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.
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!
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.
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.
| 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 |
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!
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.
| 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 | |||
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
Mega Whats 2012 Questions and Answers
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