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.
ASKQANCE 2012 – Day 1 Results
It’s that time of the year again, when quizzers from across India descend upon the IAT Hall on Queen’s Road for KQA’s anniversary festival of quizzing, ASKQANCE.
MEGA-WHATS SEMI-FINAL 1
QMs: Arul Mani and Kiran Vijaykumar.
We kicked off the quizzing with the first semi-final of the Mega-Whats Face Off with 8 teams from Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Goa fighting for the 4 places in the finals. Here are the final scores:
- Insignificant Others – 290 points.
- QED – 275 points.
- Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
- Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
- Swami and Friends – 190 points.
- Questionable Characters – 135 points.
- Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
- Tiruppur Tughlaqs – 85 points.
HOARSE LATITUDES – The Travel Quiz
QMs: Dibyendu Das, Mitesh Agarwal & Rajath Krishna
The prelims for the travel quiz was closely fought and 9 teams qualified for the finals with the difference between the 1st team and the 9th being just 4 points.
The finals also went on to be in a similar vein, with Hammer and Tongs, the team from Kolkata winning by a narrow margin and the difference between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams being just a point or two.
- Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
- Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
- We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
- QED – 251 points.
- Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
- Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
- Tough Luck – 132 points.
- Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
- Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.
Pop ki Kamai, CP Venkatesh Memorial History of Ideas Quiz, Tech That! – Results
The results of three open quizzes on Sunday 15 April 2012 held at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: Pop ki Kamai – The Paap Culture Quiz
QM: Sai Ganesh
- Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan R – 95
- Navin Rajaram & Ashwan Lewis – 85
- Santosh Swaminathan – 60
- Vinod R & Sandeep Mathias – 35
- Anustup D & Thejaswi Udupa – 27.5
- Lakshana K & Asawari Ghatge – 27.5
- Suresh Ramasubramanian & team – 25
- Ajay Parasuraman & team – 25
- Sudarshan & Manish – 5
EVENT II: The C. P. Venkatesh Memorial History of Ideas quiz
QM: Dr. Arul Mani
- Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan R – 32
- Thejaswi Udupa & Anustup D – 31
- Santosh Swaminathan & Manish A – 29
- Ajay Kasargod & Dr. Krishnan – 24
- Navin Rajaram & Suresh Ramasubramanian – 20
- CIDs from Kerala – 20
- Deviprasad & Rajagopal P – 19
- Questionable Characters – 16
EVENT III: Tech That! – The Inaugural Tech Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
- Ajay Kasargod & Jayakanthan R – 85
- Venkatesh S & Ashwan Lewis – 65 (+2)
- Santosh Swaminathan & Manish A – 65 (+1)
- Praveen VR & Anustup D – 45
- Rajat U & team – 15
- Arvind V & team – 15
- Deviprasad & Rajagopal P – 15
- Aditya & team – 10
History, Yell Iruve, March Open Quizzes – Results
The results of three open quizzes held on Saturday, 24 March 2012, at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Seek Under Porus: The Annual History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen V.R.
1. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan, Mitesh Agarwal) – 335
2. Salazar’s Children (Gopal Kidao, Swami, JK, Rajiv Rai) – 295
3. Neo Nexus (Venky, Ifthikar, SRS, Navin) – 210
4. QC (Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Sumeer) – 200
5. KD – 195
6. Waltwo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 185
7. Insert Cool Name Here (Jeydev, Anil Raghavan & team) – 152.5
8. Goutham & Co. – 107.5
Yell Iruve: The Annual Plants, Animals and Mitesh Agarwal Quiz
QMs: Ashwan Lewis and Avinash Thirumalai
1. Upper Waltwo (Thejaswi Udupa, Anustup Datta) – 29
2. Metaquizziks – 27
3. JK & Gopal Kidao – 24.5
4. Lower Waltwo (Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) / Swami & Raju – tied on 24
6. Sumeer & DD – 18
7. Rahul & Maitrey – 17.5
8. Harish & Vidyut – 13
The March Open Quiz
QM: Arun Hiregange
1. Waltwo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Alagarsamy) – 284
2. Salazar’s Children (Gopal Kidao, Swami, JK, Rajiv Rai) – 260
3. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan, Mitesh Agarwal) – 205
4. KD – 184
5. CIDs From Kerala (Hrishi, Jithin, Raouf, Praveen) – 157
6. Holy Nexus (Venky, Kivi, Ashwan, Navin) – 152
7. Insert Cool Name Here (Jeydev, Anil Raghavan & team) – 118
8. KQA Certified QMs (Manish, Jayanth, Sai Ganesh, Shashank) – 96
Karnataka, Ruckus Tangdi, Solus Rex, Cannabis Indica, Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, Lao Me Thanda, Cricket, Artifacts, Lone Wolf, Glamour-Giri, Music Quizzes – Results
The results of two open quizzes on Saturday 3 March 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: The Annual Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Santosh Swaminathan – 155
2. Soda, Sohan – 145
3. Vipin, Praveen VR – 127.5
4. KD – 112.5
5. Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange – 90
6. KP, Raouf / Srisha, Roshan – tied on 75
8. Ajay, Sumeer – 45
9. Anand – 27.5
Event II: Glamour-giri, an Open Quiz in a new written format
QM: Ochintya Sharma
1. Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan – 42
2. Sohan, Nishanth – 39
3. Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange – 35
4. VR, Vipin – 31
5. Ashwin Kelkar – 30
6. A. Pillai, T.C. Venkat – 22
7. Ajay Parasuraman, Sumeer – 17
8. Pradyoth, Sachin – 16
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Lone Wolf Quiz
QM: Alagar Samy
1. Arul Mani – 215
2. Arun Hiregange – 139
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 108
4. Rajagopal PS – 94.5
5. Ochintya Sharma – 51.5
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 41.5
7. Vivek Karthikeyan – 21.5
8. Hrishi Varma – 13
EVENT II: ARTIFACTS, a written quiz dedicated to the appreciation of useless/useful objects
QM: Arul Mani
1. Art For Facts Sake (Alagarswamy, Udupa) – 25
2. We Put the Holy in Nexus (Ashwan Lewis, Navin Rajaram) – 19.5
3. Metaquizziks (Santosh Swaminathan, Mitesh) – 18
4. Nexus (Venky, Kivi) – 14
5. Ochintya, Degree Raju – 13
6. DD, Sumeer / Ajay Parasuraman, Sandeep M – tied on 10.5
8. Nishanth Raman, Rahul Jadhav – 9
EVENT III: Open Cricket Quiz
QM: Manish Achuta
1. Lahar Appaiah, Rajan – 200
2. Thejaswi Udupa, Alagar ‘Cutoff’ Samy – 175
3. Degree Raju, Sohan – 155
4. Landmark Venky, Kivi – 150
5. Rajdeep, Ashwin – 135
6. Ajay Parasuram, Santosh Swaminathan – 125
7. Gaurav, Anubhav – 92.5
8. Hrishi ‘Buffalo’ Varma, Jithin Jacob – 85
9. Sachin Deshpande, Madan Gopal – 75
10. Nakul, Jose – 55
The results of three Open quizzes on Saturday, 4 February 2012 at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Lao Me Thanda, the annual quiz on Love, Sex and other associated disorders.
QM: Arul Mani
1. Santosh Swaminathan, Manish Achuta – 140
2. M & UL (Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 120
3. Anand Pillai & Sumeer – 90
4. Uncool’s the New Cool (Shamanth, Lakshana) – 70
5. Power Rangers – 45
6. Range of Kinsey (Jeydev, Pranav) – 40
7. Got Milf? – 25
8. Perverts Inc. (Rohit Rao, Nitin Gopinath) – 15
9. Pocket Rockets (Abhim Shetty, Roshan) – 5
EVENT II: Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, an open written quiz on speculative fiction.
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan – 27.5
2. Arjun, Goutham – 24
3. Praveen VR, Arun Hiregange – 23 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Unusual Suspects – 23
5. Shenoy – 20
6. Manish Achuta, Sandeep Mathias – 15.5
7. Anand & Sumeer – 14.5
8. Tropic Blunder – 13
EVENT III: Cannabis Indica, the Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
1. Questionable Characters (Anil Raghavan, Hiranyappa, Sumeer) – 195
2. CID Nexus (Praveen VR, Jithin Jacob, Vivek Karthikeyan, Landmark Venky) &
Waltwo (Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – tied on 160
4. Metaquizziks (Arul Mani, Santosh Swaminathan) – 125
5. Aditya, Nishanth, Manish – 90
6. Schroedinger’s Felines – 85
7. Ba Bu Black Sheep (Himadri, Sharath, Sachin) – 70
8. Rajat, Jayant, Hemant – 50
The results of two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I: Solus Rex
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das
1. Arul Mani
2. Debashree Mitra
3. Arun Hiregange
4. Santosh Swaminathan
other positions TBD.
EVENT II: Ruckus Tangdi Quiz
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani
1. Anand Pillai, Santosh Swaminathan, Hrishi Varma, Keshav – 255
2. Rajagopal PS, Sohan, Arun, Vipin – 215
3. Lakshana, Arun Hiregange, Sandeep, Govind – 185
4. Alagarsamy, Shamanth Rao, Sandeep Mathias, Vijay – 125
5. Sai Ganesh, Farhan, Sachin, Aditya – 100
6. Nishanth, Sumeer, Suresh, Srihari – 90
7. Ajay Parasuraman, Nakul, Trisha / Venkat, Manish, Praveen, Adi – tied on 60
The results of a quiz held on 11th December 2011 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
Poli Shankar, Shankar Poli and Others: KQA’s Karnataka Quiz
QMs: Lingaraj and Naresh Keerthi
1. Kaveri Nammadu, Kolaveri Nimmadu (Wimpy, Udupa) – 27
2. Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal – 24
3. Rajat, Jayant – 15
4. Harsha, Nikhil / KD – tied on 13
6. Landmark Venky, Manish – 12
7. Rosellini Gowda, Posalini Gowda / Raju, Manish – tied on 10
