Mahaquizzer & Junior Mahaquizzer 2019

MahaQuizzer 2019

 

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting the 16th edition of MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and the 1st edition of Junior Mahaquizzer on Sunday, 8th December 2019.

As always, the open set will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. Junior Mahaquizzer, meant exclusively for school students, will feature a set of 75 questions to be taken over the same 90 minutes. We hope to encourage a younger generation to the pain of hit-and-miss that MQ takers are all too familiar with.

2019 Mahaquizzer setters: Debashree Mitra, Sreyashi Dastidar, Movin Miranda, Nishanth Raman and Venkataraman Ravindra.

 

Rules

The quiz is open to individual entrants, irrespective of age or other affiliations (though we do suggest that the taker is at least 12 years old).

The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2019.

She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2020.

The student with the highest score among school students (up to class 10+2/PUC) across all centres will hold the title of Junior Mahaquizzer 2019.

 

Timings

Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM

The quiz will be held across all cities from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm.

 

Please use the form below to register for Mahaquizzer; if you are a student taking part in Junior Mahaquizzer, please select “School” under Category in the form. You can check if your registration has gone through by visiting this page.

 

We will soon put up a post with details of venues in each city hosting Mahaquizzer. If your city is not in the form below, and if you are interested in hosting Mahaquizzer in your city, please email Hrishikesh Varma or Dr. Arul Mani.

Announcement of Mahaquizzer & Asiasweep 2019

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting MahaQuizzer, the National Solo Quizzing Championship, and AsiaSweep, the Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian, on Sunday, 8th December 2019.

MahaQuizzer 2019

We are introducing something new to MahaQuizzer this year. The open set will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper. However, there is another set of 75 questions, a Junior version if you will, to be taken over the 90 minutes, that is exclusively for school children. We hope to encourage a younger generation to the pain of hit-and-miss that all MQ takers are only too familiar with. More details on this over the next week.

MQ will be set by a team consisting of Debashree Mitra, Sreyashi Dastidar, Movin Miranda, Nishanth Raman and Venkataraman Ravindra.

 

AsiaSweep will consist of around 75 questions (to be read off a ppt) and is open to teams of a maximum of two people. Solo participants are also welcome. The quiz is being set by Dr Arul Mani, Nagaratna Patil, Sujata Sharma, Urmila Lakshmanan and Dibyendu Das.

 

MahaQuizzer will be held in all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM. AsiaSweep will start at 3pm.

 

The person recording the highest score in MQ across all centres will hold the title of MahaQuizzer for 2019. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2020. We will publish the MQ schools ranking list separately.

AsiaSweep is open to teams of two members, irrespective of age or other affiliations. Solo participants are also welcome to try their luck.  A projector will be required to conduct AsiaSweep.

 

If you are interested in hosting MahaQuizzer or AsiaSweep (or both) in your city, please email Hrishikesh Varma or Dr. Arul Mani.

We will open registrations for MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep in a few days’ time, once host cities and venues have been confirmed. Check back here in a few days time!

MahaQuizzer ME 2019 – Results

Here are the results of our annual Middle East version of MahaQuizzer. Our congratulations to all the winners!

MahaQuizzer ME – Kuwait 2019: Ramesh Athreya

Runner-Up: Jayadeep Premnath

Third: Arjun. P. Sujith

Johan James (DOB 4/12/2007) was the youngest participant this year!

The top three finishers in the Ladies category:

1. Nirmala James (31 points)

2. Lovely Sasidharan (27 points)

3. Brighty Thomas (26 points)

Sharon Maria Thomas was the topper among girls in the Student category.

The Top 3 in the school categories (Class VIII and above):

1.Arjun P Sujith (47 points) (Class VIII, Indian Community School, Senior Girls)

2. Aaron John Thomas (44 points) (Class XI, Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian (Pvt.) School (D P S))

3. Kurian Thomas Mattam (40 points) (Class VIII, Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian (Pvt.) School (D P S))

The Top 3 in the school categories (Up to Class VII)

1.Sharon Maria Thomas (36 points) (Class VII, Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian (Pvt.) School (D P S))

2. Caleb Kurian George (26 points) (Class VII, Indian Community School, Amman Branch)

3. Aniket Tharun (19 points) (Class VI, Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian (Pvt) School (D P S))

4. Ashutosh Srinath Bhat (19 points) (Class VII, Indian Educational School)

The schools with most participation:

1.Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian (Pvt.) School (D P S) – 71 participants (Total score of top 5: 196)

2. Gulf Indian School – 8 participants (Total score of top 5: 141)

3. Indian Educational School (Bhavans) – 16 participants (Total score of top 5: 105)

Detailed results below:

Open category:

RankNameScore*Category
1Ramesh Athreya709Open
2Jayadeep Premnath486Open
3Arjun. P. Sujith473School
4Shakir Reshamwala455Open
5Aaron John Thomas444School
6Imran Khalil Hanwari434Open
7V Vishwanath423Open
8Debanjan Bhattacharya414Open
9Rammohan404Open
9Kurian Thomas404School
11Tarun Sunil Malayil393School
12George Thomas386Open
13Fahaad Ahmed385School
13Shobith K C385Open
15Aswin Murali374Open
16Sharath Menon373School
17Noel Frederic372School
18Sharon Maria Thomas (Ms.)363School
19Nevin Salu351School
20Sanjay Mathew Roy345Open
21Siyan Biju Thomas343School
22Clarin Menezes (Ms.)333School
23Arjun Biju324School
24Gladwin Sabu V.323School
25Abdul Qadir Kandapath314Open
25Ranganathan Rajagopal314Open
27Nirmala James (Ms.)312Ladies
28Shaikhan Reshamwala305Open
29Sunil Varghese Malayil304Open
30James Daniel296Open

Schools (Grades VIII and up):

RankNameSchoolClassTotal *
1Arjun. P. SujithIndian Community School, Senior Girls8473
2Aaron John ThomasFAIPS, Ahmadi11444
3Kurian ThomasFAIPS, Ahmadi8404
4Tarun Sunil MalayilFAIPS, Ahmadi9393
5Fahaad AhmedGulf Indian School11385
6Sharath MenonFAIPS, Ahmadi11373
7Noel FredericIndian Educational School8372
8Nevin SaluGulf Indian School10351
9Siyan Biju ThomasFAIPS, Ahmadi9343
10Clarin Menezes (Ms.)Indian Central School10333
11Arjun BijuLearners Own Academy (CBSE - I)11324
12Gladwin Sabu V.Indian English Academy School (Don Bosco)9323
13Yash AlvaGulf Indian School10292
14Adit KashyapFAIPS, Ahmadi8282
14Rishav DasFAIPS, Ahmadi10282
16Neketra Lalit Trivedi (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi12272
17Siddarth SunilIndian Community School, Amman Branch10264
18Mekhna Sara Binoy (Ms.)Gulf Indian School10262
19Jos RoyFAIPS, Ahmadi10261
20Bharath MenonFAIPS, Ahmadi11254
21Tabitha Liju James (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi8233
22Rohan RajuFAIPS, Ahmadi9232
23Mishaal KandapathFAIPS, Ahmadi10191
23Nandakishore SajuUnited Indian School12191
25Rajalaxmi P (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi11190
26Ahmed HamzahIndian Central School11182
27Umeshkumar SivakumarIndian Community School, Khaitan Branch9181
27Jehan Sharukh BhathenaIndian Community School, Senior Girls11181
29Bram MickyFAIPS, Ahmadi8172
30Eleena Sarah Mathew (Ms.)Indian Educational School10171

Schools (Up to Class VII):

RankNameSchoolClassTotal Marks*
1Sharon Maria Thomas (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi7363
2Caleb Kurian GeorgeIndian Community School, Amman Branch7263
3Aniket TharunFAIPS, Ahmadi6192
3Ashutosh Srinath BhatIndian Educational School7192
5Jeshurun KandasamyFAIPS, Ahmadi7184
6Joel George SassilIndia International School7172
7Noel Stephen PachikaraFAIPS, Ahmadi7162
8Adarsh HarishIndian Educational School7161
9Unni Narayanan AsokFAIPS, Ahmadi7151
10Ankit MohanFAIPS, Ahmadi6142
11Arhant SaikiaFAIPS, Ahmadi7141
12Kamalini Ramesh (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi6140
13KhaleelFAIPS, Ahmadi6132
14Ruben Alphonso FernandesGulf Indian School7131
15Savithri Bindu Asok (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi7130
16Harry John ChavarattuGulf Indian School6120
16V.PrabaharranFAIPS, Ahmadi7120
18Shaun ThomasFAIPS, Ahmadi6111
18Vamsee Sreeram VavilalaFAIPS, Ahmadi7111
20Aditya RajFAIPS, Ahmadi7110
20Saafalya M Sunish (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi7110
22David John IdicullaIndian Educational School7103
23Aaditya BijuLearners Own Academy (CBSE - I)591
23Kartikeya Rahul ZadeIndian Educational School691
23Syed ArshudeenFAIPS, Ahmadi791
26Arnav GautamFAIPS, Ahmadi682
27Aaqib Ahmad MazhariFAIPS, Ahmadi681
27Manasvi Kunde (Ms.)FAIPS, Ahmadi781
27Helen Maria Jaison (Ms.)Gulf Indian School781
27Aundre BoseFAIPS, Ahmadi781
31Patrick William WadakkanIndian English Academy School (Don Bosco)780

MahaQuizzer 2018 International Scores & Rankings

As always, a bunch of enthusiastic quizzers across the world attempted MahaQuizzer. Pat Gibson, multiple time WQC winner tops yet again.

We thank the takers and the proctors for putting themselves through MahaQuizzer yet again.

Rank Name ScoreLocation CategoryComments
1Pat Gibson79LondonOpen
2Chris Jones64LondonOpen
3Pradeep58SingaporeOpen2*, 2**
4Lipsa Nag58ParisOpen2*, 2**
5Vincent Rousset55ParisOpen
6Iwan Thomas44LondonOpen
7Ian Fennel42LondonOpen
8Raghuvansh Ramaswamy40New YorkOpen
9Shree39SingaporeOpen1*, 2**
10Gordon Taylor39LondonOpen1*, 1**
11Svyatoslav Malenkyy38Vinnytsia (Ukraine)Open
12Krishna Prasad36Abu DhabiOpen
13Nicholas Pang35Kuala LumpurOpen
14Pravin Varma33SydneyOpen
15Kartik T28New YorkOpen
16Udatta24SydneyOpen
17Sai Mali21New YorkOpen
18Biju James18Abu DhabiOpen
19Rama17SingaporeOpen
20Praneeth15SingaporeOpen1*
21Minhow Chong15Kuala LumpurOpen
22Haaris Mateen15New YorkCollege1*
23Santosh Prasad14ParisOpen1**
24Pranav14SingaporeOpen1*
25Anjan11SingaporeOpen
26Avinash B9New YorkOpen
27Tejaswini Pedapati2New YorkOpen

MahaQuizzer 2018 – Results & Rankings

MahaQuizzer 2018 was attempted by 274 people in 18 cities across India.

We have a new winner this year – Thejaswi Udupa becomes the tenth person to hold the title of MahaQuizzer, and the first national winner from Bangalore since 2013. Our congratulations to him.

The Wing Commander GR Mulky for Quizzing Excellence will be presented to him at Askqance 2019 – the 36th Anniversary quizfest of the KQA.

We also have two new entrants in the Top 10, with Krittika Adhikary (Rank #3) winning the Ladies Category after writing from Bangalore. Bangalore’s very own Boy Wonder, Preetham Upadhya topped the College category with an outstanding 71 and finished at 4th spot in the national rankings. Three of the top 10 this year are former winners of MahaQuizzer.

The national school category topper is Antara Bhattacharya (#129) with a score of 20, from Mumbai.

The Top 16 places will also qualify for Mahamahaquizzer, which will be held at Askqance 2019.

The Karnataka Quiz Association thanks all the quiz associations and quizzing groups across the country, as well as all the venue partners, for helping organize MahaQuizzer 2018.

Rank Name ScoreTotal Stars2*1*Location
1Thejaswi Udupa74844Bangalore
2Jayakanthan74835Chennai
3Krittika Adhikary711156Bangalore
4Preetham Upadhya71826Bangalore
5Rahul Kottalgi69954Mumbai
6Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka69624Kolkata
7Debashree Mitra661156Bangalore
8Santosh Swaminathan66541Bangalore
9Rajiv Rai65716Mumbai
10Arul Mani641165Bangalore
11Sachin Deshpande63844Bangalore
12Souvik Guha621257Kolkata
13Ashwin Kumar62734Bangalore
14Kaustubh C62633Delhi
15Kunal Sawardekar61624Pune
16Hrishikesh Varma59312Bangalore
17Anustup Datta58743Bangalore
18Suresh Ramasubramian58624Bangalore
19Ravi Mundoli58312Chennai
20Chandrakant Nair58312Bangalore
21Alok Prasanna Kumar 57725Bangalore
22Annie Sengupta57633Goa
23Samanth S57532Chennai
24Amrit Pritom Chetia56844Delhi
25Aniruddh Chari56844
26Jyotesh Singh56716Delhi
27Dinesh Krithivasan55734
28Kiran Vijayakumar53532Chennai
29Varun Rajiv53523Chennai
30Sumanth52963Delhi
31Praveen VR52422Bangalore
32Manu Sudhakar50734Thiruvananthapuram
33G Krishnamurti50532Chennai
34P Srikant50523Chennai
35Govind Grewal49642Mumbai
36Nikhil Sonde48532Mumbai
37Prithwish Datta48523Mumbai
38Aniket Khasgiwale47633Hyderabad
39Arun Hiregange47422Bangalore
40Abhishek Kapoor 46633Mumbai
41P.S.Rajagopal46523Bangalore
42Venky Srinivasan46303Bangalore
43Parthasarathi G45853Serampore
44Gopal Kidao45431Chennai
45Sangeeth S Varma45413Thiruvananthapuram
46Anannya Deb44642Bangalore
47Bhargava44532Bangalore
48Aditya gadre44422Mumbai
49Sandeep Shankar44301Pune
50Vibhendu Tewari43734Mumbai
51Keshav Athreya 43321Bangalore
52Avinash TN42422Bangalore
53Ani 42220Hyderabad
54Bala 40624Mumbai
55Navin Rajaram40422Bangalore
56Abhinav Dasgupta40321Mumbai
57Samanway Banerjee40211Serampore
58Rithwik K39312Bangalore
59Samrat 38523
60Shashwat Sinai Salgaocar37404Mumbai
61Rajiv D'Silva37321Goa
62Nikhil Indla36624Hyderabad
63Navin Sharma36514Mumbai
64Kavin Aadhityan36202Coimbatore
65Mustafa 35532Hyderabad
66Vinod Krishnan34633Delhi
67Aurko Sen 34624Delhi
68Anshul Nasery34514Mumbai
69Pronami Tamuli33523Delhi
70Sourjo Sengupta33523Serampore
71Atul Mathew33211Delhi
72Vidyadhar Gadgil33101Goa
73Abhilash32633Bangalore
74Shafeeq S32532Bangalore
75Anil Kothuri32422Mumbai
76Prashanth John Abraham32303Delhi
77Riccu Varghese32211Bangalore
78Abhimanyu Bharade31514Kharagpur
79Arnab Bhattacharya31431Mumbai
80Arun Ramanathan31312Bangalore
81Apratim Mukhopadhyay30523Serampore
82Piyush Kedi30523Serampore
83Sreekanth Reddy P30413Delhi
84Maitrey Deshpande30413Bangalore
85Arun A S30202Thrissur
86Kinshuk Biswas30110Kolkata
87Dinabandhu Patra29532Mumbai
88Vijay Sarathy29422Chennai
89Gautam Ghosh29312Kolkata
90Ajith Prabhakar29202Thiruvananthapuram
91Omkar Dhakephalkar29101Pune
92Kumar Shobit29101Jamshedpur
93Chandrasekhar28523Bangalore
94Somasish28220Delhi
95D Ghish28211Kolkata
96Vijay Sampath28101Mumbai
97Pranav P28101Pune
98Abhay Kulkarni27422Pune
99Riaz Shaikh27413Hyderabad
100Prasanna Karmarkar27330Hyderabad
101Achintya Sharma27211Delhi
102Brajendu27211Mumbai
103Gokul S Nair27211Chennai
104Chandrashekhar Rao26523Goa
105Snehashis Panda26422Ahmedabad
106Gopal Panigrahi26303Pune
107Kasthuri Shankar26202Chennai
108Balu John26202Thiruvananthapuram
109Baibhab Patnaik26101Kharagpur
110Ajey Patil26000Goa
111Bryan Robert25422Bangalore
112Rumaiza Fathima24312Thiruvananthapuram
113Tauseef Warsi24101Mumbai
114Abhijit Singh23431Tezpur
115Krishnan Shetty23211Hyderabad
116Abhinav Dhar23101Ahmedabad
117Somak Ray23101Hyderabad
118Adeetya Tantia23000Mohali
119Arjun Bharadwaj23000Bangalore
120Harikrishna M B 23000Thrissur
121Vishal Sudan22211Pune
122Bedbyas Datta22211Kolkata
123Rohit Sathish Nair22211Thrissur
124Manjula S21404Thiruvananthapuram
125Nishit Pandya21312Ahmedabad
126Deviprasad V21211Chennai
127Ashwin CV 21101
128Razia Sheikh21000Hyderabad
129Rajat Gururaj20413Bangalore
130Antara Bhattacharya20321Mumbai
131Syed Shakeel Inidad20321Hyderabad
132Eeshan Ghaisas20312Goa
133Roshan Dattatri20211Goa
134G Pranav Hari20110Chennai
135Dr. Unnikrishnan20101Thrissur
136Vinod Rajamani20000Mumbai
137Debashish Basistha19321Tezpur
138K N Chakraborty19312Ahmedabad
139Tathaghata Chatterjee19211Kolkata
140Ved Vineet19211Jamshedpur
141Praneet Ruperts18321Coimbatore
142Raad Sheikh18312Hyderabad
143Millen Kanabar18211Mumbai
144Izhar Ansari18211Kolkata
145Mayur Shett18202Goa
146CR Naveen18110Coimbatore
147Minakhi Prasad Misra18110Mumbai
148Kartikay Chadha 18000Delhi
149Rama Subramanian 17202Hyderabad
150Srihari Raju 17101Hyderabad
151Paras Bharadwaj17000Indore
152Kishore R16312Bangalore
153Tanuj Kumar Kukreti16211Jamshedpur
154Aditya Sanket16211Jamshedpur
155Viola Rodrigues16202Goa
156Ajay Kumar KS16110Bangalore
157Bharg Mankodi16101Ahmedabad
158Sreejesh P S 16000Bangalore
159Nishanth16000Bangalore
160Nikhil Arora16000Delhi
161Kaivalya Karkare16000Indore
162Sethupathi15211Bangalore
163Aabhas Dasgupta15101Hyderabad
164Aswin Anilkumar15101Thrissur
165Sahil15000Delhi
166Apoorv Kumar14312Jamshedpur
167Subhadeep Sarkar14211Serampore
168Suryadipta Biswas14000Pune
169Ajeet Singh Yadav 13321Hyderabad
170K V Sreeram13202Thiruvananthapuram
171Manas Deep 13110Pune
172Sourasis Bose13101Serampore
173Sankalp Kurli 13101Jamshedpur
174Ritwik Ghosh 13101Jamshedpur
175Thejaswi Parameshwaran 13101Bangalore
176Daattarya Aggarwal 13000Delhi
177Aravind Anil13000Thrissur
178Rajarshi Roy13000
179Rakesh T P 12202Thrissur
180Ghosh Dastidar (?)12110Kolkata
181Mayank Mehra12101Hyderabad
182Paul Atward(?)12000Goa
183Crishna 12000
184Sahil H R 12000Goa
185Asit Mukherjee11321Serampore
186Roshan Desai11312Jamshedpur
187Debajyoti Adhikari11211Pune
188Subhashish Dutta11202Bangalore
189Biswajit Saha 11110Tezpur
190Nabasindhu Das11101Kharagpur
191Sibi Rajendran11101Chennai
192Siddhartha Gautam 11000Tezpur
193Sneha Ranjan 11000Pune
194Vishnu Prashanth11000Coimbatore
195Anupriya Singpuri11000Jamshedpur
196Sutanu Banerjee10101Serampore
197Abshishek Panchal 10101
198Shamsuddin Haider10000Serampore
199Rahul Nambiar9211Ahmedabad
200Rahul Kumar Yadav9110Mumbai
201R Saisundar9110Hyderabad
202R Keshav Narayan9101Chennai
203Albin Binay9000Thiruvananthapuram
204P Harsha Raghuram9000
205Harshit Rai9000Bangalore
206Shreshth 8101Ahmedabad
207Sundar Srinivas H8101Mumbai
208Abhishek Acharya8101Mumbai
209Sibin Thomas8000Bangalore
210Ananya Patil Rao 8000Bangalore
211Jayaprakash BR 7202Bangalore
212Ipshita Paul7110Ahmedabad
213Amit Agarwal 7101Pune
214Yadu Aravind Menon 7101Jamshedpur
215Vikrant Saha 7000Delhi
216Hafsa Shaikh 7000Hyderabad
217Vaibhav Jha 7000Jamshedpur
218Sahana Nag7000Bangalore
219Akshaj Raman7000Indore
220Paritosh Pant7000Indore
221Aditya Gulia7000Indore
222R Y Srikala Prasad6101Chennai
223Parminder Singh6101Jamshedpur
224Mangesh Gawankar6000Jamshedpur
225Suman Kumar Niyogi5110Serampore
226Ranit Paul5101Serampore
227Ishan Bakshi5101Jamshedpur
228Tanmay Roy5000Mohali
229Ananth Srivastav 5000Bangalore
230Md Kaif Ali Khan 5000Bangalore
231Salik Borbora5000Bangalore
232Madhavan Mohan 5000Thiruvananthapuram
233Balasubramiam Pattath5000Hyderabad
234Pranav Kumar Singh4110Jamshedpur
235Shashank Kasala 4000Bangalore
236V Chandrashekar4000Bangalore
237Writankar Kundu 4000Pune
238Pauras Vyas 4000Ahmedabad
239Adnan Azmat4000Jamshedpur
240Anupam Jain 4000Hyderabad
241Shreyas Shenoy4000
242Subikash Paul3110Serampore
243Pranay Dodla 3101Hyderabad
244Amitesh Jha3101Jamshedpur
245Rajib Roy3101Serampore
246Utkarsh Gupta3000Jamshedpur
247Madhur Tike3000Mumbai
248Akshat Mall3000Mumbai
249Tarun Chintam2110Hyderabad
250Jeet Dhariyani 2000Ahmedabad
251Naimesh Pramanik 2000Kharagpur
252Samrat Dutta2000Serampore
253Rajeev Mark2000Hyderabad
254Aditya Agarwal2000Indore
255Akash Deep1000Mohali
256Shitanshu Kumar1000Jamshedpur
257Ujjwal Gupta1000Jamshedpur
258Deepak Nayak 1000Bangalore
259Venkatesh CH1000Hyderabad
260Samraj Seth0000
261Margaret Mathi0000Pune
262Shraboni Banerjee0000Serampore
263Arun0000Thiruvananthapuram
264Vedant Shinde0000Bangalore
265Ashish Ram0000
266Soukhya Hardi 0000Mumbai
267Agasthya Purohit0000Mumbai
268Shivam Agarwal0000Mumbai
269Deepak Singh0000Mumbai
270Roshan Krishna0000Coimbatore
271Sharat Chandar0000Coimbatore
272Harshitha 0000Hyderabad
273Sagar Sharma0000Indore
274Gavish Soni0000Indore

Venues – Mahaquizzer and AsiaSweep 2018

This is the list of venues for KQA’s doubleheader Sunday on December 9th, 2018. We have seventeen venues in India this time with Indore, Kharagpur, and Serampore being new names. In addition, players in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, New York, Paris, Ukraine and the UK will be attempting one or both the quizzes.

UPDATE on 06/12/18: MUMBAI and SERAMPORE will be hosting only MahaQuizzer. All other cities are hosting both quizzes. Pune venue has been updated below.

CityVenue
AhmedabadCR - 8, IIM Ahmedabad
BangaloreInstitution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road
ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, #33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai
CoimbatorePSG Institute of Management
DelhiBasement Cafeteria, Channelplay Ltd, 800, Udyog Vihar 5, Gurgaon
GoaThe International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
HyderabadIndian School of Business, Gachibowli
IndoreCH Edgemakers, Narayan Kothi, Janjeerwala Square, Race Course Road, New Palasia, Indore
JamshedpurXLRI Jamshedpur
KharagpurIIT Kharagpur
KolkataThe Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch
MohaliIISER Mohali
MumbaiIIT Bombay, Powai
PuneLHC 103, IISER Pune
Serampore (Only MQ)Community Room, Niljheel Apartment, 17, MC Lahiri St, Serampore
ThiruvananthapuramFortune IAS Academy
ThrissurGovt. Engineering College, Thrissur

Mahaquizzer 2018

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting Mahaquizzer 2018, the National Solo Quizzing Championship on December 09, 2018 (Sunday). As always, the quiz will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper.

The 2018 setters:
Lakshana Kripash, Nishanth Raman, Alagarsamy AP, Preyoshi Gagnuly, and Movin Miranda.

Rules

The quiz is open to individual entrants, irrespective of age or other affiliations (though we do suggest that the taker is at least 12 years old). The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2018. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2019.

Timings

The quiz will be held across all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon.

Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM

.

We have currently frozen registrations in cities where no venue has been confirmed. This may change as and when we receive confirmations.If you are interested in hosting Mahaquizzer in your city, please contact Hrishikesh Varma.

MahaQuizzer 2017 – Rankings

MahaQuizzer 2017 was attempted by 273 people in 17 cities across India.

For the first time ever, we have a tie for the top spot: two quizzers will share the title of MahaQuizzer this year.

Rahul Kottalgi becomes the ninth person to hold the title of Mahaquizzer, which he will share with two-time winner Vinoo Sanjay. Our congratulations to both. The Wing Commander GR Mulky for Quizzing Excellence will be presented to them at Askqance 2018 – the 35th Anniversary quizfest of the KQA.

The Ladies Category was won by former MahaQuizzer Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, who finished third nationally, behind our two winners. Preetham Upadhya from Bangalore topped the College category with an outstanding 53. Six of the top 10 this year are former winners of MahaQuizzer.

The Karnataka Quiz Association thanks all the quiz associations and quizzing groups across the country, as well as all the venue partners, for helping organize Mahaquizzer 2017 successfully.

RankNameScoreTotal *s**s*sCity
1Rahul Kottalgi81936Mumbai
Vinoo Sanjay81936Mumbai
3Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka781257Mumbai
4Jayakanthan 7811110Chennai
5Thejaswi Udupa751147Bangalore
6Anustup Datta75835Bangalore
7Samanth S741046Chennai
8Aadisht K71945Delhi
9Arul Mani6913211Bangalore
10Shouvik Guha67927Kolkata
11Ravi Mundoli 66927Chennai
12Annie Sen Gupta65936Goa
13Manu Sudhakar65835Chennai
14Ashwin 631046Bangalore
15Amrit Pritom Chetia63725Delhi
16Sachin Deshpande 63624Delhi
17Navin Rajaram621028Bangalore
18Varun Rajiv61826Bangalore
19Anannya Deb61734Bangalore
20Govind Grewal60734Mumbai
21Arun Hiregange591028Bangalore
22Pravin Varma59927Mumbai
23Kunal Sawardekar58826Pune
24Anirudh Chari58615Kolkata
25Santosh J S58514Bangalore
26Shrirang Raddi58514Pune
27Aniket Khasgiwale58413Mumbai
28Suresh Ramasubramanian571129Bangalore
29Chandrakant Nair57936Bangalore
30Balakrishnan S57835Mumbai
31Aditya Gadre57321Mumbai
32Rajagopal PS561129Bangalore
33Debashree56853Bangalore
34Venkatraghavan S55817Mumbai
35Vibhendu55716Mumbai
36Gopal Kidao55633Chennai
37Prithwish Datta54523Mumbai
38Anand Shivashankar54312Mumbai
39Sumant53835Delhi
40Preetham Upadhya53725Bangalore
41Kaustubh Chakraborty53624Delhi
42Alok Prasanna Kumar53514Bangalore
43Nikhil Sonde52826Mumbai
44Sandeep Shankar52734
45Sreeram B 52422Chennai
46Avinash TN51624Bangalore
47Pranav R51413Bangalore
48Vinod Krishnan 50606Delhi
49Preyoshi Ganguly50422Bangalore
50Venky Srinivasan50413Bangalore
51Praveen VR49624Bangalore
52Bhargava EM48303Bangalore
53Nirmal47716Chennai
54Rajiv D'Silva46303Goa
55Keshav Athreya45202Bangalore
56Atul Mathew44826Delhi
57Julian D'Costa44642Bangalore
58Ani44312Hyderabad
59Achyuth Sanjay43514Bangalore
60Samrat Sengupta43303Mumbai
61J Krishnamurthi42615Hyderabad
62Bedbyas Datta42404Kolkata
63Alok Mohan42303Kolkata
64Sangeeth S Varma41615Chennai
65Rithwik K41000Thrissur
66Mario F39413Chennai
67Anil Kothuri39303Mumbai
68Abhinav Dasgupta39211Mumbai
69Nitin Menon39000
70Gautam Ghosh38523Bangalore
71Navin Sharma38404Mumbai
72Roshith Mohan38312Thrissur
73Arun AS38303Thrissur
74Anurakshat38303Pune
75Gokul S 38303Delhi
76Shafeeq S36312Thiruvananthapuram
77Balu John36211Thiruvananthapuram
78Sandeep Albert Mathias35431Mumbai
79Omkar D35422Pune
80Nikhil 35321Hyderabad
81Maitrey Deshpande35321Bangalore
82Vidyadhar Gadgil35000Goa
83Arnabh Sengupta34523Pune
84Gigi George34303Thrissur
85Ranajeet Soman34110Pune
86Gokul Panigrahi33422Pune
87Abhijeet Balakrishnan33321Thrissur
88TG Shenoy33312Bangalore
89Raghu Gopalan33202Bangalore
90Prasanth John Abraham32514Kolkata
91Deviprasad V31404Chennai
92Sai Prashant31404Chennai
93Baibaswata B Jena31202Bhubaneswar
94Kunal Naik31101Bangalore
95Prasanna Karmakar30826Hyderabad
96Adarsh30413Bhubaneswar
97Tanmay Prusty30413Bangalore
98Vinod Rajamani30110Mumbai
99Devadas Krishnan30000Goa
100Yogesh Yadav29202New Delhi
101Sandipen Goswami29101New Delhi
102Kishore R28734Bangalore
103Gaurav R28321Bangalore
104Gokul S Nair28211Thiruvananthapuram
105Abhilash28101Bangalore
106Sudip Kalyan Dey28101Kolkata
107Pranav Pawar28101Pune
108Anirudh Anilkumar27211Pune
109Soutjo Sengupta27110Kolkata
110Ankur Kaul26404Bangalore
111Somasish Ghosh26321Kolkata
112Sharath Jose26312Hyderabad
113Tathagata Chatterjee26202Delhi
114Arun Ghosh26110Thrissur
115Midhun S25413Thiruvananthapuram
116MVR Murty25413Bangalore
117S Chandrasekhar25321Bangalore
118Girish Ganapth J25202Bangalore
119Rahul Kakodkar25000Goa
120Praneet24927Jamshedpur
121Aravindh24404Delhi
122Arun Ramanathan24202Bangalore
123Debashis B24101Tezpur
124Achintya Sharma23514Delhi
125TC Venkatasubramanian23000Bangalore
126Sankar Roy22321Kolkata
127Kumar Shobhit22303Jamshedpur
128Izhar Ansari22101Kolkata
129Sahil Barhate22101Delhi
130Krishna S Girish21211Bangalore
131Rumaiza Fathima21101Chennai
132Mayur Shett21101Goa
133Paul Gatward21000Goa
134D Ghosh21000Kolkata
135Sumeet Kumar20211Kolkata
136Akash KS20202Chennai
137Sudharshan Narayanan20101Bangalore
138Mukilan A20000Ahmedabad
139Snehanshu Gupta20000Mumbai
140Amal Mohan19312Bangalore
141Varun Sule19202Mumbai
142Harikrishnan MB19110Thrissur
143Arman 19110Bangalore
144Abhijit Singh19101Tezpur
145Manish Manke19101Pune
146Prateexit19101Mumbai
147Kumaresh 19101Mumbai
148Ojaswi19000Mohali
149Mithilesh G18413Bangalore
150Gautam Chaturvedi18312Jamshedpur
151Abhinav Dhar18211Delhi
152Tanuj Kumar K18110Jamshedpur
153Sushila Kamath18101Bangalore
154Sandeep Jain18101Bangalore
155Manjula S18000Thiruvananthapuram
156Tushar18000Bangalore
157Elliot Desouza17321Jamshedpur
158Syed Shakeel Imdad17312Kolkata
159Srihari Raju17211Hyderabad
160Pratyush Jha17101Delhi
161Shiva S Rai17000Bangalore
162Anirudh S Sundar16220Bangalore
163Dr Madhavan VP16211Thrissur
164Siddharth Mishra16101Bangalore
165Shantanu Sharma16000Ahmedabad
166Anjali Sengupta16000Goa
167Kevin Vegda15211Ahmedabad
168Advay Aundhekar15101Mumbai
169G Pranav Hari15000Chennai
170Aditya Sekhar15000Bangalore
171Sethupathi K15000Bangalore
172Sahil H Ramchandani15000Goa
173Nadeem Ansari15000Mumbai
174Dhruv Mittal14321Mohali
175Pranav Iyer14211Bangalore
176Chandrasekharan Krishnamohan14211Bangalore
177Kaushik Borthakur14202Tezpur
178Karthik S Karvaje14110Bangalore
179Adit Vishnu PM14000Bangalore
180Sumukh H14000Bangalore
181Roshan Dattatri14000Goa
182Ashwin Kumar KS14000Jamshedpur
183Suryadipta Biswas14000Pune
184Indrajith Menon13101Thiruvananthapuram
185Bishanka D13101Ahmedabad
186Ajay Kumar KS13101Bangalore
187Divij Sinha13000Goa
188Ankit Jetwani13000Jamshedpur
189Debajyoti Adhikari13000Pune
190Sreemathy Surender13000Mumbai
191Sundan Srinivas Harish12101Mumbai
192S Hariharan12000Coimbatore
193Meera K12000Thiruvananthapuram
194Nived S Bharadwaj12000Chennai
195Ashutosh Pandey12000Bangalore
196Roshan Desai12000Jamshedpur
197Siddharth Gautam11303Tezpur
198D Sathya Narayanan11101Coimbatore
199Siddharth Srivastava11101Ahmedabad
200Pratheek I11101Bangalore
201Biswajit Saha11101Tezpur
202Rajibul Awal11101Tezpur
203Anirudh R S11000Bangalore
204Ashish Singh11000Delhi
205Ved Vineet11000Jamshedpur
206Sreeram Madhavan V10101Thrissur
207Suraj Kamat10101Goa
208M Sharat Chandar10000Coimbatore
209Parth Oberoi10000Chennai
210Akhil10000Chennai
211Arun K Pavithran9101Thiruvananthapuram
212Nishat Belwadi9101Goa
213Supriya G9101Delhi
214Siddharth Surana9101Mumbai
215Kavin A9000Coimbatore
216Vishnu Prashanth9000Coimbatore
217Rishabh 9000Chennai
218Adithya Mohan9000Chennai
219Sahil Gupta9000Jamshedpur
220Baibhab Pattnaik8101Bangalore
221Ajwad Shaikh 8101Mumbai
222Aswin Anilkumar8000Thrissur
223Sree Ganesh Balaji S8000Chennai
224S Iniyan8000Chennai
225Sourav Kundu8000Bangalore
226Venkataraman L7110Mumbai
227C Pranav7000Coimbatore
228Surya Vasisht7000Bangalore
229Jibitesh Beheka7000Kolkata
230Sanjay Seetharaman6000Coimbatore
231Subham Sarkar6000Bangalore
232Sandeep Chatterjee6000Bangalore
233Suhas Prasanna6000Goa
234Ratnadip Das5101Kolkata
235Ananthu CV5000Thrissur
236Jibin PV5000Thiruvananthapuram
237Krishna P Unny5000Chennai
238Angel Jose5000Chennai
239Yakshita H5000Chennai
240Mrudula RC5000Bangalore
241Swathi PG5000Pune
242Krishnapriya S4000Thiruvananthapuram
243Karthik Mistry4000Ahmedabad
244Vatsal Shah4000Ahmedabad
245Harshit Kumar4000Bangalore
246Ari Pulawala3000Ahmedabad
247Dharshini R3000Chennai
248PS Balaji3000Chennai
249Nishant P3000Bangalore
250Rithwik Rao3000Bangalore
251Vitthal P Y3000Goa
252Umesh Meena3000Delhi
253V Mukund2000Coimbatore
254Maitry Bhatt2000Ahmedabad
255K Palani2000Chennai
256Raghavendra Achar2000Bangalore
257Archana Murali2000Bangalore
258Sharath R Maiya2000Bangalore
259Arunabh2000Jamshedpur
260Aaryan Manoj2000Pune
261Joshi Heet2000Mumbai
262Parshudar PK1000Coimbatore
263Paras K1000Mohali
264Athira MJ1000Thiruvananthapuram
265Robert M Kunju1000Thiruvananthapuram
266Saksham Jain1000Bangalore
267Anantha Kumar1000Bangalore
268Sushmi Harsha0000Thrissur
269Sarath MS0000Thrissur
270Abin Jose James0000Thiruvananthapuram
271Pranjal Singh0000Ahmedabad
272Dhruv BP0000Mumbai

MahaQuizzer and AsiaSweep Venues 2017

These are the details for venues and proctors for MahaQuizzer 2017 and AsiaSweep 2017.  All cities except Vadodara will be hosting both quizzes on Sunday.

While MahaQuizzer will be offered off-piste for entrants abroad, AsiaSweep will be offered competitively in some of these venues.

UPDATE: We now have a venue in Tezpur, Assam. 

CityVenueMahaQuizzer ProctorAsiaSweep Proctor
AhmedabadIIM AhmedabadShajeev Pillai (9998593050) Jeet ( 9427601304)
BengaluruInstitution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road, BangaloreHrishi Varma ( 08884125047) Arul Mani (9731214519)
BhubaneswarD-2/1, Madhusudan Nagar, near Cosmopolis.Dattatreya Sundaraya ( 8895081886)Dattatreya Sundaraya ( 8895081886)
ChennaiPS Senior Secondary School, #33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore,
Chennai 600004
Vikram Rajan (08939513211)Vikram Rajan (08939513211)
CoimbatorePSG Institute of ManagementAshwin (9941846000)Ashwin (9941846000)
DelhiCommunity Hall, Maitri Apartments, Plot-17, Sector-10, DwarkaShubhankar Bahl (9910038334) Abhishek Kapoor (9958988479)
GoaRoom A 10, Faculty Block A, Goa University, BambolimKanchan Gatwad ( 9970317245) Nathan Moniz (7083224153)
HyderabadColumbus Hospital, Begumpet Riyaz Usman ( 9948661033) Krishan Shetty (8451087782)
JamshedpurXLRI, JamshedpurRikesh Bhattacharyya (9176640756) Rikesh Bhattacharyya (9176640756)
KolkataInstitute of Marine Engineers, 31/3 , Sahapur Colony,Flat no. A-1/2, New Alipore,
Kolkata (near new alipore triangular park)
Auritro Chowdhury (9831078519) Subikash Paul (9836293774)
MohaliIISER MohaliArdra Nandakumar (8288994751)Ardra Nandakumar (8288994751)
MumbaiIIT BombayShubhankar Gokhale (9820244492) Nadeem Ansari (8879519783)
PuneIISER PunePranav Joshi (072609 79878) Ravina (9021181604)
ThrissurGovt. Engineering College, ThrissurVijaynath V (9447380969)Vijaynath V (9447380969)
TrivandrumFortune IAS Academy, KuravankonamMuni Darsan (9846194142) Muni Darsan (9846194142)
VadodaraIAS, Ellora ParkDigant (9429136613)No event
Tezpur Tezpur University
Tezpur, Assam
Snehashis Parashar (9577077227)Snehashis Parashar
((9577077227)

Mahaquizzer 2017

The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting Mahaquizzer 2017, the National Solo Quizzing Championship on December 10, 2017 (Sunday). As always, the quiz will consist of 150 questions to be attempted over 90 minutes, off a printed paper.

The 2017 setters:
Lakshana K., Nishanth Raman, Alagarsamy AP, Hrishikesh Varma and Movin Miranda.

Rules

The quiz is open to individual entrants, irrespective of age or other affiliations (though we do suggest that the taker is at least 12 years old). The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2017. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This trophy will be presented during ASKQANCE, the KQA Anniversary Open Quiz Festival scheduled for June 2018.

The quiz will be held across all cities from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Reporting time for participants will be 10:00 AM.
We have currently frozen registrations in cities where no venue has been confirmed. This may change as and when we receive confirmations.

Please confirm your participation by filling in details in the form given.

The list of registered participants is at http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer-registrations/

 

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