Ideas Quiz and MQ Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz – Results
The results of the two open quizzes held on Sunday 11th April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
The Dr. C.P. Venkatesh Memorial Quiz in The History of Ideas.
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander and Arul Mani.
1. Dr. Krishnan & Vardhan W. – 55
2. AppDupa (Thejaswi Udupa, Arun Hiregange) – 45
3. Triskaidekaphobia (Tanmay Prusty, Sumer Agarwal) – 35
4. Ashwan, Yogish – 30
5. Harry, King of the Philistines – 15
6. Santosh J.S. / No Idea (Rahul & team) – tied on 10
8. Nexus (Vivek Karthikeyan, Megha Shenoy) – 5
The Metaquizziks XXth Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz.
QMs: Varun Rajiv and Arul Mani.
1. Subrat, Ashwan, Vijay – 80
2. Sai, Aditi, Sneha, Varun – 65 (2nd by tie-break)
3. Rajasekhar, Rahul Girish Kumar – 65 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Seedless Groundnuts (Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram, Abhishek, Akhil) / Ajay, Urmila, Shiv, Nilaw – tied on 65
6. Who’s Soda’s Daddy (Siri, Sreenivas Ravi, Sudarshan M.A., Vineet Raj) – 45
7. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat) – 30
8. Goat Boyz (Chaitanya, Nakul, Abhishek, Umang) – -10
Quizzes on Sunday 9 May 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 9th May 2010 at the Arakere Hall, Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Solus Rex Finals
Topics
1. Fictional Detectives
i.e. created in books. Those which started off in movies or comics not included.
2. Indian Scientists and Mathematicians
i.e. those of Indian origin. Foreign scientists who worked here or were born here are not included. Indians who were born abroad or worked abroad are included.
The Finalists
Rahul Kottalgi, Harish R., Debashree Mitra, Anustup Datta, and Ochintya Sharma
The Quizmasters
Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
Prizes
Rs. 1000/- for the winner and Rs. 500/- for the other finalists
Best Questions
Members, with the exception of the finalists, are welcome to send in questions on these topics. While these will not be used in the finals, the quiz-masters will pick the five best questions from the entries received. Book-coupons of Rs. 500/- each will be awarded to the winners chosen thus.Please send questions to arunhire@yahoo. com
1000hrs -1230hrs
LUNCH-BREAK 1200hrs-1330hrs
EVENT II
Yell Iruve!
A quiz featuring plants, animals, insects and other life forms–dedicated to Mitesh Agarwal.
100 questions
1330-1500hrs
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
KQA Lone Wolf
Open to all individual contestants
Entry Fee: Rs. 25/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1800hrs
The quiz will be anchored by an all-women team led by Urmila Lakshmanan.
Prizes: Rs. 500/-. Rs. 350/-, Rs. 250/- and prizes for all finalists.
Quizzes on Sunday 25 April 2010
The Synergy Sports Quiz prelims will be held on Sunday, 25th April at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Please note that this event will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.
The quiz is for individuals and prior registration is essential. If you have had any problems registering , please contact Mitesh Agarwal (mitesh.agarwal@ gmail.com) .
The schedule:
1130-1200hrs.
Participants must report at the venue by 1045hrs with valid ID and entry ticket.
Three KQA quizzes will also be held at the same venue during the day.
EVENT I
Open Sports Quiz
QM; Varun Rajiv
Rules
Teams of 4 members
Open to all
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1000/-, Rs. 800/- and Rs. 700/-
Schedule
Prelims 1000hrs sharp
Finals: 1200 to 1330hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1330-1430hrs
EVENT II
The Non-Fiction Quiz
Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-
Written , with 50 questions
1430hrs-1530hrs
QM: Arul Mani
Prizes: Rs.1500, Rs. 1000 and Rs. 750/-
EVENT III
BIZKASHI
The Annual Business Quiz
Rules
Teams of 2 members
Open to all
Regn: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 3000/-, Rs. 2000/- and Rs. 1500.
Prelims: 1530-1615hrs
Finals: 1645-1830hrs
QM: Arul Mani
IMPORTANT
Please note that the above events will be held not at the Arakere Hall on the ground floor, but at the smaller hall on the first floor.
Quizzes on Sunday 11 April 2010
We will hold three open quizzing events on Sunday 11 April 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
The Dr. C.P. Venkatesh Memorial Quiz in The History of Ideas.
RULES
Open to all
Teams of two members
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team
Prizes for top three teams
QMs: Cheriyan Alexander and Arul Mani.
SCHEDULE
Prelims: 10 am sharp
Finals for 8 teams: 11-1230hrs
LUNCHBREAK: 1230-1330hrs
EVENT II
The Non-Fiction Quiz
Roughly Popular Science Writing, Popular History, Travel-Writing, Narrative Journalism and Biography.
50 questions in writing
Teams of two members
Prizes for top three teams
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/- per team
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule: 1330-1500hrs
EVENT III
The Metaquizziks XXth Anniversary Unseeded Open Quiz.
Open to teams of four
These teams cannot participate: MQ, WALTWO, KD, QED, Mustafa, ICNH, Nexus, Triska (Sumeer, Prusty et al)
Entry: Rs. 50/- per team.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Varun Rajiv, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.
Schedule: 1500-1830hrs
Open Music Quiz, Food Quiz and Families Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Sunday 7 March 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa, with inputs from Dibyojyoti Haldar
1. KD (Harry, Nishanth, Rahul, Sohan) – 147
2. Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal, Gopal Kidao, Gautham Shenoy, Fing) – 105
3. We Are Like This Wonly (Ochintya Sharma, Santosh Swaminathan, Rajesh Mehar, Hrishkesh Varma) – 91
4. Raju’s Nexus (Rajagopal, Venkatesh S, Vivek Karthikeyan & team) – 80
5. Corrosion (Nitish, Leslie, Sumer & team) – 76
6. Comfortably Dumb / NMH (Karthik Shashidhar, Shamanth Rao, Lakshana, Praveen VR) – tied on 70
8. How The Godman Got Kissed, Got Caught and Ran For Life (Vivek, Pavan, Ashim, Aditya) – 66
9. Neha & Kartik – 29
The Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
1. Kirthana & Lakshana – 25.5
2. Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange – 21
3. Triskaidekaphobia (Sumer Agarwal & Tanmay Prusty) – 17.5 (3rd on * questions)
4. Srini & Raju – 17.5
5. Somberi Sappadramans (Gopal Kidao & Renu) – 16.5
6. Vipin & Sidharth – 16
7. Udupa & Mitesh / Corrosion (Abhishek & Nitish) – tied on 13
The Families Quiz
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal & Arul Mani
1. Family Plot (Gopal Kidao, Renu, Vivek Raghavan) – 138
2. Ochintya, Anindya, Sujata – 130
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & mother – 88
4. Rajeev Gowda & children – 85
5. Umang & sister – 65
6. Pavitra & Venky – 60
7. Nexus (Megha Shenoy and her father, Kivi) – 55
8. Vijay & Ramesh / Plumber Mechanic Oddjob (Hussein Poonawalla, Hassan Poonawalla, Mr. Poonawalla) – tied on 40
Solus Rex finals in April 2010
The Solus Rex finals will be held on a Sunday in April. The date will be announced once we have a confirmed booking.
Topics
1. Fictional Detectives
i.e. created in books. Those which started off in movies or comics not included.
2. Indian Scientists and Mathematicians
i.e. those of Indian origin. Foreign scientists who worked here or were born here are not included. Indians who were born abroad or worked abroad are included.
The Finalists
Rahul Kottalgi, Harish R., Debashree Mitra, Anustup Datta, and Ochintya Sharma
The Quizmasters
Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
Prizes
Rs. 1000/- for the winner and Rs. 500/- for the other finalists
Best Questions
Members, with the exception of the finalists, are welcome to send in questions on these topics. While these will not be used in the finals, the quiz-masters will pick the five best questions from the entries received. Book-coupons of Rs. 500/- each will be awarded to the winners chosen thus.
Lao Me Thanda, South Indian Films and Ruckus Tangdi Quizzes – Results
he results of three quizzes held on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Lao Me Thanda: KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
QMs: Arul Mani & Kiran Vijayakumar
1. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 160
2. Nishanth & Rahul – 110
3. Rajath & Santosh – 100
4. Arun Hiregange & Anil Raghavan – 90
5. Shenoy & Venkat – 40
6. Vinod & Ananth / Aditi & Neha – tied at 30
8. Rini & Ambar – 20
Uncle’s Fault: A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
QM: Arul Mani
1. Dr. Krishnan & Anil Raghavan – 29
2. Shenoy & Venkat – 23
3. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 21
4. Arun & Raju – 18.5
5. Vinod & Ananth – 13.5
6. Sana & Patrick / Nishanth & Srikanth – tied on 13
Ruckus Tangdi
QMs: S. Venkatesh & Vivek Karthikeyan
1. Ananth, Holla, Arun Hiregange – 145
2. Cheriyan, Arun, Rajagopal – 125
3. Arul Mani, Abhay, Maitrey – 117.5
4. Rahul S. Kottalgi, Sairam, Raj Tejas – 100
5. Santosh, Kaustuba, Vinod – 87.5
6. Shenoy, Abhishek, Goutham – 77.5
7. Vijay TSR, Sudarshan, Jayanth – 70
8. Rajath, Sohan, Ambar – 70
Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010
We will hold three Open Quizzes on Sunday 7 March 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Open Music Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa, with inputs from Dibyojyoti Haldar
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
This is the fourth of our five ranking Specialist Open quizzes for the season
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1000hrs
Prelims: 1015hrs
Finals: 1115-1315hrs
LUNCH-BREAK: 1315-1400hrs
EVENT II
The Food Quiz
QM: Santosh Swaminathan
Open to all
Teams of two members
Written: 50 questions
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for teams placing I, II and III.
Registrations: 1400hrs
Duration: 1415hrs-1515hrs
EVENT III
The Families Quiz
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Arul Mani
We recognise siblings, couples, parents with children, and various combinations thereof as family teams. Cousins, elaborate family trees and other such dodges are not welcome.
Members are requested to persuade spouses/parents/ children/ siblings and to turn up. Please pass the word around as well.
Open to all
Teams of three members or less.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes for all finalists
Registrations: 1515hrs
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1615-1730hrs
Please call 97312-14519 if you need more information.
Quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010
We will hold three open quizzes on Sunday 14 February 2010 at The Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
LAO ME THANDA
KQA’s Annual Quiz on Love and other Perversions
Censorship is for finks, but the nature of the quiz requires us to restrict entry to those who are above the age of 18.
RULES
Teams of two members
Open to all (Age 18 and above)
Entry Fee: Rs. 100/- per team
Prelims: 1030hrs
Finals: 1130hrs to 1300hrs
Prizes for I, II and III places.
QM: Arul Mani
1300hrs-1400hrs
LUNCH-BREAK
EVENT II
UNCLE’S FAULT
A written quiz on South Indian Cinema
Open to teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
50 questions
1400hrs to 1500hrs
QM: Arul Mani
EVENT III
General Open Quiz
Open to all
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630hrs-1800hrs
Prizes for all finalists
QMS: Venky and Kivi of Nexus.
Karan Arjun Quiz for Std III and IV, Ranking High School Quiz & Seek Under Porus, The Open History Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes held on Sunday 10 January 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
Karan-Arjun Trophy for Std III and IV
QMs: Venkatesh S., Vivek Kartikeyan and Arun Hiregange
Std III
1. National Public School Rajajinagar (Shravasti Sarkar, Sandhya R, Nidhi Prakash, Tanvi F) – 130
2. National Academy For Learning (Madhavi N Rao, Aryaan S Anand, Rithvik Panchapakesan, Sumedh Niyogi) – 120 (2nd by tie-break)
3. National Hill View Public School (Vignesh Srikanth, Meghana Deepali Rao, Vaishnav V Rao, Sathya Krishna KR) – 120
4. CMR National Public School (Mohith, Divya, Dhanush, Lalitha) & Innisfree House School (Raghvan, Anirudh, Aditya, Abhishek) – 120 (joint 4th)
6. Aurobindo (Ganapathi, Hima Trisha M, Prakrith Keshav, Sowmyaa) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Parvathy, Soundarya, Srikar, Sanjana) – 115 (joint 6th)
8. Aurobindo (Anoushka, Ajay, Arjun, Harsha) – 110
Std IV
1. CMR National Public School (Ria Melanie Picardo, Arkaprovo Ghosh, K. Aparna, Jatin Raghav N) – 110
2. National Hill View Public School (Suraj, Shreyas, Karthik, Srinidhi) – 105
3. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Sathvik K Bharadwaj, Arjun M, Aniruddh HM, Raghunandan Sriram) – 95 (3rd by tie-break)
4. Sri Aurobindo Memorial School (Tanya, Parikshith, Srinath, Sindhu) – 95
5. Mallya Aditi International School (Rishika, Nikhil, Sumer, Vidisha) & National Academy For Learning (Nacheketa, Prakriti, Raaga, Akul) – 85 (joint 5th)
7. Innisfree House School (Shradda, Varsha, Snehal, Aakansh) – 80
8. National Public School Rajajinagar (HS Shashank, Varun Shah, M Sreyas, Himanshu S Jog) & National Public School Rajajinagar (Ashwin Alarparthi, Navaneeth Raghunath, Kaushik Sengupta) – 75 (joint 8th)
Ranking Inter High School Quiz
QM: Arul Mani
1. Sri Kumaran Public School (Athith K, Subham Nandy) – 75
2. Innisfree House School (Karansinha Patil, Rushati Mukherjee) – 65
3. St. Joseph’s Boys High School (Chirag Prince, Anirudh) – 60
4. National Public School Koramangala (Kavya, Nirmal) – 45
5. Frank Anthony Public School (Mollika M, Prashanth TK) – 40
6. MESKK (Krishna Kumar, Pavan MR) – 30
7. National Public School Rajajinagar (Krishna AK, Ameya Koushik) – 25
8. National Hill View Public School (Sethupati, Parantap) – 5
Seek Under Porus : The Open History Quiz
QMs: Manjith and Praveen
1. MetaQuizziks (Arul Mani, Mitesh Agarwal, Sandip Sen, Varun Rajiv) – 175
2. QC+Mustafa (Hiranyappa, Debashree Mitra, Dibyendu Das, Vijay TSR) – 155
3. Dirty Ghetto Kids (Harry, Rahul, Nishanth and team)- 150
4. WALTWo (Thejaswi Udupa, Ochintya Sharma, Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange) – 135
5. Schrodinger’s Felines (Cheriyan, Vivek, Venkat, Shenoy) – 95
6. Deviprasad V, Rajagopal, Subrat – 80
7. Rahul Girish Kumar and Harikrishnan A – 67.5
8. Anirudh and team – 30
