Solus Rex finals in April 2010
The Solus Rex finals will be held on a Sunday in April. The date will be announced once we have a confirmed booking.
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.
The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz
The fifth edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz will be
held on Sunday, 21 March 2010 at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram,
Bangalore.
QM: Mitesh Agarwal
Schedule
Registrations: 0930hrs
Prelims: 1000hrs
Finals: 1100-1230hrs
The Rules
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Prizes for all finalists
Those who remember Wingco are welcome to join us in a short memorial
moment immediately before the prelims (0955hrs-1000hrs) .
Lao Me Thanda, South Indian Films and Ruckus Tangdi Quizzes – Results
he results of three quizzes held on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 160
2. Nishanth & Rahul – 110
3. Rajath & Santosh – 100
4. Arun Hiregange & Anil Raghavan – 90
5. Shenoy & Venkat – 40
6. Vinod & Ananth / Aditi & Neha – tied at 30
8. Rini & Ambar – 20
Uncle’s Fault: A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
QM: Arul Mani
1. Dr. Krishnan & Anil Raghavan – 29
2. Shenoy & Venkat – 23
3. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 21
4. Arun & Raju – 18.5
5. Vinod & Ananth – 13.5
6. Sana & Patrick / Nishanth & Srikanth – tied on 13
Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: S. Venkatesh & Vivek Karthikeyan
1. Ananth, Holla, Arun Hiregange – 145
2. Cheriyan, Arun, Rajagopal – 125
3. Arul Mani, Abhay, Maitrey – 117.5
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi, Sairam, Raj Tejas – 100
5. Santosh, Kaustuba, Vinod – 87.5
6. Shenoy, Abhishek, Goutham – 77.5
7. Vijay TSR, Sudarshan, Jayanth – 70
8. Rajath, Sohan, Ambar – 70
Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa, with inputs from Dibyojyoti Haldar
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
This is the fourth of our five ranking Specialist Open quizzes for the season
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115-1315hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1315-1400hrs
EVENT II
The Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
Open to all
Teams of two members
Written: 50 questions
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1400hrs
Duration: 1415hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The Families Quiz
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
We recognise siblings, couples, parents with children, and various combinations thereof as family teams. Cousins, elaborate family trees and other such dodges are not welcome.
Members are requested to persuade spouses/parents/ children/ siblings and to turn up. Please pass the word around as well.
Open to all
Teams of three members or less.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Registrations: 1515hrs
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1615-1730hrs
Please call 97312-14519 if you need more information.
Quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
LAO ME THANDA
KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
Censorship is for finks, but the nature of the quiz requires us to restrict entry to those who are above the age of 18.
RULES
Teams of two members
Open to all (Age 18 and above)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes for I, II and III places.
QM: Arul Mani
1300hrs-1400hrs
LUNCH-BREAK
EVENT II
UNCLE’S FAULT
A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
Open to teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
50 questions
1400hrs to 1500hrs
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
General Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1800hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMS: Venky and Kivi of Nexus.
Karan Arjun Quiz for Std III and IV, Ranking High School Quiz & Seek Under Porus, The Open History Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange
Std III
1. National Public School Rajajinagar (Shravasti Sarkar, Sandhya R, Nidhi Prakash, Tanvi F) – 130
2. National Academy For Learning (Madhavi N Rao, Aryaan S Anand, Rithvik Panchapakesan, Sumedh Niyogi) – 120 (2nd by tie-break)
3. National Hill View Public School (Vignesh Srikanth, Meghana Deepali Rao, Vaishnav V Rao, Sathya Krishna KR) – 120
4. CMR National Public School (Mohith, Divya, Dhanush, Lalitha) & Innisfree House School (Raghvan, Anirudh, Aditya, Abhishek) – 120 (joint 4th)
6. Aurobindo (Ganapathi, Hima Trisha M, Prakrith Keshav, Sowmyaa) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Parvathy, Soundarya, Srikar, Sanjana) – 115 (joint 6th)
8. Aurobindo (Anoushka, Ajay, Arjun, Harsha) – 110
Std IV
1. CMR National Public School (Ria Melanie Picardo, Arkaprovo Ghosh, K. Aparna, Jatin Raghav N) – 110
2. National Hill View Public School (Suraj, Shreyas, Karthik, Srinidhi) – 105
3. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Sathvik K Bharadwaj, Arjun M, Aniruddh HM, Raghunandan Sriram) – 95 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Tanya, Parikshith, Srinath, Sindhu) – 95
5. Mallya Aditi International School (Rishika, Nikhil, Sumer, Vidisha) & National Academy For Learning (Nacheketa, Prakriti, Raaga, Akul) – 85 (joint 5th)
7. Innisfree House School (Shradda, Varsha, Snehal, Aakansh) – 80
8. National Public School Rajajinagar (HS Shashank, Varun Shah, M Sreyas, Himanshu S Jog) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Ashwin Alarparthi, Navaneeth Raghunath, Kaushik Sengupta) – 75 (joint 8th)
Ranking Inter High School Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Sri Kumaran Public School (Athith K, Subham Nandy) – 75
2. Innisfree House School (Karansinha Patil, Rushati Mukherjee) – 65
3. St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Chirag Prince, Anirudh) – 60
4. National Public School Koramangala (Kavya, Nirmal) – 45
5. Frank Anthony Public School (Mollika M, Prashanth TK) – 40
6. MESKK (Krishna Kumar, Pavan MR) – 30
7. National Public School Rajajinagar (Krishna AK, Ameya Koushik) – 25
8. National Hill View Public School (Sethupati, Parantap) – 5
Seek Under Porus : The Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
1. MetaQuizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Sandip Sen, Varun Rajiv) – 175
2. QC+Mustafa (Hiranyappa, Debashree Mitra, Dibyendu Das, Vijay TSR) – 155
3. Dirty Ghetto Kids (Harry, Rahul, Nishanth and team)- 150
4. WALTWo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 135
5. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat, Shenoy) – 95
6. Deviprasad V, Rajagopal, Subrat – 80
7. Rahul Girish Kumar and Harikrishnan A – 67.5
8. Anirudh and team – 30
Quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
1000hrs to 1200hrs
Teams of FOUR members
Two teams per school for Std II and Std IV.
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange.
EVENT II
Ranking Inter High School Quiz.
1230hrs to 1430hrs
Teams of 2 members
Two teams per school
Open to Std VIII, IX and X
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per school
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
The third of our Specialist Open Quizzes
Seek Under Porus
The much-awaited Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
1500hrs to 1830hrs
Go Ogle 2010
We will run Go Ogle, our annual online quiz on 1st Jan 2010. This is the fifth edition of the quiz.
The questions will be posted at 1600hrs and will stay up, by popular demand, till 0700hrs on 2nd January 2010.
Go Ogle is a quiz that adds a few layers of meaning to the idea of working things out–a discovery you will make when you attempt the quiz.
The quiz will be posted at our community blog Daly Haal
http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes
This year’s prizes:
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1000/-
in book-coupons from Blossom Book Shop, Bangalore.
Open to solo contestants only, irrespective of age or location. No prior registration is required–however since the blog-community is open only to members, please make sure your membership has been approved before 1 Jan 2010. More details in the next paragraph.
If you are interested in signing up–please create a Livejournal account for yourself. Once you have completed this process–similar to opening an email account–you can send a request for inclusion in the community (please include your given name, the name you are using on Livejournal and the city that you wish to appear from) to arul.mani@gmail. com.
Mega-Whats 2009: All-India Top 100 Teams
| Rank | Team | City | Score | Stars | Points Off Star Questions | Annotation |
| 1 | QED (Gopal Kidao, Samanth S, Swaminathan, Jayakanthan) | CHENNAI (City Winners) | 67 | 4 | 14 | Original Score 69. Points deducted for Soyuz and Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
| 2 | WALTWo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) | BANGALORE (City Winners) | 61 | 2 | 11 | Original Score 62. Point deducted for Bund Road. Cracked Theme! |
| 3 | Travelling Pillsburies (Rajen Prabhu, Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tewari) | MUMBAI (City Winners) | 58 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 58. Points added for Vesperus. Points deducted for Mannar |
| 4 | Telangana Is an Oily Song (Anil Kothuri, Ninad Satpute, Sabyasachi Majumdar, Udatta Duarah) | NEW DELHI (City Winners) | 57 | 5 | 13 | Original Score 56. Change due to counting error. Cracked Succulent Karoo! |
| 5 | Mustafa (Debashree Mitra, Dr. Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Vijay TSR) | BANGALORE | 53 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 55. Points wrongly given for Golden Horn and Asteroids. |
| 6 | Thinker Toiler Lawyer & Guy ( Ramanan, Shiv, Goach and Ramkey) | CHENNAI | 52 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 52. Up to 53 after counting error was remedied. Point deducted for Bund Road brings them back to 52. |
| 7 | Inmaniacs(Malavika Banerjee,Gautam Ghosh, Shounak Chakraverti, Anirudh Chari) | KOLKATA (City Winners) | 51 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 52. Points deducted for Vespa Lynd. Team retains Kolkata title on stars. |
| 8 | Tabula Rosetta (Bala, Vikram, Anand Shivashankar, Pradeep R. ) | MUMBAI | 51 | 5 | 13 | Original score 52. Point deducted for The Life of Others |
| 9 | Byapok Batha (Shouvik Guha, Atri Bhattacharya, Ashoke Sanyal, Deepanjan Deb) | KOLKATA | 51 | 4 | 13 | Original score 51. Lost points for Soyuz. Gained points for Vesperus. |
| 10 | Blank Slate (Sarath, Diwakar Pingle, Raamesh, Arvind. K) | MUMBAI | 49 | 7 | 17 | No change. |
| 11 | Memory Bank (Saranya Jayakumar, P.B. Jayakumar, Navin Jayakumar, Gautam Padmanabhan) | CHENNAI | 49 | 6 | 16 | Original Score 51. Lost points for Soyuz and “Quark for Muster Mark”. |
| 12 | Octette (Anil Vaswani, Vimala Jagannath, Tathagatha Chatterjee, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka) | KOLKATA | 48 | 5 | 14 | Original Score 49. Lost points for Soyuz. |
| 13 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Shamanth Madhava Rao, Manu Sudhakar, Nagesh and Anil Raghavan) | THRISSUR (City Winners) | 47 | 5 | 13 | No change. Anal people have done corrections in Thrissur. |
| 14 | Chak De Bhatta (Joy, Kunal, Dr. Bhattacharya, Praveen) | NEW DELHI | 46 | 4 | 12 | Original Score 44. Counting Error. |
| 15 | Something Something (Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv) | BANGALORE | 46 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 43. Error in counting. Cracked Theme! |
| 16 | Answering Service (Soubhadra, Charanpreet, Supratik, Sanjoy) | KOLKATA | 45 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 46. Counting Error. |
| 17 | No Enthu Da (Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik) | BANGALORE | 45 | 2 | 10 | No change |
| 18 | Ram Kumar, Sankhya, Vijay Sarathy, Suresh | CHENNAI | 44 | 4 | 11 | Original Score 45. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 19 | Keep Distance (Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry) | BANGALORE | 43 | 3 | 12 | Original Score 45. Points wrongly given for Banyan Tree and for Aeschylus (41) |
| 20 | Questionable Characters (Vikram Sreeram, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda, Hiranyappa G.S. | BANGALORE | 42 | 6 | 15 | Original Score 41. Points not given for Shofer. |
| 21 | SHARED a)Kiddo, Lalith, Fing and Anil and b) Swami and Friends ( J.Krishnamurthi, Alagar Swami, Lakshmi J.K., Bhargava E.M.) | a) CHENNAI b) HYDERABAD (City Winners) | 42 | 4 | 10 | a) Original Score 43. Point deducted for Soyuz and b) Point deducted for Jana Zatopek |
| 22 | Not Awarded–see above | |||||
| 23 | Jesus Wept ( Meghashyam, Mahesh, Mukund, Prasann) | MUMBAI | 41 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 42. Point deducted for ‘Soyuz fell in India’. |
| 24 | Jai Santosh Ki Maa (Amit Varma, Kaushik Chatterjee, Rishi Iyengar, Annanya Deb) | MUMBAI | 40 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 41. Counting Error. |
| 25 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG ( Vidyadhar Gadgil, Rajiv D’Silva, D. Sundar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta | GOA (City Winners) | 39 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 37. Points given for Vesperus and Kiss Our Chuddies. |
| 26 | Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Venkat and Gautam Shenoy) | BANGALORE | 38 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 39. Counting Error. |
| 27 | Nitish Khadiya, Lathish, Praveen, Navneet | HYDERABAD | 38 | 3 | 8 | No change. |
| 28 | No Idea, Still (Ashwin Koneti, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil) | BANGALORE | 38 | 2 | 10 | Original Score 36. Points not given for Oort’s and Hershey. |
| 29 | Tail Bone Enders (Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles, Vinod Rajamani) | BANGALORE | 37 | 3 | 10 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
| 30 | Mehul, Srinath T.B, Roshith Mohan, Abid E.H | MUMBAI | 37 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 36. Counting Error. |
| 31 | Last Action Heroes (S. Dutta, S. Gupta, R. Mistry, P.S. Ghatak) | KOLKATA | 37 | 0 | 5 | No change |
| 32 | Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole (Suraj, Suvajit, Yasho T, Yash Marathe) | PUNE (City Winners) | 36 | 2 | 8 | Original Score 38. Points wrongly given for RBI Banyan Tree and Talaimannar. |
| 33 | Mera Naam Joka (Vikas Sahu, Arnav Sinha, Jitaditya Narzary, Suchi | MUMBAI | 36 | 1 | 8 | No change |
| 34 | What Maga? (Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba, Vivek Kartikeyan) | BANGALORE | 35 | 3 | 11 | Original Score 36. Point deducted for Mannar. |
| 35 | Rahul Gaur, Tushar Kaul, Akshay Sehgal, Paranjoth Singh | MUMBAI | 35 | 3 | 10 | No change |
| 36 | Desi Dhamaka (Tallulah D’Silva, Venita Coelho, Vivek Krishnan, Anjali Sengupta) | GOA | 35 | 2 | 6 | No change |
| 37 | Lazarus Effect ( Dr. Murali Mohan, S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar) | BANGALORE | 34 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 33. Counting Error. |
| 38 | Potoldanga Thunder Club (Panchjanya, Robin Dey, Rahul Basu, Prithwish Datta) | KOLKATA | 34 | 1 | 7 | No change |
| 39 | Fidda ( Govind Grewal, Shambhu Shankar, Aniruddha Dutta, Dhananjay Shettigar) | MUMBAI | 33 | 4 | 11 | No change |
| 40 | Why Did We Bother (Amit Garde, Dharmakirti Wakankar, Trilok Khairnar, Gaurav Kapoor) | PUNE | 33 | 2 | 9 | Original Score 34. Counting Error. |
| 41 | Sukha Hara (Harish, Kunal, Salil, Ramanand. J) | PUNE | 32 | 1 | 8 | No change. |
| 42 | Questionable Characters II (Debjit, Anupam, Rohan, Vemana) | HYDERABAD | 32 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 33. Points wrongly given for ‘Claude Levi’ |
| 43 | Not the Last Ones (Sumit R. Abhijit. N, Suchintan C., Suvam P.) | KOLKATA | 31 | 2 | 10 | No change. |
| 44 | Ahead of Points (Sanandan, Amar, Ananth, Vinod) | CHENNAI | 31 | 2 | 9 | No change. |
| 45 | SHARED a) Tea, Coffee and Snacks (Subrata Dass, Shiladitya Ganguli, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kalyan Dey) and b) Whatever (Yaggy, Matti, Arun Ramanathan, Renuka) | a) KOLKATA b) CHENNAI | 31 | 1 | 7 | a) Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. b) no change |
| 46 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 47 | Gloriously Legitimate (Sandeep, Chinmoy, Aditya Sridhar, Sriharsha Bhat) | BANGALORE | 31 | 1 | 4 | No change. |
| 48 | Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Roshan Shankar, Sharat Nambissan K.P., Krittika Adhikary, Debasish Misra) | NEW DELHI | 31 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 32. Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 49 | Dreamz (Capt. Chandrakant Nair, Viswas Viswam, Jyothi EK, Midhun Zachariah) | THRISSUR | 30 | 0 | 4 | No change. Cracked Shiroi Lily! |
| 50 | Deviprasad V, Rajagopal P.S, Ashwin Prabhu, Balaji T.K | CHENNAI | 29 | 1 | 8 | Original Score 30.Point deducted for Soyuz. |
| 51 | Gunpowder! Yumm!! (Aditya, Praveen, Supratim, Parth) | KOLKATA | 28 | 2 | 7 | Original Score 27. Counting Error. |
| 52 | Jana Telangana Mana Adayaka Jayahe! (Shanmati, Sridhar Baratan, Devendra V., AkshayNair) | CHENNAI | 28 | 1 | 7 | Original Score 27. Point deducted for Soyuz. Counting Error. |
| 53 | Mat-Rag (Deepak, Raghu, Nishant, Aneesh) | NEW DELHI | 28 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 29. Point deducted for Ansari (!), 55 D. |
| 54 | RTDT ( Ritubroto, Tanaji, Dhruv, Tanmay) | 28 | 0 | 6 | No change. | |
| 55 | ????(Atul, Janardhan, Dushyanth, Arnab) | MUMBAI | 27 | 1 | 5 | No change |
| 56 | Numero Uno (Shrikant, Luis Dias, Anil Rodrigues, Sachin Chatte) | GOA | 27 | 1 | 4 | Original score 20. Counting Error. |
| 57 | Bottle Green Whales (Chirag Mutgi, Sidharth Kuruvila,Vipin, Paramananda) | BANGALORE | 27 | 0 | 6 | Original Score 24. Counting Error. |
| 58 | Joka Conquistadors (Karan Kalia, Nihansh, Amrutanshu, Harsh Ketkar) | KOLKATA | 27 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
| 59 | MAM Returns (S. Chakladar, I. Mukherjee, N.Sankar, Shouvik Das) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 7 | No change. |
| 60 | Tall, Dark, Handsome and Sunil (Ram Shankar,Debopam, Sunil Chandrashekar, Guruprasad Shenoy) | KOLKATA | 26 | 1 | 5 | No change |
| 61 | No Hope in Hell.Com (Vinay, Vcat, Gaurav, Sameer) | PUNE | 26 | 1 | 3 | No change |
| 62 | Srikant, Sameer, Majji, Gayathri | HYDERABAD | 26 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
| 63 | Boye Geche! (Debanjan B, Anagh M, Shayak C., Jishu D.H.) | KOLKATA | 25 | 1 | 6 | Original Score 23. Counting Error. |
| 64 | Quadrophenia(Rohit, Harish, Gaurav, Anirudh) | CHENNAI | 25 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 22. Points not given for Hershey and Greenland, Counting Error. |
| 65 | Trailblazers (Vardhan, Uday, Ratna, Manish) | BANGALORE | 24 | 1 | 6 | No change. |
| 66 | It’s Complicated (Pravin Varma, Ayyappa Kumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Supriy Singh) | NEW DELHI | 24 | 0 | 3 | No change. |
| 67 | Shared between a) Pan Galactic Quiz Blasters (Arka Banerji, Niranka Banerjee, Kaustuv Gupta) and b) Mere Do Anmol Watan (Raghu, Balaji, Navin, Sudhir) | a) KOLKATA and b) HYDERABAD | 23 | 2 | 6 | a) Original Score 22. Counting Error. b) No change |
| 68 | Not Awarded–See Above. | No change | ||||
| 69 | Advitiya (Naveen B.A, Raghu Pant, Anupam Jain, Surya JVS) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 24. Pooint deducted for Soyuz. |
| 70 | Anshul, Abhinav, Nikhil, Akul | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 5 | No change. |
| 71 | Zizzyphus Kahan Hai?( Gandhi, Katoch, Mangal, Pande) | NEW DELHI | 23 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 25. Counting error. |
| 72 | Lotus Eaters (Abhinav, Mayank, Shubhendu, | PUNE | 22 | 1 | 5 | Original Score 25. Points deducted for Soyuz, Oliver Cromwell under a different number, and Levi Claude Strauss. |
| 73 | Who’s Soda’s Daddy? (Sharath K Jose, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) | BANGALORE | 22 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 74 | SHARED BETWEEN a) Sheki’s Groupies (Ahimanyu, Udit, Abhisek, Abhinav) and b) Radix (Devarshi Ghosh, Soumen Mitra Roy, Rajib Dasgupta) | a) NEW DELHI and b) KOLKATA | 22 | 0 | 4 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) Original Score 21. Counting Error. |
| 75 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 76 | Pingu’s PomPoms feat. Tonic (Abhishek, Anucheth, Karthik, Rohit) | BANGALORE | 22 | 0 | 3 | Point deducted for Vostok-Rakesh Sharma. |
| 77 | Shared between a) Piyush Ahuja, Gagandeep Singh, Shankaran Anand, Anshuman Fotedar and b) Once Upon a Time in GEC (RGK, Rajasekar, Arun A.S. , Chandu Lenin) | a) NEW DELHI and b) THRISSUR | 21 | 2 | 8 | a) Original Score 20. Counting Error. b) No change |
| 78 | Quizzer’s Utopia (Sanjay, Mithun, Sunny, Priyanka) | KOLKATA | 21 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 23. Point deducted for Soyuz and Meteorites in 52 B (for Meteoroids) |
| 79 | Paranormal Activity (Shriram, Shankhayan, Azeez, Kush) | NEW DELHI | 21 | 0 | 5 | Original Score 22. Counting Error. |
| 80 | Guess Me! Guess Me Not! (Dr. Jinu Mathew, S.K. Mohanty, Vikash Khandelwal, Epshita Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 21 | 0 | 4 | No change. |
| 81 | 3 Strikes and You’re Out (Hari, Rabi, Divyam) | NEW DELHI | 20 | 1 | 4 | Original Score 17. Counting Error. |
| 82 | Reds ‘N’ Guns (Noufel Samad, Vikas Plakkot, Jithin Raghavan, Jose Thomas) | THRISSUR | 20 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 83 | Appl Pi (Bhargava, Pradeep, Murari) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
| 84 | Salmagundi (Venkatesh) | BANGALORE | 20 | 0 | 1 | No change. Solo Entry! |
| 85 | Two Non-Smoking Barrels (Jishnu, Sid) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 7 | No change |
| 86 | Mega Answers (Nihal, Navneet, Prashanth) | BANGALORE | 19 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
| 87 | Bum-Boo ( Dhananjay, Apratim, Parth) | NEW DELHI | 19 | 0 | 1 | 22. Points wrongly given on 26 and 54b. Counting Error. |
| 88 | Shared Between a) No Team Name (Bharath, Ram Prakash, Gnanaskandan) , b) The Lizzard Kings (Ankit, Arun, Nilohit) and c) On the Fly (Pras, Subbareddy, Srini, Abhyu | a)HYDERABAD, b) PUNE and c) HYDERABAD | 19 | 0 | 3 | a) Original Score 17. Counting Error, b) No change and c) Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 89 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 90 | Not Awarded–See Above | |||||
| 91 | Amnesiac Quizzers Inc. ( Nipun V, Shafeeq. S, Ijaz Aslam, Edward Davis) | THRISSUR | 19 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 18. Counting Error. |
| 92 | Tetra Pack (Saidy, Naveen, Sushant, Srivats) | CHENNAI | 18 | 2 | 5 | No change. |
| 93 | Dog, Pig, Sheep and ET (Ashok, Thiru, Keki, Okal) | BANGALORE | 18 | 1 | 3 | No change |
| 94 | 3 Doc 1 Tech (Harikrishnan, Vijaynath V., Sarin. P, Sowmya Sarin) | THRISSUR | 18 | 0 | 7 | No change. |
| 95 | Ensemble (Debasish Mukherjee, Subasis Dey, Abhishek Kar, Rajiv Chatterjee) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 4 | Original Score 20. Counting Error. |
| 96 | ICQC ( K. Saha, S.Reddy, S. Bhatnagar, S. Sinha) | KOLKATA | 18 | 0 | 3 | No change |
| 97 | 42 ( Paritosh Rai, Anilesh) | NEW DELHI | 18 | 0 | 2 | Original Score 19. Counting Error. |
| 98 | Quizito Ergo Sum ( K. Pramod, Reeju Datta, Harshit Khare, Prashant Kr. Sinha) | NEW DELHI | 17 | 1 | 5 | No change. |
| 99 | Shared Between a) The Magnificent Four ( Sunil S, Paul C, Mahesh Prabhu, Sachin Pai K) and b) Quizzigans ( Athith K., Subham, Aditya Menon) | a) GOA and b) BANGALORE, SCHOOL WINNER | 17 | 1 | 4 | No change |
| 100 | Not Awarded–See Above. |
Mega-Whats 2009 – Bangalore Results
A total of 188 teams from across the country took part in Mega-Whats 2009.
37 teams took the quiz from Bangalore (including three school teams). The Bangalore round was won by We Are Like This (W)only with a score of 62 points.
The provisional All-India winner, subject to adjudication, is QED (Chennai) with a score of 69.
The top scores in Bangalore are as follows:
1. We Are Like This (W)only: Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa (62)
2. Mustafa: Debashree Mitra, Dr. NVS Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah and Vijay TSR (54)
3. Something Something: Siddhartha Sen, Santosh Swaminathan, Abhishek Krishnan, Varun Rajiv (46)
4. No Enthu Da: Aadisht, Aswath, Karthik (45)
5. Keep Distance: Rajath, Rahul, Nishanth, Harry (43)
6. Questionable Characters: GS Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Rajeev Gowda and Vikram Sreeram (42)
7. Schrodinger’ s Felines: Cheriyan Alexander, Vivek Cheriyan, Gautam Shenoy and Venkat (38)
8. No Idea, Still: Ashwin, Bhaskar, Ramesh, Sunil (38)
9. Tail Bone Enders: Sumer Agarwal, Tanmay Prusty, Naveen Giles and Vinod Rajamani (37)
10. What Maga: Praveen VR, Ravi Ananthan, Kaustuba and Vivek Kartikeyan (35)
11. Lazarus Effect: Dr. Murali Mohan, Dr. S. Chandrashekar, Raghu Nambiar (34)
The Best School Team prize went to Quizzigans (Atith Kuduvalli, Subham, Aditya Menon) of Sri Kumaran Children’s Home: 17 points
We hope to put up a list of the top 100 teams in India in about ten days time.
