MindSweep and MegaWhats on 11 May 2025
The KQA is pleased to announce the return of its annual multi-city written open quizzing championships, Mindsweep and Megawhats.
Both quizzes will be conducted on Sunday, 11th May, 2025 in various cities.
Mindsweep, the international solo quizzing championship, is a written quiz for solo participants that will require takers to answer around 200 questions in two back-to-back sessions of 75 min each. The quiz will commence at 10.30 AM IST.
MindSweep is set by a team led by Dr Arul Mani.
Registration form and further details are here.
Megawhats, the national team quizzing championship, is a written quiz for teams of up to four that will commence at 3.30 PM IST. Do note that the top winners of Megawhats will also be invited to take part in the Megawhats National Final on June 27 at AsKQAnce 2025.
Registration form and further details are here.
MegaWhats is set by a team led by Thejaswi Udupa.
Venue details for each city will be notified soon. The venue in Bangalore is IAT, Queen’s Road.
If your location isn’t listed and you would like your city to conduct Mindsweep and Megawhats, or for any clarifications, please write to Hrishi Varma at kqaquizzes@gmail.com The more the merrier, and the only reason your city is not yet on the list is that the organising details have not yet been ironed out with the local quiz club so lean on them and tell them to get their act together
Prior registration is required for both quizzes, so please register at the earliest using the links mentioned above, and do spread the word.
RESULTS & RANKINGS – MindSweep 2024
UPDATED 9 JUNE: Bhubaneswar scores have now been added. Our apologies. Certain individuals in our team have been struggling with the concept of MS Excel.
We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep 2024. Apologies for the small delay: a couple of centres took their own sweet time in sending in the scores, and the person responsible for posting the results online may or may not have forgotten about it.
Now, to weightier matters: Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the reigning MahaQuizzer, tops MindSweep with 103 . JK was also part of the team that topped the MegaWhats — lending credence to the theory that he may just be good at this sort of thing — our congratulations to him.
Rajiv Rai of Mumbai finished a close second, with 101. Prithwish Datta, also of Mumbai, was next with 99.
Unfortunately, the proctor in Singapore forgot to note down the section-wise scores. The total scores are presented below.
Piyush Kedia topped the College category with 71 points. Aninthitha Nath of Mumbai topped the Women’s category with 40 points. The category toppers are as follows:
Arts: Rajiv Rai, Mumbai, 18
Movies & TV: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16
Food & Beverages: Santosh JS, Bengaluru, 15
Literature: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16
Music: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 13
The Sciences: Jayakanthan R & Dinesh Krithivasan, both from Chennai, 17
The Social Sciences: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 18
Sports: Sachin Deshpande, Bengaluru, 14
Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2025!
| # | Name | Centre | Total | Arts | Movies & TV | Food & Beverages | Literature | Music | The Sciences | The Social Sciences | Sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayakanthan R | Chennai | 103 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 5 |
| 2 | Rajiv Rai | Mumbai | 101 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 10 |
| 3 | Prithwish Datta | Mumbai | 99 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| 4 | Calvin | Delhi | 94 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 10 |
| 5 | Sachin Deshpande | Bengaluru | 81 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 14 |
| 6 | Krishnamurthy Viswanathan | Bay Area | 81 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| 7 | Thejaswi Udupa | Bengaluru | 80 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 8 |
| 8 | Dinesh Krithivasan | Chennai | 80 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 |
| 9 | Abhinav Dasgupta | Mumbai | 80 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | Praveen VR | Bengaluru | 79 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | Santosh JS | Bengaluru | 78 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| 13 | Anush Iyer | Chennai | 77 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 7 |
| 14 | Govind Grewal | Mumbai | 77 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
| 16 | Jaidev Karunakaran | Bengaluru | 76 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 9 |
| 17 | Nikhil Sonde | Mumbai | 76 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 9 |
| 18 | Anustup Datta | Bengaluru | 75 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 |
| 19 | Swaminathan G | Chennai | 75 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| 20 | Aswath Venkataraman | Bengaluru | 73 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 10 |
| 21 | Somashish Ghosh | Delhi | 71 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 |
| 22 | Piyush Kedia | Delhi | 71 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 8 |
| 23 | Gokul S | Delhi | 70 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| 24 | Annie Sen Gupta | Goa | 43 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| 25 | Aadisht | Delhi | 63 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 26 | Rohit S | Bengaluru | 59 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 |
| 27 | Baibaswata Jena | Bhubaneswar | 59 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| 28 | Sanat Pai Raikar | Bengaluru | 58 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 |
| 29 | Alok Prasanna Kumar | Bengaluru | 58 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 |
| 30 | Rajiv D'silva | Goa | 41 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
| 31 | SANDIPAN GOSWAMI | Dhemaji | 57 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| 32 | Akshat Jain | Bay Area | 57 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| 33 | Harish Alagappa | Hyderabad | 56 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 11 |
| 34 | Anand Sivashankar | Chennai | 55 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| 35 | Abhinav Dhar | Delhi | 54 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 6 |
| 36 | Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra | Bhubaneswar | 54 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| 37 | Anannya Deb | Mumbai | 51 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 11 |
| 38 | Vinod Krishnan | Mumbai | 51 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| 39 | Balagopal Menon | Thrissur | 51 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| 40 | Mukilan Ayyapparaj | Coimbatore | 49 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 41 | Subhadeep Sarkar | Bengaluru | 48 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 42 | Rushi Anandan | Mumbai | 47 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 4 |
| 43 | Hussain Ahmed | Hyderabad | 46 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 |
| 44 | Syed Shakeel Imdad | Hyderabad | 45 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 45 | Samrat Sengupta | Pune | 45 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 46 | Sreenath | Bengaluru | 43 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 4 |
| 47 | Saarthak Chhabra | Delhi | 43 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 48 | Abhilash | Bengaluru | 42 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| 49 | Vilas Pavithran | Goa | 26 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 |
| 50 | Rajat Gururaj | Bengaluru | 41 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 2 |
| 51 | Siddharth Mishra | Coimbatore | 41 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| 52 | Dr. V. Sri Nagesh | Hyderabad | 41 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 53 | Sujay | Bengaluru | 40 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 54 | Aninthitha Nath | Mumbai | 40 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| 55 | Abhishek Hariharan | Mumbai | 40 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
| 56 | Sayan Mazumdar | Guwahati | 39 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
| 57 | Gokul Panigrahi | Mumbai | 39 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 58 | Appu S | Bengaluru | 38 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 59 | Dhananjay | Chennai | 38 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| 60 | Sriram Madhavan | Chennai | 37 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| 61 | Shshank Tyagi | Guwahati | 37 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 62 | Pulkit Malhotra | Mumbai | 37 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 63 | Debjit Tripathy | Delhi | 37 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 64 | Kaushik Chatterjee | Delhi | 36 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| 65 | Abhay Kulkarni | Bengaluru | 35 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| 66 | Ankita Shandilya | Delhi | 35 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| 67 | Samir Gupta | Pune | 35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 68 | CR Naveen | Coimbatore | 34 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 69 | Anurakshat Gupta | Pune | 34 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| 70 | Sumeer Kumar | Bengaluru | 33 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
| 71 | Nandana Sony | Delhi | 33 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 72 | Jitaditya Narzary | Guwahati | 32 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 73 | Rama Subramanian | Hyderabad | 32 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| 74 | Francis Rodrigues | Mumbai | 32 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
| 75 | Uday Tej Singh | Pune | 32 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
| 76 | VARUN MURTHY | Ahmedabad | 31 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 77 | Sahil Ramchandani | Bengaluru | 31 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 78 | Shubham | Bengaluru | 31 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 79 | Rahul Jadhav | Bengaluru | 31 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
| 80 | Kaushik Saha | Delhi | 31 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
| 81 | R Samyak | Bengaluru | 30 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 82 | Kapinjal Kishore Sharma | Guwahati | 30 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 83 | Jyotishko Ghosh | Bengaluru | 29 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 84 | Srijit Kumar | Goa | 15 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 85 | sanat naval | Ahmedabad | 28 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 86 | Prabhat B | Chennai | 28 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| 87 | Praveen Jayaraj | Coimbatore | 28 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 88 | Roshan | Coimbatore | 28 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 89 | Priyanuj Parashar | Guwahati | 28 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 90 | Adarsh B | Delhi | 28 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| 91 | Vaibhav Ayer | Delhi | 28 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 92 | Nikhil Jha | Delhi | 28 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 93 | Anoushka | Delhi | 28 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 94 | Raj | Pune | 28 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
| 95 | Venky Srinivasan | Bengaluru | 27 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | ||||
| 96 | Chinmay Naik | Goa | 27 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 97 | Viola Rodrigues | Goa | 27 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 98 | Ganesha Durbha | Bay Area | 27 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| 99 | sanveer | Ahmedabad | 26 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 100 | Varun Parthasarathy | Chennai | 26 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| 101 | M P Shreesh Bhat | Goa | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 102 | Akhil Siddhartha | Delhi | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 2 |
| 103 | Ramish Abdali | Delhi | 26 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 104 | Ruchira Porob | Goa | 25 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| 105 | Mayur Shett | Goa | 14 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 106 | Sujit Ray | Delhi | 25 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 107 | Rithwik Rao H | Bengaluru | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 108 | Abhijeet Shyam | Chennai | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 109 | Paul Gatward | Goa | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 110 | Navneet Sharma | Delhi | 23 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 111 | Shubham Jha | Pune | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 112 | Suresh Ramasubramanian | Chennai | 22 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ||||
| 113 | Aastha Dua | Goa | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 114 | Akshay Shreyas | Delhi | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 115 | Vembu Shankar | Chennai | 21 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 116 | Shujoy Dutta | Delhi | 21 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 117 | Prisha Joshi | Pune | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 118 | Malhar Mazumdar | Delhi | 19 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 119 | Harshit Agarwal | Delhi | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 120 | Kartik Gulia | Delhi | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 121 | Shantanu Kartha | Thrissur | 19 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 122 | Karthik Desikan | Bengaluru | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 123 | Krishna | Chennai | 18 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| 124 | Amit Agarwal | Pune | 18 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 125 | Divyanshu Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 18 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 126 | Sankalp Chowdhury | Mumbai | 17 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 127 | Faris Abdul Nassar | Thrissur | 17 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 128 | Mukti Swaroop Pradhan | Bhubaneswar | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 129 | Nitish Wagle | Goa | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 130 | Revanth T | Hyderabad | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 131 | Vaibhav Bajpai | Pune | 16 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 132 | Harshad | Bengaluru | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 133 | Raman S | Coimbatore | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 134 | Abinash Bharati | Pune | 15 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 135 | Krishna Aditya Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 136 | Debabrata Malik | Bengaluru | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 137 | Bunny Furtado | Goa | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 138 | Pritam Ghosh | Pune | 14 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 139 | Niyati Jois | Bengaluru | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 140 | Neev Raj Singh | Bengaluru | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 141 | Siddhartha Mahajan | Delhi | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 142 | Bhishama Pradhan | Pune | 13 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 143 | Mahadev Menon | Pune | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 144 | Naman Chaturvedi | Pune | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 145 | Swagat Subhakanta Das | Bengaluru | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 146 | Hriday Shah | Bengaluru | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 147 | Tejas S | Bengaluru | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 148 | Sharat Chandar | Coimbatore | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 149 | Satish Mudaliar | Bengaluru | 11 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 150 | Vidyadhar Gadgil | Goa | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 151 | Pragyajeet Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 152 | Abhijvala Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 153 | Razdan | Guwahati | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 154 | Dr. Nishad K | Delhi | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 155 | Avinash Kadam | Pune | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 156 | Kaushik Raam | Bay Area | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 157 | Barnil Sarma | Guwahati | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 158 | Prashant Sinha | Delhi | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 159 | Man Agochar Singh | Pune | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 160 | Venkateshwaran | Pune | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 161 | ARYAKALPA BHATTACHARYA | Dhemaji | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 162 | Ripunjeet barman | Guwahati | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 163 | Saswat Samal | Bhubaneswar | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 164 | Srinidhi AV | Bengaluru | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 165 | Kushagra Bindal | Delhi | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 166 | Smarth Nagpal | Pune | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 167 | Abhijeet Kumar | Pune | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 168 | Rabmit Das | Bhubaneswar | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 169 | Neerav Raj Singh | Bengaluru | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 170 | Amol Sakhalkar | Goa | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 171 | Ashutosh | Pune | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 172 | Dev Singh | Pune | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 173 | JITUL KONCH | Dhemaji | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 174 | Arya RN | Bengaluru | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 175 | Mukilan M | Chennai | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 176 | Srivatsan | Coimbatore | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 177 | Srinjoy Choudhury | Guwahati | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 178 | DEBAAKANTA BORAH | Dhemaji | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 179 | Ambarish Kulkarni | Mumbai | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 180 | Kabilesh Nataraj | Coimbatore | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 181 | Prerit | Pune | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 182 | Ram Mohan V | Hyderabad | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 183 | Shubhankar Mani Tripathi | Delhi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 184 | Tapan Kumar Bhuyan | Bhubaneswar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
MINDSWEEP and MEGAWHATS on 19 May 2024
The KQA is pleased to announce the return of its annual multi-city written open quizzing championships, Mindsweep and Megawhats.
Both quizzes will be conducted on Sunday, 19th May, 2024 in various cities.
Mindsweep, the international solo quizzing championship, is a written quiz for solo participants that will require takers to answer 200 questions in two back-to-back sessions of 75 min each. The quiz will commence at 10.30 AM IST.
Registration form and further details are at http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep/
Megawhats, the national team quizzing championship, is a written quiz for teams of up to four that will commence at 3.30 PM IST. Do note that the top winners of Megawhats will also be invited to take part in the Megawhats National Final on June 28 at AsKQAnce 2024.
Registration form and further details are at http://kqaquizzes.org/megawhats/
Venue details for each city will be notified soon. The venue in Bangalore is IAT, Queen’s Road.
If your location isn’t listed and you would like your city to conduct Mindsweep and Megawhats, or for any clarifications, please write to Hrishi Varma at kqaquizzes@gmail.com The more the merrier, and the only reason your city is not yet on the list is that the organising details have not yet been ironed out with the local quiz club so lean on them and tell them to get their act together
Prior registration is required for both quizzes, so please register at the earliest using the links mentioned above, and do spread the word.
VENUES – MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
These are the confirmed venues for MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
NOTE: There is no venue in Kozhikode.
| # | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad University |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road |
| 3 | Chennai | PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore |
| 4 | Coimbatore | PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore |
| 5 | Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau. |
| 6 | Guwahati | Assam Engineering College |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Columbus Hospital, 1-10-63/4/1,Prakash Nagar Metro Station, Chikoti Gardens (Begumpet) Hyderabad |
| 8 | Kochi | 2nd Floor, Ashis Building, Above Ashwas Counseling Centre, Alphonsa Street, Marine Drive, High Court Jn, Kochi |
| 9 | Kolkata | The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053. |
| 10 | Mangalore | Conference hall, Vinaya hospital, Pintos lane, Kadri, Mangalore |
| 11 | Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar |
| 12 | New Delhi | The Print Shop https://maps.app.goo.gl/xJkPhMtnxNqdFChw9 A29 Naraina Industrial Area, Phase 2, New Delhi 110027 Near Shadipur Metro Station (Blue line) |
| 13 | Pune | Seminar Hall 1, Ground Floor, Instrumentation Building, COEP |
| 14 | Silchar | New Gallery classroom complex, NIT Silchar |
| 15 | Tezpur | Tezpur University |
| 16 | Thiruvananthapuram | College of Engineering Trivandrum |
| 17 | Thiruvananthapuram-IISER | IISER |
| 18 | Thrissur | Jose Lecture Hall, Government Medical College, Thrissur. |
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.
