Quizzes on Sunday 30 January 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday, 30 January 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I
Solus Rex Semifinals
Semi-Final 3 : Asian Festivals
Thejaswi Udupa
Santosh Swaminathan
Rajagopal P.S.
Maitrey Deshpande
Sohan
Semi-Final 4 : History of Manned Spaceflight
Anustup Datta
Rahul S. Kottalgi
Hrishi Varma
Praveen V.R.
Raouf
The Solus Rex semis will start at 1015 hrs and end by about 1pm.
Event II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
The Speculative Fiction Quiz
Written
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for the top three teams
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
Schedule: 1400-1530hrs
Event III
Graphick Rampage
The Comics Quiz
QM: Satyajit Chetri
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for the top three teams.
Schedule: 1530hrs-1830hrs
Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Quiz, Yell Iruve! and Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: The 17th Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
QMs: Kaustuba Venugopal and Gautam Shenoy
1. MSRIT (Abhishek, Srikant, Maitrey) – 85
2. RVCE (Chaitanya, Nakul, Gautam) – 80
3. RNSIT (Ashish, Amit, Shankar) – 75
4. RVCE (Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj, Rahul Gupta) – 55
5. NLS (Kartikeya, Rohan) – 35
6. NLS – 20
7. FAPS (Pranav, Jaydev) / IIITB (Sandeep Mathias) – tied on 5
EVENT II: Yell Iruve!, the quiz dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal’s growing appreciation of Kingdom Animalia
QM: Arul Mani
1. Anustup Datta / Kaustuba & Ashwan – tied on 17
3. Ochintya & Appu – 16
4. Sandeep Mathias & Maitrey – 14
5. Megha & Kiwi – 13
6. Amit R. & Ashish R.S. – 11
7. Sumeer & Dr. Krishnan – 10
8. Sudarshan M.A. & Vijay Ramesh – 9
Note: In the quiz dedicated to him, Mitesh Agarwal justified his billing by scoring 1 point along with his teammate Landmark Venky
EVENT III: The 21st Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky and Vivek Kartikeyan
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan) – 201
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 178
3. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Praveen V.R., Hiranyappa, Sumeer) – 153
4. KD – 152
5. Rashmi, Aditi, Abid, Varuna – 109
6. Why So Curious?+eureQa! (Navin Rajaram, Ashwan, Kaustuba, G. Sreekanth) / Anti CIDs (Yogish Kamath, Thomas Jacob, Naveen Giles, Chandan) – tied on 99
8. Serendipity (Sinchana, Harsha, Raouf, Abhishek) – 66
Quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 16 January 2011 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events:
EVENT I
The 17th Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial Intercollegiate Quiz
RULES
Open to XI/XII, Undergraduate and PG teams
Teams of three members
Mixed teams not allowed
Unlimited entries per institution in the prelims
Maximum of two teams from the same college in the finals
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2250/-, Rs. 1500/- plus prizes for all finalists.
From this year onwards, we will allow interested school teams to sit for college events.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1230hrs
QMs: Kaustuba Venugopal and Gautam Shenoy
EVENT II
Yell Iruve!
The quiz dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal’s growing appreciation of Kingdom Animalia
Written quiz
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Schedule: 1400hrs-1530hrs
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
EVENT III
The 21st Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes:
Rs. 1200/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 800, plus prizes for all finalists.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs to 1830hrs
QMs: Landmark Venky and Vivek Kartikeyan
We have another quizzing Sunday in January: three events on the 30th including Solus Rex Semi-Finals, Udupa’s long-name Speculative Fiction quiz, and one Specialist Open Quiz.
Solus Rex Semis, Sense Of Femur and From CD to DC Open Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists.
EVENT I: Solus Rex Semifinals
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 280
2. Keshav – 165
3. Vivek Karthikeyan – 95
4. Sandeep Mathias – 85
5. G. Sreekanth – didn’t turn up
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
1. Sudarshan M.A. – 175
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 170
3. Nakul P.S. – 145
4. Venkatesh S. – 120
5. Roshan N. Bhoj – didn’t turn up
The two winners qualify for the finals. Mitesh Agarwal is currently the best loser who gets into the finals, based on various factors like margin of defeat, %age of total points scored and absolute score.
EVENT II: The Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur
QM: Arul Mani
1. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 55
2. Red Pan Humour, Da (Varun Rajiv & Mitesh Agarwal) – 42
3. Landmark Venky Has A Porn ‘stache (Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange) – 38
4. Swami & Raju – 35
5. Ochintya & Tups – 32
6. Eureqa! (Sreekanth G. & Satyajit Chetri) – 28
7. A Marxist of the Groucho Kind – 20
EVENT III: Ranking Specialist Open Quiz, From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy – The way we were and the way we are
QMs: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan
1. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Varun, Santosh, Arul) – 206
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup, Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu) – 205
3. Holy Nexus (Gautham, Rajagopal, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S.) – 159
4. KD + Swami – 137
5. Eureqa! (Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth, Shamanth Rao, Satyajit Chetri) – 131
6. Flight of the Vayu Vajras (Aditya, Abhishek, Sohan, Karthik) – 122
7. Other CIDs from Kerala (KP, Ravi, Abid, Roshith) – 107
8. Desperately Seeking Qualification (Sana, Pantan, Vinod & Sumeer) – 92
Mega-Whats 2010: KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship
This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship.
The quiz will be held across ten cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Coimbatore and Kolkata
The details:
Date: Sunday, 12 December 2010
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani
1. General quiz, open to all.
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2010 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Tuesday 7th December 2010. Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.
11. Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.
13. The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.
14. We will rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.
16. The city-winners will face off in June 2011 as part of the KQA 28th Anniversary.
For more details, please call 97312-14519
VENUES
Bangalore
First Floor, Institute of Agricultural Technologists
Queen’s Road
Bangalore
Contact: Mitesh Agarwal (98452-59423)
Chennai
PS Senior Secondary school,
# 33, Alarmelmangapuram,
Mylapore,Chennai 600004
Contact: Jayakanthan (94444-43347)
Coimbatore
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu Coimbatore
Contact: Arjun (09944709086)
Hyderabad
Landmark Store,
Road No 12,
Banjara Hills
Hyderabad.
Contact: Nitish Khadiya (91-98856-79460)
Kolkata
Unitedworld School of Business
Infinity Benchmark Tower
10th floor, Plot G1, Block EP&GP
Sector-V, Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091
Contact: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee (91-98363-44694)
Mumbai
Hall, 6th floor, Management College,
IES MCRC “Vishwakarma” M.D. Lotlikar Vidya Sankul,
791, S. K. Marg,
Bandra Reclamation (Opp Lilavati hospital),
Mumbai – 400 050
Contact: Vibhendu (9820410952)
Panaji
The International Centre – Goa,
Dona Paula, Panaji.
Pune
Seminar Hall II
(Next to main Auditorium),
College of Engineering, Pune (COEP),
Shivajinagar, Pune-5
Contact: Mohit Karve (9890777964)
Thrissur
Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute,
Near Shakthan Thampuran Bus Stand,Thrissur 680005
Contact: Arun AS (09895859164)
Quizzes on Sunday 28 November 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists
EVENT I
Solus Rex Semifinals
The lineups and topics for the first two semifinals are given below.
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
Qualifiers unable to make it on the 28th will be allowed to sit for the second set of semis IF another qualifier from the second set drops out.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Prizes: Rs. 500 for the winner and Rs. 250 for the other semi-finalists.
TIME: 1000hrs-1230hrs
EVENT II
The postponed Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur, if the QM’s femur holds up.
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Ranking Specialist Open Quiz
CD to DC- the last 201 years by UL and KS.
From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy- The way we were and the way we are.
Quizmasters: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan.
Teams of four members.
Open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs
Prizes
Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein and Open Quiz – Results
The results of two quizzes held on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein, a quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
1. Arun Hiregange & Movin Miranda – 157.5
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 140
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Nishanth – 105
4. Rajagopal & Pallavi – 90
5. eureQa! (G. Sreekanth & Alagarsamy) / Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das & Praveen) – both tied on 85
7. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma & Jithin Jacob) – 77.5
8. Non-Aligned Quizzers (Rajeev Gowda & Urmila) – 75
Event II: The October Open Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 155
2. eureQa! (Satyajit Chetri, Rajagopal, Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth) – 135
3. Questionable Characters (Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Praveen) – 125
4. Keep Distance (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Nishanth, Rajath & team) – 120
5. Santosh Swaminathan, Sohan, Husain Poonawalla, Gautham – 110
6. Sandeep Mathias & team – 85
7. Why So Curious (Ashwan, Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram & Pallavi) – 80
8. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jithin Jacob, Raouf & team) – 60
Quizzes on Sunday 24 October 2010
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein
A quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s.
Rules
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
Prelims: 1015-1100hrs
Finals: 1130-1330hrs
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
Event II
The October Open Quiz
Rules
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1200/-, Rs 1000/- and Rs. 800/- plus prizes for all finalists
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
IF the first quiz finishes on time we will hold an intercalary written quiz on comedy and laughter titled Sense A Femur.
Teams of two members
50 written questions
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule
Sense of Femur: 1400-1500hrs
Registrations for Open Quiz: 1500hrs
Open Quiz Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs.
Sense A Femur will otherwise be put up on Slideshare.
Open Quiz, Eff Glorious Eff, Persiflage – Results
The results of three open quizzes on Sunday 26 September 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: KQA Open Ranking Quiz
QM: Kaustuba K.V.
1. KD – 175
2. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Arul Mani) – 159
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 119
4. Abhishek Krishnan, Manish, Sohan, Sarim – 100
5. Ashwan, Sairam, Supratim & team – 50
6. Questionable Characters (G.S. Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das & team) – 45
7. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishikesh Varma & team) – 40
8. Rajat, Jayant, Prithwiraj, Pallavi – 20
EVENT II: Eff, Glorious Eff, The Food Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Mitesh Agarwal & Santosh Swaminathan – 25.5
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 25
3. Thejaswi Udupa & Ochintya Sharma – 22
4. Rahul Kottalgi & Manu Sudhakar – 21
5. Rajesh & Prithwiraj – 18
6. Rajagopal & Karthik – 16.5
7. Smita & Lakshana – 15.5
8. Supratim & Ashwan / Vinay & Dr. Krishnan – tied on 15
EVENT III: Persiflage, The Blossom Book House Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 112
2. Urmila, Shiv, Shobhana, Vivek – 95
3. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan & team) – 80
4. Rajagopal, Kivi, Skimpy, Rahul – 51
5. Debashree Mitra, D. Dharmendra & team / Goat Boys (Abhishek, Umang, Sandeep Mathias, Brunzo) – tied on 50
7. Mustafa (Dr. Krishnan, Vinay & team) – 45
8. Arun, Aditya, Sohan, Husain – 25
Quizzes on Sunday 26 Sept 2010
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 26 September 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
KQA Open Ranking Quiz
Rules
Open to all
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1200/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 800/-
plus prizes for all finalists
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130-1300hrs
QM: Kaustuba K.V.
EVENT II
Eff, Glorious Eff
The Food Quiz
Written quiz: 50 questions
Open to all
Teams of 2 members
Prizes: for teams finishing I, II and III
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Time: 1400-1500hrs
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
Persiflage
The Blossom Book House Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Ranking quiz, Open to all
Persiflage is a quiz on books.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes: Rs. 4000, Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2000/-, plus prizes for all finalists.
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs
We thank M/s Blossom Book House for their continuing sponsorship of the prizes for Persiflage.
