The KQA will be conducting three quizzes on 16th December (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
1030AM: Pilferages – The Genre Fiction Quiz by Nagaratna Patil and Vivek Karthikeyan, a books quiz that is not so ‘lit’. More 50 Shades than Thomas Gray, more Hadley Chase than Joyce.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
1220 PM: ComiKaze, the Comics quiz by Siddarth Pai and Debanjan Bose – a quiz on all things comic books, graphic novels, mangas, illustrated works… by whatever name it goes.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
3 PM: The December Open (Ruckus) Quiz by team MQ – the first of many ruckus quizzes on the calendar is finally here!
What is a ruckus, you ask? No more #foreveralone. Farewell to feeling in-team-idated because you can never find teammates. Everyone present gets randomised into teams on the spot. It’s that simple.
It is a prelims/finals quiz with teams to be formed on the spot. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
The KQA will be conducting two quizzes on 11th November (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
11AM: The KQA Food Quiz – a quiz on, well, all things food and food-related by Urmila.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
2 PM: The November Open – an open general quiz conducted by Rajat, Jayaprakash, Satish and Sanmay.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
Here are the results of today’s quizzes at KQA
Yell Iruve, a quiz on zoology, by Siddharth Pai and Jayadev Bhaskaran
I – Anustup Dutta and Thejaswi Udupa – 60 points
II – Arun Hiregange and Navin Rajaram – 57 points (tie broken by stars)
III – Ravi Mundoli and Ashwin Kumar – 57 points
IV – Hrishikesh Varma and Praveen VR – 52 points
V – Avinash Thirumalai and Arul Mani – 50 points
VI – J Krishnamurthy and Chandrakant Nair – 45 points
VII – Sachin Deshpande and Shreyas Karanth – 41 points
VIII – Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramanathan – 37 points
Solus Rex prelims, by Arun Hiregange and Thejaswi Udupa
The following quizzers make it to the semi finals to be held later in the calendar year
I – Santosh Swaminathan – 38 points
II – Varun Rajiv – 30.5 points
III – Hrishikesh Varma – 30 points
III – Ajay Parasuraman – 30 points
V – Ashwin Kumar – 29 points
V – Rajagopal PS – 29 points
VII – Ravi Mundoli – 28.5 points
VIII – J Krishnamurthy – 27.5 points
VIII – Manu Sudhakar – 27.5 points
X – Arul Mani – 27 points
X – Navin Rajaram – 27 points
XII – Sachin Deshpande – 26.5 points
XIII – Rohit Suresh – 26 points
XIII – Anustup Dutta – 26 points
XIII – Sreshth Shah – 26 points
XVI – Pranav R – 25.5 points
XVI – Chandrakant Nair – 25.5 points
The Nexus Open Quiz by Nexus Consulting
I – We Are Like This (W)only (Anustup Dutta, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa) – 209 points
II – CIDs From Kerala (Chandrakant Nair, Praveen VR, J Krishnamurthy, Ravi Mundoli) – 201 points
II – KC and the Sunshine Band (Navin Rajaram, Rajagopal PS, EM Bhargava, Ajay Parasuraman) – 201 points
IV – BMQJ (Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar) – 178 points
V – Manu Sudhakar, Anush Iyer, Sreshth Shah, Rabin Jacob – 165 points
VI – Peter Panchali (Debanjan Bose, Siddharth Pai, Ashish Saligram, Sachin Deshpande) – 158 points
VII – SJCE Quizzers (Arul Mani, Avinash Thirumalai, Nagaratna Patil) – 149 points
VIII – AIQMK (Alagarsamy, Arun Prasad, Rohit Suresh, Pranav R) – 141 points
Best school team – Akkan Just Quiz (Varun, Vignesh, Prajwal, Mehul)
Best college team – Eternal Losers with Spotless Minds (Gaurav, Anirudh, Surya, Bhargav)
Congratulations to all the winners!
The KQA will be conducting three quizzes on 1st November (Thursday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Annw3gUciix)
1030AM: Yell Iruve – the open quiz on flora and fauna by Jayadev Bhaskaran and Siddharth Pai, featuring all creatures great and small with a helping of veggies.
It is a written quiz for teams of two or fewer. Open to all.
1220 PM: Solus Rex prelims – the KQA’s love-it-or-hate-it-but-you-can’t-ignore-it solo quiz is back with its super-sized prelim to determine the sacrificial lambs to be entered into the rest of its devious machinations.
It is a solo prelim for semis and finals to be held later in the calendar Open to all.
3 PM: The Nexus Open – an open general quiz conducted by Team Nexus, QMs with a great track record and a quizzing company to prove it. The prizes are generously sponsored by them too.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks – both the latest and a limited number from years past – will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
The KQA will be conducting two quizzes on 14th October (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. (Grape Garden address on Google maps)
11AM: Eastern Promises – an ‘Everything East’ General Quiz – an by Priyambad and Tanmay – a general quiz with Oriental, North-Eastern and Eastern India flavours. Some Odiya chauvinism may be on display.
It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
2 PM: *The XXVIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz – a general quiz by Sreshth Shah and Preetham Upadhya.
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of four or fewer. Open to all.
KQA yearbooks – both the latest and a limited number from years past – will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
The Woodstock of quizzing saw a total of 8 quizzes being held over three days, with old and new names turning up in the winners and finalists’ lists. Here are the full results:
1. Mahamahaquizzer, the showdown between the top 16 finishers of Mahaquizzer.
I – Vinoo Sanjay – 295 points
II – Manu Sudhakar – 260 points
III – Jayakanthan R – 241 points
IV – Arul Mani – 240 points
V – Samanth Subramanian – 235 points
V – Rahul Kottalgi – 235 points
VII – Anustup Datta – 220 points
VIII – Thejaswi Udupa – 215 points
2. MegaWhats, the National open quizzing championship.
I – Preetham Upadhya, Anustup Datta, Movin Miranda, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 201 points
II – Swaminathan Ganesh, Gopal Kidao, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 164 points
III – Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 160 points
IV – Vinoo Sanjay, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma (Matunga Manram) – 159 points
V – Rajiv Rai, Abhinav Dasgupta, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari (Traveling Pillsbury) – 153 points
VI – Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Naveen Jayakumar (Memory Bank) – 152 points
VII – Anannya Deb, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Suraj Menon, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 147 points
VIII – Ramkey, Goach, Shafeeq, Alok (Sheikh Yerboutis) – 101 points
3. Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the Arts Quiz at asKQAnce
I – Rahul Kottalgi, Anirudh Chari, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 208 points
II – Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh, Samanth Subramanian, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 200 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Srinath Bhashyam, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 142 points
IV – Mario Fernando, Vijaysarathy, Sreeram, Sankhya (Insignificant Others) – 130 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Ravi Mundoli, Anil Kumar (Memory Blank) – 84 points
VI – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We Are Like This Wonly) – 75 points
VII – Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb, Kunal Sawardekar (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 65 points
VIII – Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Rohit Rao, Hari Nair – 60 points
4. Son of Lumiere, the movie quiz at asKQAnce.
I – Balaji Thirumalai, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Jayakanthan R (QED) – 291 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Vibhendu Tiwari, Govind Grewal, Nikhil Sonde (Matunga Manram) – 247 points
III – Jinson Chacko, Hrishikesh Varma, Praveen VR, Chandrakant Nair (CIDs from Kerala) – 189 points
IV – Kushan Patel, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 188 points
V – Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Mitesh Agarwal, Santosh Swaminathan, Ashwin Kumar – 187 points
VI – Abhinav Dasgupta, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 125 points
VII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Rajagopal PS, Arun Ramanathan (Mission 2018) – 92 points
VIII – Anagh Mukherjee, Prithwish Dutta, Abhishek Kapoor, Jyotesh Singh (Caveat Attemptor) – 90 points
5. GS Hiranyappa Memorial History-Geography Quiz at asKQAnce 2018
I – Kunal Sawardekar, Suraj Menon, Venkataraghavan Sahasranaman, Anannya Deb (Zulfiqar-e-Ingit) – 305 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 250 points
III – Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 235 points
III – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 235 points
V – Naveen Jayakumar, Sivakumar Vakkalanka, Anil Kumar, Ravi Mundoli (Memory Blank) – 225 points
V – Kunal Savarkar, Jayashree Mohanka, Kinshuk Biswas, Anil Vaswani (Hammer and Tongs) – 225 points
VII – Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao, Swaminathan Ganesh (QED) – 217 points
VIII – Preetham Upadhya, Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa (We are Like This Wonly) – 140 points
6. Sesame, the General Open quiz at Askqance
I – Swaminathan Ganesh, Jayakanthan R, Samanth Subramanian, Gopal Kidao (QED) – 356 points
II – Vinoo Sanjay, Nikhil Sonde, Pravin Varma, Govind Grewal (Matunga Manram) – 326 points
III – Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Srinath Bhashyam (Remembrance of Things Fast) – 302 points
IV – Anirudh Chari, Rahul Kottalgi, Aryapriya Ganguly, Amrit Chetia (Aardvarks) – 301 points
V – Jayashree Mohanka, Sreyashi Dastidar, Debashree Mitra, Preyoshi Ganguly (ShriDevis) – 293 points
VI – Sreshth Shah, P Srikanth, Partha Ghatak, Arindam Dutta (Last Action Heroes) – 267 points
VII – Debanjan Bose, Rohit Rao, Sachin Deshpande, Siddharth Pai (Peter Panchali) – 250 points
VIII – Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivatsan, Vibhendu Tiwari, Abhinav Dasgupta (Traveling Pillsbury) – 201 points
Congrats all.
This is the schedule for the weekend:
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien, the arts quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Varma, Lakshana Kripash, Praveen VR.
3 PM: Son of Lumiere, a quiz on movies for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv.
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz, a quiz on history/geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS.
230 PM: Sesame, the general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan.
All these quizzes are open to all .
Venue for all quizzes is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/T1e3xXnejQS2
Please call ++91 8884125047 if you have trouble finding the place
Apart from the open quizzes over the weekend, Mahamahaquizzer and the semis and finals of Megawhats will be conducted on Friday (29th) at IAT – do turn up to watch some of the country’s top quizzers in action.
Here are the results of the Bangalore leg of the World Quizzing Championship held on June 2
Overall winners
I – Ashwin Kumar – 105 (113–8)
II – Arul Mani – 103 (111–8)
III – Thejaswi Udupa – 102 (112–10)
IV – Debashree Mitra – 100 (109–9)
V – Arun Hiregange – 95 (103–8)
VI – Santosh Swaminathan – 91 (101–10)
VII – Varun Rajiv – 89 (96–7)
VIII – Rajagopal PS – 83 (92–9)
Category Winners
Culture – Ashwin Kumar, Arul Mani
Entertainment – Arun Hiregange
History – Arul Mani, Debashree Mitra
Media – Varun Rajiv
Lifestyle – Arul Mani
Science – Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange
Sports – Arun Hiregange
World – Ashwin Kumar, Thejaswi Udupa
Congratulations to all the top scorers!
Here are the results of quizzes held on May 27.
Comikaze, the KQA Comics Quiz
QMs: Debanjan Bose and Siddharth Pai
I – Varun Rajiv and Ashwin Kumar – 26 points
II – Santosh Swaminathan and Thejaswi Udupa – 24.5 points
III – Sohan Maheshwar and Gautam Shenoy – 23.5 points
The Abominable Open Quiz, a quiz on the Himalayas
QM: Ashwin Kumar
I – Thejaswi Udupa – 30 points
II – Sachin Deshpande and Debanjan Bose – 29.5 points
III – Varun Rajiv and Santosh Swaminathan – 24 points
The May Open Quiz
QMs: Rajagopal PS and Arun Ramana than
I – Varun Rajiv, Ashwin Kumar, Santosh Swaminathan – 130 points
II – EM Bhargava, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ajay Parasuraman, Atul Mathew – 95 points
III – Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Ochintya Sharma – 45 points
Congratulations to all the winners.
Results of quizzes held on June 10:
After nearly 300 questions spread over three quizzing days across the season, Chandrakant Nair gets crowned as the new Solus Rex champion, getting his nose ahead of Ashwin Kumar in his breakthrough year. Boy wonder Preetham Upadhya comes third. Here are the scores.
I – Chandrakant Nair – 296 points
II – Ashwin Kumar – 291 points
III – Preetham Upadhya – 247 points
IV – Manu Sudhakar – 220 points
V – Santosh Swaminathan – 205 points
VI – Debashree Mitra – 183 points
VII – Varun Rajiv – 155 points
VIII – Keshav Atreya – 150 points
Results of Artefacts Quiz conducted by Vivek Karthikeyan:
I – Navin Rajaram and Manu Sudhakar – 34 points
II : Avinash T and Praveen VR (and) Venky Srinivasan and Tanmay Prusty – 28 (Tie)
Results of History Quiz by Urmila:
I – SRS, Debashree, Ajay Parasuraman, Tanmay Prusty
II – SJC Quizzers (Arul, Nagaratna, Avinash, Prithwiraj)
III- Anush, Nishant, Maitrey Pranav R
Congratulations to all the winners!
AsKQAnce 2018, KQA’s annual quiz fest – the Woodstock of quizzing (it’s fun?), the Burj Khalifa of buildings (it’s big?), the Pacific of oceans (it’ll be peaceful?), the Silk Board of traffic jams (lots of people?), the Manoj Prabhakar of 90s all-rounders (er… what?), the Tesla Model 3 of heightened expectations (maybe not), the original iPhone launch event of #hype (please stop), the… uh, Thejaswi Udupa of Twitter (…) – is just one month away!
Here’s the final schedule:
Friday, June 29th
1030 AM: MahaMahaquizzer
A showdown between the Top 16 (well, #17 and #18 made it after some dropouts) of Mahaquizzer 2017.
QMs: Avinash Thirumalai, Movin Miranda, Sai Ganesh, Sreyashi Dastidar.
230 PM: MegaWhats (semi finals and finals)
For the 16 qualifiers from MegaWhats 2018.
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal, Venkatesh Srinivasan, Vivek Karthikeyan.
Saturday, June 30th
10 AM: Y Tu MoMA Tambien
An open quiz on the Arts, for teams of 4.
QMs: Lakshana Kripash, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, Hrishikesh Varma
3 PM: Son of Lumiere
An open quiz on Movies, for teams of 4.
QMs: Anustup Datta, Thejaswi Udupa, Varun Rajiv
Sunday, July 1st
930 AM: The G.S. Hiranyappa Memorial Quiz
An open quiz on History/Geography for teams of 4.
QMs: Ashwin Kumar, Nagaratna Patil, Rajagopal PS
230 PM: Sesame
The Open general quiz for teams of 4.
QMs: Arul Mani, Arun Hiregange, Santosh Swaminathan
The venue for all three days is the Institute of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) on Queens Road.
So book your tickets, make your plans, and just come off!
The KQA will be hosting three open quizzes on 27th May (Sunday) at the Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Head Office in Koramangala (Grape Garden address on Google maps):
10 AM: ComiKaze, the Comics quiz by Siddarth Pai and Debanjan Bose
A quiz on all things comic books, graphic novels, mangas, illustrated works… by whatever name it goes. It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
130 PM: The Himalayas Quiz by Ashwin Kumar
No need for alpenstocks, crampons and ice axes. Oxygen cylinders might be of help. It’s a general quiz on the Himalaya; questions won’t be restricted to geography and mountaineering. He has assured us that it will easier than climbing the mountain. It is a written quiz for teams of two. Open to all.
4 PM: The May Open by Rajagopal P.S. and Arun Ramanathan.
A general quiz for teams of four by two seasoned QMs – sure to be an enjoyable experience. It is a prelims/finals quiz. Open to all.
Location: https://goo.gl/tSp1GE
Please call +91 88841 25047 in case you have trouble finding the place
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486.
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