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.

July 2, 2018 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Lone Wolf Quizzes, Mahaquizzer, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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.

June 26, 2018 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mahaquizzer, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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!

May 29, 2018 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Lone Wolf Quizzes, Mahaquizzer, Mega-Whats, News, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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.

February 28, 2018 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mahaquizzer, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

asKQAnce 2017 Day 1 – Megawhats megafinals results

Here are the results of the Megawhats megafinals that concluded Day 1 of asKQAnce.

I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 270 points

II – QED (Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Swaminathan G, Gopal Kidao) – 245 points (won the tiebreak for the second place)

III – BMQJ (Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar, Bhargava EM) – 245 points

IV – Travelling Pillsburies (Rajiv Rai, Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tiwari) – 230 points

V – Aardvarks (Rahul Kottalgi, Sreshth Shah, Amrit P Chetia, Aryapriya Ganguly) – 223 points

VI – Remembrance of Things Fast (Kiran Vijaykumar, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam) – 181 points

VII – Hammer and Tongs (Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) – 170 points

VIII – Forecasting Couch (Suresh Ramasubramanian, Nishanth Raman, Ajay Parasuraman, Keshav Atreya) – 135 points

Congratulations to all!

June 30, 2017 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Results | Leave a Comment

asKQAnce 2015 – Schedule

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be celebrating its 32nd anniversary this year and is hosting asKQAnce – a three-day festival of quizzing from Friday to Sunday, June 26 to 28, 2015. All the quizzes will be held at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists on Queen’s Road. This is the schedule:

Friday, June 26
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 1 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
3:15 PM to 4:45 PM – MegaWhats Semi Final 2 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
5:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Cannabis Indica – the India Quiz by Navin Rajaram and Hrishikesh Varma

Saturday, June 27
9:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Kibitz Simple – the Sports Quiz by Sohan Maheshwar, Manish Achuth and Alagarsamy AP
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM – MegaWhats National Finals by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar
4:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Son Of Lumiere – the Films Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan and Anustup Datta

Sunday, June 28
10 AM to 1:30 PM – Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venky Srinivasan
2:30 PM to 6:30 PM – Sesame – the Open General Quiz by Mitesh Agarwal and Thejaswi Udupa (with breaks for hi-tea and prize distribution for Mahaquizzer/MegaWhats)

The time taken from IAT to the airport is about 75 minutes and the Cantonment railway station is only five minutes away. Please plan your return trip accordingly.

Look forward to seeing all of you at asKQAnce 2015.

May 24, 2015 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2015 Results

A total of 129 teams from 16 centres in India and Dubai wrote Mega-Whats 2015. These are the toppers in each category:

Open: QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal) from Chennai – 86

College: The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay) from Delhi – 60

School: Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh) & Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya), both from Bangalore – 17

These are all the scores after re-correction, with city winners in each category indicated. As was done last year, the top 10 city winners and remaining 6 top scores qualify for the finals. In case any teams drop out, their spots will be filled by the remaining highest team overall. Tie-breaks were resolved by sudden death from the first question.

Our heartfelt thanks to all the city quiz associations and proctors who helped us hold Mega-Whats this year.

Search:

No.	Teams	City	Score	Category
1	QED (Samanth, Swami, JK, Gopal)	Chennai	86	Open - City Winner (Q)
2	Insignificant Others (Sankhya, Sreeram, Vijay Sarathi, Ramanan)	Chennai	79	Open (Q)
3	We Are Like This Wonly (Bhargava, Movin, Anustup, Udupa)	Bangalore	77	Open - City Winner (Q)
4	Memory Bank (Anil, Ravi, Dr. Jayakumar, Mrs. Jayakumar)	Chennai	71	Open (Q)
5	Matunga Manram (Vinoo Sanjay, Balakrishnan S, Nikhil Sonde, Govind Grewal)	Mumbai	71	Open - City Winner (Q)
6	Latabai ki Kasam (Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Anil K.)	Mumbai	70	Open (Q)
7	Mitesh (solo) (Mitesh, Mitesh II, Mitesh III, I need no fourth)	Bangalore	69	Open (Q)
8	Swami and Friends (Alagar Samy, Krishnamurthi J, Lakshmi J, Mustafa Hashmi)	Hyderabad	67	Open - City Winner (Q)
9	Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, A. Guha, S. Guha)	Kolkata	66	Open - City Winner (Q)
10	Ingit Bergman (Ingit, Shubhankar G., Anannya Deb, Aniket Khasgiwale)	Mumbai	65	Open (Q)
11	CIDs From Kerala (Captain, VR, Buffalo, Jithin)	Bangalore	64	Open (Q)
12	Aardvarks (Avinash Mudaliar, Ramya M., Rahul Kottalgi, Arjo Ganguly)	Mumbai	64	Open
13	Rebels Without A Quiz	Chennai	62	Open
14	Krishnamurthi G, Ramkey V, Alok M and Shafeek	Dubai	61	Open - City Winner (Q)
15	The Fake is a Lie (Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh, Anagh Mukherjee, Apratim Mukhopadhyay)	Delhi	60	Open/College - City Winner (Q)
16	Delhi Ke Thugs (Dr. Bhattacharya, Kunal Malhotra, P. Srikant, Shresth Shah)	Delhi	59	Open
16	Surreal and Fluoroscent (Salil Bijur, Aadisht Khanna, Ajay Parasuraman, Ashwath V)	Delhi	59	Open
16	Sober, High, Higher and Aiyer (Rohit Rao, Anand Aiyer, Siddarth Pai, Jayadev Bhaskaran)	Bangalore	59	Open
16	Mega WTF (Suraj Menon, Aditya Gadre, Srirang Raddi, Kunal S)	Pune	59	Open - City Winner (Q)
20	Concious Recoupling (Ajay Jaisinghani, Tanmay Prusty, Preyoshi Ganguly, Siddharth Sen)	Delhi	58	Open
20	ICNH (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Jaidev, Manu Sudhakar)	Thrissur	58	Open - City Winner (Q)
22	Petit Bourgeois (Sahitha, Roshith, Vijay)	Delhi	56	Open
23	SJC Quizzers (Arul Mani, Sachin, Nagaratna, Sripradha)	Bangalore	55	Open
23	Collected Works of Nexus Baggage (Keshava Guha, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan, Navin Rajaram)	Bangalore	55	Open
25	The Djinns in Jeans (Tothagata C, Vinod Krishnan, Abhinav K, Shreekanth Reddy)	Delhi	52	Open
26	Deviprasad, Balaji, Arun, Raju	Chennai	51	Open
26	Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh, Abhijit Banerjee, Bhaskar Datta, Anirudh Chari)	Kolkata	51	Open
28	Forecasting Couch (SRS, Logik, Anand, Keshav)	Bangalore	50	Open
29	Suvajit C., Prithwish, Karthik Ganesh, Shamika M.	Mumbai	49	Open
30	Raunaq, Jonathan, Sumer and Sandeepan	Dubai	48	Open
31	Idivettum Pemariyum (Nilima Rajdev, Justin T, Ashwin Sudhir, Niranjan Sudhir)	Trivandrum	47	Open - City Winner (Q)
32	Feni Vidi Vici Grouchy (Nitish Wagle, Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, Aniruddha Sengupta)	Panjim	47	Open - City Winner
33	Tirupur Tughlaqs (Yogeesh Pai, Surya, Indumathi, C.R. Naveen)	Coimbatore	46	Open - City Winner
33	8.5 (Sachin, Varun, Adjitya, Manish)	Bangalore	46	Open
35	Megha Vats (Achyuth, Pranjal, Murty)	Delhi	45	Open
36	Matric Fail Inc (Bhrigu Talukdar, Akshay Seal, Pranami Tamuli, Amrit Pritam Chetia)	Guwahati	44	Open - City Winner
37	Vanar Sena (Sasidhar, Ritvik, Niyam, Keshav)	Bangalore	43	College - City Winner
38	The Zero Whats (Chirag, Chetan, Abhay, Rahul)	Bangalore	42	Open
39	Kasturiba Nagar Kasamusa	Chennai	41	Open
39	We Are From IIN	Chennai	41	College - City Winner
41	4 Monks Without a Straw (Lathish, Debji, Rahul, Nishant)	Bangalore	40	Open
41	Bannerghatta Jammers (Abhilash, Debashish, Jayaprakash, Sreyashi)	Bangalore	40	Open
41	Soda Bottle Opener Wallahs (Prasanna, Jose, Shilpa, Priyambad)	Hyderabad	40	Open
44	Booze is the Cigaratte of Our Energy (Abhinav Dhar, Jyoti Prakash Panda, Saransh Mohapatra, Sheikh Wasim Sajjad)	Bhubaneswar	39	Open - City Winner
45	Nishant, Maitrey, Karthik	Bangalore	38	Open
45	Trivially Challenged (Arko Ganguli, Mayank Majumdar, Shayak Chakraborty, Somashish Ghosh)	Kolkata	38	Open
47	Abhijeet, Rithwik, Rushabh, Sreeram	Thrissur	37	Open
48	Abijit, Abid, Kunal, Siddhanth	Chennai	36	College
49	Deplorable (Pankaj Pukhan, Deepak Padmkumar, Garima Paul, Udita Gaurav)	Delhi	35	Open
49	Beer View Mirror (Vijay, Avijeet, Harsimran, Shiva)	Bangalore	35	Open
49	Sex and the Old City (Mithilesh.G, Vishal.B, Bharadwaj P., Shreyas.D)	Hyderabad	35	Open
49	Atul, Abhishikth, Vamsi, Krishan	Hyderabad	35	Open
53	Undecided (Shyama, Ananya, Allan, Supreeth)	Bangalore	33	Open
54	Sana, Vinod, Varun, Ramesh	Chennai	32	Open
54	Srisha, Vishnu	Bangalore	32	Open
56	Some Real Devotees of Kinetic Energies (Debashish, Sarbajit, Devarshi, SRD)	Kolkata	31	Open
57	Will Manikam Make It (Katik M, Atishay S, Aditya, Vashistha)	Delhi	30	Open
57	Keshy Venks is Mass	Chennai	30	Open
57	NLSIU (Parth, Jeydev, Abhishek, Osho)	Bangalore	30	College
57	Why So Studious? (Pranav, Nanjundeshwara, Hans George, Moshir Harsh)	Bangalore	30	College
61	Balwant Rai ke Kutte (Shalim, Kapinjal, Jitaditya)	Delhi	29	Open
61	Two Night Stand (Sameer Dharur, Murtuza Hashmi, Lokesh Kaza, Sukruth Koundinya)	Hyderabad	29	College - City Winner
61	Gokul, Arnold, Khagendra	Pune	29	Open
64	Girish, Sulagna, Utkarsh	Bangalore	28	Open
64	Old Monks (Dr. Nirmal Joy, Dr. Alby John, Er. Jose Thomas, Er. Munidarshan)	Trivandrum	28	Open
64	Nakul H., Subin Gafoor, Vishnu.S. Kumar	Thrissur	28	College - City Winner
67	Abhishek Veeraraghavan, Rama Subramanian and Rahul Khatri	Mysore	27	Open/College - City Winner
67	Devang Ghia, Sumeet Pai, Suresh Rao	Mumbai	27	Open
67	Maximus Minimus (Amrit Sharma, Nayan Medhi, Jyotishsman Gogoi, Souvik Bhattacharjee)	Guwahati	27	Open.
67	Eleventh Hour (Satwik Raut, Sampad Pattanaik, Baibaswata)	Bhubaneswar	27	Open
71	Vivin K, Shreyas and Shreyas	Dubai	26	Open
71	Totally Blank	Chennai	26	Open
73	Adda Quiz (Subhasish Dutta, Anubhav Joshi, Abhishek Patiri, Ashutosh Das)	Tezpur	25	Open/College - City Winner
73	Sheyal Pandits (Shinjon Chatterjee, Dipanjan Pal, Debtanu Sen, Arnab Auddy)	Kolkata	25	College - City Winner
75	Murali, Rajesh Sharma, Rajesh Panicker and Pulin	Dubai	24	Open
76	Shantanu G, Sampuran, Kartik	Pune	23	College - City Winner
77	Mega-Whatevers (Srijit Kumar, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Vishwanath Rajan, Ajey Patil)	Panjim	22	Open
77	X Factor From Barak Valley (Dipankar Sharma, Aveek Baruah, Amitabh Sharma)	Guwahati	22	College - City Winner
79	Ittiam (Venkatramana, Umang, Deepshika)	Bangalore	21	Open
79	Whatever!! (Adhithyan, Tharunya, Jyothishraj)	Bangalore	21	College
81	Wein Chun (Santhosh, Ashwin, Annirudh, Vishnu)	Coimbatore	20	College - City Winner
81	Baba Black Sheep (Sachin B)	Delhi	20	Open
81	Team 9 From Outer Space (Ravi, Lochan, Rahul, Itishree)	Bangalore	20	Open
81	4 Chan Loka (Aditya, Deven, Omkar, Kaustubh)	Pune	20	Open
81	The M.A.S.K. (Midhun S, Ashish John, Sudev N.M., Ibrahim Khaleel)	Thrissur	20	College
86	Praneet, Ausmita	Chennai	19	Open
87	Aldona Apples (Kanchan Gatward, Kv Gouthami, Beverly Mendonca, Viola Rodrigues)	Panjim	18	Open
87	Subzero (N.Shravya, S. Kaustubh, Tushant, V.Rahul)	Hyderabad	18	College
87	Cowboys from Chennai (Kaushik T G, Goutham S.)	Mumbai	18	Open
90	Les Quizerables (Shrey, Vignesh)	Bangalore	17	School - City Winner
90	Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Akhil Nori, Gaurang, Akhil Siddharth, Shaurya)	Bangalore	17	School - City Winner
90	Kaatu Freakz (Roshan Zain, Arun S, Aravind M J, Athul Ajay)	Trivandrum	17	College - City Winner
90	Ashwini’s Boys (Paul Gatward, Ashwini Patil, Anant Prabhu, Linus)	Panjim	17	Open
90	Mega Pots (Sahil, Alok, Saswat, Prateik)	Pune	17	Open
95	MYZORNIS (Sandipan Goswami, Amlan Phukan, Padmanav Barua, Saurav Das)	Guwahati	16	College.
95	Micro-Whats (Toyad Pattanaik, Prateek Mishra, Soumya R. Mohanty, Adarsh K. Mohapatra)	Bhubaneswar	16	School - City Winner
97	We Have To Give Now Only? (Tanay Ravi, Aabharan H)	Bangalore	15	School
97	12/3 Berley Burlians (Deepayan, Abhijit, Archit, Sanket Tripathy)	Bhubaneswar	15	College - City Winner
97	ACubed+D (Anoop Joby, Aravind Anil, Denita Mendez, Abdul Vahid P.A.)	Thrissur	15	College
100	Vetla Vettiya Irukom (Harikrishna, Sathya Narayanan, Aravind, Surya Narayanan P	Coimbatore	14	College
100	The Piggs Bosons (Atharva, Chaitanya, Kaivalya Karkare, Ashwin Mascarenhas)	Panjim	14	School - City Winner
100	Docsons (Binu Raju George, Serin, Unnikrishnan Menon)	Thrissur	14	Open
103	M Karthikeyan, Prasath PR, Poorani, Gayatri	Coimbatore	13	College
103	Ninety-Four (Ajith John Joshua, Saloni, Manish Agarwal)	Delhi	13	Open
103	Invictus (Shashank, Rutvik)	Bangalore	13	School
103	Bribed the Quiz Master (Animesh Swain, Soham Panda, Anurag Bhol, Mukti Pradhan)	Bhubaneswar	13	Open
103	The Infernos (Aaditya R, Aman)	Thrissur	13	College
108	Ooh La La Malala	Chennai	12	School - City Winner
108	Amateur Mature (Sushant, Anish, Abhishek)	Bangalore	12	Open
108	Bajaunga Again (Akshat, Pranav, Surya, Anshuman)	Bhubaneswar	12	School
111	Quizards (Anand S Pillay, Akshay B Vinayak, Zaman S Khan, Vishakh Valiathan	Trivandrum	11	College
111	Rambo (Sridhar)	Trivandrum	11	Open
111	Titans (Deepak Nandakumar, Ashlyn Tom, Kishor S, Akhil O. Asok)	Thrissur	11	College
114	Qzer's (Surat S, Nithyaselvan R, Dhilip R, Vivek Kannai K)	Coimbatore	10	College
114	Jal Jazeera (Sujit J Patil, Ashish Negi)	Delhi	10	College
114	Two and Two More Men (Hassan, Amaresh Sarangi, K. Abhisek, N.S. Swarup)	Bhubaneswar	10	College
114	Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Nishant, Prajwal)	Pune	10	Open
118	Whiskypedia	Chennai	9	College
118	Abhijit S Gupta, Sridhar Sashank, Tejas Joshi	Bangalore	9	College
118	The Quizaders of Arul Mani - Land (Saishyam, Arjun, Rahul, Malavika)	Bangalore	9	School
118	Sai Karthik, Siddharth, Keshava, Sunil Kumar	Hyderabad	9	Open
118	Vertigo (Jishnu, Maya, Vishnu, Kannan A.)	Thrissur	9	College
123	The Invincibles	Chennai	8	Open
123	Yolo, Who Go Solo! (Karthik, Jibran, Siddarth)	Bangalore	8	College
123	Erudite Challenge (Spandan Dash, Anwesh Das, Ronisha Das)	Bhubaneswar	8	School
126		Tezpur	7	College
127	Spartans (Kishore, Akash, Vishnu, Aravind)	Coimbatore	3	Open
128	Vidhya Niketan Public School (Ashwath Sibi, Naresh K, Sivnarayan)	Coimbatore	2	School - City Winner
129	Youngster (Antony A. Jaison & co)	Thrissur	1	School - City Winner

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May 21, 2015 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

ASKQANCE 2014

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be celebrating its 31st anniversary this year. We will be hosting a series of quizzes as part of ASKQANCE 2014 – a 2.5 day festival of open quizzes.

All quizzes will be held at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday, June 27, 2014

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Megawhats Semi Finals 1 by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar – line-up to be announced in a couple of weeks

3:15 to 4:45 PM – Megawhats Semi Finals 2 – line-up to be announced in a couple of weeks

5:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Capital Punishment – the Social Sciences Quiz by Alagarsamy AP and Rajagopal PS – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less

Saturday, June 28, 2014

9:15 AM to 12:45 PM – Flying Dutchmen – the Sports and Travel Quiz by Sohan Maheshwar and Venkatesh Srinivasan – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less

1:45 PM to 4:00 PM – Megawhats National Finals

4:15 PM to 9:30 PM – Son of Lumiere – the Films Quiz by Anustup Datta and Santosh Swaminathan – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less

Sunday, June 29, 2014

9:15 AM to 12:45 PM – Collected Works – the Arts Quiz by Vivek Karthikeyan and Hrishikesh Varma – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Newton’s Cradle – the Science and Technology Quiz by Navin Rajaram – Written Quiz for teams of 2 or less – Prizes for the Top 3 teams

3:15 PM to 7:30 PM – Sesame – the Open General Quiz by Thejaswi Udupa and Mitesh Agarwal – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – Teams of 4 or less.

We will also be giving out the trophies for the winner of the 30th Anniversary Mahaquizzer edition held in Dec 2013 and the National Champion of Megawhats 2014 between the prelims and the finals of Sesame. There will also be a KQA-hosted high-tea for all participating teams.

All quizzes will carry an entry fee of Rs 100/team, except for school teams. Prizes for all finalists in all the quizzes. Look forward to seeing all of you in June!

May 26, 2014 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2014 – All India Results

A total of 130 teams from 12 centres across India took Mega-Whats 2014. These are the toppers in each category:

Open: MetaQuizziks (Borun, Santosh, Ashwin, Mitesh) from Bangalore – 87

College: Kasturba Nagar Kasamusa (Jayadev, Swaroop, Anand, Siddharth) from Chennai – 59

School: The Good For Nothings (Anand PS, Saeel Pai, R Samyak, Vedang Acharya) from Panjim – 29

These are all the scores, with city winners in each category indicated. The top 10 city winners and remaining 6 top scores qualify for the finals.

Not to be forgotten, our heartfelt thanks to all the city quiz associations that helped us hold Mega-Whats this year.

The Dubai quiz club also arranged to take Mega-Whats 2014 over their weekend, scores have been added separately below.

Search:

No.	Team Name	City	Score	Category
1	MetaQuizziks (Borun, Santosh, Ashwin, Mitesh)	Bangalore	87	Open (City Winner)
2	QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal, Jayakanthan)	Chennai	81	Open (City Winner)
3	Insignificant Others (Sankhya, Sreeram, Vijay, Ramanan)	Chennai	80	Open (Qualified)
	We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup, Thejaswi, Ochintya, Sumanth)	Bangalore	80	Open (Qualified)
5	Aardvarks (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Aryapriya, Avinash, Ramya)	Pune	72	Open (City Winner)
	Hastily Put Together (Vikram Joshi, Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu and Bala)	Mumbai	72	Open (City Winner)
7	Mega-WTF (Gadre, Ramanand, Suraj, Kunal)	Pune	70	Open (Qualified)
8	Mustafa (Debashree, Lahar, Vijay, Vinod)	Bangalore	67	Open (Qualified)
9	Feni Vedi Vici and return of VG (Vidyadhar Gadgil, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, Annie Sen Gupta)	Panjim	66	Open (City Winner)
	Memory Bank (Saranya, Navin, Pravin, Anil)	Chennai	66	Open (Qualified)
	Forecasting Couch (Keshav, Ajay, Sumeer, SRS)	Bangalore	66	Open (Qualified)
12	Samy, Mamy, Barmy & Army (Alagar, Lakshmi, Bhargava, Khadiya)	Hyderabad	65	Open (City Winner)
13	Hammer and Tongs (Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani)	Kolkata	61	Open (City Winner)
	Super Mario & Bros (Rohit, Mario, Pranav, Sudharshan)	Chennai	61	Open
15	Voulez-Vous Quizzer Avec Moi? (Annanya Deb, Shubhankar Gokhale, S. Venkatraghavan, Abhinav Dasgupta)	Mumbai	60	Open
	Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh, Abhijit Banerjee, Sudip Kalyan Roy, Anirudh Chari)	Kolkata	60	Open
	CIDs From Kerala (Captain, VR, Jithin, Hrishi)	Bangalore	60	Open
18	Kasturba Nagar Kasamusa (Jayadev, Swaroop, Anand, Siddharth)	Chennai	59	College (All-India College winner)
19	Swalpa Adjust Maadi (Balaji, Devi Prasad, Rajagopal, Arun)	Chennai	56	Open
20	We Made It (Abhishek Kapoor, Apratim Mukhopadhyay, Jyotesh Singh, Prateek Vijayvargia)	Delhi	55	Open & College (City Winner)
	Collected Works of Nexus Baggage (Venky, JK, Navin, Kivi)	Bangalore	55	Open
22	SJC Quizzers (Arul, Mollika,Sripradha)	Bangalore	54	Open
23	Family and Friend (Kaushik Chatterjee, Suchishree Chatterjee, Shaayak Chatterjee, Rushi Anandan)	Mumbai	53	Open
	Quiz Zara Zara (Dr. S. Bhatta, Priyamvada, Kazi, Amrit)	Delhi	53	Open
25	Salil, Maitreya, Nishanth, Abhishek	Bangalore	52	Open
26	ICNH (Manu Sudhakar, Anil Raghavan)	Thrissur	50	Open (City Winner)
	Pilanian Eruption (Srisha, Utsab, KC, Eswar)	Pune	50	Open
	PMWP - Pussy Money Weed Peace (Mustafa Hashmi, Aditya Vikram, Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil)	Hyderabad	50	Open
	Tughluq (Udatta, Ajay, Ninad, Abhinav)	Delhi	50	Open
	Samaadhi's Minions (Murthy, Achyut Sanjay, Krittika Adhikary, Kiran)	Delhi	50	Open
31	Just In Time (Arun, Abhijit, Rushabh, Ashok)	Thrissur	48	Open
32	Undappori (Abid, Ravi, Roshith)	Mumbai	47	Open
	NITK (Ashwin, Pranav, Karthik, Soumya)	Bangalore	47	College (City Winner)
34	Quad Core Quizzers (Amit Pandya, Debashish, Karthik Ganesh, Sachin)	Mumbai	46	Open
35	Rag Tag (Ameya Samant, Suresh Kumar, Nikhil Sonde, Devang Ghia)	Mumbai	45	Open
	In It To Win It (Anjan, Lokeshwaran, Kartik, Arjun Murali)	Coimbatore	45	Open (City Winner)
37	Psychoceramics (Kshitij, Safal, Anurakshat, Maitreyi)	Pune	44	Open
	Every Doctor Has His Day (Dr. Sudhir Pai, Ajit V Rao, Dr. Mathew David, Anirudh)	Bangalore	44	Open
39	Post Quiz Bowwow (Samrat, Arnold, Avaneendra, Navin)	Pune	43	Open
	Some Real Devotees of Kinetic Energies (Dr. Sandeep Shankar, Somnath Chanda, Sumanta Gupta, SRD)	Kolkata	43	Open
	Khaali Peeli (Sarada Anne, Prasanna, Debjit, Anupam)	Hyderabad	43	Open
	The Village People (Tanmay, Preyoshi, Sreekanth, Sid Sen)	Delhi	43	Open
43	Twain (Prithwish, Sivajit, Kaushik, Vishnu)	Mumbai	42	Open
	Quattro (Sachin, Viswesh, Allen, Keshav)	Bangalore	42	Open
45	No Mata What You Call Us (Aditya, Bala, Gokul, Prashanth)	Delhi	39	College
	Balwantrai Ke Kuttey (Jitaditya, Bhaskar, Sandipan, Atul)	Delhi	39	Open
47	Sex Pistols (Veenu, Ashwin, Ananth, Rahul)	Panjim	38	Open
48	What's in a name? (Viola Rodrigues, Rhyes D'Souza, Shubham Tiwari, Shashwat Salgocar)	Panjim	36	Open
	This is also an important matter	Guwahati	36	Open (City Winner)
	Team of 4 (Kamal, Jitamitra, Saswat, Hari)	Bhubaneswar	36	Open (City Winner)
51	Docs and Sons (Dr. Unnikrishnan Menon, Dr. Binu Raju George, Niranjan Nair, Suraj Menon)	Thrissur	34	Open
	Rohan, Omkar, Payas, Vibhav	Pune	34	Open
	Doctor, Lawyer, Artist, PseudoEngineer (Sameer, Lokesh, Murtuza, Sukruth)	Hyderabad	34	College (City Winner)
	Team Infy	Chennai	34	Open
	Rishi, Nikhil, Kunal, Siddhanth	Chennai	34	College
	No Clue (Mayur, Mahesh, Arjun)	Bangalore	34	Open
57	Samaadhi's Disciples (Ankur Kaul, Anand Rao, Vinayak)	Mumbai	33	College (City Winner)
	M & the Chip Monks (Maya, Srikanth, Sumanth)	Bangalore	33	Open
59	Tirupur Tughlaqs (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Prathaban)	Coimbatore	32	Open
60	Banda! Bindaas (Omkar, Jyoti Prakash, Sampad, Debashish)	Bhubaneswar	31	College (City Winner)
	42 (Ananya, Utkarsh, Pradyoth, Shyam)	Bangalore	31	Open
	Surprise Butt-Sex!! (Vishnu, Avaneendra, Balaji)	Bangalore	31	College
63	Abki Baari Matahari (Vivek, Abhishek, Anurag, Sumantra)	Mumbai	30	Open
	Akhil's Team (Akhil, Gayatri, Rahul, Aditya)	Delhi	30	Open
65	The Good For Nothings (Anand PS, Saeel Pai, R Samyak, Vedang Acharya)	Panjim	29	School (All-India School Winner)
	Moshir, Kartik, Hans George, Abhishek Shetty	Bangalore	29	College
	Yaako Doubt (Aditya, Bhargava, Pranjali)	Bangalore	29	Open
68	Made in China	Chennai	28	College
69	The Powerpuff Boys (Lucky Kaul, Yash, Siddharth B Rao, Arjun)	Hyderabad	27	School (City Winner)
	Kozhikoddan Vazhapazham (Jinson, Sreejesh, Vishnu, Nandakumar)	Delhi	27	Open
71	3G (Ramesh, Soundar, Shwetha)	Bangalore	26	Open
72	Beltola Kingdom Blues	Guwahati	25	Open
	You Tell Me (Barghav, Tanay)	Bangalore	25	School (City Winner)
74	Megawhatevers (Aditi, Gokul, Anway, Anurag)	Pune	23	Open
	Swedish House Maamiyars	Chennai	23	College
	Bajaunga!!! (Adarsh, Akshat, Pranav, Ritesh)	Bhubaneswar	23	School (City Winner)
77	Aak Pak Karepak (Pratyush, Akash, Kali)	Mumbai	22	Open
	Achint, Sri, KB, Arpit	Bangalore	22	Open
79	Manjit, Nikhil, Vineet, Nishit	Mumbai	21	Open
	One Short of Majority	Chennai	21	Open
	Full Enthu Da (Chaitanya, Keerthan, Rohan, Sumanth)	Bangalore	21	Open
82	Most Wanted (Sriram, Aditya, Prasad, Adarsh)	Mumbai	20	Open
	RBI (Harita, Siddharth, Saugata)	Mumbai	20	Open
	Trivially Challenged (Nihal George, Chirag, Ishan, Prateek)	Bangalore	20	Open
85	The Fashionably Late Comers (Tanmay, Khadpe, Mohnish, Kunal)	Panjim	19	School
	Legion of Doom (Adwait, Shivam, Shashwat, Sudarshan)	Mumbai	19	School (City Winner)
	Babu Blacksheep (Chaitanya, Sharath Babu, Varun Reddy)	Bangalore	19	Open
88	Sudarshan, Shakeel, Amlan Nasoom	Guwahati	18	College (City Winner)
	Pati, Patni aur Woe (Hemant, Haripriya, Vishwas)	Bangalore	18	Open
90	Inquizitive (Aditya Trivedi, Arpit Jain, Hindol Hazra, Surbhi Verma)	Mumbai	17	School
	Why So Studious??	Chennai	17	College
92	Vishnu Vijay, Shibin Azad, Aravind Anil, Midhun	Thrissur	16	Open
	Logos (Sankar Roy, Rajib Roy)	Kolkata	16	Open
	Four Musketeers (Mukilan, Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Atitya Ragul)	Coimbatore	16	College (City Winner)
	Nameless Wonders	Chennai	16	School (City Winner)
	Shravan, Vivek	Chennai	16	College
	Three Men and a Goat (Akhil, Gaurang, Shaurya, Amith)	Bangalore	16	School
98	4 Angry Men (Shyam, Hari, Anand, Akhilesh)	Thrissur	15	School (City Winner)
	Ramachandran	Chennai	15	Open
100	Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Prajwal, Souvik)	Pune	14	Open
	The Hobbits	Guwahati	14	College
	AbkiBaar (Abhinash, Joydeep, Amruta)	Bhubaneswar	14	College
103	Quiz Mafia (Aswin, Jomy, Samuel, Swathi)	Thrissur	13	College (City Winner)
	Team Rocket (Chinmay, Aniruddha, Pratik, Soham)	Panjim	13	School
105	13th Legion (Akhil R Nair, Feny Jay, Sivakumar, Vaisak)	Thrissur	12	Open
	Jurassic Sparx (Ashwin, Siddharth, Chaitanya, Kaivalya)	Panjim	12	School
	Team Thalaiva (Yash, Vishal, Akash, Rajat)	Panjim	12	School
	Ellipsis + 1 (Kavin Aadithiyan, Kathikeyan, Gowtham Sriram, Prasath)	Coimbatore	12	College
	Sharath, Sai Prasanth, Hari Krishna, Aayush Poddar	Coimbatore	12	College
110	Rahul Varma, Sohail Nijas	Thrissur	11	College
	Engicos (Praduya Rane, Akash Kulkarni, Mayur Shet, Suraj Kamat)	Panjim	11	College (City Winner)
	Dream Killers (Susan Das, Kaustav Das, Piyush Mishra, Subradeep)	Bhubaneswar	11	School
113	Caution: Explosive Brains (Muhammad Hashmi, Yashovardhan Shetty, Pranav Mihir Kandada)	Hyderabad	10	School
	Lakshmy	Bangalore	10	Open
	Bottom Line (Ananta, Mufaddal)	Bangalore	10	Open
116	Xquizite (Nilarghya, Ritabrata, Arunabha)	Kolkata	9	School (City Winner)
	Team Stresswa	Guwahati	9	College
	Cool Town Quizzers (Chandrasekhar)	Bangalore	9	Open
119	Kamal Kaustav	Guwahati	8	Open
	Three and a Half Men (Lokesh, Ajai, Kanishk, Arvind)	Coimbatore	8	College
	Siddharth, Karthik, Ankush, Benedict	Bangalore	8	Open
122	Wonder Wizards (Prateek Mishra, Sankalp Mohanty, Pattanaik)	Bhubaneswar	7	School
	FAPS 8th Std (Mihir, George, John, Siddhant)	Bangalore	7	School
	Blunders Pride (Deven, Soumya)	Bangalore	7	Open
125	Error 404 Team Not Found (Shubham, Siddharth, Hemang, Viplav)	Mumbai	6	School
126	Neharika, Kritika	Pune	5	Open
	Google United (Ayush, Abhed, Sriram, Aditya)	Panjim	5	School
	Spartans (Sai Krishnan, Ramanathan, Nishanth, Aneesh)	Coimbatore	5	Open
	Team K (Siddharth Mishra, Rahul Dey, S. Dey)	Bhubaneswar	5	Open
	Illuminati (Anirudh, Amogh, Atul P, Atul Simha)	Bangalore	5	Open

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Dubai scores:

1. Alok Mohan, Shafeek M K, Ramkey V – 56
2. Raunaq P, Jonathan, Zahid R, Sandeepan – 41
3. Anirudh S, Shreyas R, Shreyas S, Sahil G – 33
4. Srini K, Antara J, Ranjani J, Raghu, Ambarish – 21
5. Sherin, Amrutha, Aiswarya – 12

* Answer sheets from Guwahati have not been received so re-correction for them has not been done
** Standings have been updated and names added after receiving answer sheets from Mumbai
*** Dubai results added in separate section
**** Names of team members in Bhubaneswar added

May 24, 2014 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment