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:

  1. Insignificant Others – 290 points.
  2. QED – 275 points.
  3. Hammer and Tongs – 235 points.
  4. Feni Vidi Vici Bitchy – 200 points.
  5. Swami and Friends – 190 points.
  6. Questionable Characters – 135 points.
  7. Insert Uncool Name here – 105 points.
  8. 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.

  1. Hammer and Tongs – 269 points.
  2. Excess Baggage (the travel quiz avatar of MetaQuizziks) – 255.5 points.
  3. We Are Like This Wonly – 254 points.
  4. QED – 251 points.
  5. Delhi Sucks – 175 points.
  6. Feni, Vidi, Vici, Bitchy – 172 points.
  7. Tough Luck – 132 points.
  8. Insert Cool Name Here – 113 points.
  9. Pass the Ketchup – 71 points.
June 30, 2012 | Filed Under ASKQANCE, Mega-Whats, Open Quizzes, Results | Leave a Comment 

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

  1. Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan R – 95
  2. Navin Rajaram & Ashwan Lewis – 85
  3. Santosh Swaminathan – 60
  4. Vinod R & Sandeep Mathias – 35
  5. Anustup D & Thejaswi Udupa – 27.5
  6. Lakshana K & Asawari Ghatge – 27.5
  7. Suresh Ramasubramanian & team – 25
  8. Ajay Parasuraman & team – 25
  9. Sudarshan & Manish – 5

EVENT II: The C. P. Venkatesh Memorial History of Ideas quiz

QM: Dr. Arul Mani

  1. Alagarsamy & Jayakanthan R – 32
  2. Thejaswi Udupa & Anustup D – 31
  3. Santosh Swaminathan & Manish A – 29
  4. Ajay Kasargod & Dr. Krishnan – 24
  5. Navin Rajaram & Suresh Ramasubramanian – 20
  6. CIDs from Kerala – 20
  7. Deviprasad & Rajagopal P – 19
  8. Questionable Characters – 16

EVENT III: Tech That! – The Inaugural Tech Quiz

QM: Thejaswi Udupa

  1. Ajay Kasargod & Jayakanthan R – 85
  2. Venkatesh S & Ashwan Lewis – 65 (+2)
  3. Santosh Swaminathan & Manish A – 65 (+1)
  4. Praveen VR & Anustup D – 45
  5. Rajat U & team – 15
  6. Arvind V & team – 15
  7. Deviprasad & Rajagopal P – 15
  8. Aditya & team – 10
April 16, 2012 | Filed Under Open Quizzes, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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

March 25, 2012 | Filed Under News, Open Quizzes, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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

March 11, 2012 | Filed Under Lone Wolf Quizzes, News, Open Quizzes, Results, Specialist Open Quizzes | Leave a Comment 

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