shaswat S | Bangalore | 75 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 |
| 7 | Open | Wrichik Basu | Kolkata | 75 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | OPEN | GOKUL | NEW DELHI | 75 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 11 |
| 9 | OPEN | ANNIE SEN GUPTA | GOA | 74 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 8 |
| 10 | Open | Govind Grewal | Mumbai | 72 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | Open | Jaidev Karunakaran | Bangalore | 71 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| 12 | Open | Abhinav Dasgupta | Mumbai | 71 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
| 13 | Open | Praveen VR | Bangalore | 70 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| 14 | Open | Mario Fernando | Chennai | 69 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| 15 | Ladies | Jayashree Mohanka | Kolkata | 68 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| 16 | Open | Keshav Athreya | Bangalore | 67 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| 17 | Open | Baibaswata Jena | Kolkata | 67 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 12 |
| 18 | Open | Raouf | Bangalore | 66 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| 19 | Open | Raamanujan | Ahmedabad | 66 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| 20 | Open | Nikhil Sonde | Mumbai | 66 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
| 21 | OPEN | MANU SUDHAKAR | THRISSUR | 66 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| 22 | OPEN | AYUSH SHARMA | NEW DELHI | 64 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| 23 | College | Sparsh Pradeep Jain | IIT Kanpur | 63 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 10 |
| 24 | Open | Harish | IIIT Hyderabad | 62 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| 25 | Open | Sandipan Goswami | Guwahati | 61 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 26 | Open | Sanat Pai Raikar | Bangalore | 60 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 27 | OPEN | MUHAMMAD MUNAVVIR | NEW DELHI | 60 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| 28 | OPEN | BALAGOPAL | NEW DELHI | 60 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| 29 | Open | Kunal Roy | Mumbai | 58 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| 30 | Open | Krishan Shetty | Bangalore | 57 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
| 31 | Open | Abid Abdulla | Bangalore | 56 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| 32 | College | Sushant S | Bangalore | 53 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| 33 | Open | Anand Sivashankar | Chennai | 53 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| 34 | Open | Kushan Patel | Ahmedabad | 52 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| 35 | Ladies | Kavya Ramasubramanian | Bangalore | 50 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
| 36 | Open | Anirudh Chari | Kolkata | 50 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| 37 | Open | Bala | Mumbai | 50 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| 38 | Open | Swaminathan | Chennai | 49 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 39 | Open | Abhay Vikram | Mumbai | 49 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 40 | Open | Kumar Kirti | Mumbai | 49 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| 41 | Open | Sujay Mathias | Bangalore | 48 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 42 | Open | Abhilash | Bangalore | 48 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 43 | Open | Saarthak Chabra | IIIT Hyderabad | 48 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 44 | Open | Saransh Mohapatra | Kolkata | 48 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| 45 | Open | Bryan Robert | Bangalore | 47 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 46 | Open | Srihari | IIIT Hyderabad | 46 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 47 | OPEN | SANTONAB | NEW DELHI | 46 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| 48 | Open | Aswin Cheerath Anilkumar | Bangalore | 45 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 49 | Open | Abhishek Suhil | IIIT Hyderabad | 45 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 2 |
| 50 | Open | Rama Subramanian | IIIT Hyderabad | 45 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 51 | OPEN | HARIKARTIK RAMESH | NEW DELHI | 45 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| 52 | Open | Mahendra Balu | Bangalore | 43 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| 53 | Open | Krishna Sumanth | Chennai | 43 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| 54 | Open | Rajat Gururaj | Bangalore | 41 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| 55 | College | Gayatri Giri | Kolkata | 41 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| 56 | Ladies | Swetha P | Bangalore | 40 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| 57 | College | Tanish Sharma | Ahmedabad | 40 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 58 | College | Aryaan Basu | Kolkata | 40 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| 59 | OPEN | SOMASISH GHOSH | NEW DELHI | 40 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 60 | OPEN | ANIRUDH SURENDRANATH | THRISSUR | 40 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 61 | OPEN | SHUJOY DUTTA | GOA | 40 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| 62 | OPEN | PRAVEEN JAYARAJ | Coimbatore | 39 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 63 | Open | Ananya B | IIIT Hyderabad | 39 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| 64 | Open | Francis Rodrigues | Mumbai | 39 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| 65 | Open | Anish Roy | Mumbai | 39 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
| 66 | Open | Alok G Singh | Bangalore | 38 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| 67 | Open | Gaurav Haloi | Guwahati | 38 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| 68 | Open | Shayak Chakraborty | Kolkata | 38 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 69 | Open | Anmol | Mumbai | 38 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 70 | Open | Jyotirmoy Bhattacharjee | Bangalore | 37 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 71 | Open | Kapinjal Kishore Sharma | Guwahati | 37 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| 72 | College | Druhan | IIIT Hyderabad | 37 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 73 | Open | Debajyoti Adhikari | Kolkata | 37 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| 74 | OPEN | NIRMALYA BISWAS | SILIGURI | 37 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 75 | Open | D Ghosh | Kolkata | 36 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 76 | Open | Nayan Dhar | Mumbai | 36 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 77 | College | Mohixit Goswami | Guwahati | 35 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 78 | Open | Gautam Ghosh | Kolkata | 35 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| 79 | Open | Sudip Kalyan Dey | Kolkata | 35 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| 80 | Open | Sarvesh Shenoy | Mumbai | 35 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 81 | College | Prabhat | Mumbai | 35 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 |
| 82 | COLLEGE | SHREYASH MALL | NEW DELHI | 35 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 83 | College | Anant Narayan | Ahmedabad | 34 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 84 | Open | Siddharth | Chennai | 34 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 85 | OPEN | ROSHAN KRISHNA | Coimbatore | 34 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 86 | College | Adirtya Das Choudhury | Guwahati | 34 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| 87 | College | Ashutosh Rana | IIT Kanpur | 34 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| 88 | OPEN | SAGAR AGARWAL | SILIGURI | 34 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 89 | LADIES | AASTHA DUA | GOA | 34 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 90 | Open | Shubham | Bangalore | 33 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 91 | OPEN | ASHWATH SIVAKUMAR | Coimbatore | 33 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 92 | College | Md Waqar Moid | Kolkata | 33 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 93 | Open | Anubhav Bhattacharjee | Mumbai | 33 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 94 | Open | Abhijith Bhadran | Mumbai | 33 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 95 | College | Nikilesh GK | Bangalore | 32 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 96 | College | Moksh Dalal | IIT Kanpur | 32 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| 97 | Open | Pranav Chakravarthy | Bangalore | 30 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 98 | Open | Samartha | Bangalore | 30 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 99 | Open | Rahul A | Bangalore | 30 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 100 | Open | Akshay Sreyas | Bangalore | 30 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 101 | Ladies | Anuradha Dharwadkar | Ahmedabad | 30 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 102 | Open | Sharath Jose | Chennai | 30 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 103 | Open | Sneha Ann Reji | IIIT Hyderabad | 30 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 104 | College | Prabhav | IIIT Hyderabad | 30 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 105 | Open | Vinod Jacob Matthew | Bangalore | 29 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| 106 | Open | Nikhil Jha | Bangalore | 29 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 107 | Open | Shivish Shukla | Mumbai | 29 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| 108 | Open | A. Santhanam | Chennai | 28 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 109 | Open | Shravan | Chennai | 28 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 110 | OPEN | NIKHIL BORRA | NEW DELHI | 28 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 111 | LADIES | VIOLA R | GOA | 28 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 112 | Open | Ashwin Kumar KS | IIIT Hyderabad | 27 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| 113 | Open | Ujjwal Nath | India/Mysuru | 27 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 114 | Open | Sudarshan Sundarrajan | Bangalore | 26 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 115 | Open | Berty Ashley | India/Mysuru | 26 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 116 | OPEN | ARAVIND SN | Coimbatore | 25 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 117 | College | Abraham Paul | IIIT Hyderabad | 25 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 118 | OPEN | ABIR SEN | SILIGURI | 25 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 119 | Open | Vani S | India/Mysuru | 24 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 120 | COLLEGE | ARNAV GARG | NEW DELHI | 23 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 121 | OPEN | ADITYA RAGHURAM | NEW DELHI | 23 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 122 | OPEN | ACHINTYA RANJAN | NEW DELHI | 23 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 123 | Ladies | Divya Kumar | Bangalore | 22 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 124 | College | Haaris | IIIT Hyderabad | 22 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 125 | Open | Shiladitya Ganguli | Kolkata | 22 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 126 | OPEN | PAUL GATWARD | GOA | 22 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 127 | Open | Shiva Prabhakaran | Bangalore | 21 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 128 | Open | Sanveer Singh Puri | Ahmedabad | 21 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 129 | College | Akhilan Ramesh | Bangalore | 20 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 130 | Open | Sankar Roy | Kolkata | 20 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 131 | OPEN | PRASHANT SINHA | NEW DELHI | 20 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 132 | Open | Mahadevan | Bangalore | 19 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 133 | College | Varun S | Chennai | 19 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 134 | Open | Swathi PG | Chennai | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| 135 | OPEN | ARYAN RAJ | NEW DELHI | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 136 | College | Rishika Raj | Ahmedabad | 18 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 137 | OPEN | HEMANT KHIMCHI | Coimbatore | 18 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 138 | Open | Omkar B | Mumbai | 17 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 139 | Open | Rohan Umesh | Bangalore | 16 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 140 | Open | Pavan Madhukar Bhat | Bangalore | 15 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 141 | Open | Madhusudan K | Bangalore | 14 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 142 | Open | Ronnie Joseph | Chennai | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 143 | Open | Shreyas Sridhar | Mumbai | 14 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 144 | Open | Pranav Bontadkar | Mumbai | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 145 | Open | Rishabh Jain | Mumbai | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 146 | Open | Rudrapriya Chakraborty | Guwahati | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 147 | OPEN | SARTHAK BATRA | NEW DELHI | 13 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 148 | LADIES | SWATI P | GOA | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 149 | College | Bittu Pandey | IIT Kanpur | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 150 | OPEN | GOKUL H | THRISSUR | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 151 | OPEN | MANASHIKA | Coimbatore | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 152 | College | Aakash Pal | IIT Kanpur | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 153 | Open | Ankit Patil | Mumbai | 10 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 154 | Open | K Kartikeya | IIIT Hyderabad | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 155 | WOMEN | SREEJA DUTTA | NEW DELHI | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 156 | Open | K. Palani | Chennai | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 157 | OPEN | v ANTO | Coimbatore | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 158 | STUDENT | KOYEL SAHA | SILIGURI | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 159 | SCHOOL | PARIKSHIT | Coimbatore | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| # | CITY | TEAM | SCORE | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHENNAI | Rude Mechanicals | 50 | National Winner |
| 2 | BANGALORE | Congrats All | 46.5 | City Winner |
| 3 | NEW DELHI | Bombay Ducks | 45 | City Winner |
| 4 | BANGALORE | Keshava Aswath VR Hrishi | 44 | Q1 |
| 5 | BANGALORE | Peter Panchali | 43.5 | Q2 |
| 6 | NEW DELHI | Vast Deference | 42 | Q3 |
| 7 | MUMBAI | Matunga Manram | 42 | City Winner |
| 8 | GOA | Feni, Vidi, Vici | 41.5 | City Winner |
| 9 | MUMBAI | My Way or Samanway | 40.5 | Q4 |
| 10 | HYDERABAD | Swami and Friends | 39.5 | City Winner |
| 11 | CHENNAI | Relapsed Quizzaholics | 39.5 | Q5 |
| 12 | BANGALORE | Nexus Gravitas | 39 | Q6 |
| 13 | NEW DELHI | Aardvarks | 38.5 | WL1 |
| 14 | KOLKATA | Smells Like Team Spirit | 38.5 | City Winner |
| 15 | NEW DELHI | Dos Zeros Y Ciatres | 38.5 | WL2 |
| 16 | CHENNAI | Quizzers Anonymous | 38 | WL3 |
| 17 | KOLKATA | Banshees of Answerin | 38 | WL4 |
| 18 | CHENNAI | Siva, Vijay, Krishna, Raju | 37 | WL5 |
| 19 | KOLKATA | Hammer and Tongs | 36.5 | |
| 20 | GUWAHATI | Onko Mastors | 35.5 | City Winner |
| 21 | COIMBATORE | Live to Eat | 35 | City Winner |
| 22 | NEW DELHI | Amlan, Munaveer, Vallari, Prateek | 35 | |
| 23 | MUMBAI | Totaled Recall | 34.5 | |
| 24 | BANGALORE | KQAnon | 34 | |
| 25 | BANGALORE | SJU Quizzers | 33 | |
| 26 | BANGALORE | Great Steel Heavy Lifters | 33.5 | |
| 27 | KOLKATA | Joy East Bengal | 32.5 | |
| 28 | BANGALORE | Mohemmadan Blockbusters | 31.5 | |
| 29 | BANGALORE | Tri Vandrumates | 31 | |
| 30 | GUWAHATI | Sankardev Swimming Academy | 31 | |
| 31 | BANGALORE | Pranjal, Kavya, JP, Rahath | 30.5 | |
| 32 | NEW DELHI | Anything Goes | 30.5 | |
| 33 | NEW DELHI | Al Fayeda | 30 | |
| 34 | HYDERABAD | Angan Teda | 29 | |
| 35 | AHMEDABAD | Sanat, Rishika, Anant | 28.5 | City Winner |
| 36 | CHENNAI | Arjun, Akshay, Keshav, Magiyhan | 28 | |
| 37 | KOLKATA | Inmaniacs | 28 | |
| 38 | MUMBAI | Vada Pavar Rangers | 28 | |
| 39 | NEW DELHI | Me, Myself and I | 28 | |
| 40 | BANGALORE | Megawhatifs | 27.5 | |
| 41 | BANGALORE | Nikilesh, Jishnu, Tisha, Akhilan | 27 | |
| 42 | BANGALORE | Manspread Mansplain Manipulate | 27 | |
| 43 | NEW DELHI | Scream Queens | 27 | |
| 44 | COIMBATORE | Questionable Characters | 26 | |
| 45 | GOA | Deewane Mastane Parwane | 26 | |
| 46 | HYDERABAD | Andhadhun | 25.5 | |
| 47 | NEW DELHI | Rishi, Ankit, Shreyash, Avanie | 25.5 | |
| 48 | CHENNAI | Shivaji the Boss | 25 | |
| 49 | KANPUR | Moksh, Sparsh | 24.5 | City Winner |
| 50 | MUMBAI | Nerdsnipe Buddhas | 24.5 | |
| 51 | MUMBAI | Traspassers will Be Teamed up With | 24.5 | |
| 52 | NEW DELHI | Reserve Fixtures | 24 | |
| 53 | MYSORE | 3 & a half Idiots | 23.5 | City Winner |
| 54 | AHMEDABAD | Mimir Tonight | 22.5 | |
| 55 | MUMBAI | Bali ke Bakre | 22.5 | |
| 56 | NEW DELHI | Adda | 22 | |
| 57 | BANGALORE | Four-eign Particles | 21.5 | |
| 58 | BANGALORE | Harsimran, Nikhil | 21 | |
| 59 | HYDERABAD | Fourmidables | 21 | |
| 60 | MUMBAI | Laawaris | 20.5 | |
| 61 | BANGALORE | Just miss | 19.5 | |
| 62 | HYDERABAD | Blur | 19.5 | |
| 63 | BANGALORE | Last Minute | 18.5 | |
| 64 | BANGALORE | Requiem For A Team | 18.5 | |
| 65 | GOA | RSVP | 18.5 | |
| 66 | KOLKATA | A Fistful of Baller | 18.5 | |
| 67 | CHENNAI | Naanga Naalu Per | 18 | |
| 68 | CHENNAI | Swami and friends | 18 | |
| 69 | COIMBATORE | Conquiztadors | 18 | |
| 70 | MYSORE | Mind Numb-ers | 17.5 | |
| 71 | CHENNAI | Floored the test | 17 | |
| 72 | MUMBAI | Anish Aaghaz & Madhur | 17 | |
| 73 | BANGALORE | Dishonourable Mention | 16.5 | |
| 74 | MYSORE | Pradeep Matthew & Co | 15.5 | |
| 75 | GUWAHATI | CI | 15 | |
| 76 | KOLKATA | We Don't Know Nothing | 14 | |
| 77 | BANGALORE | Harry, Yer A Megawizard | 13.5 | |
| 78 | GUWAHATI | NJPD | 13 | |
| 79 | NEW DELHI | Mahanutbandhan | 13 | |
| 80 | CHENNAI | Smudge Fans | 12 | |
| 81 | CHENNAI | ZJZ | 12 | |
| 82 | NEW DELHI | Sarthak, Ayush, Prashant | 10.5 | |
| 83 | GOA | Gang of Four! | 10 | |
| 84 | CHENNAI | Clueless | 9.5 | |
| 85 | CHENNAI | Trisha Vetri Kazhagam | 9.5 | |
| 86 | BANGALORE | The Backbenchers | 9 | |
| 87 | GUWAHATI | Dhurandhar | 9 | |
| 88 | BANGALORE | Team 67 | 6.5 | |
| 89 | GOA | Devki & Tapasya | 5.5 | |
| 90 | COIMBATORE | Kovaipudur Quiz Club | 5 |
MindSweep & MegaWhats 2026 – Proctors
Here is the list of venues and proctors for the quizzes on 17 May
For Bengaluru, contact Hrishi Varma 88841 25047
| # | City | MS proctor | Contact | MW proctor | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmedabad | Ms Mauli | 9924469269 | Aishwarya | 9861338726 |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Venkataraman | 80505 88973 | Debanjan Bose | 97635 60495 |
| 3 | Chennai | Ravi Mundoli | 95000 08907 | Aparna Sriram | 9962009839 |
| 4 | Coimbatore | CR Naveen | 9489347890 | Kabilesh Nataraj | 9345718568 |
| 5 | Goa | Kanchan Gatward | Devika Shetty | 9850884349 | |
| 6 | Guwahati | Bhrigu Talukdar | 70422 2617 | Bhrigu Talukdar | 70422 2617 |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Gregory Paul | 82819 28478 | Gregory Paul | 82819 28478 |
| 8 | Kanpur | Raman Vatsal Misra | 8400074371 | Raman Vatsal Misra | 8400074371 |
| 9 | Kolkata (New Alipore) | Bedbyas Datta | 9830186475 | Bedbyas Datta | 9830186475 |
| Kolkata (Park Circus) (MW only) | NA | NA | Barry Philip Antunis | 9836222698 | |
| 10 | Mumbai | Suvajit Chakraborty | 99308 53913 | Suvajit Chakraborty | 99308 53913 |
| 11 | Mysuru | Anurag G | 94803 83163 | Hemanth | 89042 91479 |
| 12 | New Delhi | Aarohan Dutta | 6371 435 728 | Tarun Mishra | 85740 77727 |
| 13 | Siliguri | Udit Sengupta | 79808 57897 | ||
| 14 | Thrissur (MS Only) | Dr Vijaynath V | 94473 80969 |
Venues – MindSweep and MegaWhats 2026
Here are the venues for MindSweep and MegaWhats 2026.
Please note that Chennai and Mysuru have different venues in the morning and afternoon. Kolkata has two venues, but the one in Park Circus is hosting only MegaWhats. Thrissur will host only MindSweep.
Proctor details will be published separately.
| # | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad University, Room 004, SAS |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queens Road (https://share.google/YDIaISvTwyHkgHpq2) |
| 3 | Chennai MINDSWEEP | Higginbothams, Anna Salai (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tnTbg3HJjf7iZ1mj8) |
| Chennai MEGAWHATS | KIS Cafe, Adyar (https://maps.app.goo.gl/py2PKKkHgg4Dxo778?g_st=ac) | |
| 4 | Coimbatore | KPR IAS Academy, Gandhi Park. |
| 5 | Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau |
| 6 | Guwahati | The Buddha Grove, Bora Service, Guwahati |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Hall D-101, Himalaya Block, IIIT-Hyderabad, Gachibowli |
| 8 | Kanpur | Senate Hall, New Student Activities Centre, IIT Kanpur |
| 9 | Kolkata (New Alipore) | The 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. |
| Kolkata (Park Circus) (ONLY MEGAWHATS) | Mother Teresa Hall, Church of Christ the King, 5, Syed Amir Ali Ave, Park Circus, Kolkata - 700017. |
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| 10 | Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar |
| 11 | Mysuru MINDSWEEP | The Organic Cafe & Bakehouse 218, 9th Cross Rd, Gokulam 3rd Stage, Gokulam, Mysuru, Karnataka 570002 |
| Mysuru MEGAWHATS | Roy's Cafe 38, 2, Gokulam Main Rd, Gokulam 1st Stage, Vani Vilas Mohalla, Mysuru, Karnataka 570002 | |
| 12 | New Delhi | IIT Delhi |
| 13 | Siliguri | Krishnalaya Apartment, College Para, Siliguri |
| 14 | Thrissur (MINDSWEEP only) | Govt. Engineering College |
KQA Events – May 2026
Below is the KQA Schedule for May. Individual events will be announced separately on the WhatsApp groups and Instagram.
MindSweep & MegaWhats 2026
The KQA is pleased to announce the return of its annual multi-city written open quizzing championships, Mindsweep and Megawhats.
Both quizzes will be conducted on Sunday, 17th May, 2026 in various cities.
Mindsweep, the international solo quizzing championship, is a written quiz for solo participants that will require takers to answer around 200 questions in two back-to-back sessions of 75 min each. The quiz will commence at 10.30 AM IST.
Registration form and further details are here.
Megawhats, the national team quizzing championship, is a written quiz for teams of up to four that will commence at 3.30 PM IST. Do note that the top winners of Megawhats will also be invited to take part in the Megawhats National Final on June 26 at AsKQAnce 2026.
Registration form and further details are here.
Venue details for each city will be notified soon.
If your location isn’t listed and you would like your city to conduct Mindsweep and Megawhats, or for any clarifications, please write to Hrishi Varma at kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
The more the merrier, and the only reason your city is not yet on the list is that the organising details have not yet been ironed out with the local quiz club, so lean on them and tell them to get their act together
Prior registration is required for both quizzes, so please register at the earliest using the links mentioned above, and do spread the word.
MegaWhats 2025 – RESULTS & RANKINGS
Here are the results of the prelims of MegaWhats 2025, the KQA’s annual inter-city written quiz. The top ten city winners are invited to participate in the MW semifinals at AsKQAnce on 27 June 2025.
Each team is allowed a maximum of two changes per team. If a city winner drops out, the next team to qualify will NOT be the second highest scoring team in that city, but the highest scoring team overall that has not qualified.
Our congratulations to the imaginatively named ‘Prasad’ from Mumbai for topping the prelims.
The other qualifiers are listed below. The semifinal line-up will be published closer to AsKQAnce.
Top ten city winners:
- Prasad – Mumbai – 46.5
- Peter Panchali – Bangalore – 45.5
- Rude Mechanicals – Chennai – 42
- Veni Vidi Went to Koshys – Pune – 41.5
- Swami and Friends – Hyderabad – 38.5
- Rhino Wanderers – Guwahati – 35.5
- Vetes Vulpes – Delhi -35.5
- Hammer and Tongs – Kolkata – 35
- Sheikh Yerbouti – Dubai – 34.5
- A Four Body Problem – Thiruvananthapuram – 33.5
Top 6 non-City qualifiers
- Matunga Manram – Mumbai – 44.5
- CIDs from Kerala – Bangalore – 41
- Congrats All – Bangalore – 40
- Aardvarking Quizzers – Bangalore – 39.5
- Kya Farak Padta Hai – Mumbai -35.5
- QA – Chennai – 35
Waitlist:
- Titash Sreeradh Sanat Jaidev – Bangalore – 34.5
- Zero Gravitas – Bangalore – 34.5
- Debashree Venky Raju Navin – Bangalore – 34
| # | Team | City | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prasad | Mumbai | 46.5 |
| 2 | Peter Panchali | Bangalore | 45.5 |
| 3 | Matunga Manram | Mumbai | 44.5 |
| 4 | Rude Mechanicals | Chennai | 42 |
| 5 | Veni Vidi Went to Koshys | Pune | 41.5 |
| 6 | CIDs from Kerala | Bangalore | 41 |
| 7 | Congrats All | Bangalore | 40 |
| 8 | Aardvarking Quizzers | Bangalore | 39.5 |
| 9 | Swami and Friends | Hyderabad | 38.5 |
| 10 | Rhino Wanderers | Guwahati | 35.5 |
| 11 | Vetes Vulpes | Delhi | 35.5 |
| 12 | Hammer and Tongs | Kolkata | 35 |
| 13 | Kya Farak Padta Hai | Mumbai | 35.5 |
| 14 | QA | Chennai | 35 |
| 15 | Sheikh Yerbouti | Dubai | 34.5 |
| 16 | Titash Sreeradh Sanat Jaidev | Bangalore | 34.5 |
| 17 | Zero Gravitas | Bangalore | 34.5 |
| 18 | Debashree Venky Raju Navin | Bangalore | 34 |
| 19 | A Four Body Problem | Trivandrum | 33.5 |
| 20 | We Like Our Answer Better | Bangalore | 33.5 |
| 21 | Inmaniacs | Kolkata | 33 |
| 22 | SJU Quizzers | Bangalore | 32.5 |
| 23 | SADR | Hyderabad | 32.5 |
| 24 | Best Kind of KLPD | Kolkata | 32 |
| 25 | Joy East Bengal | Pune | 32 |
| 26 | Bala Piyush Sumantra Debanjan | Delhi | 31.5 |
| 27 | Memory Blank | Chennai | 31.5 |
| 28 | KC and the Sunshine Boys | Goa | 30.5 |
| 29 | Nine Inch Anils | Delhi | 30.5 |
| 30 | 4 Non Blondes | Mumbai | 30.5 |
| 31 | Devayani Rahul Nishant Maitrey | Bangalore | 29 |
| 32 | String Quartet | Hyderabad | 28.5 |
| 33 | Cute Purple Unicorns | Chennai | 28 |
| 34 | Hari Roshan | Coimbatore | 27 |
| 35 | The Kaun Men | Goa | 27.5 |
| 36 | Lone Wolf No Cub | Delhi | 27.5 |
| 37 | Anuradha Sanveer Hasit Parth | Ahmedabad | 26.5 |
| 38 | Preyoshi Tanmay Ssagnik Aniruddha | Mumbai | 26.5 |
| 39 | Ocean Boilers | Bangalore | 26.5 |
| 40 | Arvind Anirvan Guna Prabhat | Chennai | 26 |
| 41 | Champak Magazine Memorial Collective | Mumbai | 26 |
| 42 | Jheng Quiz Khan | Guwahati | 26 |
| 43 | Thunderbolts | Bangalore | 25.5 |
| 44 | Pulkit Avinash Francis Aabhas | Mumbai | 25.5 |
| 45 | Ben Stokes | Bangalore | 25 |
| 46 | Groove Like Dhruv | Kolkata | 24 |
| 47 | Four Horsemen | Trivandrum | 24 |
| 48 | 6 Dogs | Bangalore | 23.5 |
| 49 | Onion Sell One | Mumbai | 23.5 |
| 50 | Insert Clever Team Name Here | Chennai | 22.5 |
| 51 | 3 Hours from Udupi | Goa | 22 |
| 52 | Going Through a Faiz | Delhi | 22 |
| 53 | Rishi Yuvraj Shashwat Chaitanya | Delhi | 21.5 |
| 54 | Rise of the Planet of the Babes | Goa | 21 |
| 55 | Again and Again | Kolkata | 21 |
| 56 | Shaheen Mit Abhilash Shakya | Delhi | 20.5 |
| 57 | Questionable Characters | Coimbatore | 20.5 |
| 58 | Utkarsh Debjit Anupriy | Delhi | 20 |
| 59 | Adarsh Atharv Parth | Delhi | 20 |
| 60 | Jeevesh Sharat Satya | Coimbatore | 19.5 |
| 61 | Waiting for Double Digits | Thrissur | 19 |
| 62 | Arunabh Ramish Vagish Abhishek | Delhi | 19 |
| 63 | RV Pesticides | Bangalore | 18 |
| 64 | D'Fourse | Delhi | 17.5 |
| 65 | Scibabas | Hyderabad | 17 |
| 66 | Raja Priya Rajdeep Ajay | Chennai | 17 |
| 67 | 2 Quiz 2 Curious | Bangalore | 16 |
| 68 | Queen's Defeat | Bangalore | 16 |
| 69 | Roycket | Bangalore | 15.5 |
| 70 | Prajwal Kavya | Bangalore | 15.5 |
| 71 | Julius Cheeser | Delhi | 15.5 |
| 72 | Mum's the Word | Kolkata | 14.5 |
| 73 | Christopher Umasankari | Thrissur | 13 |
| 74 | Samir Anton | Pune | 12.5 |
| 75 | Pranavi | Chennai | 12 |
| 76 | Quiz Khalifa | Dubai | 11.5 |
| 77 | Rishika Advik | Ahmedabad | 10.5 |
| 78 | Okhla PC Quiz Club | Delhi | 10.5 |
| 79 | Mohit Karthik | Delhi | 10.5 |
| 80 | Wankers | Delhi | 10 |
| 81 | Saywhatt | Bangalore | 10 |
| 82 | Terrible 3 | Bangalore | 9.5 |
| 83 | Harsh Mehta | Hyderabad | 2 |
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.
VENUES – MindSweep & MegaWhats 2025
Here are the venues for Sunday’s doubleheader. Please note that Mindsweep and Megawhats have separate venues in Kolkata.
The Bangalore venue, as always, is the Institution of Agricultural Technologists on Queens Road. (Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3da7uEjZL3fGPwT49)
| City | Venue | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | Room 004, Ahmedabad University | 88492 09809 |
| Bengaluru | Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road. | 80505 8897 |
| Chennai | PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore | 82977 33676 |
| Coimbatore | Brookefields | 9843970112 |
| Delhi | IIIT Delhi, (C01, Old Academic Block) (nearest metro station: Govindpuri) (https://g.co/kgs/qZwAcn1 ) | 89105 46353 |
| Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau. | 98901 41715 |
| Guwahati | NERIM, Jayanagar, Guwahati | 96781 29626/ 70422 2617 |
| Hyderabad | 2nd Floor, Vibrant Living, Jubilee Hills (https://maps.app.goo.gl/kAHHQg66jUSvJNyo8) | 75698 69324 |
| Kolkata (for MS) | The 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 |
| Kolkata (for MW) | Mother Teresa Hall, Church of Christ the King, 5, Syed Amir Ali Ave, Park Circus, Kolkata - 700017. | 98362 22698 |
| Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar | 99308 53913 |
| Pune | Goethe Institut/Max Muller Bhavan, 14/3-B, Boat Club Rd, Sangamvadi | 94212 77399 |
| Singapore | Function Room, Sky Eleven, Thomson Lane, Singapore 297725 | +65 8208 9851 |
| Thrissur | Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur | 9447380969 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | The Reading Room, Cheruvaikal, Sreekaryam | 75108 71143 |
| Visakhapatnam | Neemyard Classes, Akkayyapalem, near Maharani Parlour, Visakhapatnam. (https://maps.app.goo.gl/R62bGC8p5UnJjL2Y9) | 90046 41925 |
