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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Mega Whats 2012 Scores
The table below has the complete results for Mega Whats 2012. You can view the quiz here: kqaquizzes.org/2013/01/11/mega-whats-2012-questions-and-answers/
| No. | Team | Score | Category | Centre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan) | 79 | Open | Bangalore | City Winner |
| 2 | QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan) | 78 | Open | Chennai | City Winner |
| 3 | Doctor Lawyer Trader Failure (Navin Jayakumar, Shiv, Anil, Ravi Mundoli) | 70 | Open | Chennai | Semi-finalist |
| 4 | Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani) | 70 | Open | Kolkata | City Winner |
| 5 | The Travelling Pillsburys (Anil Kothuri, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari, Vikram Joshi) | 67 | Open | Mumbai | City Winner |
| 6 | We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Movin Miranda, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta) | 63 | Open | Bangalore | Semi-finalist |
| 7 | Insignificant Others | 63 | Open | Chennai | Lost to WALTWo on tie-break |
| 8 | Mega WTFs (Avaneendra, Ramanand, Aditya Gadre, Kunal S) | 60 | Open | Pune | City Winner |
| 9 | Navel Gyan (Archana, Aryapriya, Hari, Amrit) | 60 | Open | Delhi | City Winner |
| 10 | Maami and Friends (Ani, Bhargava, Prasanna, Ravikant) | 59 | Open | Hyderabad | City Winner |
| 11 | East Meets West (Leslie, Shubendu, Mukund, Abhinav) | 59 | Open | Delhi | |
| 12 | Marathi Manhoos (Suresh, Vinod, Rashmi, Yash) | 57 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 13 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, Waggly (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, V. R. Muralidharan) | 56 | Open | Goa | City Winner |
| 14 | Quizcraft (Aditya Mubayi, Kunal Savarkar, Rahul Kottalgi) | 56 | Open | Delhi | |
| 15 | Nexus Baggage (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan) | 54 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 16 | Kovai Kapemaaries (Ashwin, Yogesh, Senthil, Gautam Ghosh) | 53 | Open | Coimbatore | City Winner |
| 17 | Answering Service (Srikant, Sudipto, Charanpreet, Sanjoy) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 18 | Inmaniacs (Abhijit Banerjee, Devdan Mitra, Joy Bhattacharya, Anirudh Chari) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 19 | Swami & Friends (Alagar Samy, J Krishnamurthi, Vivek, Nitish Khadiya) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 20 | Quizzing Irregulars (Dr Sri Nagesh, Sudhir Pai, Balaji, Raghuram) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 21 | Alcoholic United F.C. (Arun AS, Ajith Prabhakar, Chandrakant Nair, Justin) | 50 | Open | Trivandrum | City Winner |
| 22 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Manu Sudhakar) | 50 | Open | Thrissur | City Winner |
| 23 | Bala is the New Saheb (Abhinav Dasgupta, Srinath Bhashyam, Pravin Verma, Balakrishnan S.) | 50 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 24 | Questionable Characters - DELHI (Vinod, Avinash, Tathagata) | 50 | Open | Delhi | |
| 25 | Ze Didigiri DumDums (Atul Mathew, Anannya Deb, Kaushik, Suchishree) | 48 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 26 | Punjabis By Nature | 47 | Open | Chennai | |
| 27 | The Questionables (Hemant Morparia, Balakrishna, Rushi Ananthan, Rachel Lopez) | 47 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 28 | We Are Legion (Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Pratik Gupte, Rohan Naidu, Aditya Vikram) | 46 | College | Hyderabad | |
| 29 | Two & Half Men | 45 | Open | Chennai | |
| 30 | Doctor and his Patient | 45 | Open | Guwahati | City Winner |
| 31 | Mega-What-Ifs (Anubhav, Jagdeep, Govind Grewal, Vinoo Sanjay) | 45 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 32 | Vijay, Roshith, Sahitha | 45 | Open | Delhi | |
| 33 | None of Sardaar (Supratim, Abhiram, Arkadev, Kumar Vaibhav) | 44 | Open | Delhi | |
| 34 | MIneSweeper WTF! (Govind, Amit P, Frances, Souvik) | 43 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 35 | CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, VR, Jithin, Raouf) | 42 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 36 | Bohemian Philistines (Jyotesh, Apratim, Wasi, Prateek) | 41 | College | Delhi | |
| 37 | Maa ka Moloko (Debasish, Aniket, Sumeet, Nikhil) | 41 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 38 | Sabyasachi Majumdar, Piyush Singh, Kunal Malhotra, Arka | 41 | Open | Delhi | |
| 39 | Chennai Sober Kings | 40 | College | Chennai | |
| 40 | Questionable Characters (DD, Mathias, Ajay, Siva) | 40 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 41 | Aaj Kuch Chazzy Karte Hain (Prithwish Datta, Siddhant Agarwal, Arindam Dottoh, Arpan Guha) | 40 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 42 | Four Men In A Quiz (Subrat, Harry, Pranesh, Kesavan) | 39 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 43 | Bawana Quiz Club (Agrima, Ayan, Eeshan, Yuganka) | 37 | College | Delhi | |
| 44 | Rosellini, Posalini, Thangachi, Azhugamani (Keshav, Shivram, Govind, Arjun) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 45 | Pai R Us (Siddarth, Vedanth, Rohit, Sreepathi) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 46 | Africadalli Lingo Leela (Logik, Sudarshan, Rahul, Sarin) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 47 | Battle of the Waters in the Loo (Kamal Rathi, Abdaal Akhtar, Tanmay Prusty, Omkar Amrutanshu) | 37 | Open | Bhubaneswar | City Winner |
| 48 | Mustafa (Chandrashekar, Dr. Krishnan, Vijay, Supreeth) | 36 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 49 | God is Dirac (Sreshth Shah, Dhruv Sharma, Ajachi, Anjali Sengupta) | 36 | Open | Delhi | |
| 50 | Discreetly Charming Bourgeoisie (Amit Garde, Radhika, Hareesh, Trilok) | 35 | Open | Pune | |
| 51 | Whatte Wow! | 34 | Open | Chennai | |
| 52 | Logos (Rudradeep, Rajib, Nayanjyoti, Sunny) | 34 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 53 | The Incredible Bulk (Abhishek Sahoo, Anurag Singh, Karthik Rajeshwaran, Sumantra Mukherjee) | 34 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 54 | Megabots | 33 | Open | Chennai | |
| 55 | Inglorious Kweezers (Nikhil, Ratnakar, Jose, Nakul) | 33 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 56 | Hum Do Hamare Do (Manav, Varun, Aaarun, Brajendu) | 33 | Open | Delhi | |
| 57 | Where's Tiru - NITK Surathkal (Preeti, Soumya, Aniruddha Tiru) | 31 | College | Bangalore | |
| 58 | The Young and the Bald (Atharv Joshi, Julian D'Costa, Shaswat Salgaoncar, Sunil Sardessai) | 31 | Open | Goa | |
| 59 | Thirondoram Thyeppams (Saptarshi Purohit, Vishnu Vijay, Abhilash BS, Alby John) | 31 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 60 | Mauka Dekh Aur Chauka Maar (Rajat, Nilotpal, Surya, Raghu) | 31 | Open | Delhi | |
| 61 | Avial Pursuit | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
| 62 | Stoners With Boners | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
| 63 | How Can She Slap? (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan Maheshwar, Abhishek Krishnan) | 30 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 64 | Milli-Whats (Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Ashwin Murali, Naveen) | 29 | Open | Coimbatore | |
| 65 | Qutopia | 29 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 66 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Sumit, Shubham, Sudhakar, sanjit) | 28 | College | Delhi | |
| 67 | Sri Sathya Sai Bakery (Sai, Jyotirmay, Hari, Shashank) | 28 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 68 | Bawana Boys (Abhinav, Dhruv, Mangal) | 28 | Open | Delhi | |
| 69 | C.V.R. The Late Cummer! (Aniket, Suraj) | 27 | College | Pune | |
| 70 | Underdogs (Vinay, Vinay, Anand, Siddarth) | 27 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 71 | Shadybaayz (Anjan, Lokesh, Akshay, Yash) | 27 | Open | Coimbatore | |
| 72 | The Lobotomists (Nirban Basu, Niladri Bhowmick, Sreyashi Biswas, Avradeep Datta) | 26 | College | Kolkata | |
| 73 | Subterrenenan Homesick Aliens (Gowtham, Shiva, Nishant, Aditya Grover) | 26 | College | Delhi | |
| 74 | Terra-Whats (Balu John, Shivakumari, Sridhar J, Niranjan S) | 26 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 75 | Succulent Karadantu | 26 | Open | Chennai | |
| 76 | Sin & Tonic (Ram, Srikrishna, Yamuna) | 26 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 77 | Keshav, Nikhil, Siddharth | 25 | College | Chennai | |
| 78 | NLSIU (Kartikeya, Akshay, Rohan) | 25 | College | Bangalore | |
| 79 | Gigawhats (Mahesh, Mayur, Sridhar, Venkatesh) | 25 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 80 | Babu Black Sheep (Sharath Babu, Sonal Saldanha, Roshan Kate, Askshath) | 24 | College | Bangalore | |
| 81 | Qu Qlux Qlan | 24 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 82 | Some Obscure 80s Movie Reference (Deepak Thomas, Leo Francis, Prasanth John, Vishnu Vinayan) | 24 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 83 | Quizbul-Mujahiddeen (Ankit Pattnaik, Anjan Mahapatra, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, Swateek Jena) | 24 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
| 84 | Plan B From Outer Space (Rohan, Rohit) | 23 | College | Bangalore | |
| 85 | Sarkar, Two Pronouns & a Verb (Mitesh Mahato, Finehao Pinto, Kshitij Jyoti, Saikat Sarkar) | 23 | College | Pune | |
| 86 | Rohan, Rohit, Alok, Vibhav | 23 | College | Pune | |
| 87 | Vis Quizzica | 23 | Open | Chennai | |
| 88 | Schrodinger's Felines (Pillai, Venkat, Shenoy) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 89 | Elvis and the Levis (Abhay, Rahul, Srikanth, Umang) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 90 | What's In a Team Name (Ranajeet, Rohan, Debanjan, Abhishek) | 23 | Open | Pune | |
| 91 | Running On Empty (Shafeeq, Ijaz, Yashin) | 22 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 92 | Chaps On a Lark Together (Sumanth, Rajiv, Santosh, Rishica) | 21 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 93 | Three Bad Mathematicians | 20 | College | Chennai | |
| 94 | GNLU (Prateek, Rohit, Nihal, Chirag) | 20 | College | Bangalore | |
| 95 | Point Blank - GEC Thrissur (Abhijit Balakrishnan, Ashok Menon, Bharat, Sreeram) | 20 | College | Thrissur | |
| 96 | Kurtis | 20 | Open | Chennai | |
| 97 | The Power of Two + One (Ravi, Sulfy, Girish) | 20 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 98 | Rajat, Jayant, Hemant | 19 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 99 | Na Honey Na Penny | 19 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 100 | Thanks for all the Fish ( Pradyoth John, Geetha S.N.) | 19 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 101 | Kartik, Kavin, Arjun Murali, Gowtham Sriram | 18 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 102 | Teletubbies (Ritvik, Venkat, Mollika) | 18 | School | Bangalore | |
| 103 | And Then There Were Two | 17 | College | Chennai | |
| 104 | Allen, Nagaratna, Poorva, Sachin | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
| 105 | The Expendables - IISc (Sriram, Sriram, Aditya, Terrence) | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
| 106 | Sherlock & Watson (Devwrat, Martik) | 17 | College | Chandigarh | City Winner |
| 107 | Galli Ke Bache (Mukund, Fardeen, Vartik) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
| 108 | Onights (Kratu, Akshat, Bishal, Ankush) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
| 109 | Yeddy's Buddies the Reddies (Mani, Kripa Karan) | 17 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 110 | Neeraj, Abhishek, Prem, Aashish | 16 | College | Bangalore | |
| 111 | CETianz (Ananthu Ravi, Bony Raju, Arathy Anil, Adarsh K) | 16 | College | Trivandrum | |
| 112 | 51 Shades of Gray (Wasim, Parantap, Nishant) | 16 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 113 | Why You Ask? (Venkataramana, Sandeep, Madhurya, Unni) | 16 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 114 | Prof and Studs | 16 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 115 | Magis (Aditchandra, Prahlad, Vignesh, Ganesh) | 16 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 116 | Why So Serious? (Arunabha, Ashwin, Pranav, Praneeth) | 15 | College | Bangalore | |
| 117 | IIT Guwahati (Argha Sen, Saswati Dutta, Sriram and Kartikeya) | 15 | College | Guwahati | |
| 118 | The Dirty Dozen, except we're 4 (Saikat, Abhinav, Khetan, Mishra) | 15 | College | Pune | |
| 119 | In Last Place (Achuth, Basil, Gooth, Sajad) | 15 | College | Trivandrum | |
| 120 | Whatever! (Rahul, Saurabh) | 15 | College | Delhi | |
| 121 | Pritheesh, Bharat, Aditya, Ashwin | 15 | Open | Chennai | |
| 122 | Ye Kya Bakchodi Hai (Bhaskar Sharma, Maharnab Hazarika, Sonika Dhingra and Deepjyoti Deka) | 15 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 123 | Blank (Shubham Tiwari, Viola Rodrigues) | 15 | Open | Goa | |
| 124 | Old Hobbits Die Hard (Archit, Arnav, Udit) | 15 | Open | Delhi | |
| 125 | Team Singularity (Sangeeth, Bharath, Jithin, Vamsee Krishna) | 15 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 126 | Auto (Nishant, Arvind, Akshay, Irfan) | 14 | College | Bangalore | |
| 127 | 50 Cells of Grey (Satwik Raut, Kalpit Mohanty, Bivash Rath, Akash Choudhury) | 14 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 128 | The Metasuitic Macaques (Akshay Rege, Namrata Pai, Nitish Fatarpekar, Rahul Padgaonkar) | 13 | College | Goa | |
| 129 | IISER-M (Abhishek Mishra, Prabhanjan B) | 13 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 130 | Pun Da Cheese (Devajyoti, Arunkumar, Sabrinath, Alvi) | 13 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 131 | The Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Souvik, Prajwal) | 13 | Open | Pune | |
| 132 | SJBHS | 13 | School | Bangalore | |
| 133 | Pitch Please! | 12 | College | Bangalore | |
| 134 | Kalinga Kulangara (Sampad Pattanaik, Debashish Pradhan, Rashmi, Shakti) | 12 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 135 | Quiz Mafia | 12 | College | Thrissur | |
| 136 | The Quizzessential Underdogs | 12 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
| 137 | Kumaraguru College of Technology (Nivethan, Jiju, Sriram, Vishwanathan) | 11 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 138 | Untitled (Siddharth, Yash) | 11 | College | Hyderabad | |
| 139 | Untitled (Jeswin, Madhusudhan, Bhargav, Sasipriya) | 11 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 140 | Mission Impossible | 11 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 141 | Does Grey Matter? (Novoneel, Kunal, Tushant, Anirudh) | 11 | School | Hyderabad | |
| 142 | The Twosome | 10 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 143 | Ashim Saikia and Krishanu Bhargav | 10 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 144 | Four Boys (Harsh Hegde, Leander Paes, Sahil Ramchandani, Zibane Paes) | 10 | School | Goa | |
| 145 | Jurassic Sparks (Ashwin Mascarenhas, Ayush Kanyal, Chaitanya Naik, C. H. Siddhant) | 10 | School | Goa | |
| 146 | 4 Angry Men | 10 | School | Bangalore | |
| 147 | Blitzkrieg (Kaushik, Samuel, Amruta, Rajshri) | 9 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 148 | ? (Vasishta, Balaji, Ravi, Ashok) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 149 | Looney Tunes (Nilesh, Saurav) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 150 | Dream 4 (Mahesh, Anand, Mahendra Balu, Jeethu) | 9 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 151 | And In The Last Place | 9 | School | Bangalore | |
| 152 | Team Nova | 8 | College | Thrissur | |
| 153 | Novizio (Ravikant, Prateek, Rohit, Aniket) | 7 | College | Pune | |
| 154 | Kurious Kolaveri Kuizzers | 7 | Open | Chennai | |
| 155 | We Rock!!! (Arpita Nath, Vibhu Joshi) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 156 | Why So Serious? (Dev D, Anurag) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 157 | Infy Irregulars (Sumanth, Tejal, Harshit) | 7 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 158 | People of Kovai - SBOA school (Vishnu, Tony, Subash, Sathya Mukesh) | 7 | School | Coimbatore | |
| 159 | Priya Marie Biscuit (Pariya Desai, Mary Williams) | 7 | School | Chandigarh | |
| 160 | Zhizhu (Srikanth, Ashish, Manoaj) | 6 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 161 | Whats Vaku (Udit, Ashutosh, Kush) | 6 | College | Delhi | |
| 162 | Last Minutes | 6 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 163 | Frozen Minds Team (Kuldeep Singh, Hitesh Kambaj) | 6 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 164 | Whats App?? (Rashmi Jain, Arpit Porwal, Diksha Jain) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 165 | Gurpreet & Abhijit Ke Chaske (Gurpreet, Abhijeet) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 166 | The Devils of Gahanna (Amit Bikram) | 5 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 167 | Jeevan & Co. (Jeevan Naik, Kishor Naik, Rohil Paes, Savio Paes) | 4 | Open | Goa | |
| 168 | Vizard (Shivam, Vatsal, Teja) | 3 | College | Delhi | |
| 169 | Gatecrasher (Asif Kalam) | 3 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 170 | Yasha - KCTBS (Sri Hari, Mohan, Sathish, Adithya) | 2 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 171 | The Apocalyptic Crypti (Saumya, Neha, Garima, Priyanka) | 2 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 172 | Spartans | 2 | School | Bangalore | |
| 173 | Parul and Shiva | 2 | School | Chandigarh | |
| 174 | Geniuses (Abhay, Akshay, Shambu, Siddhant) | 1 | School | Goa | |
| 175 | Sushil, Brijesh | 0 | Open | Chandigarh |
Mega-Whats Venues
BANGALORE
Rotary House Of Friendship,
Lavelle Road,
Bangalore – 560001
Proctor: Arun Hiregange
BHUBANESWAR
Odisha Engineering College,
460 Sahid Nagar,
Bhubaneswar.
Proctor: Abanis Nayak
CHANDIGARH
IISER Mohali,
Knowledge City,
Sector 81, SAS Nagar,
Manauli PO 140306
Near ISB, Mohali
Proctor: Srijit Mukherjee
CHENNAI
Room no. 101
Department of Management Studies (DoMS)
IIT-Madras
Proctor: Kiran Vijaykumar
COIMBATORE
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu
Proctor: Anuradha Yogesh
GOA
Zuari Hall,
The International Centre Goa,
Dona Paula
Proctor: Ira Almeida (09822127995)
GUWAHATI
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
14 A, Bhuban Road
Uzanbazar
Guwahati – 781001
Proctor: Arunav Chowdhury (9508461715)
HYDERABAD
Lamakaan
off Road No. 1, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad.
Next to the M-Modal building,
Opposite GVK One Mall.
Proctor: Vivek N D
KOLKATA
Surya Sen Bhavan,
Jodhpur Park.
432 Prince Anwar Shah Road,
Kolkata 700068.
Opposite Aurobindo Seva Kendra/EEDF Hospital.
Bus stop: Taltolla between South City and Jadavpur Thana(PS).
Procotor: Shankar Ramalingam
MUMBAI
Pinstorm office,
Ground Floor, Swati House,
Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road
North Avenue
Santa Cruz(W)
For directions or help, call Atul Mathew (9930754026)
Proctor: Kumar Abhishek
NEW DELHI
2LT-2
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Proctor: Lingaraj (9873762010)
PUNE
COEP, Pune
Proctor: Amit Patil (09970144577)
THRISSUR
Devamatha CMI Public School,
Patturaickal, Thrissur
Proctor: Dr Vijaynath V (9447380969)
TRIVANDRUM
Govt. Engineering College, Barton Hill.
Proctor: Prof P Vijayakumar
Quizzes in December
We will hold two sets of quizzes on Sunday 2 December 2012 and Sunday 9 December 2012.
We have five quizzes slated for Sunday 2 December 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
We begin with the Annual Lone Cub and Lone Kid championships for Std VIII-X and Std V-VII respectively, followed by three open quizzes.
Event I
Middle and High School Solo Championships
Lone Kid
Open to solo contestants from Stds. V, VI and VII.
Schools can send up to 4 participants
Schedule
Prelims: 0930hrs-1000hrs
Finals: 1015hrs-1100hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMs: Hrishikesh Varma and Praveen V.R.
Lone Cub
Open to solo contestants from Std. VIII, IX and X.
Schools can send up to 4 participants
Schedule
Prelims: 0930hrs-1000hrs
Finals: 1100hrs-1200hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan and Sohan Maheshwar
Event III
Hubbub-a
The Bangalore Quiz
Written quiz
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes: Book Coupons for Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
1230hrs-1400hrs
QMs: Landmark Venky and Mitesh BizGawd Agarwal
Event IV
We are also hosting, on request, the Quiz Dubai Open Solo Quiz, set by Dr. Chandrashekar Rao.
Timings: 1400-1500hrs
Open to all
90 questions in 60 minutes
Solo, written quiz
Entry fee Rs. 50/-
Event V
December Open Quiz
Hosted by Thejaswi Udupa
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prizes for all finalists
Prelims
1530hrs-1630hrs
Finals
1700hrs-1900hrs
We are also glad to report that we have a venue for MindSweep and Mega-Whats to be held in Bangalore on Sunday 9 December 2012. The venue is The Rotary House of Friendship on Lavelle Road. We thank the Rotary Club, Lavelle Road for supporting this KQA effort.
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 2 Results
June 30, Day 2 of ASKQANCE 2012 had a packed schedule with 2 open quizzes and the second semi-finals and the finals of Mega-Whats.
MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 2
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar
In the second semi-finals, We Are Like This Wonly secured their spot in the finals winning by a comfortable margin but there was a close fight for the other 3 spots.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 285 points.
- Travelling Pilsburies – 255 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 215 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 200 points.
- Metaquizziks – 185 points.
- Mega-WTFS – 130 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 115 points.
- Two and a Half Men – 30 points.
BY HOOKE OR BY CROOKES – THE SCIENCE QUIZ
QMs: Rajagopal P.S., Vivek Karthikeyan & Siddhartha Shanker
The quizmasters kept the participants on their toes, answering questions about elements, identifying equations and even filling in blanks in poetry! The scoring was so close that two teams tied for first place and decided to split the honours instead of breaking the tie.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 104 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 104 points.
- Pouncing As Science (aka Metaquizziks) – 95 points.
- Nexus – 77 points.
- Questionable Characters – 64 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 64 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 47 points.
- Swami’s Friends – 42 points.
KIBITZ SIMPLE – THE SPORTS QUIZ
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Metaquizziks going under the alias of Metal-Quizziks in a surprise result qualified for the finals of a sports quiz. They also bravely participated in the absence of Arul Mani who was busy setting questions for the Mega-Whats finals for later in the day.
- Insignificant Others – 235 points.
- Flibberti-Kibitz – 175 points.
- Swami Obamananda – 165 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 160 points.
- CIDs from Mumbai/Kerala – 155 points.
- Untitled – 130 points.
- MAAZ FC – 125 points.
- Metal-quizziks – 85 points.
MEGA-WHATS FACE OFF
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijaykumar
After a short break for tea and snacks, quizzers poured into the hall to witness the finals of Mega-Whats. With teams from Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Bangalore & Delhi, it had a truly national flavour.
QED, a team from Chennai took an early large lead and kept it through the quiz to win by very large margin. This didn’t mean there was no excitement at all; The teams in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places though frequently exchanged places as the quiz progressed, and even before the last couple of questions, there was a chance for teams to surge ahead to get 2nd place.
An interesting round on connections where teams could also stake confidence on their answers to take higher points helped some teams get a nice leg up in the scoring.
- QED – 390 points.
- Insignificant Others – 265 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 250 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 237.5 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 215 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 215 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 190 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 155 points.
KQA ANNIVERSARY YEARBOOK 2011-2012
The President of the KQA, Ochintya Sharma also released the yearbook for 2011-2012 containing questions from many of the quizzes conducted by the KQA in the past year. He thanked the efforts of the many quizmasters that contributed questions to the yearbook as well as those that helped edit it. The KQA school quiz book for 2011-2012 will be released at the ASKQANCE School and College quizzes to be held in July 2012.
KQA Yearbooks including older copies can be purchased at most KQA events held in Bangalore.
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 1 Results
It’s that time of the year again, when quizzers from across India descend upon the IAT Hall on Queen’s Road for KQA’s anniversary festival of quizzing, ASKQANCE.
MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 1
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar.
We kicked off the quizzing with the first semi-final of the Mega-Whats Face Off with 8 teams from Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Goa fighting for the 4 places in the finals. Here are the final scores:
- Insignificant Others – 290 points.
- QED – 275 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
- Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
- Swami and Friends – 190 points.
- Questionable Characters – 135 points.
- Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
- Tiruppur Tughlaqs – 85 points.
HOARSE LATITUDES – The Travel Quiz
QMs: Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal & Rajath Krishna
The prelims for the travel quiz was closely fought and 9 teams qualified for the finals with the difference between the 1st team and the 9th being just 4 points.
The finals also went on to be in a similar vein, with Hammer and Tongs, the team from Kolkata winning by a narrow margin and the difference between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams being just a point or two.
- Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
- Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
- QED – 251 points.
- Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
- Tough Luck – 132 points.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
- Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.
Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments
232 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 12 cities this year.
Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.
Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) —Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.
This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.
The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 12 cities. The four other places in the semi-finals will go to the teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city. These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi) and Mad O’ What (64/Mumbai). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011
Mega-Whats 2011–Results
Q.E.D (Chennai) have won the Mega-Whats title for the third year running. They scored 85. The runner-up position was shared by MetaQuizziks (Bangalore) and Insignificant Others (Chennai) on 78. The top 80 scores (provisional) can be viewed here: TOP 80 MW2011
232 teams took part in all.
The city-wise results for Mega-Whats are given below.
PANAJI
20 teams appeared
- OPEN:FENI VIDI VICI BITCHY (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Anjali, Doc M) 52
- COLLEGE :VICTORIOUS SECRETS (Ronak Gupta, Avinash, Ashin, Akshay Surendra) 27
- SCHOOL: SHARADA MANDIR (Mohnish Sardesai, Vivek Nayak, Rohan Saxena, Dhawal) 11
PUNE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar) 57
- COLLEGE: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat Sarkar) 33
KOLKATA
12 teams appeared
- OPEN: HAMMER & TONGS (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) 75
- COLLEGE: IIT KHARAGPUR (Sourav Das, Varun Aggrwal, Reeju Datta, Sourya Pal) 30
- SCHOOL: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY (Yash Mehta, Pronil Roy, Rohin D., Soham Basu) 16
HYDERABAD
17 teams appeared
- OPEN: SWAMI AND FRIENDS (Alagarsamy, Krishnamurthi, Lakshmi, Bhargava ) 69
- COLLEGE: SWAMI’S FRIENDS (Rohan Naidu, Krishna Akhil, Pratik Gupte, Aditya Vikram) 35
- SCHOOL: GITANJALI SENIOR SCHOOL (Vasishta, Aakash, Varun, Viswanath) 16
NEW DELHI
26 teams appeared
- OPEN: DILLI KE THAGS (Dr. Bhattacharya, Sid Sen, Hari P., Sabyasachi) 70
- COLLEGE: FMS DELHI (Nikhil Dubey, Nikhil Sonde, Arpan Srivastava) 43
- SCHOOL: DPS-ROHINI ( Rishabh Aggarwal, Pranay Baldev, Shikhar Sahdev) 11
DILLI KE THAGS tied with JAANE BHI DO YAARON. The tie was settled on the 7th question using the score-comparison method.
CHENNAI
21 teams appeared.
- OPEN: Q.E.D (Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth, Jayakanthan) 85
- COLLEGE: UNTITLED (Nitish Krishna, Mithraa Varun, Ashwin, Sudarshan) 29
- SCHOOL: WAL-MART FLOP. DIRTY PICTURE HIT. INCREDIBLE INDIA. (Bharat & team) 05
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
20 teams appeared
- OPEN: CUNNING STUNTS (Justin Thomas, Siddharth Menon, Ankan Kazi) 39
- COLLEGE: NIT-CALICUT (Akhil, Jebin, Neville, Sanjana) 20
- SCHOOL: QUIZ DE LA PLACA (Harikrishnan, Aravind, Ajay, Rajath) 05
CUNNING STUNTS tied with WHY THIS KOLAVERI DA, ARUL? The tie was settled on the 2nd question using the score-comparison method.
THRISSUR
12 teams appeared
- OPEN: INSERT UNCOOLNAME HERE (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan,Manu Sudhakar) 60
- COLLEGE: Ahana Anil, Jayaram, Sruthi: 10
- SCHOOL: INGLORIOUS QUIZZERS ( Akhilesh,, Anand, Harisanker) 09
MUMBAI
14 teams appeared
- OPEN: TRAVELLING PILLSBURYS (Rajiv Rai, Anil Kothuri, Sumanth Srivatsan,Vibhendu), 70
- COLLEGE: Abhishek, Pranav, Vighnesh, Aditya 37
BANGALORE
41 teams appeared
- OPEN: METAQUIZZIKS (Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh) 78
- COLLEGE: NITK-Surathkal (Samarth and team) 37
- SCHOOL: ST. JOSEPH’S BHS (Akshay Tiwary and team) 08
COIMBATORE
11 teams appeared
- OPEN: TIRUPUR TUGHLAQS (Senthil, Yogesh Pai, Natarajan K., Ashok) 37
- COLLEGE: WTK (Kavin,Gowtham,Manoj) 09
- SCHOOL: VEYRON (Praveen, Sanjay, Ashwin, Abiram) 03
MYSORE
19 teams appeared
- OPEN: TWO AND A HALF MEN (Aarthi, Shyam, Hari) 24
- COLLEGE: SJCE (Abhishek CHauhan, Rajat VS, Kevin Paul, Adithya) 15
- SCHOOL: SADVIDYA HIGH SCHOOL (Manish, Jayadatta, Pranav, Rohan) 04
