Askqance – The KQA Silver Jubilee Quiz Festival

ASKQANCE 25th Anniversary

The Karnataka Quiz Association celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this year.  ASKQANCE 2008, our anniversary quiz festival will now feature nine quizzes to be held over two days.

This year’s ASKQANCE is supported by TVS Tyres who also celebrate their 25th anniversary.

The Dates:

The Venues:

Saturday 28th June

Old Hall, St. Joseph’s Boys High School
Museum Road
Bangalore

Sunday 29th June

Purandara Bhavan
(Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha)
8th Main Road
(Near Indiranagar Club)

The Quizzes

Quizzes on Saturday, 28th June

KQA Intercollegiate Championships
(featuring two separate finals for junior college and collegiate teams)
3-member teams
No entry fee
No mixed teams allowed
Registration: 09:30a.m.
Start: 10:00a.m. sharp
Junior Finals: 11:00a.m.-12:00 noon
College Finals: 1200 noon -1:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000 to be won.
QMs: Ochintya Sharma, Rajeev Gowda and Thejaswi Udupa

Hubbubb-a!
The Third edition of the Bangalore Quiz
2-member teams
Open to all
Entry fee: Rs. 50/-
Start: 1:30 p.m
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
QM: Arul Mani

Open Entertainment Quiz
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 200/-
Start: 3:00p.m.
Finals: 4:00p.m. – 6:00p.m.
Prizes totalling Rs. 20,000/- to be won
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Madhav Nair

Informals
Venkatesh and Vivek Karthikeyan will coordinate an Informal Sports
Quiz beginning at 1:00p.m. The best five individual entries in this written
contest will win prizes.

Quizzes on Sunday, 29th June (at Purandara Bhavan)

Cognito
High School Quiz Championships
Teams of 2 members
A maximum of 6 teams per school
No entry fee
Prelims: 10 a.m
QM: Dibyendu Das

High School Solo Championship
Start: 12:30 p.m
QM: Mitesh Agarwal

Prizes totalling Rs. 10,000/-

Rajagopal PS will coordinate an Informal Science Quiz, open to all, starting at 1100hrs. Prizes for the best five individual entries.

Sesame – The Open Quiz

Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Free entry for school teams
Prelims: 2p.m.

TVS Tyres Ride Smart Round: 3:30pm

Finals: 4:15p.m.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
Prizes totalling Rs. 25,000/-

KQA Silver Jubilee Ceremonies
6:00 p.m

All prizes and certificates will be given out during the ceremonies.

A map to help those who need directions to Purandara Bhavan for the quizzes on 29th June:

June 6, 2008 | Filed Under Inter College Quizzes, Inter School Quizzes, Junior College Quizzes, Lone Cub Quizzes, Lone Wolf Quizzes, Open Quizzes, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

The September Open Quiz

KQA Ranking Open Quiz

Venue: Daly Memorial Hall

Date: 22 September 2007

Open to teams of four members
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals:1630hrs

Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/-. Other finalists will also get prizes.

QM: Gautam Shenoy

The teams placing 1-2-3 will respectively conduct the Finals, Semifinals and Prelims of the next KQA open (unseeded) quiz

September 2, 2007 | Filed Under Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

KQA Unseeded Open Quiz: 5 Aug 2007

An Open Unseeded Quiz will be held immediately after the School Quizzes on Sunday, 5 August 2007 at Daly Memorial Hall, Nrupatunga Road.

As per the amended KQA rules, the teams that placed 3-2-1 at the Anniversary Quiz will conduct prelims, semis and finals respectively at this quiz.

Members from the teams QFI-Chennai, Kutub Quizzers and Questionable Characters will therefore not participate.

Schedule:

Registrations 1400hrs

Prelims: 1430hrs (conducted by Questionable Characters)

Semis: 1530hrs (set by Kutub Quizzers)

Finals: 1700hrs-1900hrs (set by QFI-Chennai)

July 11, 2007 | Filed Under Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

Open Rankings as on 14 October 2007

Current Rankings

  1. WaltWo : 7+7.5+12=26.5
  2. Metaquizziks : 3+5+10=18
  3. Corrosion of Conformity : 15+2.5=17.5
  4. QFI Chennai : 15
  5. Questionable Characters : 10+3.5=13.5
  6. No Questions Asked :5+0.5+7=12.5
  7. Kutub Quizzers :12
  8. Sista : 6+3=9
  9. Varun Rajiv and Team : 5
  10. Yaake!, Barisal Guns & Sgt. Heffner’s :2
  11. Nisha & the Thambies :1.5
  12. Insert Cool Name Here and Mustafa : 1

Based on placings from the September Open Quiz, Persiflage and the KQA 24th Anniversary Quiz, details given below.

The placings for the Science Quiz, the History/Culture quiz, the Movie Quiz and Dibyo’s Open Quiz have not yet been added.

KQA 24th Anniversary Open Quiz

  1. QFI Chennai: 15
  2. Kutub Quizzers:12
  3. Questionable Characters: 10
  4. WaltWo:7
  5. No Questions Asked:5
  6. Metaquizziks:3
  7. Barisal Guns:2
  8. Insert Cool Name Here: 1
  9. Mustafa:1

From Book Quiz

I: WaltWO: 7.5
II: Sista: 6
III: Metaquizziks:5
IV: Questionable Characters: 3.5
V: Corrosion of Conformity:2.5
VI: Nisha & the Thambies:1.5
VII: Yaake:1
VIII: No Questions Asked: 0.5

September Open Quiz (Gautam Shenoy)

I: Corrosion of Conformity:15

II: WaltWo: 12

III: MQ: 10

IV: No Questions Asked: 7

V: Varun Rajiv and team: 5

VI: Sista: 3

VII: Sgt. Heffner’s: 2

VIII: Yaake! :1

July 5, 2007 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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