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
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 3 Results
With only two quizzes scheduled for the 3rd day of ASKQANCE, we began a little later in the day. This also meant some of us could get a precious extra hour or two of sleep before turning up for the quizzes.
SON OF LUMIERE – OPEN FILM QUIZ
QMs: Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange
With almost every question containing video or audio clips, this quiz was literally packed with entertainment. The question ranged over different eras of cinema and covered the gamut of cinema from Bollywood to Hollywood to foreign languages to Indian regional.
The team calling themselves Keep Distance topped the preliminary round with an astounding 30 out of a possible 36 points. They went on to come second in the final round, but were always close on the heels of the eventual winners, Metaquizziks.
- Metaquizziks – 185 points.
- Keep Distance – 165 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 130 points.
- Waltobama – 105 points.
- Insignificant Others – 100 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 85 points.
- Inglorious Bastard Son of Lumiere – 80 points.
- We May Die But It’s Worth It – 80 points.
AWARDS
The Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence was presented to Ms. Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka from Kolkata for being the top scorer in Mahaquizzer 2012. Ms. Mohanka has been consistently among the top few scores for the past few years and her winning the trophy this year also makes her the first lady to win it in the short history of Mahaquizzer.
The KQA Founders’ Trophy was presented to QED (Jayakanthan, Samanth S, Gopal Kidao & Swaminathan G) from Chennai, the team that won the finals of Mega-Whats held on June 30.
SESAME, OPEN! QUIZ
QM: Arul Mani
The annual open quiz held at ASKQANCE sees participation from the best teams from across the country and so the prelims are not just high scoring but also hard fought for the 8 places in the finals. The final line up this year had teams from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore with a team from Goa just missing the qualification mark.
The finals proved to be both interesting in content and exciting in competition as teams frequently changed places in the scoring. Metaquizziks (Varun Rajiv, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan & Kiran Vijaykumar) from Bangalore overtook QED early in the quiz but then slumped for a while before finally finishing second. QED, the eventual winners lagged for a bit too but then pounced on a series of questions in the fourth round to create and unassailable lead. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma and Thejaswi Udupa) from Bangalore who were placed last for a couple of rounds bounced back spectacularly towards the end of the quiz to pip the Kolkata team Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, Shouvik Guha & Anil Vaswani) by 5 points for third place.
Click the graph below for an idea of how the teams’ scores progressed through the quiz.
- QED – 275 points.
- Metaquizziks – 225 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 215 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 210 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 205 points.
- Champions of Breakfast – 135 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 130 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 115 points.
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 2 Results
June 30, Day 2 of ASKQANCE 2012 had a packed schedule with 2 open quizzes and the second semi-finals and the finals of Mega-Whats.
MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 2
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar
In the second semi-finals, We Are Like This Wonly secured their spot in the finals winning by a comfortable margin but there was a close fight for the other 3 spots.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 285 points.
- Travelling Pilsburies – 255 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 215 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 200 points.
- Metaquizziks – 185 points.
- Mega-WTFS – 130 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 115 points.
- Two and a Half Men – 30 points.
BY HOOKE OR BY CROOKES – THE SCIENCE QUIZ
QMs: Rajagopal P.S., Vivek Karthikeyan & Siddhartha Shanker
The quizmasters kept the participants on their toes, answering questions about elements, identifying equations and even filling in blanks in poetry! The scoring was so close that two teams tied for first place and decided to split the honours instead of breaking the tie.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 104 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 104 points.
- Pouncing As Science (aka Metaquizziks) – 95 points.
- Nexus – 77 points.
- Questionable Characters – 64 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 64 points.
- Cunning Stunts – 47 points.
- Swami’s Friends – 42 points.
KIBITZ SIMPLE – THE SPORTS QUIZ
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Metaquizziks going under the alias of Metal-Quizziks in a surprise result qualified for the finals of a sports quiz. They also bravely participated in the absence of Arul Mani who was busy setting questions for the Mega-Whats finals for later in the day.
- Insignificant Others – 235 points.
- Flibberti-Kibitz – 175 points.
- Swami Obamananda – 165 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 160 points.
- CIDs from Mumbai/Kerala – 155 points.
- Untitled – 130 points.
- MAAZ FC – 125 points.
- Metal-quizziks – 85 points.
MEGA-WHATS FACE OFF
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijaykumar
After a short break for tea and snacks, quizzers poured into the hall to witness the finals of Mega-Whats. With teams from Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Bangalore & Delhi, it had a truly national flavour.
QED, a team from Chennai took an early large lead and kept it through the quiz to win by very large margin. This didn’t mean there was no excitement at all; The teams in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places though frequently exchanged places as the quiz progressed, and even before the last couple of questions, there was a chance for teams to surge ahead to get 2nd place.
An interesting round on connections where teams could also stake confidence on their answers to take higher points helped some teams get a nice leg up in the scoring.
- QED – 390 points.
- Insignificant Others – 265 points.
- Dilli Ke Thugs – 250 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 237.5 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 215 points.
- Travelling Pillsburies – 215 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 190 points.
- Mad O’Wot – 155 points.
KQA ANNIVERSARY YEARBOOK 2011-2012
The President of the KQA, Ochintya Sharma also released the yearbook for 2011-2012 containing questions from many of the quizzes conducted by the KQA in the past year. He thanked the efforts of the many quizmasters that contributed questions to the yearbook as well as those that helped edit it. The KQA school quiz book for 2011-2012 will be released at the ASKQANCE School and College quizzes to be held in July 2012.
KQA Yearbooks including older copies can be purchased at most KQA events held in Bangalore.
