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.TeamScoreCategoryCentreComments
1Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan)79OpenBangaloreCity Winner
2QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan)78OpenChennaiCity Winner
3Doctor Lawyer Trader Failure (Navin Jayakumar, Shiv, Anil, Ravi Mundoli)70OpenChennaiSemi-finalist
4Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani)70OpenKolkataCity Winner
5The Travelling Pillsburys (Anil Kothuri, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari, Vikram Joshi)67OpenMumbaiCity Winner
6We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Movin Miranda, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta)63OpenBangaloreSemi-finalist
7Insignificant Others63OpenChennaiLost to WALTWo on tie-break
8Mega WTFs (Avaneendra, Ramanand, Aditya Gadre, Kunal S)60OpenPuneCity Winner
9Navel Gyan (Archana, Aryapriya, Hari, Amrit)60OpenDelhiCity Winner
10Maami and Friends (Ani, Bhargava, Prasanna, Ravikant)59OpenHyderabadCity Winner
11East Meets West (Leslie, Shubendu, Mukund, Abhinav)59OpenDelhi
12Marathi Manhoos (Suresh, Vinod, Rashmi, Yash)57OpenBangalore
13Feni, Vidi, Vici, Waggly (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, V. R. Muralidharan)56OpenGoaCity Winner
14Quizcraft (Aditya Mubayi, Kunal Savarkar, Rahul Kottalgi)56OpenDelhi
15Nexus Baggage (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan)54OpenBangalore
16Kovai Kapemaaries (Ashwin, Yogesh, Senthil, Gautam Ghosh)53OpenCoimbatoreCity Winner
17Answering Service (Srikant, Sudipto, Charanpreet, Sanjoy)52OpenKolkata
18Inmaniacs (Abhijit Banerjee, Devdan Mitra, Joy Bhattacharya, Anirudh Chari)52OpenKolkata
19Swami & Friends (Alagar Samy, J Krishnamurthi, Vivek, Nitish Khadiya)51OpenHyderabad
20Quizzing Irregulars (Dr Sri Nagesh, Sudhir Pai, Balaji, Raghuram)51OpenHyderabad
21Alcoholic United F.C. (Arun AS, Ajith Prabhakar, Chandrakant Nair, Justin)50OpenTrivandrumCity Winner
22Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Manu Sudhakar)50OpenThrissurCity Winner
23Bala is the New Saheb (Abhinav Dasgupta, Srinath Bhashyam, Pravin Verma, Balakrishnan S.)50OpenMumbai
24Questionable Characters - DELHI (Vinod, Avinash, Tathagata)50OpenDelhi
25Ze Didigiri DumDums (Atul Mathew, Anannya Deb, Kaushik, Suchishree)48OpenMumbai
26Punjabis By Nature47OpenChennai
27The Questionables (Hemant Morparia, Balakrishna, Rushi Ananthan, Rachel Lopez)47OpenMumbai
28We Are Legion (Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Pratik Gupte, Rohan Naidu, Aditya Vikram)46CollegeHyderabad
29Two & Half Men45OpenChennai
30Doctor and his Patient45OpenGuwahatiCity Winner
31Mega-What-Ifs (Anubhav, Jagdeep, Govind Grewal, Vinoo Sanjay)45OpenMumbai
32Vijay, Roshith, Sahitha45OpenDelhi
33None of Sardaar (Supratim, Abhiram, Arkadev, Kumar Vaibhav)44OpenDelhi
34MIneSweeper WTF! (Govind, Amit P, Frances, Souvik)43OpenMumbai
35CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, VR, Jithin, Raouf)42OpenBangalore
36Bohemian Philistines (Jyotesh, Apratim, Wasi, Prateek)41CollegeDelhi
37Maa ka Moloko (Debasish, Aniket, Sumeet, Nikhil)41OpenMumbai
38Sabyasachi Majumdar, Piyush Singh, Kunal Malhotra, Arka41OpenDelhi
39Chennai Sober Kings40CollegeChennai
40Questionable Characters (DD, Mathias, Ajay, Siva)40OpenBangalore
41Aaj Kuch Chazzy Karte Hain (Prithwish Datta, Siddhant Agarwal, Arindam Dottoh, Arpan Guha)40OpenKolkata
42Four Men In A Quiz (Subrat, Harry, Pranesh, Kesavan)39OpenBangalore
43Bawana Quiz Club (Agrima, Ayan, Eeshan, Yuganka)37CollegeDelhi
44Rosellini, Posalini, Thangachi, Azhugamani (Keshav, Shivram, Govind, Arjun)37OpenBangalore
45Pai R Us (Siddarth, Vedanth, Rohit, Sreepathi)37OpenBangalore
46Africadalli Lingo Leela (Logik, Sudarshan, Rahul, Sarin)37OpenBangalore
47Battle of the Waters in the Loo (Kamal Rathi, Abdaal Akhtar, Tanmay Prusty, Omkar Amrutanshu)37OpenBhubaneswarCity Winner
48Mustafa (Chandrashekar, Dr. Krishnan, Vijay, Supreeth)36OpenBangalore
49God is Dirac (Sreshth Shah, Dhruv Sharma, Ajachi, Anjali Sengupta)36OpenDelhi
50Discreetly Charming Bourgeoisie (Amit Garde, Radhika, Hareesh, Trilok)35OpenPune
51Whatte Wow!34OpenChennai
52Logos (Rudradeep, Rajib, Nayanjyoti, Sunny)34OpenKolkata
53The Incredible Bulk (Abhishek Sahoo, Anurag Singh, Karthik Rajeshwaran, Sumantra Mukherjee)34OpenMumbai
54Megabots33OpenChennai
55Inglorious Kweezers (Nikhil, Ratnakar, Jose, Nakul)33OpenHyderabad
56Hum Do Hamare Do (Manav, Varun, Aaarun, Brajendu)33OpenDelhi
57Where's Tiru - NITK Surathkal (Preeti, Soumya, Aniruddha Tiru)31CollegeBangalore
58The Young and the Bald (Atharv Joshi, Julian D'Costa, Shaswat Salgaoncar, Sunil Sardessai)31OpenGoa
59Thirondoram Thyeppams (Saptarshi Purohit, Vishnu Vijay, Abhilash BS, Alby John)31OpenTrivandrum
60Mauka Dekh Aur Chauka Maar (Rajat, Nilotpal, Surya, Raghu)31OpenDelhi
61Avial Pursuit30OpenChennai
62Stoners With Boners30OpenChennai
63How Can She Slap? (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan Maheshwar, Abhishek Krishnan)30OpenBangalore
64Milli-Whats (Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Ashwin Murali, Naveen)29OpenCoimbatore
65Qutopia29OpenThrissur
66Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Sumit, Shubham, Sudhakar, sanjit)28CollegeDelhi
67Sri Sathya Sai Bakery (Sai, Jyotirmay, Hari, Shashank)28OpenBangalore
68Bawana Boys (Abhinav, Dhruv, Mangal)28OpenDelhi
69C.V.R. The Late Cummer! (Aniket, Suraj)27CollegePune
70Underdogs (Vinay, Vinay, Anand, Siddarth)27OpenBangalore
71Shadybaayz (Anjan, Lokesh, Akshay, Yash)27OpenCoimbatore
72The Lobotomists (Nirban Basu, Niladri Bhowmick, Sreyashi Biswas, Avradeep Datta)26CollegeKolkata
73Subterrenenan Homesick Aliens (Gowtham, Shiva, Nishant, Aditya Grover)26CollegeDelhi
74Terra-Whats (Balu John, Shivakumari, Sridhar J, Niranjan S)26OpenTrivandrum
75Succulent Karadantu26OpenChennai
76Sin & Tonic (Ram, Srikrishna, Yamuna)26OpenBangalore
77Keshav, Nikhil, Siddharth25CollegeChennai
78NLSIU (Kartikeya, Akshay, Rohan)25CollegeBangalore
79Gigawhats (Mahesh, Mayur, Sridhar, Venkatesh)25OpenBangalore
80Babu Black Sheep (Sharath Babu, Sonal Saldanha, Roshan Kate, Askshath)24CollegeBangalore
81Qu Qlux Qlan24OpenGuwahati
82Some Obscure 80s Movie Reference (Deepak Thomas, Leo Francis, Prasanth John, Vishnu Vinayan)24OpenTrivandrum
83Quizbul-Mujahiddeen (Ankit Pattnaik, Anjan Mahapatra, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, Swateek Jena)24OpenBhubaneswar
84Plan B From Outer Space (Rohan, Rohit)23CollegeBangalore
85Sarkar, Two Pronouns & a Verb (Mitesh Mahato, Finehao Pinto, Kshitij Jyoti, Saikat Sarkar)23CollegePune
86Rohan, Rohit, Alok, Vibhav23CollegePune
87Vis Quizzica23OpenChennai
88Schrodinger's Felines (Pillai, Venkat, Shenoy)23OpenBangalore
89Elvis and the Levis (Abhay, Rahul, Srikanth, Umang)23OpenBangalore
90What's In a Team Name (Ranajeet, Rohan, Debanjan, Abhishek)23OpenPune
91Running On Empty (Shafeeq, Ijaz, Yashin)22OpenBangalore
92Chaps On a Lark Together (Sumanth, Rajiv, Santosh, Rishica)21OpenBangalore
93Three Bad Mathematicians20CollegeChennai
94GNLU (Prateek, Rohit, Nihal, Chirag)20CollegeBangalore
95Point Blank - GEC Thrissur (Abhijit Balakrishnan, Ashok Menon, Bharat, Sreeram)20CollegeThrissur
96Kurtis20OpenChennai
97The Power of Two + One (Ravi, Sulfy, Girish)20OpenBangalore
98Rajat, Jayant, Hemant19OpenBangalore
99Na Honey Na Penny19OpenHyderabad
100Thanks for all the Fish ( Pradyoth John, Geetha S.N.)19OpenMumbai
101Kartik, Kavin, Arjun Murali, Gowtham Sriram18CollegeCoimbatore
102Teletubbies (Ritvik, Venkat, Mollika)18SchoolBangalore
103And Then There Were Two…17CollegeChennai
104Allen, Nagaratna, Poorva, Sachin17CollegeBangalore
105The Expendables - IISc (Sriram, Sriram, Aditya, Terrence)17CollegeBangalore
106Sherlock & Watson (Devwrat, Martik)17CollegeChandigarhCity Winner
107Galli Ke Bache (Mukund, Fardeen, Vartik)17CollegeDelhi
108Onights (Kratu, Akshat, Bishal, Ankush)17CollegeDelhi
109Yeddy's Buddies the Reddies (Mani, Kripa Karan)17OpenBangalore
110Neeraj, Abhishek, Prem, Aashish16CollegeBangalore
111CETianz (Ananthu Ravi, Bony Raju, Arathy Anil, Adarsh K)16CollegeTrivandrum
11251 Shades of Gray (Wasim, Parantap, Nishant)16CollegeBhubaneswar
113Why You Ask? (Venkataramana, Sandeep, Madhurya, Unni)16OpenBangalore
114Prof and Studs16OpenThrissur
115Magis (Aditchandra, Prahlad, Vignesh, Ganesh)16SchoolTrivandrum
116Why So Serious? (Arunabha, Ashwin, Pranav, Praneeth)15CollegeBangalore
117IIT Guwahati (Argha Sen, Saswati Dutta, Sriram and Kartikeya)15CollegeGuwahati
118The Dirty Dozen, except we're 4 (Saikat, Abhinav, Khetan, Mishra)15CollegePune
119In Last Place (Achuth, Basil, Gooth, Sajad)15CollegeTrivandrum
120Whatever! (Rahul, Saurabh)15CollegeDelhi
121Pritheesh, Bharat, Aditya, Ashwin15OpenChennai
122Ye Kya Bakchodi Hai (Bhaskar Sharma, Maharnab Hazarika, Sonika Dhingra and Deepjyoti Deka)15OpenGuwahati
123Blank (Shubham Tiwari, Viola Rodrigues)15OpenGoa
124Old Hobbits Die Hard (Archit, Arnav, Udit)15OpenDelhi
125Team Singularity (Sangeeth, Bharath, Jithin, Vamsee Krishna)15SchoolTrivandrum
126Auto (Nishant, Arvind, Akshay, Irfan)14CollegeBangalore
12750 Cells of Grey (Satwik Raut, Kalpit Mohanty, Bivash Rath, Akash Choudhury)14CollegeBhubaneswar
128The Metasuitic Macaques (Akshay Rege, Namrata Pai, Nitish Fatarpekar, Rahul Padgaonkar)13CollegeGoa
129IISER-M (Abhishek Mishra, Prabhanjan B)13CollegeChandigarh
130Pun Da Cheese (Devajyoti, Arunkumar, Sabrinath, Alvi)13OpenBangalore
131The Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Souvik, Prajwal)13OpenPune
132SJBHS13SchoolBangalore
133Pitch Please!12CollegeBangalore
134Kalinga Kulangara (Sampad Pattanaik, Debashish Pradhan, Rashmi, Shakti)12CollegeBhubaneswar
135Quiz Mafia12CollegeThrissur
136The Quizzessential Underdogs12OpenBhubaneswar
137Kumaraguru College of Technology (Nivethan, Jiju, Sriram, Vishwanathan)11CollegeCoimbatore
138Untitled (Siddharth, Yash)11CollegeHyderabad
139Untitled (Jeswin, Madhusudhan, Bhargav, Sasipriya)11OpenHyderabad
140Mission Impossible11OpenThrissur
141Does Grey Matter? (Novoneel, Kunal, Tushant, Anirudh)11SchoolHyderabad
142The Twosome10OpenBangalore
143Ashim Saikia and Krishanu Bhargav10OpenGuwahati
144Four Boys (Harsh Hegde, Leander Paes, Sahil Ramchandani, Zibane Paes)10SchoolGoa
145Jurassic Sparks (Ashwin Mascarenhas, Ayush Kanyal, Chaitanya Naik, C. H. Siddhant)10SchoolGoa
1464 Angry Men10SchoolBangalore
147Blitzkrieg (Kaushik, Samuel, Amruta, Rajshri)9CollegeCoimbatore
148? (Vasishta, Balaji, Ravi, Ashok)9OpenHyderabad
149Looney Tunes (Nilesh, Saurav)9OpenHyderabad
150Dream 4 (Mahesh, Anand, Mahendra Balu, Jeethu)9SchoolTrivandrum
151And In The Last Place9SchoolBangalore
152Team Nova8CollegeThrissur
153Novizio (Ravikant, Prateek, Rohit, Aniket)7CollegePune
154Kurious Kolaveri Kuizzers7OpenChennai
155We Rock!!! (Arpita Nath, Vibhu Joshi)7OpenChandigarh
156Why So Serious? (Dev D, Anurag)7OpenChandigarh
157Infy Irregulars (Sumanth, Tejal, Harshit)7OpenHyderabad
158People of Kovai - SBOA school (Vishnu, Tony, Subash, Sathya Mukesh)7SchoolCoimbatore
159Priya Marie Biscuit (Pariya Desai, Mary Williams)7SchoolChandigarh
160Zhizhu (Srikanth, Ashish, Manoaj)6CollegeChandigarh
161Whats Vaku (Udit, Ashutosh, Kush)6CollegeDelhi
162Last Minutes6OpenBangalore
163Frozen Minds Team (Kuldeep Singh, Hitesh Kambaj)6OpenChandigarh
164Whats App?? (Rashmi Jain, Arpit Porwal, Diksha Jain)5OpenChandigarh
165Gurpreet & Abhijit Ke Chaske (Gurpreet, Abhijeet)5OpenChandigarh
166The Devils of Gahanna (Amit Bikram)5OpenHyderabad
167Jeevan & Co. (Jeevan Naik, Kishor Naik, Rohil Paes, Savio Paes)4OpenGoa
168Vizard (Shivam, Vatsal, Teja)3CollegeDelhi
169Gatecrasher (Asif Kalam)3OpenTrivandrum
170Yasha - KCTBS (Sri Hari, Mohan, Sathish, Adithya)2CollegeCoimbatore
171The Apocalyptic Crypti (Saumya, Neha, Garima, Priyanka)2CollegeChandigarh
172Spartans2SchoolBangalore
173Parul and Shiva2SchoolChandigarh
174Geniuses (Abhay, Akshay, Shambu, Siddhant)1SchoolGoa
175Sushil, Brijesh0OpenChandigarh

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

Quiz Dubai’s Open Solo Quiz – Registration

List of registered participants for the Quiz Dubai Open Solo Quiz being held in Bangalore on 2 December 2012 at 2pm.

Venue: The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Online registrations are now closed, you may register at the venue given enough space and extra question papers.

No. Name Category
1. Arul Mani Open
2. Santosh Swaminathan Open
3. Sohan Open
4. Rohit College
5. Thejaswi Udupa Open
6. Rikki Watts Open
7. Sumeer Kumar Open
8. Rohit Rao College
9. Arun Hiregange Open
10. Animesh Kashinath Open
11. Rahul Girish Kumar Open
12. Anand M S Open
13. Vinay Nair Karath Open
14. Ramesh Open
15. Maitrey Deshpande College
16. Vijay Open
17. Venkatesh Srinivasan Open
18. Rahul Jadhav Open
19. Alagarsamy Open
20. Siddarth Krishnakumar Open
21. Hari Shenoy Open
22. Jyotirmoy Bhattacharjee Open
23. Vinod Rajamani Open
24. Aditya Open
25. Siddarth Pai College
26. Anand Bharadwaj College
27. Siddharth Ravi Open
28. Swetha Sampath Ladies
29. Ezra Rynjah College
30. V.chandrashekar Open
31. Nihal Harish College
32. Mahesh Open
33. Mike Amato Open
34. Venkatesh Joshi Open
35. Anustup Datta Open
36. Anubhav Sarathy Open
37. Hrishikesh Varma Open
38. Varun Rajiv Open
39. Jithin Jacob Open
40. Derek Ahern Open
41. Dave G. Open
42. Azentek Open
43. Prasanth John Abraham College
44. Alvi John Open
45. Jeydev C S College
46. Krishnan N.v.s Open
47. Karthik Open
48. Navin Rajaram Open
49. Mayank Mehra Open
50. Deepak Thomas College
51. Sandeep Albert Mathias Open

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.

ABBA Ke Zamane Mein & Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open – Results

The results of two Open Quizzes held on Sunday 21 October at the first floor hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I: Abba Ke Zamane Mein

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

1. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & VR) – 155
2. Baldies (Borun & Appu) – 130
3. Sumer & Anil Raghavan – 120
4. Konga & Khadia – 100
5. Mitesh & Santosh – 95
6. Raju & Vinod – 85
7. Navin & Kivi – 75
8. Venky & Ashwan – 50
9. Sohan & Santha – 45

EVENT II: The XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz

QMs: Landmark Venky & Kivi

1. Nexus (Alagarsamy, Konga, Ashwan, Navin) – 191.5
2. MQ (Mitesh, Santosh, Borun & team) – 185
3. Waltwo (Ochintya, Appu, Sandeep Mathias, Rohit) – 184
4. Raju, Nishanth, Nitish, Sohan – 151.5
5. Questionable Characters (DD, Hiranyappa & team) – 134
6. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, Raouf, VR, Jithin) – 119
7. Insert Cool Name Here (Yogesh, Anil, Dr. Krishnan, Jaidev) – 106
8. IQL (Sana, Patrick, Vinod, Vijay) – 64

Quizzes on Sunday 21 October 2012

We will hold two Open Quizzes on Sunday 21 October at the first floor hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.

EVENT I

Abba Ke Zamane Mein

A quiz on the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani

Rules

Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Free entry for school and college teams

Schedule

Prelims: 1130hrs
Finals: 1230hrs-1400hrs

Prizes for the top three teams.

EVENT II

The XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz

conducted by Team Nexus, led by Landmark Venky.

Rules

Open to all
Teams of 4 members
Entry fee: Rs. 100/- team
Free entry for school and college teams–this concession does not extend to mixed teams

Schedule

Prelims: 1500-1600hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1830hrs

Prizes for all finalists

Snatch Clean Jerk, Pilferages, Persiflage – Results

The results of the KQA open quizzes held on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Event I: Snatch, Clean, Jerk, a Quiz on the Olympics

1. Appudu (Arun Hiregange & Thejaswi Udupa) – 31
2. ICNH (Manu Sudhakar & Anil Raghavan) – 27
3. Radians (Raju & Wimpy) – 24.1 (by tie-break)
4. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & team) – 24
5. Swami – 23.5
6. Cunning Stunts (Justin & Arjo) – 22
8. Sin & Tonic (SriKrishna & Sandeep) – 12.5
7. Sandeep Kumar – 12.5

QMs: Manish Achuth and Rajan TR

Event II: Pilferages, a written Lit Quiz

QM: Arul Mani

1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 34.5
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 28.5
3. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 28
4. Debashree & Co – 27
5. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 21
6. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 19
7. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Alagarsamy) & Motley Crew – tied on 18.5

Event III: Persiflage, the Annual Book Quiz sponsored by Blossom Book House

QM: Arul Mani

1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 320
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 290
3. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 265
4. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 240
5. Motley Crew (Rajagopal & team) – 227.5
6. Debashree, Dhammo & Co – 190
7. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 172.5
8. RHC (Urmila & team) – 155

Quizzes on Sunday 30 September 2012

A quick reminder of the KQA open quizzes scheduled for Sunday, 30 September 2012. The venue is the hall on the first floor at Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.

Event I
Snatch, Clean, Jerk
A Quiz on the Olympics

Rules
Written quiz for teams of two members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for the top three teams

Schedule
1130hrs onwards

QMs: Manish Achuth and Rajan TR

Some of us at KQA would like to compliment the quiz-masters on their choice of title, particularly for the neat insertion of the highly distracting term ‘clean’.

Event II
Pilferages

And what the duck is that? Largely a case of Life imitating Art. After someone made a crack about Persiflage being Persiflage last year on the Good Book online (aka AJM) , and somebody else pointed out that Pilferages was a neat anagram for the title, we decided that we should have two book quizzes going in opposite directions on the same day.

Rules
Written quiz for teams of two members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for the top three teams

Schedule
1400hrs-1445hrs

QM: Arul Mani

Event III
Persiflage
The Annual Book Quiz sponsored by Blossom Book House

Rules
Teams of four members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 100/- per team, free for school teams (up to Std. XII)
Prizes for all finalists

Schedule
1515hrs-1845hrs

QM: Arul Mani

ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 3 Results

With only two quizzes scheduled for the 3rd day of ASKQANCE, we began a little later in the day. This also meant some of us could get a precious extra hour or two of sleep before turning up for the quizzes.

SON OF LUMIERE – OPEN FILM QUIZ

QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange

With almost every question containing video or audio clips, this quiz was literally packed with entertainment. The question ranged over different eras of cinema and covered the gamut of cinema from Bollywood to Hollywood to foreign languages to Indian regional.

The team calling themselves Keep Distance topped the preliminary round with an astounding 30 out of a possible 36 points. They went on to come second in the final round, but were always close on the heels of the eventual winners, Metaquizziks.

  1. Metaquizziks – 185 points.
  2. Keep Distance – 165 points.
  3. Travelling Pillsburies – 130 points.
  4. Waltobama – 105 points.
  5. Insignificant Others – 100 points.
  6. Cunning Stunts – 85 points.
  7. Inglorious Bastard Son of Lumiere – 80 points.
  8. We May Die But It’s Worth It – 80 points.

AWARDS

The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was presented to Ms. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka from Kolkata for being the top scorer in Mahaquizzer 2012. Ms. Mohanka has been consistently among the top few scores for the past few years and her winning the trophy this year also makes her the first lady to win it in the short history of Mahaquizzer.

The KQA Founders’ Trophy was presented to QED (Jayakanthan, Samanth S, Gopal Kidao & Swaminathan G) from Chennai, the team that won the finals of Mega-Whats held on June 30.

SESAME, OPEN! QUIZ

QM: Arul Mani

The annual open quiz held at ASKQANCE sees participation from the best teams from across the country and so the prelims are not just high scoring but also hard fought for the 8 places in the finals. The final line up this year had teams from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore with a team from Goa just missing the qualification mark.

The finals proved to be both interesting in content and exciting in competition as teams frequently changed places in the scoring. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan & Kiran Vijaykumar) from Bangalore overtook QED early in the quiz but then slumped for a while before finally finishing second. QED, the eventual winners lagged for a bit too but then pounced on a series of questions in the fourth round to create and unassailable lead. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and Thejaswi Udupa) from Bangalore who were placed last for a couple of rounds bounced back spectacularly towards the end of the quiz to pip the Kolkata team Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Shouvik Guha & Anil Vaswani) by 5 points for third place.

Click the graph below for an idea of how the teams’ scores progressed through the quiz.

Score graph at Sesame, ASKQANCE 2012

  1. QED – 275 points.
  2. Metaquizziks – 225 points.
  3. We Are Like This Wonly – 215 points.
  4. Hammer and Tongs – 210 points.
  5. Travelling Pillsburies – 205 points.
  6. Champions of Breakfast – 135 points.
  7. Mad O’Wot – 130 points.
  8. Dilli Ke Thugs – 115 points.

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.

  1. We Are Like This Wonly – 285 points.
  2. Travelling Pilsburies – 255 points.
  3. Dilli Ke Thugs – 215 points.
  4. Mad O’Wot – 200 points.
  5. Metaquizziks – 185 points.
  6. Mega-WTFS – 130 points.
  7. Cunning Stunts – 115 points.
  8. 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.

  1. Insert Cool Name Here – 104 points.
  2. We Are Like This Wonly –  104 points.
  3. Pouncing As Science (aka Metaquizziks) – 95 points.
  4. Nexus – 77 points.
  5. Questionable Characters – 64 points.
  6. Travelling Pillsburies –  64 points.
  7. Cunning Stunts – 47 points.
  8. 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.

  1. Insignificant Others – 235 points.
  2. Flibberti-Kibitz – 175 points.
  3. Swami Obamananda – 165 points.
  4. We Are Like This Wonly – 160 points.
  5. CIDs from Mumbai/Kerala – 155 points.
  6. Untitled – 130 points.
  7. MAAZ FC – 125 points.
  8. 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.

  1. QED – 390 points.
  2. Insignificant Others – 265 points.
  3. Dilli Ke Thugs – 250 points.
  4. We Are Like This Wonly – 237.5 points.
  5. Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 215 points.
  6. Travelling Pillsburies – 215 points.
  7. Hammer and Tongs – 190 points.
  8. 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.

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