Quizzes on Saturday 24 March 2012
We will host three open quizzes on Saturday, 24 March 2012, at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists, off Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The events are
Seek Under Porus
The Annual History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen V.R.
Teams of 4
Open to all
Rs. 50/- per team
Entry free for school teams
Prizes for top three teams (Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs.1000/-)
Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1130-1300hrs
Yell Iruve
The Annual Plants, Animals and Mitesh Agarwal Quiz
QMs: Ashwan Lewis and Avinash Thirumalai
Teams of 2
Open to all
Written Quiz
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
1400-1530hrs
The March Open Quiz
QM: Arun Hiregange
Teams of 4
Open to all
Rs. 50/- per team
Entry free for school teams
Prizes for all finalists
1530-1830hrs
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
Quizzes on Saturday 3 March 2012
We will hold 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
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top 3 teams
Schedule: Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130-1400hrs
Event II
Glamour-giri
Open Quiz in a new written format
QM: Ochintya Sharma
Teams of two members
Entry; Rs. 50/-
Prizes for top 3 teams
1500-1700hrs.
Our next quizzing Sunday will feature the annual History Quiz, Yell Iruve and an Open Quiz by Arun Hiregange–all on 24 March 2012.
Quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 19 February 2012 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
EVENT I
Lone Wolf Quiz
QM: Alagar Samy
Solo quiz
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs-1300hrs
EVENT II
ARTIFACTS
A written quiz dedicated to the appreciation of useless/useful objects
QM; Arul Mani
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Open Cricket Quiz
QM: Manish Achuta
Teams of two
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all
Prelims: 1515hrs
Finals: 1615hrs-1745hrs
Oikoumene – Registered Teams
COLLEGE
| Institution | Team |
|---|---|
| National Public School, Rajajinagar | Rama Subramanian B & Lokahith Narendra Agasthya |
| National Public School, Rajajinagar | Rajashekar V & Balaji S |
| National Public School, Rajajinagar | Nikshep Trinetra B S & Ameya P Koushik |
| National Public School, Rajajinagar | Krishna A Kinnal & Malhar Jere |
| The Frank Anthony Public School | Jeydev CS & Pranav K |
| RV College Of Engineering | Arun Panchapakesan & Vijay Ramesh |
| MSRIT | Maitrey |
| RNSIT | Amit and Ashish |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | SUBHASHISH K & SUMIT AGARWAL |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | SHAH NAWAZ & ARIHANT KOCHAR |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | VASUDEV CHATTERJI & JUSTIN SHAWN |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | RONAK JAIN & ANKAN DUTTA |
| St Joseph’s College of Commerce | Ariya Das and Siddharth Pai |
SCHOOL
| Institution | Team |
|---|---|
| BISHOP COTTON GIRLS’ SCHOOL | Rabia Suzanne Angiras |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | Abishek Shetty & Anirup Doshi |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | Aditya Mohan & Siddharth Gupta |
| BISHOP COTTON BOYS’ SCHOOL | Jayadithya & Sagar Gupta |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | SHIRISHA B REDDY & SINCHITHA . S |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | SUHAS K C & AKASH PATIL |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | SHASHANK C & SUMANTH C |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | CHAVAN D & ALDEN D’SOUZA |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | VISHAL S & PAVAN P |
| Innisfree House School | Anusha Kamath M & Aishwarya Vishwanath |
| Innisfree House School | Pavan B Garadi & Vishnu Madhusudhan |
| National Hill View Public School | Rohan S K and Pratyush Pradhan |
| National Hill View Public School | Bhargavi N A and Shivani Kundur |
OPEN
- Praveen & Santosh
- Chandrashkar V & Gautham Raju
- D. Dharmendra
- Nexus
- The Wild Ones
- Team Betta
- WALTW(o)
- The Two Bs of Quizzing: Bald (B)eagles
Quizzes on Saturday 4 February 2012
We will hold 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
RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Open to all, but we’d like the participants to each be above 18.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1030hrs onwards
Finals: 1130-1300hrs
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
EVENT II
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Open written quiz on speculative fiction.
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
RULES:
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.
Schedule:
1400-1530hrs
Prizes: Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
EVENT III
Cannabis Indica
The Get-high-on-India-shit Quiz, as Varun Rajiv might have described it.
QMs: Navin Rajaram and Hrishi Varma
RULES:
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Open to all.
Schedule:
Prelims: 1600-1700hrs
Finals: 1730-1900hrs
Prizes for the first three places.
Quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday 15 January 2012 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
The first event is the Solus Rex contest in an all-new format.
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Dibyendu Das
Rules:
Open to all
Individual quiz
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/-
Schedule
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115hrs-1330hrs
Prizes for all finalists
The second event on the 15th is a Ruckus Tangdi Quiz featuring unused questions from the recently held MindSweep 2012.
QMS: Kiran Vijayakumar, DD and Arul Mani
Rules
Open to team of four members.
Team compositions will be rudely altered.
Teams get ranking points only if they field all members during registration.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Schedule:
Prelims: 1500hrs
Finals: 1615-1830hrs
Prizes for all finalists
Go Ogle 2012 – The World’s Toughest Quiz
Go Ogle 2012 will be held, as usual on 1 January 2012. The quiz will go up at our blog Daly Haal at 1800hrs and will be taken down at midnight.
You can look at a poster (and thus at Daly Haal) here:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
You can look at previous editions here:
2011: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2010: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
2009: http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
and the first-ever edition:
http://kqaquizzes.livejournal.
A veteran non-taker of Go Ogle described it as the “annual soul-crushing vortex of cryptonomy”.
Thejaswi Udupa won Go Ogle 2011 and Jayakanthan R. of Chennai finished runner-up.
College & PU Lone Wolf, Sense A Femur, AJM Open House Quizzes – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
College Lone Wolf
1. Samarth – 67
2. Niranjan M (SASTRA University) – 47.5
3. Sandeep Mathias (IIITB) – 45
4. Siddarth Pai – 39.5
5. Aditya S & Suraj Prabhu – tied on 17.5
7. Arvind V (BMSCE) – 7.5
8. Vijay Ramesh (RVCE) – -2.5
PU Lone Wolf
1. Mollika (FAPS) – 46
2. Sudeshna Trilok (SKCH) – 37
3. Pranav VC – 36
4. Jeydev (FAPS) – 34
5. Athith (SKCH) – 28
6. Pranav K (FAPS) – 8
EVENT II: Sense a Femur – The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
1. Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange – 22.5
2. Raju & Sohan – 21.5
3. We Put The Holy In Nexus (Ashwan Lewis & Navin Rajaram) – 15.5
4. Nishanth & Manish – 13
5. Rosselini & Posalini (Ram & Keshav) – 12
6. DD & SK – 11.5
7. Punjabi Movie Lovers (Kiran & Ananth) – 11
8. Chirag & Sid – 9
EVENT III: The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Team 12 won
Team 9 placed second
Team 10 came third
Quizzes on Saturday 12 November 2011
We will hold three quizzes on Saturday, 12 November 2011 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
College and PU Lone Wolf
QMs: Sohan Maheshwar, Sai Ganesh and Rajagopal P. S.
Rules
Open to solo entrants who are currently either PUC/XI & XII or Undergraduate/PG students
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/- per head
Common Prelims, followed by separate finals
Unlimited entries, but no more than two from an institution in the finals.
Prizes for all finalists.
Schedule
Prelims: 1030-1115hrs
PU Lone Wolf Finals: 1145-1230hrs
College Lone Wolf Finals: 1230-1315hrs
EVENT II
Sense a Femur
The Annual Humour Quiz
QMs: Santosh Swaminathan & Arul Mani
Rules
Written, 40 questions
No bicycling!
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for the top three teams
Schedule
1400-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Inaugural AJM Open House Quiz
Who or what is an AJM?
What the duck is an Open House quiz?
How can you have an Open Quiz without prelims?
What about my team?
Is this some woolly, hippie, liberal nonsense?
For answers to these, and some of the other mysteries of life, please meet
QMs: Thejaswi Udupa, Mitesh Agarwal, Arul Mani, Varun Shenoy and Abhishek Upadhya.
Rules
Prior registration essential
To register, please RSVP at http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/eb8j8jjh6kck776hg
Please take your seats by 1515hrs
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per head, pay on the spot.
High Tea at 1830
