RESULTS & RANKINGS – MindSweep 2024

UPDATED 9 JUNE: Bhubaneswar scores have now been added. Our apologies. Certain individuals in our team have been struggling with the concept of MS Excel.

We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep 2024. Apologies for the small delay: a couple of centres took their own sweet time in sending in the scores, and the person responsible for posting the results online may or may not have forgotten about it.

Now, to weightier matters: Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the reigning MahaQuizzer, tops MindSweep with 103 . JK was also part of the team that topped the MegaWhats — lending credence to the theory that he may just be good at this sort of thing — our congratulations to him.

Rajiv Rai of Mumbai finished a close second, with 101. Prithwish Datta, also of Mumbai, was next with 99.

Unfortunately, the proctor in Singapore forgot to note down the section-wise scores. The total scores are presented below.

Piyush Kedia topped the College category with 71 points. Aninthitha Nath of Mumbai topped the Women’s category with 40 points. The category toppers are as follows:

Arts: Rajiv Rai, Mumbai, 18

Movies & TV: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16

Food & Beverages: Santosh JS, Bengaluru, 15

Literature: Prithwish Datta, Mumbai, 16

Music: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 13

The Sciences: Jayakanthan R & Dinesh Krithivasan, both from Chennai, 17

The Social Sciences: Jayakanthan R, Chennai, 18

Sports: Sachin Deshpande, Bengaluru, 14

Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2025!

#	Name	Centre	Total	Arts	Movies & TV	Food & Beverages	Literature	Music	The Sciences	The Social Sciences	Sports
1	Jayakanthan R	Chennai	103	14	14	10	12	13	17	18	5
2	Rajiv Rai	Mumbai	101	18	13	8	11	11	16	14	10
3	Prithwish Datta	Mumbai	99	15	16	7	16	8	14	11	12
4	Calvin	Delhi	94	17	10	8	9	9	16	15	10
5	Sachin Deshpande	Bengaluru	81	11	8	9	8	5	12	14	14
6	Krishnamurthy Viswanathan	Bay Area	81	11	10	7	10	6	18	11	8
7	Thejaswi Udupa	Bengaluru	80	13	8	11	7	7	16	10	8
8	Dinesh Krithivasan	Chennai	80	15	5	6	9	5	17	16	7
9	Abhinav Dasgupta	Mumbai	80	14	13	6	10	4	14	12	7
10	Praveen VR	Bengaluru	79	10	15	5	9	10	13	11	6
11	Santosh JS	Bengaluru	78	12	10	15	5	12	9	9	6
13	Anush Iyer	Chennai	77	13	10	8	7	9	14	9	7
14	Govind Grewal	Mumbai	77	14	10	3	10	11	9	11	9
16	Jaidev Karunakaran	Bengaluru	76	16	8	7	10	5	8	13	9
17	Nikhil Sonde	Mumbai	76	12	9	9	6	8	12	11	9
18	Anustup Datta	Bengaluru	75	11	10	8	9	3	16	10	8
19	Swaminathan G	Chennai	75	13	4	9	9	7	14	11	8
20	Aswath Venkataraman	Bengaluru	73	11	3	8	8	6	13	14	10
21	Somashish Ghosh	Delhi	71	11	6	6	7	5	15	13	8
22	Piyush Kedia	Delhi	71	13	11	3	6	7	9	14	8
23	Gokul S	Delhi	70	16	8	8	4	5	10	11	8
24	Annie Sen Gupta	Goa	43	10	7	6	9	8	9	9	8
25	Aadisht	Delhi	63	9	7	11	12	6	6	10	2
26	Rohit S	Bengaluru	59	11	5	7	4	4	11	8	9
27	Baibaswata Jena	Bhubaneswar	59	8	10	7	7	3	6	8	10
28	Sanat Pai Raikar	Bengaluru	58	6	6	4	10	4	10	11	7
29	Alok Prasanna Kumar	Bengaluru	58	9	7	5	5	3	11	12	6
30	Rajiv D'silva	Goa	41	12	5	8	5	7	4	11	6
31	SANDIPAN GOSWAMI	Dhemaji	57	8	11	4	7	11	6	7	3
32	Akshat Jain	Bay Area	57	10	8	3	6	6	8	10	6
33	Harish Alagappa	Hyderabad	56	6	5	1	4	7	10	12	11
34	Anand Sivashankar	Chennai	55	6	6	7	7	8	9	8	4
35	Abhinav Dhar	Delhi	54	9	8	6	5	4	7	9	6
36	Adarsh Kumar Mohapatra	Bhubaneswar	54	8	5	9	6	3	11	7	5
37	Anannya Deb	Mumbai	51	10	3	0	4	6	4	13	11
38	Vinod Krishnan	Mumbai	51	7	5	7	6	4	6	8	8
39	Balagopal Menon	Thrissur	51	7	10	2	10	1	9	9	3
40	Mukilan Ayyapparaj	Coimbatore	49	13	9	5	4	2	5	6	5
41	Subhadeep Sarkar	Bengaluru	48	10	8	4	6	3	5	6	6
42	Rushi Anandan	Mumbai	47	7	6	3	5	5	8	9	4
43	Hussain Ahmed	Hyderabad	46	6	5	4	4	2	12	8	5
44	Syed Shakeel Imdad	Hyderabad	45	7	6	6	8	5	3	5	5
45	Samrat Sengupta	Pune	45	5	9	1	7	3	3	9	8
46	Sreenath	Bengaluru	43	3	4	4	5	5	6	12	4
47	Saarthak Chhabra	Delhi	43	7	4	5	5	5	5	6	6
48	Abhilash	Bengaluru	42	4	9	3	2	4	3	10	7
49	Vilas Pavithran	Goa	26	8	4	4	6	2	3	8	7
50	Rajat Gururaj	Bengaluru	41	6	2	3	6	0	14	8	2
51	Siddharth Mishra	Coimbatore	41	7	4	3	5	5	6	7	4
52	Dr. V. Sri Nagesh	Hyderabad	41	9	4	6	6	1	4	9	2
53	Sujay	Bengaluru	40	6	5	8	6	2	5	6	2
54	Aninthitha Nath	Mumbai	40	7	6	4	4	6	2	6	5
55	Abhishek Hariharan	Mumbai	40	6	3	4	6	4	4	9	4
56	Sayan Mazumdar	Guwahati	39	8	5	3	3	2	10	4	4
57	Gokul Panigrahi	Mumbai	39	7	2	2	6	5	5	10	2
58	Appu S	Bengaluru	38	5	6	3	5	2	6	6	5
59	Dhananjay	Chennai	38	4	6	4	3	2	7	7	5
60	Sriram Madhavan	Chennai	37	5	7	4	4	2	4	6	5
61	Shshank Tyagi	Guwahati	37	5	3	4	4	2	5	10	4
62	Pulkit Malhotra	Mumbai	37	5	10	1	6	4	5	2	4
63	Debjit Tripathy	Delhi	37	5	4	1	7	5	5	8	2
64	Kaushik Chatterjee	Delhi	36	4	9	2	6	4	1	7	3
65	Abhay Kulkarni	Bengaluru	35	4	4	4	6	2	5	6	4
66	Ankita Shandilya	Delhi	35	5	5	3	4	6	5	5	2
67	Samir Gupta	Pune	35	4	4	3	4	5	3	6	6
68	CR Naveen	Coimbatore	34	5	6	5	3	4	3	6	2
69	Anurakshat Gupta	Pune	34	5	4	2	6	1	2	9	5
70	Sumeer Kumar	Bengaluru	33	3	3	2	6	0	6	9	4
71	Nandana Sony	Delhi	33	6	7	3	8	4	3	2	0
72	Jitaditya Narzary	Guwahati	32	4	9	2	3	1	1	5	7
73	Rama Subramanian	Hyderabad	32	9	5	1	1	1	6	4	5
74	Francis Rodrigues	Mumbai	32	3	2	4	0	4	10	7	2
75	Uday Tej Singh	Pune	32	4	1	2	5	0	9	5	6
76	VARUN MURTHY	Ahmedabad	31	5	4	4	5	1	0	7	5
77	Sahil Ramchandani	Bengaluru	31	6	5	0	7	2	5	4	2
78	Shubham	Bengaluru	31	5	4	2	4	1	3	10	2
79	Rahul Jadhav	Bengaluru	31	9	1	3	1	0	2	9	6
80	Kaushik Saha	Delhi	31	5	10	1	1	1	0	8	5
81	R Samyak	Bengaluru	30	4	3	3	0	1	5	10	4
82	Kapinjal Kishore Sharma	Guwahati	30	6	5	2	6	3	3	5	0
83	Jyotishko Ghosh	Bengaluru	29	3	3	2	6	1	4	6	4
84	Srijit Kumar	Goa	15	5	8	1	2	6	0	5	2
85	sanat naval	Ahmedabad	28	4	1	7	2	3	3	7	1
86	Prabhat B	Chennai	28	5	3	4	2	3	6	1	4
87	Praveen Jayaraj	Coimbatore	28	9	7	2	2	3	2	1	2
88	Roshan	Coimbatore	28	9	6	3	1	0	0	3	6
89	Priyanuj Parashar	Guwahati	28	4	3	0	2	2	4	5	8
90	Adarsh B	Delhi	28	5	4	4	1	2	0	10	2
91	Vaibhav Ayer	Delhi	28	1	6	1	3	3	3	2	9
92	Nikhil Jha	Delhi	28	1	8	0	3	4	2	5	5
93	Anoushka	Delhi	28	8	5	0	5	4	1	4	1
94	Raj	Pune	28	2	1	3	4	4	8	4	2
95	Venky Srinivasan	Bengaluru	27					3	8	9	7
96	Chinmay Naik	Goa	27	6	2	3	2	0	7	7	0
97	Viola Rodrigues	Goa	27	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	2
98	Ganesha Durbha	Bay Area	27	3	3	1	2	2	4	7	5
99	sanveer	Ahmedabad	26	2	2	4	2	3	2	4	7
100	Varun Parthasarathy	Chennai	26	1	1	5	1	0	2	8	8
101	M P Shreesh Bhat	Goa	19	1	5	1	5	3	3	4	4
102	Akhil Siddhartha	Delhi	26	1	1	1	3	0	8	10	2
103	Ramish Abdali	Delhi	26	3	4	4	2	1	1	6	5
104	Ruchira Porob	Goa	25	5	3	2	3	0	2	8	2
105	Mayur Shett	Goa	14	1	6	4	3	2	3	3	3
106	Sujit Ray	Delhi	25	6	5	3	1	2	1	4	3
107	Rithwik Rao H	Bengaluru	23	3	2	0	3	4	2	5	4
108	Abhijeet Shyam	Chennai	23	0	8	0	2	1	1	5	6
109	Paul Gatward	Goa	14	5	0	4	2	1	2	5	4
110	Navneet Sharma	Delhi	23	1	4	3	3	1	3	6	2
111	Shubham Jha	Pune	23	3	1	2	4	0	7	5	1
112	Suresh Ramasubramanian	Chennai	22	5	4	7	6
113	Aastha Dua	Goa	22	2	4	2	5	3	0	4	2
114	Akshay Shreyas	Delhi	22	2	2	1	4	4	5	2	2
115	Vembu Shankar	Chennai	21	2	1	4	2	2	1	4	5
116	Shujoy Dutta	Delhi	21	5	8	4	4	-	-	-	-
117	Prisha Joshi	Pune	21	1	2	3	3	2	4	4	2
118	Malhar Mazumdar	Delhi	19	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	2
119	Harshit Agarwal	Delhi	19	1	5	1	3	2	1	2	4
120	Kartik Gulia	Delhi	19	4	2	0	5	0	6	2	0
121	Shantanu Kartha	Thrissur	19	1	2	4	2	1	2	3	4
122	Karthik Desikan	Bengaluru	18	1	1	2	3	2	1	4	4
123	Krishna	Chennai	18					5	2	7	4
124	Amit Agarwal	Pune	18	3	5	0	3	0	0	2	5
125	Divyanshu Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	18	1	3	2	1	1	1	6	3
126	Sankalp Chowdhury	Mumbai	17	1	4	3	2	0	4	2	1
127	Faris Abdul Nassar	Thrissur	17	3	2	2	3	1	3	2	1
128	Mukti Swaroop Pradhan	Bhubaneswar	17	4	4	1	1	0	1	4	2
129	Nitish Wagle	Goa	16	0	0	0	0	1	3	10	2
130	Revanth T	Hyderabad	16	4	2	2	1	0	2	2	3
131	Vaibhav Bajpai	Pune	16	0	7	1	1	0	0	4	3
132	Harshad	Bengaluru	15	3	2	1	3	0	2	2	2
133	Raman S	Coimbatore	15	0	2	1	0	0	2	5	5
134	Abinash Bharati	Pune	15	0	2	4	2	0	2	4	1
135	Krishna Aditya Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	15	6	2	0	1	0	1	3	2
136	Debabrata Malik	Bengaluru	14	2	2	2	2	1	0	3	2
137	Bunny Furtado	Goa	11	2	0	1	1	0	3	5	2
138	Pritam Ghosh	Pune	14	0	2	3	3	2	1	3	0
139	Niyati Jois	Bengaluru	13	3	1	1	2	1	1	2	2
140	Neev Raj Singh	Bengaluru	13	0	1	1	0	2	1	6	2
141	Siddhartha Mahajan	Delhi	13	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	5
142	Bhishama Pradhan	Pune	13	0	2	3	2	2	1	3	0
143	Mahadev Menon	Pune	13	3	1	1	1	0	2	4	1
144	Naman Chaturvedi	Pune	13	0	2	2	2	1	2	3	1
145	Swagat Subhakanta Das	Bengaluru	12	1	1	1	1	0	1	4	3
146	Hriday Shah	Bengaluru	12	0	4	0	1	0	0	3	4
147	Tejas S	Bengaluru	12	1	1	1	0	0	2	6	1
148	Sharat Chandar	Coimbatore	12	0	2	1	0	0	3	3	3
149	Satish Mudaliar	Bengaluru	11	2	0	5	2	0	0	0	2
150	Vidyadhar Gadgil	Goa	3	0	3	5	3	0	0	0	0
151	Pragyajeet Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	11	1	0	2	0	1	1	3	3
152	Abhijvala Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	11	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	5
153	Razdan	Guwahati	10	0	2	0	1	2	0	4	1
154	Dr. Nishad K	Delhi	10	1	2	1	2	0	0	3	1
155	Avinash Kadam	Pune	10	0	2	2	1	0	0	5	0
156	Kaushik Raam	Bay Area	10	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	3
157	Barnil Sarma	Guwahati	9	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	1
158	Prashant Sinha	Delhi	9	0	0	2	2	0	3	1	1
159	Man Agochar Singh	Pune	9	0	1	2	1	0	3	0	2
160	Venkateshwaran	Pune	9	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	3
161	ARYAKALPA BHATTACHARYA	Dhemaji	9	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	4
162	Ripunjeet barman	Guwahati	8	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	3
163	Saswat Samal	Bhubaneswar	8	0	2	0	1	0	3	2	0
164	Srinidhi AV	Bengaluru	7	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1
165	Kushagra Bindal	Delhi	7	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2
166	Smarth Nagpal	Pune	7	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	0
167	Abhijeet Kumar	Pune	7	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	0
168	Rabmit Das	Bhubaneswar	7	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	2
169	Neerav Raj Singh	Bengaluru	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2
170	Amol Sakhalkar	Goa	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1
171	Ashutosh	Pune	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0
172	Dev Singh	Pune	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	0
173	JITUL KONCH	Dhemaji	6	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	1
174	Arya RN	Bengaluru	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
175	Mukilan M	Chennai	5	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
176	Srivatsan	Coimbatore	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
177	Srinjoy Choudhury	Guwahati	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
178	DEBAAKANTA BORAH	Dhemaji	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2
179	Ambarish Kulkarni	Mumbai	4	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
180	Kabilesh Nataraj	Coimbatore	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
181	Prerit	Pune	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
182	Ram Mohan V	Hyderabad	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
183	Shubhankar Mani Tripathi	Delhi	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
184	Tapan Kumar Bhuyan	Bhubaneswar	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

MAHAQUIZZER 2023 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

The results of the 18th edition of MahaQuizzer are below. Nearly 300 people took Mahaquizzer.

Jayakanthan of Chennai has won the title of MahaQuizzer with a score of 112, the highest in the competition’s history. This is his first title. Our congratulations to him.

Two former champions also reached the century score: Vinoo Sanjay (100 (12*), Mumbai), and Rahul Kottalgi (100 (9*), Bengaluru). The highest-scoring woman is 2012 champ Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, who made 79.

The next four highest scorers in Bengaluru were Thejaswi Udupa (94), Santosh Swaminathan (92), Achyuth Sanjay (88) and Anustup Datta (83).

Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we did not receive the answer sheets from Delhi. They are presented as we received them. We are yet to receive scores from Siliguri and Raiganj. Scores will be updated if we receive them.

The top sixteen players also qualify for Mahamahaquizzer 2024. The winners will be given the trophy at AsKQAnce 2024, which will be held in June 2024.

We thank all our quiz setters, proctors, and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success.

We’ll see you again in December 2024.

#	Name	Score	*	**	City	Category
1	Jayakanthan	112	6	2	Chennai	Open
2	Vinoo Sanjay	100	9	3	Mumbai	Open
3	Rahul Kottalgi	100	7	2	Bengaluru	Open
4	Rajiv Rai	97	8	2	Chennai	Open
5	Suraj Menon	96	8	2	Mumbai	Open
6	Thejaswi Udupa	94	6	1	Bengaluru	Open
7	Rajagopal PS	92	7	3	Chennai	Open
8	Santosh JS	92	5	1	Bengaluru	Open
9	Amrit Pritom Chetia	91	0	0	Delhi	Open
10	Hrishikesh Varma	89	6	2	Mumbai	Open
11	Manu Sudhakar	89	6	2	Thrissur	Open
12	Achyuth Sanjay	88	7	1	Bengaluru	Open
13	Dinesh Krithivasan	88	6	1	Chennai	Open
14	Prithwish Datta	88	3	3	Mumbai	Open
15	Gokul S	88	0	0	Delhi	Open
16	Calvin	86	0	0	Delhi	Open
17	Anustup Datta	83	6	1	Bengaluru	Open
18	Sourjo Sengupta	82	7	1	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
19	Shaswat Salgaocar	82	6	1	Mumbai	Open
20	VR	81	7	1	Bengaluru	Open
21	Mario F	80	7	2	Chennai	Open
22	Abhinav Dasgupta	79	6	3	Mumbai	Open
23	Jayashree Mohanka	79	3	3	Kolkata	Ladies
24	Kunal Sawardekar	78	6	1	Pune	Open
25	Chandrakant Nair	77	6	1	Thrissur	Open
26	Krishnamurthi G (Goach)	77	4	2	Chennai	Open
27	Govind Grewal	75	7	1	Mumbai	Open
28	Shouvik Guha	75	6	4	Kolkata	Open
29	Arul Mani	75	4	2	Bengaluru	Open
30	Samanway Banerjee	74	3	2	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
31	Kiran V	73	6	0	Chennai	Open
32	Anush Iyer	72	6	0	Mumbai	Open
33	Abdul Raouf	72	2	0	Kozhikode	Open
34	Piyush Kedia	71	4	1	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
35	Sania Narulkar	71	2	1	Mumbai	Ladies
36	J Ramanand	70	4	0	Pune	Open
37	Rohit S	69	5	1	Bengaluru	Open
38	Sandipan Goswami	69	3	1	Guwahati	Open
39	J Krishnamurthi	68	4	0	Hyderabad	Open
40	Jaidev Karunakaran	68	3	2	Bengaluru	Open
41	Sreekanth R P	66	2	1	Bengaluru	Open
42	Baibaswata Jena	66	0	0	Delhi	Open
43	Sangeeth	65	5	0	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
44	Karthik S	65	4	1	Bengaluru	Open
45	Vibhendu	63	4	0	Mumbai	Open
46	Roshith Mohan	63	1	0	Thrissur	Open
47	Dibyo Halder	62	3	1	Bengaluru	Open
48	Vilas Pavithran	61	2	1	Goa	Open
49	Mustafa	60	5	1	Hyderabad	Open
50	Venky Srinivasan	60	5	0	Mumbai	Open
51	Ashvini R Natu	60	3	1	Mumbai	Ladies
52	Maitrey D	59	3	2	Bengaluru	Open
53	Rajiv D'Silva	59	3	0	Goa	Open
54	Abid Abdulla	59	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
55	Bedbyas Dutta	58	4	1	Kolkata	Open
56	Siddhanth Rao	58	2	1	Chennai	Open
57	Shankha Ghosh Dastidar	57	4	0	Bengaluru	Open
58	Shamsuddin Haider	56	5	1	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
59	R Samyak	56	3	2	Bengaluru	Open
60	Anannya Deb	55	2	1	Mumbai	Open
61	Jithin Jacob	54	5	2	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
62	Zaman S Khan	54	3	2	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
63	Annway Ghosh	54	3	0	Pune	College
64	Subhadeep Sarkar	54	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
65	Murty MVR	54	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
66	Arun Ramanathan	53	4	1	Chennai	Open
67	Sriram Padmanabhan	53	3	0	Pune	Open
68	Shrey Shylesh	53	2	0	Ahmedabad	Open
69	Vijay Sarathy	53	2	0	Chennai	Open
70	Somasish Ghosh	53	0	0	Delhi	Open
71	Muhammed Munavvir VV	53	0	0	Delhi	Open
72	Abhay Vikram	53	0	0	Delhi	Open
73	Alagarsamy	52	4	2	Bengaluru	Open
74	Anil Kothuri	52	4	0	Mumbai	Open
75	Kunal Savarkar	52	2	2	Mumbai	Open
76	Srihari Raju	52	2	0	Hyderabad	Open
77	Sanat Pai Raikar	51	3	1	Bengaluru	Open
78	Gautam Ghosh	50	5	2	Kolkata	Open
79	Abhilash	50	2	0	Bengaluru	Open
80	Dr. V Sri Nagesh	49	3	1	Hyderabad	Open
81	Kavya Ramasubramanian	49	2	0	Bengaluru	College
82	Prasanth John Abraham	49	2	0	Bengaluru	Open
83	Arun A S	48	4	0	Thrissur	Open
84	Kunal Roy	48	4	0	Bengaluru	Open
85	J K Lakshmi	48	3	1	Hyderabad	Open
86	Saransh Mohapatra	48	2	1	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
87	Vinod Hariharan	47	5	1	Bengaluru	Open
88	Sujay	47	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
89	Saswata Acharya	46	3	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
90	Siddharth Mishra	46	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
91	Siddharth K	46	1	1	Bengaluru	Open
92	Sumeer Kumar	45	5	0	Bengaluru	Open
93	Prithwiraj Mukherjee	45	4	1	Ahmedabad	Open
94	Balu John	45	1	1	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
95	Sarvesh Shenoy	45	1	0	Mumbai	Open
96	Santonab Chakraborty	44	3	1	Mumbai	Open
97	Sushant Shekhar	44	3	0	Manipal	College
98	Atul Mathew	44	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
99	Varun Parthasarathy	44	1	1	Chennai	Open
100	Mukilan Ayapparaj	43	3	0	Coimbatore	Open
101	Shobhyam Chakravarty	42	3	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
102	Ayush Agrawal	41	1	0	Pune	Open
103	Rajat Gururaj	41	1	0	Hyderabad	Open
104	Shayak Chakraborty	41	0	0	Kolkata	Open
105	Anisha Karnail	40	1	1	Pune	Ladies
106	Sudip Kalyan Dey	40	1	0	Kolkata	Open
107	Adarsh	39	2	0	Hyderabad	Open
108	Venkatasubramanian TC	39	2	0	Bengaluru	Open
109	Sujith E	39	1	2	Kozhikode	Open
110	Viswas Viswam K C	37	3	1	Kozhikode	Open
111	Sagnik Chakraborty	37	3	0	Hyderabad	Open
112	Francis Rodrigues	37	2	0	Mumbai	Open
113	Ishaan Najeeb	37	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
114	Samir Gupta	37	0	1	Pune	Open
115	Rama Subramanian	36	2	1	Hyderabad	Open
116	Rajesh Panchanadhan	35	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
117	Chandrashekhar Rao	35	2	0	Goa	Open
118	Mudit Bhardwaj	34	3	0	Bengaluru	Open
119	Meghana Iyengar	34	2	0	Bengaluru	College
120	Sahil Ramchandani	34	2	0	Bengaluru	Open
121	Rishav Dewan	34	2	0	Bengaluru	Open
122	Viola Rodrigues	34	0	1	Goa	Ladies
123	Sreejesh PS	33	3	0	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
124	Monoswini Misra	33	2	0	Silchar	College
125	Tony Nixon Mavely	33	2	0	Thiruvananthapuram	College
126	Saee Joshi	33	1	0	Pune	Open
127	Shubham Jha	33	0	0	Pune	Open
128	Jitaditya Narzary	32	2	1	Guwahati	Open
129	Devarshi Ghosh	32	2	0	Kolkata	Open
130	Shiladitya Ganguli	32	2	0	Kolkata	Open
131	Bishanka Dassarma	32	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
132	Ganesh Thambhahalli Satyen	31	3	1	Bengaluru	Open
133	Ashutosh Das	31	2	1	Guwahati	Open
134	Ayush Sharma	31	2	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
135	Vivek Pinto	31	1	1	Manipal	Open
136	Rahul Preman	31	1	0	Kozhikode	College
137	Nikhil Jha	31	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
138	S Ramesh	31	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
139	Shom Biswas	31	0	1	Bengaluru	Open
140	Dimpal Dutta	31	0	0	Silchar	College
141	Sankar Roy	30	3	0	Kolkata	Open
142	Elvis Francis	30	2	0	Pune	College
143	Sreeram M	30	2	0	Kozhikode	College
144	Pranava	30	1	0	Bengaluru	College
145	Nayan	30	0	1	Guwahati	Open
146	Srijon Jana	29	2	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
147	Kaivalya Karkare	29	2	0	Goa	Open
148	Prajwal V	29	2	0	Bengaluru	College
149	Utkarsh Ruhela	29	1	0	Mumbai	Open
150	Abhijith Bhadran	29	0	0	Mumbai	Open
151	Anuradha Dharwadkar	29	0	0	Ahmedabad	Ladies
152	N Viswanathan	29	0	0	Udaipur	Open
153	Akshay P	28	2	0	Pune	Open
154	Athul Ajay	28	2	0	Thiruvananthapuram	Open
155	Roshan	28	1	0	Coimbatore	Open
156	Manoj R	28	1	0	Kozhikode	Open
157	Sundar Srinivas Harish	28	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
158	Abhishek Gupta	28	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
159	Sriniketh B	27	2	0	Bengaluru	College
160	Abhijit Anand	27	0	1	Bengaluru	Open
161	Imthiaz Ahammed	27	0	0	Kozhikode	Open
162	Soumya S	27	0	0	Bengaluru	Ladies
163	Aniruddha Mondal	26	4	0	Bengaluru	College
164	Jerry Jose	26	2	0	Thrissur	College
165	Revanth Turlapati	26	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
166	Rana Mayank Pratap	25	1	0	Silchar	College
167	Shreyas Iyer	25	1	0	Bengaluru	College
168	Vinay Nair Karath	25	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
169	Izhar Ansari	25	0	1	Kolkata (JIMS)	Open
170	Paul B E Gatward	25	0	0	Goa	Open
171	Pinakpani Kashyap	24	2	0	Guwahati	Open
172	Sanveer Singh Puri	24	1	0	Ahmedabad	Open
173	Sumanth Jayaramaiah	24	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
174	Praveen Jayaraj A	24	0	0	Coimbatore	Open
175	Amit C J	24	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
176	Neelam Goswami	24	0	0	Guwahati	Ladies
177	S V Roshini	23	3	0	Chennai	College
178	Aravind S N	23	2	0	Chennai	College
179	Manu Varma	23	0	0	Kozhikode	Open
180	Arnav Patel	23	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
181	Vibhu Prakash	23	0	0	Bengaluru	College
182	S V Ananthakrishna	23	0	0	Bengaluru	College
183	Pavan Madhukar Bhat	22	1	0	Manipal	Open
184	Samyukta Anand	22	1	0	Coimbatore	College
185	Arjun Jeewan	22	0	0	Goa	College
186	Preetpal	22	0	0	Udaipur	Open
187	Arnav Metrani	21	4	0	Bengaluru	College
188	S T Prasad	21	1	0	Hyderabad	Open
189	Aumkaar Pranav Shukla	21	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
190	Syed Mohammad Hashmi	20	2	0	Hyderabad	College
191	Aditya Pal	20	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
192	Swethaa	20	0	0	Bengaluru	Ladies
193	Kiran Ramaswamy	20	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
194	Kevin	20	0	0	Udaipur	Open
195	Aravind Suresh	19	2	0	Thiruvananthapuram	College
196	Nikhil Shirsat	19	1	0	Goa	Open
197	Bhargav Sadari	19	0	0	Manipal	College
198	Ram Mohan	19	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
199	Vatsal	19	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
200	Asif Ahmed	19	0	0	Guwahati	Open
201	Harshad	18	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
202	Parijat Choudhury	17	1	0	Bengaluru	Open
203	Subikash Paul	17	0	0	Kolkata	Open
204	Manad	17	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
205	Kanishkaa Balachandran	17	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
206	Aoditya	17	0	0	Bengaluru	College
207	Sukrit Sivaprasad	17	0	0	Bengaluru	School
208	Sankalp Chowdhury	16	1	0	Ahmedabad	Open
209	Jayagopalan V	16	1	0	Chennai	Open
210	Aaditya S Rao	16	0	0	Bengaluru	College
211	Priyanuj Parasar	15	1	2	Guwahati	College
212	Vrinda Varma	15	1	0	Kozhikode	Ladies
213	Amit Agrawal	15	0	0	Pune	Open
214	Debabrata Malik	15	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
215	Aatir Zaki	14	1	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
216	Swagat Shubakanta Das	14	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
217	Meghna Sudhir	13	1	0	Kozhikode	School
218	Samyak Jain	13	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
219	Tejas Lodaya	13	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
220	Niyati Jois	13	0	0	Bengaluru	School
221	S Joshua	12	1	0	Coimbatore	College
222	Prayag Mohanty	12	0	0	Goa	College
223	Kamal Mehdi	12	0	0	Guwahati	Open
224	Sagufta	12	0	0	Udaipur	Open
225	Pranshu Singh	11	1	0	Mumbai	Open
226	Rayshma R	11	0	0	Coimbatore	Ladies
227	Jash Sirui	11	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
228	Vineet	11	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
229	Anoop N Nambudari	10	0	0	Thrissur	Open
230	Atharva Pandare	10	0	0	Manipal	Open
231	Bhavya H Varma	9	1	0	Ahmedabad	College
232	Sreeram N Pai	9	1	0	Kozhikode	College
233	Vishwanath Varma	9	1	0	Kozhikode	School
234	Jayant Rankwa	9	0	1	Ahmedabad	College
235	Alok Vijay Saldanha	9	0	0	Manipal	Open
236	Rohit R K	9	0	0	Coimbatore	College
237	Riddhi Mondal	9	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	Ladies
238	Varun Ramachandran	9	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
239	Saumay	9	0	0	Udaipur	Open
240	Nikhil A Khattar	8	1	0	Ahmedabad	Open
241	Kabilesh Nataraj	8	0	0	Coimbatore	College
242	Pankaj Waghmare	8	0	0	Pune	Open
243	Vijeet V	8	0	0	Bengaluru	Open
244	Vigenshwaran A	7	0	0	Coimbatore	College
245	Bijili V Komath	7	0	0	Kozhikode	Ladies
246	Nilova Jasu	7	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	Ladies
247	Khevan Thanki	7	0	0	Bengaluru	College
248	Harishkumar A	6	0	0	Coimbatore	College
249	Ridah P	6	0	0	Kozhikode	Ladies
250	Sounak Bhawal	6	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
251	Uddipana N	6	0	0	Bengaluru	College
252	Hemant	6	0	0	Udaipur	Open
253	Gowtham V	5	0	0	Manipal	College
254	Nancy R	5	0	0	Kozhikode	College
255	Dhruv	5	0	0	Udaipur	Open
256	Siddharth S	4	0	0	Kozhikode	School
257	Raza Faiz Arakkal	4	0	0	Kozhikode	School
258	U Kanishkar	4	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
259	Harshil Agarwal	4	0	0	Kolkata (JIMS)	College
260	Shivansh Srivastava	3	0	0	Ahmedabad	College
261	Mohamad Asik	3	0	0	Coimbatore	College
262	Divyansh Agarwal	3	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
263	Tanvi	3	0	0	Udaipur	Open
264	Ashok Kumar Gupta	2	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
265	Rohit J S	1	0	0	Coimbatore	College
266	Hariharan P	1	0	0	Coimbatore	College
267	Ayisha Farsana P P	1	0	0	Kozhikode	College
268	Uzayr Faiz Arakkal	1	0	0	Kozhikode	School
269	Edsel Shannen D'Souza	0	0	0	Manipal	College
270	Ahil Anwar P	0	0	0	Kozhikode	School
271	Aseel Muhammed P	0	0	0	Kozhikode	School
272	Saamved Chakraborty	0	0	0	Hyderabad	School
273	Dhananjoy Chakraborty	0	0	0	Hyderabad	Open
274	Abheri Karthik	0	0	0	Bengaluru	School

MahaQuizzer and Junior MahaQuizzer – the results

The results of the 16th edition of MahaQuizzer and the inaugural edition of Junior MahaQuizzer are below. Unfortunately, we are yet to receive scores from some centres, and we will update the scores as and when we do.

323 people took Mahaquizzer, and more than a 100 attempted the Junior version. We hope to see more takers, young and old, in the coming years.

The winner of the inaugural edition of Junior Mahaquizzer, with a score of 38, is Antara Bhattacharya, from Mumbai.  Yeldho Shem from Kochi finished second with 34, and Ananya G Upadhya from Bangalore finished third with 33 points.

It is well known that when Usain Bolt turned up for a race, the other runners had three options – Best case: Bolt pulls a muscle. Worst case: they finish with a PB. This year’s MahaQuizzer winner, although not exactly a fast mover like the aforesaid Bolt, is a passable quizzer himself. Dr. Arul Mani, with a score of 99, is the MahaQuizzer for 2019.

This is his third time as the title-holder, and he matches his own record of the highest ever score. He joins Anustup Datta and Vinoo Sanjay as three-time winners.

The next three in the list are also previous MahaQuizzers: Thejaswi Udupa, Rahul Kottalgi, Vinoo Sanjay. Preetham Upadhya, Bangalore’s very own Boy Wonder, is the College topper, finishing with 84 and at #11 in the overall list. The highest scorer among women was Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, a previous winner. She finished with 79.

The winners will be given the trophies at Askqance 2020, which will be held in June.

We also thank all our proctors and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success. See you in December!

**Jan 19 update: There are small changes in the rankings. We had left out the ‘total stars’ column in our earlier list.

**Feb 3 update: There have been changes in School top 10 rankings. Kochi scores were not updated. 

#	Name	Score	Total *	**s	*s	City
1	Antara Bhattacharya	38	3	0	3	Mumbai
2	Yeldho Shem	34	4	0	4	Kochi
3	Ananya G Upadhya	33	5	2	3	Bangalore
4	Anand R	32	4	3	1	Kochi
5	Sreeram Madhavan V	31	3	1	2	Thrissur
6	Tejas Jade	26	4	1	3	Bangalore
7	Shashank SK	25	0	0	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
8	Ryan Joe George	24	0	0	0	Kochi
9	Vidur Kaimal	23	4	1	3	Bangalore
10	Aneek Chatterjee	23	2	0	2	Kolkata
11	Navneeth M Kumar	21	1	0	1	Kochi
12	Aarav Jaiswal	20	1	0	1	Kolkata
13	Kushagra Agarwal	19	3	1	2	Bangalore
14	Aadit Karve	19	1	0	1	Pune
15	Karnav Popat	19	1	0	1	Kolkata
16	Aarman Chopra	19	1	0	1	Kolkata
17	Nidhish P	18	2	1	1	Bangalore
18	Pranav P	18	2	0	2	Bangalore
19	Aditya Kannan	17	2	2	0	Bangalore
20	Asha Janardan	17	2	1	1	Trivandrum
21	Shashvat Singh	16	1	0	1	Delhi
22	Aditya Sivaramakrishnan	15	2	1	1	Trivandrum
23	Leo Steve Saiju	15	1	0	1	Bangalore
24	Shrish S Naik	15	1	0	1	Bangalore
25	Jacob J Thayil	15	1	0	1	Bangalore
26	S Suraj Kiran	15	1	0	1	Chennai, Anna Nagar
27	Adithya Kishor	15	1	0	1	Trivandrum
28	Aditya Acharya	14	3	1	2	Bangalore
29	Abhinav N	14	2	0	2	Bangalore
30	Kushal U	14	1	0	1	Bangalore
31	Advik Acharya	14	1	0	1	Kolkata
32	Shreyas MN	13	4	2	2	Bangalore
33	Devadeep Menon	13	3	1	2	Calicut
34	Rishabh B	13	2	1	1	Bangalore
35	Nivedita R	13	2	0	2	Calicut
36	Aaditya S Rao	13	1	0	1	Bangalore
37	Kiran Thomas Tyson	12	3	0	3	Kochi
38	Mihir Raddi	12	1	0	1	Pune
39	Shraddha Rajeev	12	0	0	0	Kochi
40	Shayak Mitra	11	4	1	3	Raiganj
41	Amogh R Kadkol	11	1	1	0	Bangalore
42	Aditya Sharath M	11	1	0	1	Bangalore
43	Saswat Ray	10	1	1	0	Kolkata
44	Harigovind P	10	1	0	1	Thrissur
45	Arihant Satpathy	10	0	0	0	Kolkata
46	Abhinav Mohan George	10	0	0	0	Kochi
47	Sukrit Sivaprasad	9	0	0	0	Bangalore
48	Noel Antony Alex	9	0	0	0	Kochi
49	Balram Kumar Choudhury	8	2	1	1	Kolkata
50	Shruti Kartik	8	2	0	2	Bangalore
51	Pratham Atal	8	2	0	2	Mumbai
52	Spandan Das	8	0	0	0	Bangalore
53	Gokul Thejus Menon	8	0	0	0	Thrissur
54	Esha Chakraborty	8	0	0	0	Siliguri
55	Anousha Batta	7	0	0	0	Kolkata
56	Malavika Sha	7	0	0	0	Calicut
57	Rajarshee Bose	7	0	0	0	Siliguri
58	Adwaith M. George	7	0	0	0	Kochi
59	Hrishikesh Varma	7	0	0	0	Kochi
60	Soujanya Das	6	0	0	0	Andul
61	Arjun Vivek	5	1	0	1	Kochi
62	Advika Mulgund	5	0	0	0	Bangalore
63	Kyishong B Das	5	0	0	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
64	Bharath Krishna KA	5	0	0	0	Thrissur
65	Vaishnavi Yogesh	4	0	0	0	Bangalore
66	Sahil Thakkar	4	0	0	0	Bangalore
67	Neha S	4	0	0	0	Bangalore
68	Arnay Agarwal	4	0	0	0	Bangalore
69	Sai Gowrav KS	4	0	0	0	Bangalore
70	Darshini Bharani Anand	4	0	0	0	Calicut
71	Avranil Saha	4	0	0	0	Siliguri
72	Swapnil Deb	4	0	0	0	Siliguri
73	Himanshu Sankhala	3	1	0	1	Mumbai
74	Nirmal Anand Kumar	3	0	0	0	Bangalore
75	Jashn R	3	0	0	0	Bangalore
76	Sunidhi Das	3	0	0	0	Bangalore
77	Tanish Jain	3	0	0	0	Bangalore
78	Prithvika K	3	0	0	0	Bangalore
79	Karthik Amit	3	0	0	0	Calicut
80	Mahadevam Ranjith	3	0	0	0	Calicut
81	Samyuktha V	2	1	0	1	Bangalore
82	Vedhanth J	2	1	0	1	Bangalore
83	Arviya Saara	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
84	Sakshi C Choradia	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
85	Srikar G Raghuram	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
86	Jhanvi Chopra	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
87	Satvik M	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
88	Samit Ranjan M	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
89	Falak Sharma	2	0	0	0	Bangalore
90	Roudra Mallik	2	0	0	0	Andul
91	Muhammed Safvan KP	2	0	0	0	Calicut
92	Grushma S Ganjam	1	1	1	0	Bangalore
93	Ridhwan	1	1	1	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
94	Nithya S	1	1	0	1	Bangalore
95	Guru Charan	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
96	Puneet MP Bharadwaj	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
97	Jatin Jain	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
98	Shravan H Ahuja	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
99	Rachith R	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
100	Tamanna Raghunath Aiyer	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
101	Harshitha G	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
102	Harshitha K Jain	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
103	Poonam Jain N	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
104	Preeth B	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
105	Sonal Sunil Kumar	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
106	Lahari BA	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
107	Aditi R Jain	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
108	Sarvesh Patil	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
109	Rutwik Desai	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
110	Shrujan SG	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
111	Maanasi D	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
112	Inchara Prasad	1	0	0	0	Bangalore
113	Subhrakanti Adhikary	1	0	0	0	Andul
114	Afsa Mishael	1	0	0	0	Calicut
115	Koustav Banerjee	1	0	0	0	Raiganj
116	Abhijit Das	1	0	0	0	Raiganj
117	Rishith R Shekar	0	2	1	1	Bangalore
118	Akshaay BS	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
119	Sai Anurag R Angadi	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
120	Stuti Nayak	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
121	Sahil Dashetty	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
122	Dhanraj N	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
123	Pranith C Menon	0	0	0	0	Thrissur
124	Rebacca	0	0	0	0	Calicut
125	Tanmay Roy	0	0	0	0	Siliguri

#	Name	Score	Total *s	**s	*s	City
1	Arul Mani	99	8	4	4	Bangalore
2	Thejaswi Udupa	96	5	1	4	Bangalore
3	Rahul Kottalgi	95	5	2	3	Mumbai
4	Vinoo Sanjay	94	5	2	3	Mumbai
5	Jayakanthan	94	4	0	4	Chennai
6	Shouvik Guha	90	4	3	1	Kolkata
7	Samanth	89	5	2	3	Chennai
8	Ravi Mundoli	87	4	0	4	Chennai
9	Rajiv Rai	87	3	0	3	Mumbai
10	Amrit P Chetia	85	6	2	4	Delhi
11	Preetham Upadhya	84	5	1	4	Bangalore
12	Abhishek Kapoor	83	5	2	3	Mumbai
13	Manu Sudhakar	83	3	2	1	Chennai
14	Anustup Datta	81	5	3	2	Bangalore
15	Suraj Menon	81	5	2	3	Hyderabad
16	Navin Rajaram	79	4	2	2	Bangalore
17	Jayashree JM	79	2	0	2	Kolkata
18	Vibhendu Tiwari	78	4	1	3	Mumbai
19	Arun Hiregange	77	5	1	4	Bangalore
20	Krittika Adhikary	77	4	2	2	Bangalore
21	Chandrakant Nair	77	2	1	1	Thrissur
22	Kiran V	76	4	1	3	Chennai
23	Sachin Deshpande	76	4	0	4	Bangalore
24	Aditya Gadre	75	3	1	2	Pune
25	Kunal Sawardekar	73	3	2	1	Pune
26	Anannya Deb	73	1	1	0	Mumbai
27	Syed Mustafa Hashmi	71	3	1	2	Hyderabad
28	PS Rajagopal	70	7	2	5	Bangalore
29	Varun Rajiv	70	6	3	3	Chennai
30	Santosh	69	10	5	5	Bangalore
31	Nikhil Sonde	69	3	1	2	Mumbai
32	Bala	69	2	1	1	Mumbai
33	Venky Srinivasan	69	0	0	0	Bangalore
34	Govind Grewal	67	5	2	3	Mumbai
35	Achyuth Sanjay	67	3	1	2	Bangalore
36	Samanway Banerjee	67	2	0	2	Andul
37	Gokul S	66	3	2	1	Delhi
38	Vinod Sivarama Krishnan	66	3	0	3	Delhi
39	Dinesh Krithivasan	66	3	0	3	Chennai
40	Anirudh Chari	66	3	0	3	Kolkata
41	Praveen VR	63	3	0	3	Bangalore
42	Prithwish Datta	63	2	2	0	Delhi
43	Suresh Ramasubramanian	62	3	1	2	Hyderabad
44	Ranajeet Soman	62	3	0	3	Pune
45	EM Bhargava	61	4	1	3	Bangalore
46	Piyush Kedia	61	1	0	1	Andul
47	Parth SS	60	1	0	1	Andul
48	Shrirang Raddi	59	5	1	4	Pune
49	Kunal Malhotra	59	4	1	3	Delhi
50	Omkar D	59	3	1	2	Pune
51	Anand Sivashankar	59	1	0	1	Mumbai
52	Gerleo Nimilan	58	4	1	3	Chennai
53	Gopal Kidao	58	3	1	2	Chennai
54	Avinash TN	58	2	1	1	Bangalore
55	Somasish Ghosh	58	2	1	1	Delhi
56	Sourjo Sengupta	57	4	2	2	Andul
57	Alok Prasanna Kumar	57	3	0	3	Bangalore
58	Abhinav Dasgupta	56	2	0	2	Mumbai
59	Raghuvansh Ramaswamy	55	2	0	2	Chennai
60	Sandeep Albert Mathias	54	2	1	1	Mumbai
61	Nikhil Indla	53	2	0	2	Hyderabad
62	Yogesh Pai	53	1	0	1	Coimbatore
63	Gautam Ghosh	52	2	1	1	Chennai
64	Julian D'Coasta	52	2	0	2	Bangalore
65	Arnab Bhattacharya	52	1	1	0	Mumbai
66	Maitrey Deshpande	50	3	2	1	Bangalore
67	Apratim Mukhopadhyay	50	3	1	2	Andul
68	Shayak Chakrabarty	50	0	0	0	Andul
69	Vilas Pavithran	49	3	0	3	Goa
70	Ani (JK Lakshmi)	49	2	1	1	Hyderabad
71	Abhimanyu Bharade	49	1	1	0	Kharagpur
72	Riaz Shaik	49	1	0	1	Hyderabad
73	Hem Maradja	49	0	0	0	Bangalore
74	Kishore R	48	3	1	2	Bangalore
75	Kumar Kirti Jain	48	1	0	1	Delhi
76	Sharath Jose	48	0	0	0	Chennai
77	Prasanna Karmakar	48	0	0	0	Hyderabad
78	Krishna S Girish	47	1	1	0	Bangalore
79	Ashwin	47	1	1	0	Coimbatore
80	Gokul Panigrahi	47	0	0	0	Pune
81	Sreekanth Reddy	47	0	0	0	Delhi
82	D Ghosh	47	0	0	0	Kolkata
83	Prashant John Abraham	46	2	0	2	Mumbai
84	Vijay Sampath	46	2	0	2	Mumbai
85	Abhilash	45	3	1	2	Bangalore
86	Arun Ramanathan	45	2	1	1	Bangalore
87	Hiran Roy	45	2	1	1	Bangalore
88	Viswas Viswam KC	45	2	0	2	Calicut
89	Arun AS	45	2	0	2	Thrissur
90	Tanmay Prusty	45	1	1	0	Bangalore
91	Navin Sharma	45	1	0	1	Bangalore
92	Mihir	44	4	1	3	Kharagpur
93	Shreeram Shetty	44	2	1	1	Bangalore
94	Muhammed Munavvir VV	44	2	0	2	Delhi
95	Jinson Chacko	44	1	1	0	Bangalore
96	Preyoshi Ganguly	44	0	0	0	Bangalore
97	Ankush Kothari	43	2	1	1	Mumbai
98	Gigi George	43	1	0	1	Thrissur
99	Anil Kothuri	43	1	0	1	Mumbai
100	Vijay Sarathy	43	1	0	1	Chennai
101	Rashmi Vallabhajosyula	43	0	0	0	Bangalore
102	Sandipan Goswami	42	3	0	3	Guwahati
103	Karthik Srinivasan	42	1	0	1	Bangalore
104	Abhay S Kulkarni	42	1	0	1	Bangalore
105	Varun PD	42	1	0	1	Kharagpur
106	Balu John	42	1	0	1	Kochi
107	Bryan Robert	41	4	1	3	Bangalore
108	Yogesa M	41	3	2	1	Bangalore
109	L Calvin	41	3	1	2	Chennai
110	Atul Mathew	41	2	0	2	Delhi
111	Arjit Mondal	41	2	0	2	Andul
112	Roshan Dattatri	41	1	1	0	Chennai
113	Antara Bhattacharya	41	1	0	1	Mumbai
114	Bhrigu J	41	1	0	1	Delhi
115	Nitish Wagle	41	0	0	0	Goa
116	Sagar Sinha	41	0	0	0	Hyderabad
117	Siddharth K	40	2	0	2	Bangalore
118	Shrey Shylesh	40	2	0	2	Delhi
119	Abhinav Dhar	40	1	0	1	Mumbai
120	Dharmendra	40	0	0	0	Bangalore
121	Pranav Pawar	39	1	0	1	Pune
122	Arjun Bharadwaj	39	0	0	0	Bangalore
123	Subhudeep Sarkar	38	0	0	0	Andul
124	Adheesh Ghosh	37	2	2	0	Delhi
125	SA Karthik	37	1	0	1	Bangalore
126	Razia Shaikh	37	0	0	0	Hyderabad
127	Sarvesh Shenoy	36	1	1	0	Mumbai
128	Abio Abdulla	35	2	2	0	Delhi
129	Pavan BG	35	1	1	0	Hyderabad
130	Latish Venugopal	35	1	0	1	Bangalore
131	Karthik Ganesan	35	1	0	1	Delhi
132	Yashashvi Srivastava	35	0	0	0	Kharagpur
133	Tathagata Chatterjee	35	0	0	0	Delhi
134	R Keshav Narayan	34	2	1	1	Chennai
135	KV Sreeram	34	2	1	1	Kochi
136	Pranami Jamuli	34	1	1	0	Delhi
137	Varun Murthy	34	1	0	1	Delhi
138	Nirmalya Biswas	34	1	0	1	Siliguri
139	Devi Prasad V	34	0	0	0	Chennai
140	Ujjwal Kiran Das	34	0	0	0	Chennai
141	Dr Unnikrishnan Menon	33	2	1	1	Kochi
142	Kasthuri Shankar	33	1	0	1	Chennai
143	Arunoday Chaudhuri	33	1	0	1	Siliguri
144	Soumik Choudhury	33	1	0	1	Raiganj
145	S Chandrasekhar	33	0	0	0	Bangalore
146	Siddharth Mishra	33	0	0	0	Mumbai
147	Ritwik Ghosh	33	0	0	0	Kolkata
148	Arvind Thekkinghat	32	1	0	1	Bangalore
149	Ajay Kumar KS	31	0	0	0	Bangalore
150	Pavan Krishnamurthy	30	2	0	2	Bangalore
151	Saishyam Srikanth	30	1	0	1	Bangalore
152	Shamsuddin Haider	30	1	0	1	Andul
153	Ramkumar Shankar	30	0	0	0	Chennai
154	Col Shankar	30	0	0	0	Chennai
155	Praneet	30	0	0	0	Coimbatore
156	Suraj Menon	30	0	0	0	Kochi
157	Sairam D	28	1	1	0	Bangalore
158	Bedanga Kashyap Das	28	0	0	0	Guwahati
159	Shameem Abdul	27	1	1	0	Calicut
160	Manas Deep	27	1	0	1	Pune
161	Paul BE	27	1	0	1	Goa
162	Akshat A	27	0	0	0	Bangalore
163	Karthik Subramanya Karvaje	27	0	0	0	Bangalore
164	Shobhyam Chakravarty	27	0	0	0	Kharagpur
165	Sourasis Bose	27	0	0	0	Andul
166	Akhil Ghosh	27	0	0	0	Kochi
167	Sumeet Kumar	26	1	0	1	Bangalore
168	Abhijit B	26	1	0	1	Mumbai
169	Parth Dhar	26	1	0	1	Delhi
170	Dr Madhavan VP	26	0	0	0	Thrissur
171	Maitreyi Gupta	26	0	0	0	Mumbai
172	Sanjay Samuel Mathew	26	0	0	0	Kochi
173	Mayur Shett	25	1	1	0	Goa
174	Sudharshan Narayanan	24	2	0	2	Bangalore
175	Arnav Singh	24	1	0	1	Mumbai
176	Dwijesh Athrey	24	0	0	0	Bangalore
177	Chinmay Deshpande	24	0	0	0	Pune
178	Md Izhar Ansari	24	0	0	0	Kolkata
179	Nikhil Jadav	23	0	0	0	Pune
180	Arjun A	23	0	0	0	Calicut
181	Parminder Singh	22	1	0	1	Jamshedpur
182	Allan Joseph	22	0	0	0	Bangalore
183	Sabareenath Madhusoothanan	22	0	0	0	Trivandrum
184	Shubham Jha	21	1	1	0	Kochi
185	Praneeth S Bharadwaj	21	1	0	1	Bangalore
186	Animesh Jha	21	1	0	1	Kharagpur
187	Golak Bihari Sarangi	21	0	0	0	Bangalore
188	Chetan Agarwal	21	0	0	0	Bangalore
189	Sumukh Herlekar	21	0	0	0	Bangalore
190	Aditya Singh	21	0	0	0	Pune
191	Ritwik Johari	21	0	0	0	Pune
192	Manoj R	21	0	0	0	Calicut
193	Nikhil Sarkar	21	0	0	0	Andul
194	Paschatya Manna	21	0	0	0	Andul
195	Kaustav Mandal	20	1	1	0	Kharagpur
196	Rithwik Rao	20	1	0	1	Bangalore
197	Krishnan P	20	1	0	1	Thrissur
198	George Mohan	20	1	0	1	Kochi
199	Satish Pai	20	0	0	0	Pune
200	Govind M Nair	20	0	0	0	Delhi
201	Rama Mohan	19	0	0	0	Delhi
202	Kartikay Chadha	19	0	0	0	Delhi
203	P Srivatsav	18	1	1	0	Chennai
204	Shivam Saxena	18	1	0	1	Kharagpur
205	Deepanshu Sinha	18	1	0	1	Kharagpur
206	Madhur Tike	18	1	0	1	Mumbai
207	S Ashwin	18	0	0	0	Chennai
208	Sutanu Banerjee	18	0	0	0	Andul
209	Adhiban	18	0	0	0	Coimbatore
210	Ananthu CV	17	1	0	1	Thrissur
211	Ayan	17	1	0	1	Mumbai
212	Sandeep Kaimal	17	0	0	0	Bangalore
213	Manjula S	17	0	0	0	Trivandrum
214	MD Samir Alam	17	0	0	0	Delhi
215	Abir Sen	17	0	0	0	Siliguri
216	Tanuj Kumar	16	1	0	1	Pune
217	Amit Kumar Jha	16	1	0	1	Raiganj
218	Smitha M George	16	0	0	0	Trivandrum
219	Sagnik Shankar	16	0	0	0	Pune
220	Ananya Kumari	16	0	0	0	Pune
221	Prajot Patne	16	0	0	0	Pune
222	Anirudh Kumar	16	0	0	0	Delhi
223	M Sharat Chandar	16	0	0	0	Coimbatore
224	Bikram Roy	16	0	0	0	Siliguri
225	Chaitanya Khemani	16	0	0	0	Siliguri
226	Arvind S	15	2	1	1	Goa
227	Ronit Muduli	15	1	1	0	Jamshedpur
228	Jyotirmoy Sen	15	1	1	0	Raiganj
229	Prajwal V	15	0	0	0	Bangalore
230	Amit Agarwal	15	0	0	0	Pune
231	Anubhav Saboth	15	0	0	0	Kharagpur
232	Hemansh Kashyap	15	0	0	0	Kharagpur
233	Avi Sankritya	15	0	0	0	Kharagpur
234	Chetana Rohit T	15	0	0	0	Delhi
235	Arighna Chattopadyay	15	0	0	0	Andul
236	Souvik Ghatak	15	0	0	0	Raiganj
237	Ihsan Ahmed K	15	0	0	0	Kochi
238	Sulagna Nandi	14	1	1	0	Raiganj
239	Appu S	14	0	0	0	Trivandrum
240	Vishwas Bunyan	14	0	0	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
241	Divya P	14	0	0	0	Mumbai
242	Kaustav Nath	14	0	0	0	Andul
243	Avijit Sutradhar	14	0	0	0	Raiganj
244	Abhranil Ray	13	1	0	1	Raiganj
245	Aravind A	13	0	0	0	Trivandrum
246	Sneha Ranjan	13	0	0	0	Pune
247	Rinusha Rajan	13	0	0	0	Mumbai
248	Rudra Sankar Saha	12	1	0	1	Raiganj
249	Kaustub	12	0	0	0	Bangalore
250	Joshua Fernandes	12	0	0	0	Bangalore
251	Aman Goyal	12	0	0	0	Pune
252	Maitreyi Swaroop	12	0	0	0	Kharagpur
253	Venkatesh Jaiswal	12	0	0	0	Kharagpur
254	Subhashis Chakraborty	12	0	0	0	Raiganj
255	Dr RR Varma	12	0	0	0	Kochi
256	Resmi Menon	12	0	0	0	Kochi
257	Inakshi Kar	11	2	0	2	Kharagpur
258	Sheersha Saha	11	1	0	1	Raiganj
259	Subikash Paul	11	0	0	0	Andul
260	Biswajyoti Bhowmik	11	0	0	0	Raiganj
261	Praveen Jaya Raj	10	1	1	0	Coimbatore
262	Parijat Choudhury	10	0	0	0	Bangalore
263	Ashish Harshavardhan	10	0	0	0	Kharagpur
264	Sekhar S	10	0	0	0	Chennai
265	Krishna Kumar Choudhury	10	0	0	0	Kolkata
266	Biswadeb Sarkar	10	0	0	0	Andul
267	Pankaj Agarwal	10	0	0	0	Siliguri
268	Anwita Bhowmick	10	0	0	0	Raiganj
269	Rasna Kishor	9	0	0	0	Trivandrum
270	Yashwi Mishra	9	0	0	0	Pune
271	PS Balaji	9	0	0	0	Chennai
272	Rayshma R	9	0	0	0	Coimbatore
273	Ankesh Saha	9	0	0	0	Siliguri
274	Prachi Niradi	8	1	0	1	Belagavi
275	Afsal Sebastian	8	0	0	0	Trivandrum
276	Advay Deshpande	8	0	0	0	Pune
277	Tamal Dey	8	0	0	0	Siliguri
278	Kiron Susan Joseph Sebastine	8	0	0	0	Kochi
279	Alisha A Asukar	7	1	0	1	Belagavi
280	Omkar M Kokitkar	7	1	0	1	Belagavi
281	Aarti M Nimbalkar	7	1	0	1	Belagavi
282	Vinoth	7	0	0	0	Coimbatore
283	Mayur Munde	6	0	0	0	Mumbai
284	Moumita Das	6	0	0	0	Chennai
285	Poonam Mense	6	0	0	0	Belagavi
286	Pooja R Chigunkar	6	0	0	0	Belagavi
287	Harleen Kaur	5	0	0	0	Bangalore
288	Rahul Vishal	5	0	0	0	Bangalore
289	Deepro Ghosh	5	0	0	0	Kharagpur
290	Ahemadraza Mukkeri	4	0	0	0	Belagavi
291	Aravindhan	4	0	0	0	Coimbatore
292	Vikram Saha	4	0	0	0	Siliguri
293	Kishore MA	3	0	0	0	Trivandrum
294	Aakash Pralhad	3	0	0	0	Mumbai
295	Vishwajeet Parasharam Patil	3	0	0	0	Belagavi
296	Sonali Goral	3	0	0	0	Belagavi
297	Sivasubramaniyam C	3	0	0	0	Coimbatore
298	Arun AS	2	0	0	0	Trivandrum
299	Sumaiya Banu	2	0	0	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
300	Aditya Udayakumar	2	0	0	0	Thrissur
301	Cyril Sandesh	2	0	0	0	Belagavi
302	Bhanu Prakash Nandam	1	0	0	0	Chennai, Anna Nagar
303	Subhajit Patra	1	0	0	0	Andul
304	MD Zaid A Honnapur	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
305	Rumana Noor Monim	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
306	Shivakumar Panchakattimath	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
307	Shubham S Kamati	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
308	Goutam A Bhaderi	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
309	Vishaya V Desai	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
310	Abhijeet Yuvaraj Kadam	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
311	Sachhidanand P Gangadharmath	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
312	Aidesham Jamadar	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
313	Vinayak Sarvade	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
314	Laxmi Sheetal Velapure	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
315	Santosh R Bevoor	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
316	Annappa T Patil	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
317	Anjaney Betasur	1	0	0	0	Belagavi
318	Eva Mohini	0	0	0	0	Bangalore
319	Prantik Pandit	0	0	0	0	Andul
320	Pooja C Birade	0	0	0	0	Belagavi
321	Aishwarya B Naik	0	0	0	0	Belagavi
322	Mahalaxmi N Unakal	0	0	0	0	Belagavi
323	Santosh M Sutar	0	0	0	0	Belagavi

Curieous & Curieouser – Results

The Karnataka Quiz Association conducted the 1st edition of Curieous & Curieouser, a day dedicated to quizzes on all things scientific, on Sunday, 10th November 2019. Quizzes for students of high school and PUC/10+2 were held in the morning, with the afternoon session dedicated to the undergraduate college science quiz. The quizzes were researched & hosted by first time quiz masters Dr. Vinod Nayak and Aswathy Joseph, along with Dr. Avinash Thirumalai.

Despite security fears due to the Ayodhya judgement the previous day, teams from 18 different schools turned up on for the high school science quiz. One good sign was that a significant number of teams were coming to a KQA event for the first time, or were from schools that had dropped out of the quiz circuit in recent years. Turnout from the PUC/10+2 standard cohort was badly affected though, with only 2 teams turning up.

After a hard fought & competitive written preliminary round, 9 teams representing 8 different schools made it into the finals. A couple of teams narrowly missed out on the finals – either by half a point, or because they’d answered one less starred question. A fine solo effort by Aditya Kannan (1st PUC) of PSBB Learning Leadership Academy saw him qualify to the finals along with 8 high school teams.

First time entrants John Tom & Athul PS from The Amaatra Academy topped the prelims. They continued their good performance in the finals, and despite losing about 20 points early on, went on to win the quiz handsomely. Competition for other podium places was intense, with Abhineet RK & Pranav Bhat (BGS National Public School) pipping Vidur Kaimal & Meenakshi SV (Shishu Girha Montessori & High School) into 2nd place.

Suchitra Shankar & Shruti Kartik (Shishu Griha Montessori & High School) won the best all girls team prize.

Final rankings-

1. John Tom & Athul PS (The Amaatra Academy) – 182.5
2. Abhineet RK & Pranav Bhat (BGS National Public School) – 145
3. Vidur Kaimal & Meenakshi SV (Shishu Griha Montessori & High School) – 135
4. Nidish P & Srivatsan (St. Paul’s English School) – 115
5. Priyangshu Kar & Abraham Paul (NPS, Koramangala) – 110
6. Adyath Chennakeshav & Kisna Shetty (St. Joseph’s Boys High School) – 100
7. Aadithya Kannan (PSBB Learning Leadership Academy) – 85
8. Suchitra Shankar & Shruti Kartik (Shishu Griha Montessori & High School) – 82.5
9. Jacob J Thayil & Leo Steve Saiju (Christ Academy) – 80

 

 

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Junior and senior category winners from C&C – the science quiz.

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Ochintya Sharma and Appu Hiregange helmed the undergraduate college science quiz, with one QM even traveling direct from the airport to the venue after cyclone Bulbul-induced flight delays. Sadly, college turnout was abysmal, with teams from only 5 colleges showing up. It didn’t take away anything from the standard of quizzing though – teams were evenly matched for the most course, and came up with some very good answers. After running neck-and-neck with the other teams till about halfway of the finals, Julian & Raj of IISc ran up a huge score & won the quiz comfortably. It was a 1-2-3 podium finish by teams from IISc too – Nikhil & Aaditya narrowly beating Kaustubh & Upamanyu into 2nd place.

Final College rankings –

1. Julian & Raj (IISc) – 260
2. Nikhil & Aaditya (IISc) – 140
3. Kaustubh & Upamanyu (IISc) – 135
4. Rohith & Gaurang (IISc) – 120
5. Adithya & Nabarun (IISc) – 110
6. Godwin & Shashank (St. Joseph’s College) – 100
7. Chinmay & Adit (IISc) – 95
8. Allan & Praneet (St. Joseph’s College) – 75
9. Karthik & Shreerang (St. Joseph’s College) – 40

Lone Kid & Lone Cub 2019 – Results

The Karnataka Quiz Association held two solo quizzes for school students on the morning of Sunday, 20th October at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru. Both quizzes were set & hosted by Gautham Shenoy, Dr. Avinash Thirumalai, Nagaratna Patil and Sriprada Sadagopan.

About 50 enthusiastic students turned up on a Sunday morning to take part in the Lone Kid (for students of classes V – VII) and Lone Cub (for students of classes VIII – X) quizzes. Turnout was a bit lower than usual though, as these quizzes have been attracting almost twice that number for the last few years. It was also disappointing to see fewer than 10 girl quizzers on the day.

A written preliminary round was held as per the standard practice; the change made this year was that a 1/3rd of the prelims featuring audio-visual questions was made common to both sets of quizzers. The prelims were very competitive, with a couple of students missing out on qualifying by narrow margins – 1/2 a mark in some cases, or number of star questions answered in others. The top eight students from middle school (classes V – VII) qualified for the Lone Kid finals, and the top eight students from high school (classes VIII – X) qualified for the Lone Cub finals.

 

 

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The common prelims to Lone Kid/Cub in action.

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Suraj Pai of class VI from Aurobindo School was crowned the Lone Kid Champion 2019. He took an early lead in the finals and never let go. Not that there wasn’t stiff competition from the other finalists – just that it seemed to be one of those “so close, yet so far” occasions. A little bit of boldness, in taking a guess even when not fully sure of the answer, would definitely have helped. We had a sibling pair from NPS, Rajajinagar qualify for the Lone Kid finals – Ananthashreyas of class VII and Anaghashree Nair of class V. Anaghasree Nair took home the prize for best girl quizzer.

Lone Kid standings:

1. Suraj Pai, Std. VI, Sri Aurobindo School: 140
2. Deepak K. Nayak, Std. VII, Presidency RT Nagar: 110
3. Ananthashreyas, Std. VII, NPS-Rajajinagar: 100
4. Vedant S. Shinde, Std. VII, Presidency RT Nagar: 80
5. Nikilesh GK, Std. VII, Deens Academy: 70
6. Shamanth Shastry, Std. VII, Presidency North: 50
7. Sukrit S,. Std. V, NPS-Yeshwantpur: 40
8. Anaghashree Nair, Std. V, NPS-Rajajinagar: 30

 

 

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Winners and finalists of the Lone Kid quiz from last Sunday – tag yourselves (and any leads on the photographer everyone was actually looking at will be appreciated).

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The Lone Cub finals were a much more closely fought affair, with the lead continuously changing hands and the top three not clear even when the final round began. Dhyan Vyas of class X, NPS Indiranagar narrowly pipped Nidish P (class VIII, St. Paul’s School) and Kushagara Agarwal (class VIII, Presidency NLO) to be crowned the Lone Cub Champion 2019. Nidish and Kushagra ended up tied at the same score; after 5 rounds of tie-break questions, Nidish claimed 2nd place with Kushagra ending up 3rd. Anjana Karthik of class VIII, Sri Kumaran’s School took home the prize for best girl quizzer.

Lone Cub standings:

1. Dhyan Vyas, Std. X, NPS-Indiranagar: 115
2. Nidhish P., Std VIII, St. Paul’s: 110
3. Kushagra Agarwal, Std. VIII, Presidency NLO: 110
4. Abhineet R.K., Std. X, BGS-NPS: 85
5. Anjana Karthik, Std. VIII, Sri Kumaran’s: 75
6. Adithya Acharya, Std. IX, Christ Academy: 70
7. Shushruth Aanikanti, Std. IX, Jain Heritage: 65
8. Sagar A.K., Std. X, NPS-Yeshwantpur: 45

 

 

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Winners and finalists of the Lone Cub (classes 8-10) quiz conducted by the KQA on Sunday.

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We’ve posted the finals of both Lone Kid 2019 and Lone Cub 2019 quizzes here. Do have a look!

 

KQA Collegiate Grandmaster Quiz – Results

The Karnataka Quiz Association held its 16th edition of the Collegiate Grandmaster Quiz on Sunday, 20th October 2019. After a common written prelims, separate finals for 10+2/PUC students and undergraduate college students were held.

 

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PU/college quiz in progress.

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The KQA Senior School (10+2/PUC) Solo Championships had an interesting field in that several high school students (VIII-X) qualified and did well even though they were technically punching above their weight. Some version of this might have occurred in the Collegiate Grandmaster Finals as well. The schoolkids needed to get back home after a long day, and that was perhaps why the upsets were fewer.

Aaditya Kannan had run away to 120 points after Santosh Swaminathan finished his set. At the end of the second set, he was still in the lead, albeit by a somewhat reduced margin of 50 points. Abhineet, Samuel and Rohith Paul put up determined fights instead of giving up, and made a lot of ground in this section. The first two are both high school students–KQA congratulates them for this solid performance.

 

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PUC lone wolf finalists and winners – and look, they got certificates this time (hi @one_yand_aaf_gurlphrend)

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Julian Costa of IISc won the KQA Collegiate Grandmaster title for 2019.

He qualified for the 12-question shootout after the finals a little ahead of a close field comprising Saishyam Srikanth, Rohith Paul and Aswin Anilkumar, but then went on to build up a more substantial lead in a format that required strategising for a low-scoring round. Rohith, a Class XII student, did very well to finish third, after missing out narrowly on a podium finish in the Senior School finals.

For those interested, the prelims of the college quiz can be viewed here.

 

Results of quizzes held on May 13

From the Horse’s Mouth, by Debashree Mitra and Navin Rajaram

I – Santosh Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Mitesh Agarwal, Thejaswi Udupa – 405 points
II – Arul Mani, Nagaratna Patil, Prithwiraj Mukherjee – 330 points
III – Siddharth Pai, Debanjan Bose, Roshan Kate, Rohit Rao – 239 points

Results of quizzes held on April 7 & 21

Results of quizzes held on April 7:

After fielding 250 questions, and almost as many bad jokes by the quizmasters Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa, here are the top 8 of Solus Rex 2018/19.

I – Anustup Datta – 335 points
II – Santosh Swaminathan – 310 points
III – Varun Rajiv – 280 points

The Artefacts Quiz, by Lokesh Kaza and Vivek Karthikeyan

I – Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR – 46.5 points
II – Navin Rajaram, Arun Hiregange – 42.5 points
III – Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa – 35 points

Results of Quizzes held on March 17

Irish Stew, by Anustup Datta and his Quizician crew

I – Santosh Swaminathan, Thejaswi Udupa – 293 points
II – Arul Mani, Venkat Ravindra, Nagaratna Patil, Prithwiraj Mukherjee – 268 points
III – Arun Hiregange, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Jinson Chacko – 240 points

The KQA Music Quiz, by Berty Ashley and Arjun Mohan

I – Santosh Swaminathan, Thejaswi Udupa – 690 points
II – Sai Ganesh, Nishant Raman, Manish Achutha, Sohan Maheshwar – 515 points
III – Anuradha Santhanam, Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Praveen VR – 510 points

Results of quizzes held on March 3

Solus Rex Semifinals by Thejaswi Udupa and Arun Hiregange

Here are the top 10 who make it to the finals of Solus Rex

1. Ravi Mundoli – 275 points
2. Hrishikesh Varma – 256 points
3. Anustup Datta – 249 points
4. Sachin Deshpande – 248 points
5. Ashwin Kumar – 211 points
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 194 points
7. Rohit Suresh – 193 points
7. Pranav R – 193 points
9. Ajay Parasuraman – 191 points
10. Varun Rajiv – 190 points

KQA History Quiz by Urmila Lakshmanan and Rajat Gururaj

I – CIDs From Kerala (Ravi Mundoli, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, Hrishi Varma) – 339 points

II – Remembrance of Things Past (Debashree Mitra, Manu Sudhakar, Rajagopal PS, Venky Srinivasan) – 272 points

III – KD (Rajat, Nishanth Raman, Rahul Jadhav) – 245 points

IV -SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Prithwiraj) – 196 points

V- Peter Panchali (Sachin Deshpande, Siddarth Pai, Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair) – 157 points

VI – MQ (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, YOTA, Santosh J Swaminathan) – 148 points

VII – Cabal (Kishore Rajendra, Shishira+2) – 87 points

VIII – Gang of Four (Dr Krishnan, Sumeer Kumar +2) – 76 points

Pop Ki Kamai, the KQA Pop Culture Quiz by Sai Ganesh and Debasish Mishra

I – The Boney Kapoors (Anuradha, Vishnu, Sahil, Raju) – 115 points

II – MQ (Varun Rajiv, Santosh J Swaminathan, Mitesh Agarwal, YOTA) and We Put the Culture in Pop Culture (Ravi Mundoli, Priyambad Pattanayak, Venky Srinivasan, Manu Sudhakar) – 110 points

Other finalists, in no particular order:

Death & Taxes (Asawari Ghatage, Abhishek Ahluwalia, Ajay Parasuraman, Aparna Suresh)

CIDs From Kerala (Jinson Chacko, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, Hrishi Varma)

SJC Quizzers (Nagaratna Patil, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Arul Mani)

Peter Panchali (Sachin Deshpande, Siddarth Pai, Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair)

Mayank Mujumdhar, Mukunth Raghavan, Aditya Morarka, Saurabh S

Dramedy of the Commons (Arun Ramanathan, JP, Rajat Gururaj, Satish)

Sumeer, Avantika, Kunal

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