Inter College Quiz, Hubbub-a and KD’s Open Quiz – Results
The results of the three quizzes on Saturday 21 August 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Ranking Intercollegiate Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. BMSCE (Santosh Swaminathan) – 75
2. RVCE (Sudarshan & team) – 70
3. BITS Pilani Goa (Ajay, Lakshmy, Varun) – 55
4. MSRIT – 50
5. NLS (Pranav) & RVCE (Nakul & team) – both tied on 40
7. RNSIT (Abhin, Nitin, Rohit) – 25
8. IIITB (Sandeep Mathias, Vinu, Joseph Jeffrey) – 15
EVENT II: Hubbub-a, The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Karthik Shashidhar & Rajeev Gowda – 30
2. Arul Mani & Mitesh Agarwal – 27
3. Vinay & Kedar – 23.5
4. Nishanth & Rajath – 22.5
5. Thejas V.R. & Shreyas G. – 21
6. Pranav & Sudarshan M.A. – 20.5
7. Chaitanya & Nakul – 19.5
8. V. Chandrashekar – 18
EVENT III: Ranking Open Quiz
QMs: Rahul Kottalgi and other members of Keep Distance
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan) – 210
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 205
3. Alagarsamy, Rajagopal and team – 145
4. Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram, Praveen, Ashwan Lewis – 105
5. Shashank, Pranesh, Abhishek and team / Urmila and team – both tied on 90
7. Siddarth Kuruvilla and team – 75
8. Aditi, Aditya, Sai Ganesh, Sohan – 55
Quizzes on Saturday 21 Aug 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Saturday 21 August 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
Ranking Intercollegiate Quiz
Teams of three members from the same institution
Cap of two teams per college in the finals
Rs. 50/- per team
Open to PUC, Degree and PG teams
Schedule:
Prelims: 1030hrs (after registration)
Finals: 1130hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes for all finalists
EVENT II
Hubbub-a
The Bangalore Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
50 questions written
Open to all
Rs. 50 per team
1400-1500hrs
EVENT III
Ranking Open Quiz
QMS: Rahul Kottalgi and other members of Keep Distance
Open to all
Teams of 4
Rs. 50/- per team
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1830hrs
Prizes for all finalists
ASKQANCE 2010 – Results
The KQA celebrated the 27th Anniversary of its founding with ASKQANCE 2010 – a two-day festival of Open Quizzing. Here are the results:
Day One (19th June 2010)
Event I
By Hooke or by Crookes: Open Science Quiz
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Vivek Kartikeyan.
1. QED (Swami, Samanth, JK)
2. Who Rekha? (Rajagopal, Rajiv Rai, Lakshmi, Gopal Kidao)
3. Ramanan, Sankhya, Vijay, Sreeram
4. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar, Arul Mani)
5. Neo Nexus (Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Kaustuba Venugopal, Venky, Ashwan Lewis)
6. We Are Like This Wonly (Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta & Gautam Ghosh)
7. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Avinash Mudaliar, Anil Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar)
8. Try Why Ya (Abhishek, Srikanth, Akhil)
Event II
Hoarse Latitudes: Open Travel Quiz
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander, Mitesh Agarwal and Dibyendu Das.
1. Swami & Samanth – 131
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 121
3. Dharmendra & Vikram Joshi – 111
4. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka & Dr. Bhattacharya – 107
5. Ochintya Sharma & Arun Hiregange – 106
6. Rajagopal & Alagarsamy – 88
7. Rajiv Rai & Gopal Kidao – 81
8. Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar – 77
Event III
Son of Lumiere: Open Movie Quiz
QMs: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange.
1. Mitesh Agarwal & Varun Rajiv – 170
2. Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar – 165
3. Samanth & JK – 150
4. TK Balaji & Gopal Kidao – 145
5. Rahul S Kottalgi & Nishanth R – 135
6. Santosh Swaminathan & Kaustuba Venugopal – 105
7. Ochintya Sharma & Thejaswi Udupa – 85
8. Dharmendra & Movin Miranda – 80
Day Two (20th June 2010)
Event IV
Kibitz Simple: Open Sports and Leisure Quiz
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S.
1. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 151
2. Rajiv Rai & Sumant Srivathsan – 135
3. Swami & Samanth – 124
4. Suvajit & Yash – 114
5. Wimpy & Baada – 101
6. Anil & Alagarsamy – 80
7. Ochintya Sharma & Movin Miranda – 66
8. Rohit & Yaggy – 65
Event V
Sesame: The Open Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Feni Vidi Vici Vivek (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Rajiv D’Silva, Vivek Krishnan, Chirag Mutgi) – 170
2. QED (Jayakanthan, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan, Samanth) – 165
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta & Ochintya Sharma) – 160
4. Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Behind (Ajay, Arvind, Balaji, Roshan) – 150
5. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Kiran Vijayakumar, Rajagopal PS) – 140
6. Travelling Pillsburys (Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tiwari, Sumant Srivathsan, Vikram Joshi) – 125
7. InManiacs (Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Gautam Ghosh, Sarat Rao, Anirudh Chari) & Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul Kottalgi, Nishanth R, Harry) – both tied on 120
Event VI
KQA Founders’ Trophy Quiz: Face-off between Mega-Whats city-winners
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijayakumar.
1. QED (Chennai) – 128.5
2. WALTWo (Bangalore) – 104.5
3. Travelling Pillsburies (Mumbai) – 94
4. InManiacs (Kolkata) – 91.5
5. Telangana Is An Oily Song (New Delhi) – 77.5
6. Swami and Friends (Hyderabad) – 72
7. Feni Vidi Vici (Goa) – 61.5
8. Insert Uncool Name Here (Thrissur) – 58.5
9. Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Pune) – 20
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/-
Solus Rex Finals, Yell! Iruve and Lone Wolf – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 9th May 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Solus Rex Finals on Indian Scientists & Mathematicians + Fictional Detectives
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
1. Anustup Datta – 370
2. Ochintya Sharma – 267.5
3. Harish R. – 220
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 195
Yell Iruve! – A quiz featuring plants, animals, insects and other life forms
QM: Arul Mani
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 28
2. Vivek Karthikeyan & Megha Shenoy – 23
3. Ochintya Sharma & Arun Hiregange – 21
4. Sumeer & Dr. Krishnan – 18
5. Aditya & Hussein – 17
6. Harry & Santosh – 16
7. Mitesh Agarwal & Venkatesh S. / Ajay & Ashwan – both on 14
KQA Lone Wolf
QMs: An all-women team led by Urmila Lakshmanan
1. Arul Mani – 89
2. Anustup Datta – 79
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 69
4. Arun Hiregange – 58
5. Rajagopal – 39
6. Aravind – 25
7. Mitesh Agarwal – 24
8. Gautam Shenoy – 14
Open Sports Quiz, Non-Fiction Quiz, BIZKASHI – Results
The results of the three open quizzes held on Sunday 25th April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Open Sports Quiz
QMs: Varun Rajiv & Ishaan Ghosh
1. Motley Crew – 156
2. Ramkey, Sairam, Vijay TSR, Debashish – 137
3. Nishanth, Jose, Hussain, Adi – 130
4. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Venkatesh S, Arun Hiregange) – 122
5. KD (Rahul, Harry & team) – 117
6. Geek & Team – 107
7. The Royal Reds (Gautam ND, Sudarshan MA, Varun, Vineet Raj) – 82
8. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Dibyendu Das, Vinay Das & team) – 60
The Non-Fiction Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Medium Mussolinis (Jayakanthan & Alagar Swamy) – 30
2. Venkatesh & Ravi Mundoli – 28
3. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 22
4. Thejaswi Udupa & Mitesh Agarwal – 20
5. Eashaan & Santosh – 19
6. Nishanth & Rahul – 18
7. Aaman Lamba & Sai Ganesh / Sidarth & Ashwan – both on 17
BIZKASHI, The Annual Business Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Varun Rajiv, Abhishek Krishnan – 95
2. Santosh J.S., Harry – 90
3. Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal – 80
4. Ajay Kasargod, Jayakanthan – 75
5. Venkatesh S., Tanmay Prusty – 70
6. Alagar Swamy, Prasad Shetty – 65
7. Ashwan Lewis, Sidharth Kuruvila – 55
8. Fat and Happy (Abhinav, Anirudh S.) – 15
Ideas Quiz and MQ Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz – Results
The results of the two open quizzes held on Sunday 11th April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The Dr. C.P. Venkatesh Memorial Quiz in The History of Ideas.
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander and Arul Mani.
1. Dr. Krishnan & Vardhan W. – 55
2. AppDupa (Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 45
3. Triskaidekaphobia (Tanmay Prusty, Sumer Agarwal) – 35
4. Ashwan, Yogish – 30
5. Harry, King of the Philistines – 15
6. Santosh J.S. / No Idea (Rahul & team) – tied on 10
8. Nexus (Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha Shenoy) – 5
The Metaquizziks XXth Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz.
QMs: Varun Rajiv and Arul Mani.
1. Subrat, Ashwan, Vijay – 80
2. Sai, Aditi, Sneha, Varun – 65 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Rajasekhar, Rahul Girish Kumar – 65 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Seedless Groundnuts (Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram, Abhishek, Akhil) / Ajay, Urmila, Shiv, Nilaw – tied on 65
6. Who’s Soda’s Daddy (Siri, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) – 45
7. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat) – 30
8. Goat Boyz (Chaitanya, Nakul, Abhishek, Umang) – -10
Quizzes on Sunday 9 May 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 9th May 2010 at the Arakere Hall, Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Solus Rex Finals
Topics
1. Fictional Detectives
i.e. created in books. Those which started off in movies or comics not included.
2. Indian Scientists and Mathematicians
i.e. those of Indian origin. Foreign scientists who worked here or were born here are not included. Indians who were born abroad or worked abroad are included.
The Finalists
Rahul Kottalgi, Harish R., Debashree Mitra, Anustup Datta, and Ochintya Sharma
The Quizmasters
Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
Prizes
Rs. 1000/- for the winner and Rs. 500/- for the other finalists
Best Questions
Members, with the exception of the finalists, are welcome to send in questions on these topics. While these will not be used in the finals, the quiz-masters will pick the five best questions from the entries received. Book-coupons of Rs. 500/- each will be awarded to the winners chosen thus.Please send questions to arunhire@yahoo. com
1000hrs -1230hrs
LUNCH-BREAK 1200hrs-1330hrs
EVENT II
Yell Iruve!
A quiz featuring plants, animals, insects and other life forms–dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal.
100 questions
1330-1500hrs
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
KQA Lone Wolf
Open to all individual contestants
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1800hrs
The quiz will be anchored by an all-women team led by Urmila Lakshmanan.
Prizes: Rs. 500/-. Rs. 350/-, Rs. 250/- and prizes for all finalists.
Quizzes on Sunday 25 April 2010
The Synergy Sports Quiz prelims will be held on Sunday, 25th April at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Please note that this event will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.
The quiz is for individuals and prior registration is essential. If you have had any problems registering , please contact Mitesh Agarwal (mitesh.agarwal@ gmail.com) .
The schedule:
1130-1200hrs.
Participants must report at the venue by 1045hrs with valid ID and entry ticket.
Three KQA quizzes will also be held at the same venue during the day.
EVENT I
Open Sports Quiz
QM; Varun Rajiv
Rules
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/-
Schedule
Prelims 1000hrs sharp
Finals: 1200 to 1330hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1330-1430hrs
EVENT II
The Non-Fiction Quiz
Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-
Written , with 50 questions
1430hrs-1530hrs
QM: Arul Mani
Prizes: Rs.1500, Rs. 1000 and Rs. 750/-
EVENT III
BIZKASHI
The Annual Business Quiz
Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500.
Prelims: 1530-1615hrs
Finals: 1645-1830hrs
QM: Arul Mani
IMPORTANT
Please note that the above events will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.
Quizzes on Sunday 11 April 2010
We will hold three open quizzing events on Sunday 11 April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
The Dr. C.P. Venkatesh Memorial Quiz in The History of Ideas.
RULES
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for top three teams
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander and Arul Mani.
SCHEDULE
Prelims: 10 am sharp
Finals for 8 teams: 11-1230hrs
LUNCHBREAK: 1230-1330hrs
EVENT II
The Non-Fiction Quiz
Roughly Popular Science Writing, Popular History, Travel-Writing, Narrative Journalism and Biography.
50 questions in writing
Teams of two members
Prizes for top three teams
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule: 1330-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Metaquizziks XXth Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz.
Open to teams of four
These teams cannot participate: MQ, WALTWO, KD, QED, Mustafa, ICNH, Nexus, Triska (Sumeer, Prusty et al)
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.
Schedule: 1500-1830hrs
