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

January 11, 2013 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

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

December 5, 2012 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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.

November 21, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Cub Quizzes, Mega-Whats, MindSweep, News, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment

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.

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

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.

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment

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

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment

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 7^th 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 2^nd 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

December 26, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, News | Leave a Comment

Mega-Whats 2011 – The Complete Quiz

The all-India (and some overseas!) results for Mega-Whats 2011 will be announced in a few days, but here’s the quiz for all those that might have missed it on the 11th. Or maybe those that want to spot their favourite “succulent karoo” questions once more.

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December 13, 2011 | Filed Under Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes | 1 Comment

ASKQANCE 2011 — Day 3 Results

Kibitz Simple, the Sports Quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa & Venkatesh Srinivasan

Sriram & Sankhya – 200 points
Chennai Vennai – 155 points
Obama Satyabama – 135 points
QED – 120 points
NED – 120 points
Traveling Pilsburys – 85 points
Middle Eastern Anger – 80 points
Subcontinental Oafs – 75 points

Wing Commander G. R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was awarded to the All-India Mahaquizzer winner for 2011, Dr. Arul Mani.

Mr. G. S. Hiranyappa, a stalwart quizzer of the Karnataka Quiz Association was honoured and presented with a shawl by Mr. Ochintya Sharma, the KQA president. Mr. Hiranyappa who also celebrates his birthday today, graciously accepted the honour and self-deprecatingly claimed that all one needed to gain respectability was to grow older and sport gray hair.

Sesame, Open! Quiz
QM: Arul Mani