ASKQANCE 2010
The KQA will celebrate the 27th Anniversary of its founding with ASKQANCE 2010–a two-day festival of Open Quizzing. Somebody we wrote to called it The Woodstock of Quizzing. We are flattered, but will nevertheless try and stick to schedule.
The programme:
19th and 20th June, at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Day One (19th June 2010)
Event I
By Hooke or by Crookes
Open Science Quiz
Rules
1. Teams of four members
2. Entry free for school teams
3. Other teams pay Rs. 100/-
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Vivek Kartikeyan.
Schedule: 0930hrs to 1230hrs
Teams that arrive late for the prelims will be allowed to take part in the next quiz.
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event II
Hoarse Latitudes
Open Travel Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das.
Schedule : 1300-1545 hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event III
Son of Lumiere
Open Movie Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
QMs: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange.
Schedule: 1615hrs-2000hrs.
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Day Two (20th June 2010)
Event IV
Kibitz Simple
Open Sports and Leisure Quiz
Rules
Teams of two members,
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs. 50/-
Teams arriving late can take part in the next quiz.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S.
Schedule: 1000hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500/-
Event V
Sesame
The Open Quiz
Rules
General Open Quiz
Teams of four members
Entry free for school teams
Other teams pay Rs.100/-
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule:1400— 1630hrs
Prizes: Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/-
Event VI
KQA Founders’ Trophy Quiz
Face-off between Mega-Whats city-winners
The contenders:
QED Chennai,
WALTWo Bangalore,
Travelling Pillsburies Mumbai,
Telangana Is An Oily Song New Delhi,
InManiacs Kolkata,
Insert Uncool Name Here Thrissur,
Swami and Friends Hyderabad,
Feni Vidi Vici Goa,
Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole Pune
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar.
Schedule: 1700hrs-1900hrs
Prizes: Rs. 6000/-, Rs. 5000/-, Rs. 4000/-
Mega-Whats 2009: All-India Top 100 Teams
| Rank | Team | City | Score | Stars | Points Off Star Questions | Annotation |
| 1 | QED (Gopal Kidao, Samanth S, Swaminathan, Jayakanthan) | CHENNAI (City Winners) | 67 | 4 | 14 | Original Score 69. Points deducted for Soyuz and Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
| 2 | WALTWo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) | BANGALORE (City Winners) | 61 | 2 | 11 | Original Score 62. Point deducted for Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
| 3 | Travelling Pillsburies (Rajen Prabhu, Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tewari) | MUMBAI (City Winners) | 58 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 58. Points added for Vesperus. Points deducted for Mannar |
| 4 | Telangana Is an Oily Song (Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah) | NEW DELHI (City Winners) | 57 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 56. Change due to counting error. Cracked Succulent Karoo! |
| 5 | Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay TSR) | BANGALORE | 53 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 55. Points wrongly given for Golden Horn and Asteroids. |
| 6 | Thinker Toiler Lawyer & Guy ( Ramanan, Shiv, Goach and Ramkey) | CHENNAI | 52 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 52. Up to 53 after counting error was remedied. Point deducted for Bund Road brings them back to 52. |
| 7 | Inmaniacs(Malavika Banerjee,Gautam Ghosh, Shounak Chakraverti, Anirudh Chari) | KOLKATA (City Winners) | 51 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 52. Points deducted for Vespa Lynd. Team retains Kolkata title on stars. |
| 8 | Tabula Rosetta (Bala, Vikram, Anand Shivashankar, Pradeep R. ) | MUMBAI | 51 | 5 | 13 | Original score 52. Point deducted for The Life of Others |
| 9 | Byapok Batha (Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Deepanjan Deb) | KOLKATA | 51 | 4 | 13 | Original score 51. Lost points for Soyuz. Gained points for Vesperus. |
| 10 | Blank Slate (Sarath, Diwakar Pingle, Raamesh, Arvind. K) | MUMBAI | 49 | 7 | 17 | No change. |
| 11 | Memory Bank (Saranya Jayakumar, P.B. Jayakumar, Navin Jayakumar, Gautam Padmanabhan) | CHENNAI | 49 | 6 | 16 | Original Score 51. Lost points for Soyuz and “Quark for Muster Mark”. |
| 12 | Octette (Anil Vaswani, Vimala Jagannath, Tathagatha Chatterjee, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka) | KOLKATA | 48 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 49. Lost points for Soyuz. |
| 13 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Shamanth Madhava Rao, Manu Sudhakar, Nagesh and Anil Raghavan) | THRISSUR (City Winners) | 47 | 5 | 13 | No change. Anal people have done corrections in Thrissur. |
| 14 | Chak De Bhatta (Joy, Kunal, Dr. Bhattacharya, Praveen) | NEW DELHI | 46 | 4 | 12 | Original Score 44. Counting Error. |
| 15 | Something Something (Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv) | BANGALORE | 46 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 43. Error in counting. Cracked Theme! |
| 16 | Answering Service (Soubhadra, Charanpreet, Supratik, Sanjoy) | KOLKATA | 45 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 46. Counting Error. |
| 17 | No Enthu Da (Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik) | BANGALORE | 45 | 2 | 10 | No change |
| 18 | Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh | CHENNAI | 44 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 45. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 19 | Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry) | BANGALORE | 43 | 3 | 12 | Original Score 45. Points wrongly given for Banyan Tree and for Aeschylus (41) |
| 20 | Questionable Characters (Vikram Sreeram, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda, Hiranyappa G.S. | BANGALORE | 42 | 6 | 15 | Original Score 41. Points not given for Shofer. |
| 21 | SHARED a)Kiddo, Lalith, Fing and Anil and b) Swami and Friends ( J.Krishnamurthi, Alagar Swami, Lakshmi J.K., Bhargava E.M.) | a) CHENNAI b) HYDERABAD (City Winners) | 42 | 4 | 10 | a) Original Score 43. Point deducted for Soyuz and b) Point deducted for Jana Zatopek |
| 22 | Not Awarded–see above | |||||
| 23 | Jesus Wept ( Meghashyam, Mahesh, Mukund, Prasann) | MUMBAI | 41 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 42. Point deducted for ‘Soyuz fell in India’. |
| 24 | Jai Santosh Ki Maa (Amit Varma, Kaushik Chatterjee, Rishi Iyengar, Annanya Deb) | MUMBAI | 40 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 41. Counting Error. |
| 25 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG ( Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, D. Sundar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta | GOA (City Winners) | 39 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 37. Points given for Vesperus and Kiss Our Chuddies. |
| 26 | Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Venkat and Gautam Shenoy) | BANGALORE | 38 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 39. Counting Error. |
| 27 | Nitish Khadiya, Lathish, Praveen, Navneet | HYDERABAD | 38 | 3 | 8 | No change. |
| 28 | No Idea, Still (Ashwin Koneti, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil) | BANGALORE | 38 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 36. Points not given for Oort’s and Hershey. |
| 29 | Tail Bone Enders (Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles, Vinod Rajamani) | BANGALORE | 37 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
| 30 | Mehul, Srinath T.B, Roshith Mohan, Abid E.H | MUMBAI | 37 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
| 31 | Last Action Heroes (S. Dutta, S. Gupta, R. Mistry, P.S. Ghatak) | KOLKATA | 37 | 0 | 5 | No change |
| 32 | Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Suraj, Suvajit, Yasho T, Yash Marathe) | PUNE (City Winners) | 36 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 38. Points wrongly given for RBI Banyan Tree and Talaimannar. |
| 33 | Mera Naam Joka (Vikas Sahu, Arnav Sinha, Jitaditya Narzary, Suchi | MUMBAI | 36 | 1 | 8 | No change |
| 34 | What Maga? (Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba, Vivek Kartikeyan) | BANGALORE | 35 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 36. Point deducted for Mannar. |
| 35 | Rahul Gaur, Tushar Kaul, Akshay Sehgal, Paranjoth Singh | MUMBAI | 35 | 3 | 10 | No change |
| 36 | Desi Dhamaka (Tallulah D’Silva, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan, Anjali Sengupta) | GOA | 35 | 2 | 6 | No change |
| 37 | Lazarus Effect ( Dr. Murali Mohan, S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar) | BANGALORE | 34 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 33. Counting Error. |
| 38 | Potoldanga Thunder Club (Panchjanya, Robin Dey, Rahul Basu, Prithwish Datta) | KOLKATA | 34 | 1 | 7 | No change |
| 39 | Fidda ( Govind Grewal, Shambhu Shankar, Aniruddha Dutta, Dhananjay Shettigar) | MUMBAI | 33 | 4 | 11 | No change |
| 40 | Why Did We Bother (Amit Garde, Dharmakirti Wakankar, Trilok Khairnar, Gaurav Kapoor) | PUNE | 33 | 2 | 9 | Original Score 34. Counting Error. |
| 41 | Sukha Hara (Harish, Kunal, Salil, Ramanand. J) | PUNE | 32 | 1 | 8 | No change. |
| 42 | Questionable Characters II (Debjit, Anupam, Rohan, Vemana) | HYDERABAD | 32 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 33. Points wrongly given for ‘Claude Levi’ |
| 43 | Not the Last Ones (Sumit R. Abhijit. N, Suchintan C., Suvam P.) | KOLKATA | 31 | 2 | 10 | No change. |
| 44 | Ahead of Points (Sanandan, Amar, Ananth, Vinod) | CHENNAI | 31 | 2 | 9 | No change. |
| 45 | SHARED a) Tea, Coffee and Snacks (Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kalyan Dey) and b) Whatever (Yaggy, Matti, Arun Ramanathan, Renuka) | a) KOLKATA b) CHENNAI | 31 | 1 | 7 | a) Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. b) no change |
| 46 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 47 | Gloriously Legitimate (Sandeep, Chinmoy, Aditya Sridhar, Sriharsha Bhat) | BANGALORE | 31 | 1 | 4 | No change. |
| 48 | Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra) | NEW DELHI | 31 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 49 | Dreamz (Capt. Chandrakant Nair, Viswas Viswam, Jyothi EK, Midhun Zachariah) | THRISSUR | 30 | 0 | 4 | No change. Cracked Shiroi Lily! |
| 50 | Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Ashwin Prabhu, Balaji T.K | CHENNAI | 29 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 30.Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 51 | Gunpowder! Yumm!! (Aditya, Praveen, Supratim, Parth) | KOLKATA | 28 | 2 | 7 | Original Score 27. Counting Error. |
| 52 | Jana Telangana Mana Adayaka Jayahe! (Shanmati, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra V., AkshayNair) | CHENNAI | 28 | 1 | 7 | Original Score 27. Point deducted for Soyuz. Counting Error. |
| 53 | Mat-Rag (Deepak, Raghu, Nishant, Aneesh) | NEW DELHI | 28 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 29. Point deducted for Ansari (!), 55 D. |
| 54 | RTDT ( Ritubroto, Tanaji, Dhruv, Tanmay) | 28 | 0 | 6 | No change. | |
| 55 | ????(Atul, Janardhan, Dushyanth, Arnab) | MUMBAI | 27 | 1 | 5 | No change |
| 56 | Numero Uno (Shrikant, Luis Dias, Anil Rodrigues, Sachin Chatte) | GOA | 27 | 1 | 4 | Original score 20. Counting Error. |
| 57 | Bottle Green Whales (Chirag Mutgi, Sidharth Kuruvila,Vipin, Paramananda) | BANGALORE | 27 | 0 | 6 | Original Score 24. Counting Error. |
| 58 | Joka Conquistadors (Karan Kalia, Nihansh, Amrutanshu, Harsh Ketkar) | KOLKATA | 27 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
| 59 | MAM Returns (S. Chakladar, I. Mukherjee, N.Sankar, Shouvik Das) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 7 | No change. |
| 60 | Tall, Dark, Handsome and Sunil (Ram Shankar,Debopam, Sunil Chandrashekar, Guruprasad Shenoy) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 5 | No change |
| 61 | No Hope in Hell.Com (Vinay, Vcat, Gaurav, Sameer) | PUNE | 26 | 1 | 3 | No change |
| 62 | Srikant, Sameer, Majji, Gayathri | HYDERABAD | 26 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
| 63 | Boye Geche! (Debanjan B, Anagh M, Shayak C., Jishu D.H.) | KOLKATA | 25 | 1 | 6 | Original Score 23. Counting Error. |
| 64 | Quadrophenia(Rohit, Harish, Gaurav, Anirudh) | CHENNAI | 25 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 22. Points not given for Hershey and Greenland, Counting Error. |
| 65 | Trailblazers (Vardhan, Uday, Ratna, Manish) | BANGALORE | 24 | 1 | 6 | No change. |
| 66 | It’s Complicated (Pravin Varma, Ayyappa Kumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Supriy Singh) | NEW DELHI | 24 | 0 | 3 | No change. |
| 67 | Shared between a) Pan Galactic Quiz Blasters (Arka Banerji, Niranka Banerjee, Kaustuv Gupta) and b) Mere Do Anmol Watan (Raghu, Balaji, Navin, Sudhir) | a) KOLKATA and b) HYDERABAD | 23 | 2 | 6 | a) Original Score 22. Counting Error. b) No change |
| 68 | Not Awarded–See Above. | No change | ||||
| 69 | Advitiya (Naveen B.A, Raghu Pant, Anupam Jain, Surya JVS) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 24. Pooint deducted for Soyuz. |
| 70 | Anshul, Abhinav, Nikhil, Akul | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
| 71 | Zizzyphus Kahan Hai?( Gandhi, Katoch, Mangal, Pande) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
| 72 | Lotus Eaters (Abhinav, Mayank, Shubhendu, | PUNE | 22 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 25. Points deducted for Soyuz, Oliver Cromwell under a different number, and Levi Claude Strauss. |
| 73 | Who’s Soda’s Daddy? (Sharath K Jose, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) | BANGALORE | 22 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 74 | SHARED BETWEEN a) Sheki’s Groupies (Ahimanyu, Udit, Abhisek, Abhinav) and b) Radix (Devarshi Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta) | a) NEW DELHI and b) KOLKATA | 22 | 0 | 4 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) Original Score 21. Counting Error. |
| 75 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 76 | Pingu’s PomPoms feat. Tonic (Abhishek, Anucheth, Karthik, Rohit) | BANGALORE | 22 | 0 | 3 | Point deducted for Vostok-Rakesh Sharma. |
| 77 | Shared between a) Piyush Ahuja, Gagandeep Singh, Shankaran Anand, Anshuman Fotedar and b) Once Upon a Time in GEC (RGK, Rajasekar, Arun A.S. , Chandu Lenin) | a) NEW DELHI and b) THRISSUR | 21 | 2 | 8 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) No change |
| 78 | Quizzer’s Utopia (Sanjay, Mithun, Sunny, Priyanka) | KOLKATA | 21 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 23. Point deducted for Soyuz and Meteorites in 52 B (for Meteoroids) |
| 79 | Paranormal Activity (Shriram, Shankhayan, Azeez, Kush) | NEW DELHI | 21 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 22. Counting Error. |
| 80 | Guess Me! Guess Me Not! (Dr. Jinu Mathew, S.K. Mohanty, Vikash Khandelwal, Epshita Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 21 | 0 | 4 | No change. |
| 81 | 3 Strikes and You’re Out (Hari, Rabi, Divyam) | NEW DELHI | 20 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 17. Counting Error. |
| 82 | Reds ‘N’ Guns (Noufel Samad, Vikas Plakkot, Jithin Raghavan, Jose Thomas) | THRISSUR | 20 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 83 | Appl Pi (Bhargava, Pradeep, Murari) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
| 84 | Salmagundi (Venkatesh) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 1 | No change. Solo Entry! |
| 85 | Two Non-Smoking Barrels (Jishnu, Sid) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 7 | No change |
| 86 | Mega Answers (Nihal, Navneet, Prashanth) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
| 87 | Bum-Boo ( Dhananjay, Apratim, Parth) | NEW DELHI | 19 | 0 | 1 | 22. Points wrongly given on 26 and 54b. Counting Error. |
| 88 | Shared Between a) No Team Name (Bharath, Ram Prakash, Gnanaskandan) , b) The Lizzard Kings (Ankit, Arun, Nilohit) and c) On the Fly (Pras, Subbareddy, Srini, Abhyu | a)HYDERABAD, b) PUNE and c) HYDERABAD | 19 | 0 | 3 | a) Original Score 17. Counting Error, b) No change and c) Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 89 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 90 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 91 | Amnesiac Quizzers Inc. ( Nipun V, Shafeeq. S, Ijaz Aslam, Edward Davis) | THRISSUR | 19 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 92 | Tetra Pack (Saidy, Naveen, Sushant, Srivats) | CHENNAI | 18 | 2 | 5 | No change. |
| 93 | Dog, Pig, Sheep and ET (Ashok, Thiru, Keki, Okal) | BANGALORE | 18 | 1 | 3 | No change |
| 94 | 3 Doc 1 Tech (Harikrishnan, Vijaynath V., Sarin. P, Sowmya Sarin) | THRISSUR | 18 | 0 | 7 | No change. |
| 95 | Ensemble (Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 20. Counting Error. |
| 96 | ICQC ( K. Saha, S.Reddy, S. Bhatnagar, S. Sinha) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 3 | No change |
| 97 | 42 ( Paritosh Rai, Anilesh) | NEW DELHI | 18 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
| 98 | Quizito Ergo Sum ( K. Pramod, Reeju Datta, Harshit Khare, Prashant Kr. Sinha) | NEW DELHI | 17 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
| 99 | Shared Between a) The Magnificent Four ( Sunil S, Paul C, Mahesh Prabhu, Sachin Pai K) and b) Quizzigans ( Athith K., Subham, Aditya Menon) | a) GOA and b) BANGALORE, SCHOOL WINNER | 17 | 1 | 4 | No change |
| 100 | Not Awarded–See Above. |
Mega-Whats 2009 – Bangalore Results
A total of 188 teams from across the country took part in Mega-Whats 2009.
37 teams took the quiz from Bangalore (including three school teams). The Bangalore round was won by We Are Like This (W)only with a score of 62 points.
The provisional All-India winner, subject to adjudication, is QED (Chennai) with a score of 69.
The top scores in Bangalore are as follows:
1. We Are Like This (W)only: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa (62)
2. Mustafa: Debashree Mitra, Dr. NVS Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah and Vijay TSR (54)
3. Something Something: Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv (46)
4. No Enthu Da: Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik (45)
5. Keep Distance: Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry (43)
6. Questionable Characters: GS Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda and Vikram Sreeram (42)
7. Schrodinger’ s Felines: Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Gautam Shenoy and Venkat (38)
8. No Idea, Still: Ashwin, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil (38)
9. Tail Bone Enders: Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles and Vinod Rajamani (37)
10. What Maga: Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba and Vivek Kartikeyan (35)
11. Lazarus Effect: Dr. Murali Mohan, Dr. S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar (34)
The Best School Team prize went to Quizzigans (Atith Kuduvalli, Subham, Aditya Menon) of Sri Kumaran Children’s Home: 17 points
We hope to put up a list of the top 100 teams in India in about ten days time.
