Cannabis Indica, Glamour Giri, March Open Quizzes – Results
The results of the open quizzes held on Sunday, 10 March 2013 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists(IAT), Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Cannabis Indica : The India Quiz
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
1. We Are Like This Wonly – 260
2. Swami and Friends – 210
3. Gopal, TKB, DP, Raju – 190
4. Nexus Baggage – 165
5. No Team (Suraj, VR, Shishir, Sarin) – 130
6. Gafoor Ka Dost – 110
7. Sound OK (Siri, Santosh & team) – 70
8. Sin & Tonic – 50
Glamour Giri
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1. Siri & Lakshana – 51
2. Santosh & Mitesh – 32
3. Gopal & Raju – 30
4. Con Canny Boys / Tups & Udupa – tied on 29
5. Han Solo & Chewbacca – 24
6. Movin’ & Groovin’ – 23
7. Nishanth & Sohan – 20
8. Glam Ganesh Plus One – 19
The March Open Quiz
QM: Movin Miranda
1. We Are Like This Wonly – 260
2. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Santosh, Alagar, Arun) – 183
3. Nexus Baggage – 150
4. DP’s Friends (DP, TKP, Raju, Gopal) – 130
5. My Family and One Other Animal (Venkatesh, Seema, Ravi Mundoli, Vikram Joshi) – 125
6. Mao’s Mangoes – 65
7. Thomas Kutty, Govindan Kutty, Mahadevan & Appukkuttan – 70
8. Lehar, Renuka, Sujata, Vijay – 28
Lao Me Thanda, Yell Iruve!, College Solo, Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, Seek Under Porus – Results
The results of the quizzes held on Sunday 17 Feb 2013 and Sunday 24 Feb 2013, at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Open Quiz on Love and other disorders
QM: Arul Mani
1. Udupa & Santosh – 245
2. Mathias & Sumeer – 75
3. Ochintya & Arun – 60 (ahead on tie-break)
4. Pai & team – 60
5. Lakshana & Dhammo – 50
6. Akshat & Himadri – 25
7. Rashmi & Soumitrie – 20
8. Wetshire – 10
Yell Iruve: The annual quiz on insects and other such life forms
QMs: Ashwan Lewis and Avinash Thirumalai
1. Prani Healing (Santosh & Udupa) – 23.5
2. Siddarth Pai & Rohit Suresh – 19.5
3. Surfeit of Lampreys (Ochintya & Arun) – 18.5
4. Maitrey & Jadhav – 18
5. Jai & D – 16
6. Sandeep & Sumeer – 9.5
7. Vinay & Sumanth – 6.5
8. Wetshire – 4
The KQA Collegiate Solo Championships
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan and Varun Rajiv
PU results:
1) Sridhar, Sardar Patel College – 96
2) Ritwik, FAPS – 69
3) Prajwal, Sardar Patel College – 46
4) Tejas K., Sardar Patel College – 26
5) Anikethan, Sardar Patel College – 21
6) Varun S., Sardar Patel College – 6
College Results:
1) Manaswi M. Gundi, HEW Hamburg – 104
2) Rohit Suresh, IIMB – 98
3) Siddharth Pai, SJCC – 95
4) Arvind, BMSCE – 48
5) Akshath, BMSCE – 36
6) M. Farhan, East West College – 33
7) Ritwik, FAPS – 31
8) Allen, SJC PG – -4
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum: SciFi Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh & Anustup – 22
2. Ashwan & Raju – 20
3. Doc & Shenoy – 16
4. Debashree & Dhammo – 15
5. Ijaz & Gobind – 13.5
6. CIDs From Kerala – 12.5
7. Sandeep Mathias & Ajay Parasuraman – 11
8. Rashmi & Sowmitrie – 10.5
Seek Under Porus: The KQA History Quiz
QMs: Praveen VR and Manjith
1. Ashwan, Dhammo, Debashree & team – 205
2. Questionable Characters – 195
3. We Are Like This Wonly – 130
4. Doc Krishnan, Vinod, Suresh, Manu – 115
5. Gobind, Ijaz, Soumitrie, Rashmi – 75
6. CIDegrees From Kerala – 70
7. Quale & Company – 55
8. Mathias, Vinay, Sheshu, Aditya – 50
Results of the Music Quiz, Artifacts Quiz and the January Open
The following are the results of the quizzes held on Janauary 20th, 2013 at the TERI auditorium in Domlur.
The Annual Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
- Varun R, Santosh S, Ochintya S & Mitesh A/Arun Hiregange – 175 points
- Satyajit Chetri, Madhav Nair, Dhritiman & team – 100 points
- Navin R, Venkatesh S, Supreeth S & Ashwan L – 100 points
- Chirag M, Gaurav L, Vinay & team – 75 points
- Anustup D, Gopal Kidao & team – 65 points
- Praveen VR, Vipin, Abdul Raouf & team – 50 points
- Shoelace – 35 points
- Rajagopal PS, Karthik S, Sohan M & Nishanth – 25 points
The Artifacts and Useless Objects Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
- Anustup D & Thejaswi Udupa – 33 points
- Santosh S & Varun Rajiv – 28 points
- MIEL – 27.5 points
- Navin R and Ashwan L – 26.5 points
- Mitesh A & Gopal Kidao – 16.5 points
- Praveen VR & Hrishi Varma – 12 points
- Rajagopal PS & Rohit S – 11.5 points
- Venkatesh S & Supreeth S – 11 points
The January Open Quiz
QM: Navin Rajaram
- We Are Like This Wonly – Ochintya S, Anustup D, Thejaswi U & Arun H – 270 points
- Metaquizziks – Mitesh A, Varun R & Santosh S – 260 points
- Nexus Baggage – Venkatesh S, Gopal K, Vivek Karthikeyan & Ashwan L – 185 points
- No Hopers – Rajagopal PS, Rohit S, Ajay P & Nishanth – 175 points
- CIDs from Kerala – Hrishi V, Praveen VR, Jitin J & Abdul Raouf – 150 points
- Suraj, Krishna Prasad, Ijaz & Shefeeq – 125 points
- Dr. Krishnan, Arjun, Sandeep & Swamy – 90 points
- Schrödinger’s Felines – Gautam Shenoy, Venkat, Pillai – 30 points
Mega Whats 2012 Scores
The table below has the complete results for Mega Whats 2012. You can view the quiz here: kqaquizzes.org/2013/01/11/mega-whats-2012-questions-and-answers/
| No. | Team | Score | Category | Centre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan) | 79 | Open | Bangalore | City Winner |
| 2 | QED (Swami, Samanth, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan) | 78 | Open | Chennai | City Winner |
| 3 | Doctor Lawyer Trader Failure (Navin Jayakumar, Shiv, Anil, Ravi Mundoli) | 70 | Open | Chennai | Semi-finalist |
| 4 | Hammer and Tongs (Jayashree Mohanka, Shouvik Guha, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani) | 70 | Open | Kolkata | City Winner |
| 5 | The Travelling Pillsburys (Anil Kothuri, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari, Vikram Joshi) | 67 | Open | Mumbai | City Winner |
| 6 | We Are Like This Wonly (Thejaswi Udupa, Movin Miranda, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta) | 63 | Open | Bangalore | Semi-finalist |
| 7 | Insignificant Others | 63 | Open | Chennai | Lost to WALTWo on tie-break |
| 8 | Mega WTFs (Avaneendra, Ramanand, Aditya Gadre, Kunal S) | 60 | Open | Pune | City Winner |
| 9 | Navel Gyan (Archana, Aryapriya, Hari, Amrit) | 60 | Open | Delhi | City Winner |
| 10 | Maami and Friends (Ani, Bhargava, Prasanna, Ravikant) | 59 | Open | Hyderabad | City Winner |
| 11 | East Meets West (Leslie, Shubendu, Mukund, Abhinav) | 59 | Open | Delhi | |
| 12 | Marathi Manhoos (Suresh, Vinod, Rashmi, Yash) | 57 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 13 | Feni, Vidi, Vici, Waggly (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, V. R. Muralidharan) | 56 | Open | Goa | City Winner |
| 14 | Quizcraft (Aditya Mubayi, Kunal Savarkar, Rahul Kottalgi) | 56 | Open | Delhi | |
| 15 | Nexus Baggage (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan) | 54 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 16 | Kovai Kapemaaries (Ashwin, Yogesh, Senthil, Gautam Ghosh) | 53 | Open | Coimbatore | City Winner |
| 17 | Answering Service (Srikant, Sudipto, Charanpreet, Sanjoy) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 18 | Inmaniacs (Abhijit Banerjee, Devdan Mitra, Joy Bhattacharya, Anirudh Chari) | 52 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 19 | Swami & Friends (Alagar Samy, J Krishnamurthi, Vivek, Nitish Khadiya) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 20 | Quizzing Irregulars (Dr Sri Nagesh, Sudhir Pai, Balaji, Raghuram) | 51 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 21 | Alcoholic United F.C. (Arun AS, Ajith Prabhakar, Chandrakant Nair, Justin) | 50 | Open | Trivandrum | City Winner |
| 22 | Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan, Harikrishnan, Manu Sudhakar) | 50 | Open | Thrissur | City Winner |
| 23 | Bala is the New Saheb (Abhinav Dasgupta, Srinath Bhashyam, Pravin Verma, Balakrishnan S.) | 50 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 24 | Questionable Characters - DELHI (Vinod, Avinash, Tathagata) | 50 | Open | Delhi | |
| 25 | Ze Didigiri DumDums (Atul Mathew, Anannya Deb, Kaushik, Suchishree) | 48 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 26 | Punjabis By Nature | 47 | Open | Chennai | |
| 27 | The Questionables (Hemant Morparia, Balakrishna, Rushi Ananthan, Rachel Lopez) | 47 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 28 | We Are Legion (Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Pratik Gupte, Rohan Naidu, Aditya Vikram) | 46 | College | Hyderabad | |
| 29 | Two & Half Men | 45 | Open | Chennai | |
| 30 | Doctor and his Patient | 45 | Open | Guwahati | City Winner |
| 31 | Mega-What-Ifs (Anubhav, Jagdeep, Govind Grewal, Vinoo Sanjay) | 45 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 32 | Vijay, Roshith, Sahitha | 45 | Open | Delhi | |
| 33 | None of Sardaar (Supratim, Abhiram, Arkadev, Kumar Vaibhav) | 44 | Open | Delhi | |
| 34 | MIneSweeper WTF! (Govind, Amit P, Frances, Souvik) | 43 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 35 | CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, VR, Jithin, Raouf) | 42 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 36 | Bohemian Philistines (Jyotesh, Apratim, Wasi, Prateek) | 41 | College | Delhi | |
| 37 | Maa ka Moloko (Debasish, Aniket, Sumeet, Nikhil) | 41 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 38 | Sabyasachi Majumdar, Piyush Singh, Kunal Malhotra, Arka | 41 | Open | Delhi | |
| 39 | Chennai Sober Kings | 40 | College | Chennai | |
| 40 | Questionable Characters (DD, Mathias, Ajay, Siva) | 40 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 41 | Aaj Kuch Chazzy Karte Hain (Prithwish Datta, Siddhant Agarwal, Arindam Dottoh, Arpan Guha) | 40 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 42 | Four Men In A Quiz (Subrat, Harry, Pranesh, Kesavan) | 39 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 43 | Bawana Quiz Club (Agrima, Ayan, Eeshan, Yuganka) | 37 | College | Delhi | |
| 44 | Rosellini, Posalini, Thangachi, Azhugamani (Keshav, Shivram, Govind, Arjun) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 45 | Pai R Us (Siddarth, Vedanth, Rohit, Sreepathi) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 46 | Africadalli Lingo Leela (Logik, Sudarshan, Rahul, Sarin) | 37 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 47 | Battle of the Waters in the Loo (Kamal Rathi, Abdaal Akhtar, Tanmay Prusty, Omkar Amrutanshu) | 37 | Open | Bhubaneswar | City Winner |
| 48 | Mustafa (Chandrashekar, Dr. Krishnan, Vijay, Supreeth) | 36 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 49 | God is Dirac (Sreshth Shah, Dhruv Sharma, Ajachi, Anjali Sengupta) | 36 | Open | Delhi | |
| 50 | Discreetly Charming Bourgeoisie (Amit Garde, Radhika, Hareesh, Trilok) | 35 | Open | Pune | |
| 51 | Whatte Wow! | 34 | Open | Chennai | |
| 52 | Logos (Rudradeep, Rajib, Nayanjyoti, Sunny) | 34 | Open | Kolkata | |
| 53 | The Incredible Bulk (Abhishek Sahoo, Anurag Singh, Karthik Rajeshwaran, Sumantra Mukherjee) | 34 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 54 | Megabots | 33 | Open | Chennai | |
| 55 | Inglorious Kweezers (Nikhil, Ratnakar, Jose, Nakul) | 33 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 56 | Hum Do Hamare Do (Manav, Varun, Aaarun, Brajendu) | 33 | Open | Delhi | |
| 57 | Where's Tiru - NITK Surathkal (Preeti, Soumya, Aniruddha Tiru) | 31 | College | Bangalore | |
| 58 | The Young and the Bald (Atharv Joshi, Julian D'Costa, Shaswat Salgaoncar, Sunil Sardessai) | 31 | Open | Goa | |
| 59 | Thirondoram Thyeppams (Saptarshi Purohit, Vishnu Vijay, Abhilash BS, Alby John) | 31 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 60 | Mauka Dekh Aur Chauka Maar (Rajat, Nilotpal, Surya, Raghu) | 31 | Open | Delhi | |
| 61 | Avial Pursuit | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
| 62 | Stoners With Boners | 30 | Open | Chennai | |
| 63 | How Can She Slap? (Aditya, Nishanth, Sohan Maheshwar, Abhishek Krishnan) | 30 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 64 | Milli-Whats (Pranav, Surya Narayanan, Ashwin Murali, Naveen) | 29 | Open | Coimbatore | |
| 65 | Qutopia | 29 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 66 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Sumit, Shubham, Sudhakar, sanjit) | 28 | College | Delhi | |
| 67 | Sri Sathya Sai Bakery (Sai, Jyotirmay, Hari, Shashank) | 28 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 68 | Bawana Boys (Abhinav, Dhruv, Mangal) | 28 | Open | Delhi | |
| 69 | C.V.R. The Late Cummer! (Aniket, Suraj) | 27 | College | Pune | |
| 70 | Underdogs (Vinay, Vinay, Anand, Siddarth) | 27 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 71 | Shadybaayz (Anjan, Lokesh, Akshay, Yash) | 27 | Open | Coimbatore | |
| 72 | The Lobotomists (Nirban Basu, Niladri Bhowmick, Sreyashi Biswas, Avradeep Datta) | 26 | College | Kolkata | |
| 73 | Subterrenenan Homesick Aliens (Gowtham, Shiva, Nishant, Aditya Grover) | 26 | College | Delhi | |
| 74 | Terra-Whats (Balu John, Shivakumari, Sridhar J, Niranjan S) | 26 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 75 | Succulent Karadantu | 26 | Open | Chennai | |
| 76 | Sin & Tonic (Ram, Srikrishna, Yamuna) | 26 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 77 | Keshav, Nikhil, Siddharth | 25 | College | Chennai | |
| 78 | NLSIU (Kartikeya, Akshay, Rohan) | 25 | College | Bangalore | |
| 79 | Gigawhats (Mahesh, Mayur, Sridhar, Venkatesh) | 25 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 80 | Babu Black Sheep (Sharath Babu, Sonal Saldanha, Roshan Kate, Askshath) | 24 | College | Bangalore | |
| 81 | Qu Qlux Qlan | 24 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 82 | Some Obscure 80s Movie Reference (Deepak Thomas, Leo Francis, Prasanth John, Vishnu Vinayan) | 24 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 83 | Quizbul-Mujahiddeen (Ankit Pattnaik, Anjan Mahapatra, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, Swateek Jena) | 24 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
| 84 | Plan B From Outer Space (Rohan, Rohit) | 23 | College | Bangalore | |
| 85 | Sarkar, Two Pronouns & a Verb (Mitesh Mahato, Finehao Pinto, Kshitij Jyoti, Saikat Sarkar) | 23 | College | Pune | |
| 86 | Rohan, Rohit, Alok, Vibhav | 23 | College | Pune | |
| 87 | Vis Quizzica | 23 | Open | Chennai | |
| 88 | Schrodinger's Felines (Pillai, Venkat, Shenoy) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 89 | Elvis and the Levis (Abhay, Rahul, Srikanth, Umang) | 23 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 90 | What's In a Team Name (Ranajeet, Rohan, Debanjan, Abhishek) | 23 | Open | Pune | |
| 91 | Running On Empty (Shafeeq, Ijaz, Yashin) | 22 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 92 | Chaps On a Lark Together (Sumanth, Rajiv, Santosh, Rishica) | 21 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 93 | Three Bad Mathematicians | 20 | College | Chennai | |
| 94 | GNLU (Prateek, Rohit, Nihal, Chirag) | 20 | College | Bangalore | |
| 95 | Point Blank - GEC Thrissur (Abhijit Balakrishnan, Ashok Menon, Bharat, Sreeram) | 20 | College | Thrissur | |
| 96 | Kurtis | 20 | Open | Chennai | |
| 97 | The Power of Two + One (Ravi, Sulfy, Girish) | 20 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 98 | Rajat, Jayant, Hemant | 19 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 99 | Na Honey Na Penny | 19 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 100 | Thanks for all the Fish ( Pradyoth John, Geetha S.N.) | 19 | Open | Mumbai | |
| 101 | Kartik, Kavin, Arjun Murali, Gowtham Sriram | 18 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 102 | Teletubbies (Ritvik, Venkat, Mollika) | 18 | School | Bangalore | |
| 103 | And Then There Were Two | 17 | College | Chennai | |
| 104 | Allen, Nagaratna, Poorva, Sachin | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
| 105 | The Expendables - IISc (Sriram, Sriram, Aditya, Terrence) | 17 | College | Bangalore | |
| 106 | Sherlock & Watson (Devwrat, Martik) | 17 | College | Chandigarh | City Winner |
| 107 | Galli Ke Bache (Mukund, Fardeen, Vartik) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
| 108 | Onights (Kratu, Akshat, Bishal, Ankush) | 17 | College | Delhi | |
| 109 | Yeddy's Buddies the Reddies (Mani, Kripa Karan) | 17 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 110 | Neeraj, Abhishek, Prem, Aashish | 16 | College | Bangalore | |
| 111 | CETianz (Ananthu Ravi, Bony Raju, Arathy Anil, Adarsh K) | 16 | College | Trivandrum | |
| 112 | 51 Shades of Gray (Wasim, Parantap, Nishant) | 16 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 113 | Why You Ask? (Venkataramana, Sandeep, Madhurya, Unni) | 16 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 114 | Prof and Studs | 16 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 115 | Magis (Aditchandra, Prahlad, Vignesh, Ganesh) | 16 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 116 | Why So Serious? (Arunabha, Ashwin, Pranav, Praneeth) | 15 | College | Bangalore | |
| 117 | IIT Guwahati (Argha Sen, Saswati Dutta, Sriram and Kartikeya) | 15 | College | Guwahati | |
| 118 | The Dirty Dozen, except we're 4 (Saikat, Abhinav, Khetan, Mishra) | 15 | College | Pune | |
| 119 | In Last Place (Achuth, Basil, Gooth, Sajad) | 15 | College | Trivandrum | |
| 120 | Whatever! (Rahul, Saurabh) | 15 | College | Delhi | |
| 121 | Pritheesh, Bharat, Aditya, Ashwin | 15 | Open | Chennai | |
| 122 | Ye Kya Bakchodi Hai (Bhaskar Sharma, Maharnab Hazarika, Sonika Dhingra and Deepjyoti Deka) | 15 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 123 | Blank (Shubham Tiwari, Viola Rodrigues) | 15 | Open | Goa | |
| 124 | Old Hobbits Die Hard (Archit, Arnav, Udit) | 15 | Open | Delhi | |
| 125 | Team Singularity (Sangeeth, Bharath, Jithin, Vamsee Krishna) | 15 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 126 | Auto (Nishant, Arvind, Akshay, Irfan) | 14 | College | Bangalore | |
| 127 | 50 Cells of Grey (Satwik Raut, Kalpit Mohanty, Bivash Rath, Akash Choudhury) | 14 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 128 | The Metasuitic Macaques (Akshay Rege, Namrata Pai, Nitish Fatarpekar, Rahul Padgaonkar) | 13 | College | Goa | |
| 129 | IISER-M (Abhishek Mishra, Prabhanjan B) | 13 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 130 | Pun Da Cheese (Devajyoti, Arunkumar, Sabrinath, Alvi) | 13 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 131 | The Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti, Souvik, Prajwal) | 13 | Open | Pune | |
| 132 | SJBHS | 13 | School | Bangalore | |
| 133 | Pitch Please! | 12 | College | Bangalore | |
| 134 | Kalinga Kulangara (Sampad Pattanaik, Debashish Pradhan, Rashmi, Shakti) | 12 | College | Bhubaneswar | |
| 135 | Quiz Mafia | 12 | College | Thrissur | |
| 136 | The Quizzessential Underdogs | 12 | Open | Bhubaneswar | |
| 137 | Kumaraguru College of Technology (Nivethan, Jiju, Sriram, Vishwanathan) | 11 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 138 | Untitled (Siddharth, Yash) | 11 | College | Hyderabad | |
| 139 | Untitled (Jeswin, Madhusudhan, Bhargav, Sasipriya) | 11 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 140 | Mission Impossible | 11 | Open | Thrissur | |
| 141 | Does Grey Matter? (Novoneel, Kunal, Tushant, Anirudh) | 11 | School | Hyderabad | |
| 142 | The Twosome | 10 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 143 | Ashim Saikia and Krishanu Bhargav | 10 | Open | Guwahati | |
| 144 | Four Boys (Harsh Hegde, Leander Paes, Sahil Ramchandani, Zibane Paes) | 10 | School | Goa | |
| 145 | Jurassic Sparks (Ashwin Mascarenhas, Ayush Kanyal, Chaitanya Naik, C. H. Siddhant) | 10 | School | Goa | |
| 146 | 4 Angry Men | 10 | School | Bangalore | |
| 147 | Blitzkrieg (Kaushik, Samuel, Amruta, Rajshri) | 9 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 148 | ? (Vasishta, Balaji, Ravi, Ashok) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 149 | Looney Tunes (Nilesh, Saurav) | 9 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 150 | Dream 4 (Mahesh, Anand, Mahendra Balu, Jeethu) | 9 | School | Trivandrum | |
| 151 | And In The Last Place | 9 | School | Bangalore | |
| 152 | Team Nova | 8 | College | Thrissur | |
| 153 | Novizio (Ravikant, Prateek, Rohit, Aniket) | 7 | College | Pune | |
| 154 | Kurious Kolaveri Kuizzers | 7 | Open | Chennai | |
| 155 | We Rock!!! (Arpita Nath, Vibhu Joshi) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 156 | Why So Serious? (Dev D, Anurag) | 7 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 157 | Infy Irregulars (Sumanth, Tejal, Harshit) | 7 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 158 | People of Kovai - SBOA school (Vishnu, Tony, Subash, Sathya Mukesh) | 7 | School | Coimbatore | |
| 159 | Priya Marie Biscuit (Pariya Desai, Mary Williams) | 7 | School | Chandigarh | |
| 160 | Zhizhu (Srikanth, Ashish, Manoaj) | 6 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 161 | Whats Vaku (Udit, Ashutosh, Kush) | 6 | College | Delhi | |
| 162 | Last Minutes | 6 | Open | Bangalore | |
| 163 | Frozen Minds Team (Kuldeep Singh, Hitesh Kambaj) | 6 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 164 | Whats App?? (Rashmi Jain, Arpit Porwal, Diksha Jain) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 165 | Gurpreet & Abhijit Ke Chaske (Gurpreet, Abhijeet) | 5 | Open | Chandigarh | |
| 166 | The Devils of Gahanna (Amit Bikram) | 5 | Open | Hyderabad | |
| 167 | Jeevan & Co. (Jeevan Naik, Kishor Naik, Rohil Paes, Savio Paes) | 4 | Open | Goa | |
| 168 | Vizard (Shivam, Vatsal, Teja) | 3 | College | Delhi | |
| 169 | Gatecrasher (Asif Kalam) | 3 | Open | Trivandrum | |
| 170 | Yasha - KCTBS (Sri Hari, Mohan, Sathish, Adithya) | 2 | College | Coimbatore | |
| 171 | The Apocalyptic Crypti (Saumya, Neha, Garima, Priyanka) | 2 | College | Chandigarh | |
| 172 | Spartans | 2 | School | Bangalore | |
| 173 | Parul and Shiva | 2 | School | Chandigarh | |
| 174 | Geniuses (Abhay, Akshay, Shambu, Siddhant) | 1 | School | Goa | |
| 175 | Sushil, Brijesh | 0 | Open | Chandigarh |
ABBA Ke Zamane Mein & Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open – Results
The results of two Open Quizzes held on Sunday 21 October at the first floor hall, Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Abba Ke Zamane Mein
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
1. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & VR) – 155
2. Baldies (Borun & Appu) – 130
3. Sumer & Anil Raghavan – 120
4. Konga & Khadia – 100
5. Mitesh & Santosh – 95
6. Raju & Vinod – 85
7. Navin & Kivi – 75
8. Venky & Ashwan – 50
9. Sohan & Santha – 45
EVENT II: The XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz
QMs: Landmark Venky & Kivi
1. Nexus (Alagarsamy, Konga, Ashwan, Navin) – 191.5
2. MQ (Mitesh, Santosh, Borun & team) – 185
3. Waltwo (Ochintya, Appu, Sandeep Mathias, Rohit) – 184
4. Raju, Nishanth, Nitish, Sohan – 151.5
5. Questionable Characters (DD, Hiranyappa & team) – 134
6. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, Raouf, VR, Jithin) – 119
7. Insert Cool Name Here (Yogesh, Anil, Dr. Krishnan, Jaidev) – 106
8. IQL (Sana, Patrick, Vinod, Vijay) – 64
XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial College Quiz and Solus Rex – Results
The XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial quiz for colleges was held on 14 October 2012. 14 teams took part in the prelims, which was set by Dr. Arul Mani, from which 8 teams qualified to the finals. The prelims had 30 questions to be answered in 20 minutes from a printed sheet. The cut-off was 10.5.
At the end of a closely fought final, this is how the teams finished:
1. BMS College of Engineering – 139.5
2. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology – 117
3. National Law School – 102.5
4. St. Joseph’s College – 87
5. PES Institute of Technology – 67
6. St. Joseph’s College (Viswesh and team) – 65
7. BMS College of Engineering – 20
8. East-West Institute of Technology – 17
The finals was researched and co-hosted by Venkatesh S and Varun Rajiv.
All finalists received prizes.
The 2012 edition of KQA’s Solus Rex quiz was conducted yesterday by Thejaswi Udupa in an all-new format! 37 participants took a 30-questions preliminary round, from which the top 15 qualified into three semis (cutoff was 10.5 and the highest 18) grouped in the boustrophedon format.
Each semis had 5 participants attempting a written round, a list-it and 20 questions. These 20 questions were also open to the other semi-finalists to “pounce” on.
At the end of the three semis, the top 6 finalists (top 2 from each semi-final) were identified and a short finals followed.
Standings at the end:
1. Arul Mani
2. Anustup Dutta
3. Varun Rajiv
4. Santosh Swaminathan
5. Rajagopal PS
6. Sandeep Mathias
The other nine semi-finalists in order of their scores were:
7. Praveen VR
8. Abhijit Bhattacharya
9. Venkatesh Srinivasan
10. Pradeep Ramarathnam
11. Rashmi Vallabhjosyula
12. Raouf
13. Navin Rajaram
14. Hrishikesh Varma
15. Sumer Kumar
Snatch Clean Jerk, Pilferages, Persiflage – Results
The results of the KQA open quizzes held on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Event I: Snatch, Clean, Jerk, a Quiz on the Olympics
1. Appudu (Arun Hiregange & Thejaswi Udupa) – 31
2. ICNH (Manu Sudhakar & Anil Raghavan) – 27
3. Radians (Raju & Wimpy) – 24.1 (by tie-break)
4. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi & team) – 24
5. Swami – 23.5
6. Cunning Stunts (Justin & Arjo) – 22
8. Sin & Tonic (SriKrishna & Sandeep) – 12.5
7. Sandeep Kumar – 12.5
QMs: Manish Achuth and Rajan TR
Event II: Pilferages, a written Lit Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 34.5
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 28.5
3. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 28
4. Debashree & Co – 27
5. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 21
6. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 19
7. Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das, Hiranyappa, Alagarsamy) & Motley Crew – tied on 18.5
Event III: Persiflage, the Annual Book Quiz sponsored by Blossom Book House
QM: Arul Mani
1. MQ (Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan, Cheriyan Alexander) – 320
2. WALTWo (Swaminathan, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 290
3. Cunning Stunts (Avinash Mudaliar & team) – 265
4. ICNH (Dr. Krishnan, Anul Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Jaidev) – 240
5. Motley Crew (Rajagopal & team) – 227.5
6. Debashree, Dhammo & Co – 190
7. Nexus Zero (Navin Rajaram, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Vishweshwer, Ashwan Lewis) – 172.5
8. RHC (Urmila & team) – 155
Canara Union Lone Wolf 2012 – Results
The results of the first Lone Wolf contest of the 2012 season held on Sunday, 23 September 2012, at Canara Union, 8th Main, Malleswaram. The quizmaster was Navin Rajaram.
The Canara Union Lonewolf Quiz saw 47 participants take part. After a 33-question preliminary round, where the highest was 18.5 points, the top 8 scorers went directly into the finals round. An innovation was added to the format this year, with the next 8 highest scorers from the preliminary round taking part in a 33-question semi-final, from which two more people joined the top 8. These 10 contestants battled it out in a 50+ questions final and the final standings were as follows:
1. Arul Mani – 205 points (winner)
2. Thejaswi Udupa – 155 points (runner-up via tiebreak)
3. Santosh Swaminathan – 155 points
4. Anustup Dutta – 150 points
5. Debashree Mitra & Arun Hiregange – tied on 135
7. Dinesh Krithivasan – 135
8. Keshav Athreya – 130
9. Varun Rajiv – 85
10. Rohan Nogueira – 77.5
The other semi-finalists were:
Praveen VR
Raouf
Sohan Maheshwar
Anand P
Dibyendu Das
Guru
ASKQANCE 2012 Results – College Quizzes
ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the college quizzes.
Junior College Quiz
- FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 150 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran - Frank Anthony Public School – 145 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M - National Public School, Indiranagar – 105 points
Abhinav VN, Deepak KS & Anindya Sharma - Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home (CBSE) – 75 points
Akshay Tiwary, Tejas Joshi & Madhavan Venkatesh - National Public School, Koramangala – 65 points
Pratik Ramesh, Ganesh Krishna & Pranay Rai - National Public School, Rajajinagar – 60 points
Anirudh SR, Suraj Srikumar & Sasidhar GV - Sri Kumaran’s PU College – 55 points
Abhishek VS, Raghavendra RG & Pradyumna S Kale - National Public School, Koramangala
College Quiz
Since the junior college quiz and the college quiz had a common written preliminary round, two junior college teams from FIITJEE, Hyderabad and FAPS, Bangalore also qualified for the college quiz.
- NITK, Surathkal – 65 points
Chaitanya K, Samarth R & Srinivas S - BITS, Pilani – 57 points
Srisha Haridas, Deepak Gopinath & Nachiketa Adhikari - NIT, Calicut – 56 points
Deepak Thomas, Leo Thomas & Prasanth John Abraham - NITK, Surathkal – 55 points
Preeti S, Soumya E & Aniruddha T - NLSIU – 50 points
Aurobindo, Badri & Pranav - Frank Anthony Public School – 40 points
Ritvik C, Venkat N & Mollika M - FIITJEE, Hyderabad – 10 points
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu & Harine Ravichandran - IIIT, Bangalore – 0 points
Sandeep A Mathias
ASKQANCE 2012 Results – School Quizzes
ASKQANCE 2012 – KQA’s 29th Anniversary quiz festival for schools and colleges was held on the 21st of July 2012 at St. John’s Auditorium. Here are the results for the school quizzes.
Middle School Championships (V, VI, VII std)
- PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 90 points
Ayushman Satpaty & Samyukta Shrivatsa - National Public School, Indiranagar – 80 points
Arjun Nair & Arcot Pradhuymna - National Hill View Public School – 65 points
Siddarth Yagnamurtyh & N. Krishna - Frank Anthony Public School – 55 points
Nakul Diwekar & Abhiram Eswara - St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 55 points
Hayden D’Souza & Kaustubh Roy - PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 50 points
Kunjal Parnami & Arjun Shekar - National Hill View Public School – 45 points
Anirudh Kulkarni & Vikas Vasu - National Academy for Learning – 40 points
Prakriti R & Akul D. Shetty
Cognito – High School Championships (VIII, IX & X std)
- Sharada Vidyalalya – 165 points
Preetham & Bharath - St. Paul’s English School – 140 points
Amogh N Chakravarthy & Nikhil Chandra R - The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 116 points
Sanskar Biswal & Anshu Pal - St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School – 115 points
Pranav Ramamurthy & Ashwin Kumar - National Public School, Koramangala – 105 points
R. Adithya & Arko Kundu - The Oxford Senior Secondary School – 80 points
R. Jayanth & Rohan J - National Public School, Koramangala – 60 points
Gaurav Pai & Priyank Bhandia - PSBB Learning Leadership Academy – 40 points
Rahul G & Nitin V
