Results of Open quizzes held on February 25th, 2018
Here are the results of the three specialist quizzes held at KQA today.
1 – The Africa Quiz, by Hrishikesh Varma and Vivek Karthikeyan (the former to be fair was torn between hosting and trolling VR)
I – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
II – Praveen VR, Avinash Thirumalai – 145 points
III – Anush Iyer, Arun Prasad – 90 points
2 – Yell Iruve, by Siddharth Pai and Jayadev Bhaskaran, hosted with poise under fire by Nagaratna Patil
I – Avinash Thirumalai, Maitrey Deshpande – 86 points
II – Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR – 67 points
III – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa – 57 points
3 – Tech That, by Yagneshwaran H and Venkatesh S
I – Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa – 205 points
II – Anush Iyer, Mukunth Raghavan, Arun Prasad, Rishiraj S – 157 points
III – Shafeek MK, Tanmay Prusty, Ajay Parasuraman, Saahil Sharma – 140 points
Congratulations to all the winners.
Open quizzes on Sunday, 25th February 2018
The KQA will hold three quizzes this coming Sunday (Feb 25th) at the offices of Ujjivan Financial Services in Koramangala:
1. Show me Djibouti, the written quiz on Africa, for teams of 2 or less
Time: 10am
QMs: Vivek Karthikeyan, Hrishi Varma
2. Yell Iruve, the written quiz on flora and fauna, for teams of 2 of less
Time: 12 noon
QMs: Siddharth Pai, Jayadev Bhaskaran
3. Tech That, a quiz on technology for teams of 4 or less
Time: 3pm
QMs: Venkatesh S and Yagneshwaran H
Venue: https://goo.gl/tSp1GE
Please call 88841 25047 in case you have trouble finding the place.
See you all on Sunday. The quizzes will start sharp on time.
Open Quizzes on Sunday, 4th February 2018
The KQA will be conducting two general open quizzes on Sunday, 4th February 2018 at Ujjivan in Koramangala.
At 12 PM is a general quiz conducted by ‘CIDs from Kerala’, a team that needs no introduction… well, at least Major Chandrakant Nair doesn’t.
Teams of 4 or fewer. Open to all.
At 4 pm is a general quiz conducted by two of the most exciting young quizzers in the country today – Sreshth Shah and Preetham Upadhya.
Open to all – the quiz is a ruckus, ie teams will be formed on the spot. Just bring yourself and tell your friends.
Venue: https://goo.gl/tSp1GE
Please call 88841 25047 in case you have trouble find the place.
asKQAnce 2017 Day 2 Results
asKQAnce 2017 Day 1 – Megawhats megafinals results
Here are the results of the Megawhats megafinals that concluded Day 1 of asKQAnce.
I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 270 points
II – QED (Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Swaminathan G, Gopal Kidao) – 245 points (won the tiebreak for the second place)
III – BMQJ (Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar, Bhargava EM) – 245 points
IV – Travelling Pillsburies (Rajiv Rai, Vikram Joshi, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tiwari) – 230 points
V – Aardvarks (Rahul Kottalgi, Sreshth Shah, Amrit P Chetia, Aryapriya Ganguly) – 223 points
VI – Remembrance of Things Fast (Kiran Vijaykumar, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam) – 181 points
VII – Hammer and Tongs (Shouvik Guha, Jayashree Mohanka, Anil Vaswani, Kinshuk Biswas) – 170 points
VIII – Forecasting Couch (Suresh Ramasubramanian, Nishanth Raman, Ajay Parasuraman, Keshav Atreya) – 135 points
Congratulations to all!
AsKQAnce 2017 Schedule
The original orgy of quizzing is back this week, celebrating the 34th anniversary of KQA. Three days, seven quizzes, twenty two quizmasters.
Here’s the schedule.
Friday, June 30th
I
Mahamahaquizzer – A solo quiz where past winners of Mahaquizzers battle against the top 8 of the latest edition. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijaykumar, Urmila Lakshmanan, Rajagopal PS
Time: 9:30 am
II
Megawhats – KQA’s annual quest to find the best team in India. Top 16 teams from this year’s Megawhats written quiz face off. There will be two semi-finals, followed by a final.
QM team: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan
Time: 2 pm
Saturday, July 1st
III
Cannabis Indica – A quiz on all things Indian. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR
Time: 9:30 am
IV
Not Just Cricket – A written quiz on sports. For teams of two.
QM team: Manish Achutha, Sohan Maheshwar, Alagarsamy AP
Time: 2 pm
V
Son of Lumiere – A quiz on movies. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Anustup Datta, Varun Rajiv, Thejaswi Udupa
Time: 4 pm
Sunday, July 2nd
VI
The GS Hiranyappa Memorial Open Quiz – A quiz on history and geography. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Ashwin Kumar, Navin Rajaram, Lakshana Kripash
Time: 9:30 am
VII
Sesame – A general quiz. For teams of four. There will be a prelims, followed by finals.
QM team: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
Time: 2:30 pm
Canara Union’s Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Open Quiz
The 2017 edition of the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Quiz will be held on Sunday the 18th of June, at the Canara Union, Malleswaram.
The quiz will start at 10:30 am sharp. Teams are requested to take their places by 10:15 am since we have to finish on time for other events at the venue.
The quiz is open to teams of four members, irrespective of age or institutional affiliation. Teams will be charged a registration fee of Rs. 100/-, with free entry for teams comprising school students.
The quiz will be conducted by Sujata Sharma and Urmila Lakshmanan.
Prizes for all finalists.
Canara Union is located on 8th Main Malleswaram (now called the Canara Union Road), and can be approached from 15th Cross. Landmark: Panchavati (Sir CV Raman’s residence)
Four-wheeler parking may be unavailable. Please make alternative arrangements.
Map.
Quizzes on Sunday 28 May 2017
We will be holding three quizzes on Sunday, May 28 at the offices of Ujjivan Financial Services in Koramangala.
You can find the location here: https://goo.gl/sz3gLw
10 AM – Seek under Porus – The KQA History Quiz by Praveen Kumar VR and Manjith K
Written prelims followed by Finals
Teams of four or less
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
2.30 PM – The Non Fiction Quiz by Arul Mani
Written Quiz for teams of two or less
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
4 PM – The May Open Quiz by Jayadev Bhaskaran, Siddharth Pai, Debanjan Bose
General quiz for teams of four or less
Written prelims followed by Finals
Entry Fee: Rs 100/team
Magister 2017
Magister 2017 is a solo quiz contest with collegiate and open tracks that will be held on Sunday, 29 January 2017 in Bengaluru, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Tezpur, Vellore, Baroda, Mohali, Pune, Mysuru, Raipur, Thrissur, Kochi, Warangal, Goa, Kolkata, Manipal, Kanpur, Pondicherry and Shillong.
The quiz will require takers to answer one hundred questions off a PowerPoint presentation from 11 am to 1 pm on Sunday, 29 January 2017 (with earlier starts in some venues). The quiz is the result of a partnership between the Karnataka Quiz Association and SJC Quizzers, the quiz club at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore.
The setters are Prof. Rajeev Gowda, Arul Mani, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Nagaratna ‘Partikal’ Patil, Avinash Thirumalai (in sublimated form), Rijul Ballal, Chirag Chittar and Abhijith Raghu.
Why Magister?
Once upon a time, every open quiz would have a sizeable college contingent in attendance and the Open circuits of India’s quizzing cities throve on the energy and dash of college quizzing. In many cities, though not all, this is a thing of the past. Which is not good news for open quizzing, or, indeed, for quizzing.
The simple idea behind Magister is to bring together the two rapidly diverging streams of quizzing–College and Open. The setters are college and open quizzers. The quiz has college and open tracks for competition. The questions themselves are an attempt to start up something of a conversation between open and collegiate quizzing.
You could thus say that what we want to see is a form of a Re-Open-ed Quizzing.
But what the Deccan is a Magister?
Magister comes from the Latin for mastery. That said, we must clarify that we are interested in more than quizzing as simple, masculine achievement.
The term magis is used in Jesuit thought to indicate the spirit of doing more, or giving more of oneself. For us, this name draws some attention to the happily out-of-syllabus character of quizzing. And indeed to the primary joy of quizzing, which is that of refusing to be a passive recipient of information, and choosing instead to celebrate an active curiosity in the world.
The persons who win this title in the college and open tracks will embody this idea better than our words can.
If you’ve enjoyed open quizzing, support this venture by turning up and taking part!
Register here
On-the-spot entries will be accepted in Bengaluru, and at the proctor’s discretion in other cities.
The Bengaluru venue is Xavier Hall, St. Joseph’s College (PG Block), Langford Road. Please text 9731214519 if you have any questions.
Pushups for Muscular Success 23 July
Pushups for Muscular Success II
The second Pushups for this season will be held at 3 pm on Saturday, 23 July 2016, at Loyola Hall, Auditorium Block, St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road.
Push-ups?
Push-ups are a set of 75 questions which you answer in writing in 60 minutes. They were thought up as a way of getting people interested in solo quizzing.
You can try the previous edition here, and click separately for the answers.
Results for Pushups I
19 hardy individuals sat for the inaugural quiz Pushups of 2016. Ashwin Kumar won with a score of 33.5. Pipping Rajagopal PS who made 33. Santosh Swaminathan made 30.5. Nikhil took the College Prize, and Bhargavi won the Women’s Prize with 10 points.
Details:
Push-ups for Muscular Success II at 2 pm ( Entry fee: Rs. 50/-)
Date: Saturday, 23 July 2016
Venue: Loyola Hall, Auditorium Block, St. Joseph’s College, Langford Road.
Open to all, with prizes for winners in school, college, ladies and open categories.
Prior registration is very useful, if you want copies of the questions and such.
Please register here by 12 noon, 23 July.
