Results of quizzes held on September 16
The Family Quiz
I – Malini Sethuraman, Navin Rajaram
II – Krittika Adhikary, Arjun Bharadwaj
III – Keerthi, Adhway, Ashwin Kumar
The September Open Quiz
I – Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa – 225 points
II – Rohit Suresh, Anirudh Sudarshan, Pranav, Ramesh Natarajan – 122.5 points
III – Srinath Bhashyam, Arun Ramanathan, Riju Gupta, Aditya Rajan – 117.5 points
Congratulations to all the winners
XXXVI Canara Union Lone Wolf on Sunday, August 26, 2018
KQA rises again from its post-Askqance stupor and will shake off its hibernation sickness with the 36th edition of the legendary Canara Union Lone Wolf quiz on 26th August (Sunday).
QM Navin Rajaram will put solo participants through their paces in this general quiz.
It will start at 10 AM on Sunday, 26th August.
The venue is the Canara Union in Malleswaram. (Location: https://goo.gl/maps/Wk8TVTqd2F82)
It is a prelims/finals open general quiz for solo participants.
Note 1: The venue is NOT Ujjivan in Koramangala. Also, the pin on Facebook is not accurate – please use the Google pin for navigation.
Note 2: The KQA yearbook for 2017-18 – launched in July 2018 – will be available at the venue at ₹500/copy.
A limited number will be brought to the venue – if you’re interested in purchasing a copy, please message 9902444486 to ensure availability of your copy.
Please call 8884125047 in case you have trouble finding the place.
ASKQANCE 2018 – Results
The Woodstock of quizzing saw a total of 8 quizzes being held over three days, with old and new names turning up in the winners and finalists’ lists. Here are the full results:
1. Mahamahaquizzer, the showdown between the top 16 finishers of Mahaquizzer.
I – Vinoo Sanjay – 295 points
II – Manu Sudhakar – 260 points
III – Jayakanthan R – 241 points
IV – Arul Mani – 240 points
V – Samanth Subramanian – 235 points
V – Rahul Kottalgi – 235 points
VII – Anustup Datta – 220 points
VIII – Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
2. MegaWhats, the National open quizzing championship.
I – Preetham Upadhya, Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 201 points
II – Swaminathan Ganesh, Gopal Kidao, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 164 points
III – Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 160 points
IV – Vinoo Sanjay, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma (Matunga Manram) – 159 points
V – Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari (Traveling Pillsbury) – 153 points
VI – Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Naveen Jayakumar (Memory Bank) – 152 points
VII – Anannya Deb, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Suraj Menon, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 147 points
VIII – Ramkey, Goach, Shafeeq, Alok (Sheikh Yerboutis) – 101 points
3. Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the Arts Quiz at asKQAnce
I – Rahul Kottalgi, Anirudh Chari, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 208 points
II – Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 200 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 142 points
IV – Mario Fernando, Vijaysarathy, Sreeram, Sankhya (Insignificant Others) – 130 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar (Memory Blank) – 84 points
VI – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 75 points
VII – Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 65 points
VIII – Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Rohit Rao, Hari Nair – 60 points
4. Son of Lumiere, the movie quiz at asKQAnce.
I – Balaji Thirumalai, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 291 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde (Matunga Manram) – 247 points
III – Jinson Chacko, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Chandrakant Nair (CIDs from Kerala) – 189 points
IV – Kushan Patel, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 188 points
V – Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar – 187 points
VI – Abhinav Dasgupta, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 125 points
VII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Rajagopal PS, Arun Ramanathan (Mission 2018) – 92 points
VIII – Anagh Mukherjee, Prithwish Dutta, Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh (Caveat Attemptor) – 90 points
5. GS Hiranyappa Memorial History-Geography Quiz at asKQAnce 2018
I – Kunal Sawardekar, Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 305 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 250 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 235 points
III – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 235 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli (Memory Blank) – 225 points
V – Kunal Savarkar, Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani (Hammer and Tongs) – 225 points
VII – Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh (QED) – 217 points
VIII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We are Like This Wonly) – 140 points
6. Sesame, the General Open quiz at Askqance
I – Swaminathan Ganesh, Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao (QED) – 356 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 326 points
III – Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 302 points
IV – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 301 points
V – Jayashree Mohanka, Sreyashi Dastidar, Debashree Mitra, Preyoshi Ganguly (ShriDevis) – 293 points
VI – Sreshth Shah, P Srikanth, Partha Ghatak, Arindam Dutta (Last Action Heroes) – 267 points
VII – Debanjan Bose, Rohit Rao, Sachin Deshpande, Siddharth Pai (Peter Panchali) – 250 points
VIII – Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Abhinav Dasgupta (Traveling Pillsbury) – 201 points
Congrats all.
Mulky Memorial Quiz 2018 – Results
Here are the results of the Mulky Memorial Open Quiz held on June 24th, 2018:
I – Ajachi Chakrabarti, Hari Nair, Debanjan Bose, Rajagopal PS – 90 points
II – Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan – 85 points
III – Manish Achutha, Keshav Athreya, Ajay Parasuraman, Arun Ramanathan – 80 points
The quiz was conducted by Urmila L and Sujata S.
Congratulations to all the winners!
ASKQANCE 2018 – REMINDER
This is the schedule for the weekend:
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the arts quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Lakshana Kripash, Praveen VR.
3 PM: Son of Lumiere, a quiz on movies for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv.
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz, a quiz on history/geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS.
230 PM: Sesame, the general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan.
All these quizzes are open to all .
Venue for all quizzes is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/T1e3xXnejQS2
Please call ++91 8884125047 if you have trouble finding the place
Apart from the open quizzes over the weekend, Mahamahaquizzer and the semis and finals of Megawhats will be conducted on Friday (29th) at IAT – do turn up to watch some of the country’s top quizzers in action.
Results of quizzes held on May 27, June 10 and WQC Bangalore
Here are the results of the Bangalore leg of the World Quizzing Championship held on June 2
Overall winners
I – Ashwin Kumar – 105 (113–8)
II – Arul Mani – 103 (111–8)
III – Thejaswi Udupa – 102 (112–10)
IV – Debashree Mitra – 100 (109–9)
V – Arun Hiregange – 95 (103–8)
VI – Santosh Swaminathan – 91 (101–10)
VII – Varun Rajiv – 89 (96–7)
VIII – Rajagopal PS – 83 (92–9)
Category Winners
Culture – Ashwin Kumar, Arul Mani
Entertainment – Arun Hiregange
History – Arul Mani, Debashree Mitra
Media – Varun Rajiv
Lifestyle – Arul Mani
Science – Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange
Sports – Arun Hiregange
World – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa
Congratulations to all the top scorers!
Here are the results of quizzes held on May 27.
Comikaze, the KQA Comics Quiz
QMs: Debanjan Bose and Siddharth Pai
I – Varun Rajiv and Ashwin Kumar – 26 points
II – Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa – 24.5 points
III – Sohan Maheshwar and Gautam Shenoy – 23.5 points
The Abominable Open Quiz, a quiz on the Himalayas
QM: Ashwin Kumar
I – Thejaswi Udupa – 30 points
II – Sachin Deshpande and Debanjan Bose – 29.5 points
III – Varun Rajiv and Santosh Swaminathan – 24 points
The May Open Quiz
QMs: Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramana than
I – Varun Rajiv, Ashwin Kumar, Santosh Swaminathan – 130 points
II – EM Bhargava, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ajay Parasuraman, Atul Mathew – 95 points
III – Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Ochintya Sharma – 45 points
Congratulations to all the winners.
Results of quizzes held on June 10:
After nearly 300 questions spread over three quizzing days across the season, Chandrakant Nair gets crowned as the new Solus Rex champion, getting his nose ahead of Ashwin Kumar in his breakthrough year. Boy wonder Preetham Upadhya comes third. Here are the scores.
I – Chandrakant Nair – 296 points
II – Ashwin Kumar – 291 points
III – Preetham Upadhya – 247 points
IV – Manu Sudhakar – 220 points
V – Santosh Swaminathan – 205 points
VI – Debashree Mitra – 183 points
VII – Varun Rajiv – 155 points
VIII – Keshav Atreya – 150 points
Results of Artefacts Quiz conducted by Vivek Karthikeyan:
I – Navin Rajaram and Manu Sudhakar – 34 points
II : Avinash T and Praveen VR (and) Venky Srinivasan and Tanmay Prusty – 28 (Tie)
Results of History Quiz by Urmila:
I – SRS, Debashree, Ajay Parasuraman, Tanmay Prusty
II – SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Avinash, Prithwiraj)
III- Anush, Nishant, Maitrey Pranav R
Congratulations to all the winners!
AsKQAnce 2018 – Schedule
AsKQAnce 2018, KQA’s annual quiz fest – the Woodstock of quizzing (it’s fun?), the Burj Khalifa of buildings (it’s big?), the Pacific of oceans (it’ll be peaceful?), the Silk Board of traffic jams (lots of people?), the Manoj Prabhakar of 90s all-rounders (er… what?), the Tesla Model 3 of heightened expectations (maybe not), the original iPhone launch event of #hype (please stop), the… uh, Thejaswi Udupa of Twitter (…) – is just one month away!
Here’s the final schedule:
Friday, June 29th
1030 AM: MahaMahaquizzer
A showdown between the Top 16 (well, #17 and #18 made it after some dropouts) of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Avinash Thirumalai, Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar.
230 PM: MegaWhats (semi finals and finals)
For the 16 qualifiers from MegaWhats 2018.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan.
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien
An open quiz on the Arts, for teams of 4.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3 PM: Son of Lumiere
An open quiz on Movies, for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz
An open quiz on History/Geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS
230 PM: Sesame
The Open general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
The venue for all three days is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road.
So book your tickets, make your plans, and just come off!
Open Quizzes on Sunday, 15th April 2018
The KQA will be hosting two open quizzes on 15th April (Sunday) at the offices of Ujjivan Small Finances Bank in Koramangala:
1. The History of Ideas Quiz, a written quiz for teams of two or less.
Time: 2pm
QM: Navin Rajaram
A word of advice from the QM: ‘everything is either history or an idea’
2. The KQA Food Quiz, a quiz for teams of four or less
Time: 4 PM:
QMs: Lakshana K, Mitesh Agarwal and Santosh J Swaminathan
Location: https://goo.gl/tSp1GE
Please call +91 98449 53179 in case you have trouble finding the place
Solus Rex Semifinals on 22nd April, 2018
The semifinals of Solus Rex will be held on 22nd April for the top 25 from the gruelling 60 question prelims that happened in November.
As is traditional for Solus Rex, there will be certain specialist topics that they can be expected to be asked questions on in the semifinals.
The topics for this year are
1. Ports of the World
2. Birds and Animals of South America
3. Heads of States in the 21st Century
4. Sculptures and Statues
All semifinalists are encouraged to use the next couple of weeks to research on these topics, as they will play a rather significant role in the format of the semis. You may even find yourself earning a nickname like Songkran Maheshwar did (from the topic Festivals of Asia.) Or contribute to quizzing jargon as Solus Rex 2018 co-host Arun Hiregange did with Brodsky Face. (from the topic Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
For all quizzers who aren’t part of the semifinals lineup, there is something in this for you too! The quizmasters Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa solicit guest questions on these topics, and the best questions, apart from being used with full credit in the semis, also stand to win book vouchers!
To contribute questions, please ping Thejaswi Udupa.
The qualifiers are:
1. Santosh Swaminathan – 35.75
2. Srinath Bhashyam – 28.50
3. Anustup Datta – 28.00
4. Preetham Upadhya – 27.50 (College)
5. Josyula Krishnamurthi – 26.75
6. Varun Rajiv – 24.75
7. Manu Sudhakar – 24.50
8. Debashree Mitra – 24.25
9. Arul Mani – 24.00
10. Ajay Parasuraman – 23.25
11. Ashwin Kumar – 22.75
12. Navin Rajaram – 22.50
13. Hrishikesh Varma – 22.00
14. Gautam Shenoy – 20.50
15. Keshav Athreya – 20.25
16. Suresh Ramasubramanian – 19.00
17. Venkatesh Srinivasan – 17.50
18. Rajagopal PS – 17.00
19. Balaji Subramanian – 16.75 (College)
20. Chandrakant Nair – 16.25
21. Praveen VR – 15.75
22. Kishore Rajendra – 15.50 (College)
23. Rishiraj Shanmuganandan – 14.75
24. Vivek Karthikeyan – 14.00
25. Sriram Burgula – 14.00 (College)
Open quizzes on Sunday, 18th March 2018
Time again, for yet another KQA Sunday. We will be holding two open quizzes on Sunday, March 18th, 2018.
1. Pop Ki Kamai, the Pop Culture Quiz for teams of four or less
Time: 11am (TIME CHANGED FROM 10am to 11am)
QMs: Sai Ganesh (feat. Debasish)
2. Irish Stew, an annual General Open quiz of bits and bobs, for teams of four or less
Time: 3pm
QM: Anustup Datta
The prizes for this quiz are sponsored by Quizician.
Please note that the venue for both the quizzes will be the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
Location on Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/YuutCQRzqX22
Please call 88841 25047 in case you have trouble finding the place.
