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
Quizzes on Sunday 4 May 2014
We will hold four quizzes on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at our usual venue, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road
10 AM to 11:15 AM – Sense a Femur – the KQA Humour Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan – Teams of 2 – Written; Entry Fee Rs 100/team; prizes for Top 3 teams
11:30 AM to 1:45 PM – Lone Wolf – the Solo Quiz by Alagarsamy AP. Prelims followed by finals; Entry Fee Rs 50/person
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM – the Non Fiction Quiz by Varun Shenoy and Rajagopal PS
– Teams of 2 – Written; Entry Fee Rs 100/team; prizes for Top 3 teams
4:00 PM onwards – the May Open Quiz for teams of 4 by Thejaswi Udupa and Abhishek Upadhya. Prelims followed by finals; Entry Fee Rs 100/team; prizes for all finalists
Please be on time, since we have a packed day!
Quizzes on Saturday 26 April 2014
We will host our next set of quizzes on SATURDAY, April 26, at our usual venue, IAT, Queen’s Road.
10:30 AM onwards
Eff, Glorious Eff – the KQA Food Quiz by Santosh Swaminathan and Arul Mani
Prelims, followed by finals for teams of 4 or less
2:30 PM onwards
Yell Iruve! – the annual quiz on plants, animals, insects and other life forms by Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Written Quiz for teams of 2
4:00 PM onwards
Pop ki Kamai – The Pop Culture Quiz by Sai Ganesh
Prelims, followed by finals for teams of 4 or less
Entry Fee for all quizzes Rs 100/team, except for school teams. Prizes for the Top 3 teams in all quizzes.
Please note that the quizzes are on Saturday, not on Sunday. We also have quizzes lined up on Sunday, May 4, 2014.
Quizzes on Sunday 13 April 2014
We will host our next set of quizzes this Sunday, April 13 at our usual venue – IAT, Queen’s Road.
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – April Open Quiz – for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – QMs – Ashwin Kumar and Rajagopal PS
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM – The Karnataka Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – QM Varun Shenoy
4:00 PM to 7:30 PM – Seek Under Porus – the KQA History Quiz – for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for the Top 8 teams – QMs – Praveeen VR and Manjith K
All quizzes will carry an Entry Fee of Rs 100/team, except for school teams.
Quizzes on Sunday 30 March 2014
We will host our next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 30 at our usual venue – IAT, Queen’s Road. Please be on time, since we have four quizzes planned.
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM (including corrections) – a 60-minutes written general Quiz on 100 Years since World War 1 – the quiz has been set by Vikram Joshi from the Bombay Quiz Club and has already been held in multiple cities across India. Proctor: Hrishikesh Varma
11:15 AM to 1:45 PM – KQA Cricket Quiz Prelims and Finals – for teams of 4 or less – QMs – Manish Achuth and Sohan Maheshwar
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM – Tech That! KQA Tech Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – QM Thejaswi Udupa
4:00 PM to 7:30 PM – March Open Quiz – for teams of 4 or less – this quiz will be in a Ruckus Tangdi format, where teams will be formed on the spot randomly – so, do come even if you don’t have a team! QMs: Sai Ganesh, Hari Shenoy, Varun Shenoy, Shashank PS, Sohan Maheshwar
Quizzes on Sunday 9 March 2014
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be holding its next set of quizzes on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at our regular venue – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
10 AM onwards – Bangalore leg of the Asha Open Quiz
Bay Area Quiz Club will be conducting an Open Quiz as a fund raiser for the organization Asha. Asha raises funds to provide for projects dealing with educating underprivileged children in India. All funds raised via registration fees for this quiz will be sent to Asha Silicon Valley (SV) to help them fund their projects. This is the third year of our quiz and our questions from the past quizzes have been well received by the quizzing world. If you need to know more about Asha Silicon Valley or Asha in general, please follow this link (http://www.ashanet.org/
Details of the quiz
– Teams of two
– 45 question written prelims
– 8 teams make it to the final
– 64 question final
– Registration fee; minimum registration fee Rs 100/team. Teams wishing to pay a higher fee are welcome to do so; all money collected will go to Asha Silicon Valley
Proctor: Rajagopal PS
2:30 PM onwards – Chronosynclastic Infundibulum – the Speculative Fiction Quiz
Written quiz for teams of 2
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
Prizes for Top 3
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
4:00 PM onwards – Bizkashi – the KQA Business Quiz
Teams of 4 or less
Prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams
Registration Fee – Rs 100/team
QMs: Karthik Shashidhar and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Quizzes on Sunday 23 February 2014
Quizzes on Saturday 18 January 2014
We have our next set of quizzes on Saturday, January 18 at our usual location – Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
10 AM onwards – The KQA Music Quiz for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams. Entry Fee – Rs 100/team. Prizes for all finalists.
QM – Thejaswi Udupa
2 PM onwards – The Artifacts and Other Useless Objects Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – Entry Fee Rs. 100/team. Prizes for the top 3 teams.
QMs – Navin Rajaram, Mitesh Agarwal and Arul Mani
3.30 PM onwards – the delayed December Open Quiz for teams of 4 or less – prelims followed by finals for the top eight teams. Entry Fee – Rs. 100/team – prizes for all finalists.
QM – Arun Hiregange
Please be on time, since we have a tight schedule with three quizzes. Please note that the quizzes are on Saturday, not Sunday.
Quizzes on Sunday 5 January 2014
We have a set of quizzes this Sunday, Jan 5 at our usual location – IAT, Queen’s Road.
10 AM onwards – Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz for College teams – teams of 3 from the same college – prelims followed by finals for Top 8 teams. No entry fee.
QM – Sohan Maheshwar
2 PM onwards – Hubbuba – The Bangalore Quiz – written quiz for teams of 2 – Entry Fee Rs 100/team. Prizes for the top 3 teams. QMs – Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh Srinivasan
3.30 PM onwards – the January Open Quiz for teams of 4 – prelims followed by finals for the top eight teams. Entry Fee – Rs 100/team – prizes for all finalists. QM – Suresh Ramasubramanian.
Quizzes on Sunday 24 November 2013
The Karnataka Quiz Association will host its next series of quizzes on Sunday, 24 Nov 2013 at the usual venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore. The details of the quizzes are:
