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The Quiz Foundation of India (Chennai Chapter), in association with Indian Terrain is proud to announce ‘The QFI Open Quiz 2009′, the fifth edition of the annual open quiz, which has become a fixture on the Chennai quizzing calendar.

It is an open quiz with no conditions whatsoever for participation. All are welcome to participate. Prizes include cash and Landmark gift vouchers. There will a Sports and Entertainment quiz in the morning at 10:30 a.m at the same venue. Plenty of audience prizes from Landmark and DilSeBol also on offer. The details are as follows:

Date: 7th of June, 2009 (Sunday)

Venue: Museum Theatre
Govt. Museum, Pantheon Road,
Egmore, Chennai – 600008

Schedule of Events

Sports and Entertainment Quiz

Quizmaster: Rajen Prabhu

Research Team: Sreeram, Vijay Sarathy, Vinod Ganesh, Krishnamurti Ganesh, Vikram Rajan, Sivakumar V.V.

Timings: Prelims – 10:30 a.m. and Finals – 11:30 a.m.

Team size: Maximum of 2 members

Registration Fee: Waived

General Quiz

Quizmaster: Vinod Ganesh

Research Team: Krishnamurti Ganesh, Vikram Rajan

Timings: Prelims – 03:30 p.m. and Finals – 05:00 p.m.

Team size: Maximum of 3 members

Registration Fee: Waived

MQuiz- The Telecom quiz conducted by MoMo Bangalore in association with Nokia Forum was a Saturday afternoon well spent. The quiz conducted by Team Nexus (Venky and Kivi) was very good on content and extremely well done. With over 35 teams participating, the quiz garnered a good response from both the Corporates and the Students. After a common prelim, the quiz had two separate tracks for both the students and the corporates. 

The Students quiz was a close three way battle till the last question between BMSCE, UVCE and BITS(Pilani) but the composed BMS team won the contest by five points.

The Corporate Track was a completely different affair, being dominated by Mitesh and Udupa from the very first question and winning the quiz handsomely with over a 70 point margin.

Find below the prelims of the quiz, Finals to follow soon

The third Edition will be held on 20 May 2009 at Moss Lounge, Bangalore (Inner Ring Road). For more details, contact Venky : 9845719332

KQA will hold the fifth edition of Mahaquizzer on Sunday, 24 May 2009. The cities where centres are being offered are Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Thrissur, Mysore and Panaji.  Some quizzers in Singapore will also attempt the quiz.

Mahaquizzer is the National Quizzing Championship. It is open to single entrants. There is no entry fee. Contestants are required to answer 150 questions over 90 minutes.

Mahaquizzer 2009 has been set by Arun Hiregange, Dibyendu Das, Thejaswi Udupa, Avinash Thirumalai and Ochintya Sharma.

Four prizes will be given out in each city: Best Quizzer, Best Woman Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer.

The person recording the highest score across all centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2009. She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence.This trophy will be given in June 2009 during the KQA 26th Anniversary event.

You can have a look at previous editions of the quiz (2005-2008) here:http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

Participants interested in registering should mail Mahaquizzer@gmail.com. Please mention the city where you would like to appear from in the subject-header. Please do mention age and institutional affiliations if you are a student. Since seating is limited in many centres, local coordinators will work on a first-come first-served basis. Please register by Sunday 17 May 2009 to avoid disappointment.

For venues and other details visit the officil site here

Accenture Delhi represented by Rohan Khanna & Sandeepan Chaudhuri demolished competition at the BEQ ’09 National Final.

“This team was in a different league altogether. They demolished competition in Delhi, and in the history of 19 years of Brand Equity, are the first team to score 100-plus in the finals,” praised QM Derek.

The winning team wins a muscular Scorpio each and loads of other prizes.

Find some questions from the national final here and questions from the regional rounds here

Mobile Monday (MoMo) Bangalore with support from NSRCEL is happy to present MQuiz, a quiz event focused on the telecom & wireless industry at 10:30 AM on Saturday, May 23, 2009 at the IIM Bangalore Auditorium. 

Show off your knowledge about the mobile and communications world and battle with other teams to win cool Nokia 5800 phones (sponsored by Forum Nokia Calling All Innovator Contest ) and other prizes. Exciting audience prizes are to be won too.

Other rules as below:
• No registration or entry fees
• The quiz has 2 tracks – for college teams and corporate teams
• Teams of 2 members in both cases
• The 2 members in college teams have to be from the same college. ID proof is mandatory
• Mixed teams allowed for corporates
• There will be a common written prelim for both tracks, followed by separate finals

Content and hosting for the event is by Team Nexus. Contact Venky on +919845719332 or Vivek on +919845079348 for queries.

Please register online at www.mquiz.in

Questions (with answers) from the First Edition of MossTermind (http://mosslounge.com )

The first Epic Quiz was conducted at the Bharatiya Vida Bahvan, Bangalore by The DRS Team. Although, the first edition did not receive an overwhelming response with justover 10 teams, I have a feeling this concept will go a long way. Winners also took home cash prizes. Corporates or any individual interested in sponsoring this concept is requested to contact the event managers:Dishant-(+91) 9880647979 /Rituraj-(+91) 9449324623

The prelim had various areas of business covered which resulted in a low cut off. The finals was good but the first few rounds seemed to be completely concentrated on Auto brands. A larger variety would definitely be more enjoyable. All the same, good show boys, hope to be part of your events directly or indirectly in the future.

Winners: Rohit Nair & Varun Balan

Runners up : Abhinav Mouli & Balram S

As promised here are the prelims and the finals, all thanks to the quizmasters.

Do feel free to comment and leave feedback for the benefit of the event organizers.

Quiz :Gray matter Anatomy @ JSSATE 

Flavour: General Quiz

Part of : Verve

Host: JSSATE, Bangalore

Date: May 9th at 12 pm 

Venue : JSSATE Campus, Kengeri Main Road, Bangalore

Team Composition: Cross teams allowed with maximum of 3 participants (open for college students only)

Prizes:
Cash prize of Rs 3000/-  for the winners
Runners up Rs 1500/- 

Contact details:
Pranav N Raichur :+919449212014
pranavraichur@gmail.com

MOSStermind – The fun quiz @ Moss 

Wednesday nights are going to be more fun at Moss Cocktail Lounge on Inner Ring Road, Bangalore. Starting this week, Wednesday, 6th May, you can test your brain power against other smart people in the MOSStermind quiz. Form your teams of 4, join our league of champions, emerge victorious, and win your prizes! Prizes every week for winning table, and a league with a big prize at the end.   

We’ll also have bonus prizes in the form of shooters for some tough questions. You are sure to have a lot of fun with your friends, so be there every Wednesday. Visithttp://mosslounge.com to book a table online. The quiz starts at 9 PM.

The event is conceptualized and executed by Team Nexus. For more details call Venky on +919845719332.

Moss is located in the same building as Shiok on Inner Ring Road, Domlur, Bangalore – a few buildings before Dell, and next to Adishwar’s electronics showroom. Valet Parking is available.

Some Questions from the Brewhaha League conducted by Team Nexus sometime back (click here)

Hi, Find below the prelims from the Landmark Quiz Mumbai 2009. It has been forwarded generously by the QM Dr Navin Jayakumar himself. Hence, an error free prelim

LANDMARK QUIZ MUMBAI 2009

PRELIMS

1. What internationally accepted emergency radio communication derives from the French meaning ‘come help me’?
   1. May Day (from venez m’aider”)
2. Which part of Delhi is “Delhi 6?
   1. Chandni Chowk
3. Which Indian reality show on MTV has the tagline “Where love is war”?
   1. MTV Splitsvilla
4. There are only three rivers in India that run from east to west. One of these is the Mahi. Which are the other two?
   1. Narmada and Tapti
5. Which popular style of devotional music was originally performed at Sufi shrines and dargahs?
   1. Qawwali
6. What term used to describe perfect eyesight is also the name of a version of a popular sport?
   1. 20/20
7. It is named the Nishan-e-Haider in Pakistan and the Bir Shreshto in Bangladesh. What is the Indian equivalent?
   1. Param Vir Chakra
8. What canine species once existed all along the Atlantic coast of this European country, where they were taught to herd fish into fishermen’s nets, to retrieve lost tackle or broken nets, and to act as couriers from ships?
   1. Portuguese water dog. They are popular nowadays because they are hypoallergenic.
9. Charles Dickens wrote only two historical novels, one of which was Barnaby Rudge. Which was the other?
   1. Tale of Two Cities
10. Which warrior in Indian mythology is believed to have originated the Chhath Puja festival (popular in Bihar) in honour of the Sun God?
    1. Karna
11. µ Referred to in medieval times as Bilad al Barbar (“Land of the Berbers”), what is the commonly used name to refer to the region of Africa containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia?
    1. Horn of Africa
12. µ According to the Jahangir Nama, the emperor was impressed by the performance of certain performers from Bengal. Their leader Krishna Chandra Dev was presented an entire village called Sutigram near Dhaka and the Dev family became the landlords of the village. Being landlords they were called ________ , a term that became their family name. Currently, the eighth generation of this family still continues the tradition of entertainment. Fill in the blank.
    1. Sarkar. (PC Sorcar)
13. µ In keeping with the times what word did the American Dialect Society choose as the Word of the Year for 2008?
    1. Bailout
14. µ What 2009 international event was nicknamed “The Big Flick”?
    1. Earth Hour
15. µ Which IT guru famously does not have a business card. Instead, he hands out what he calls ‘pleasure cards’. They list his address – ’545, Tech Square, Rm. 425, Cambridge, MA 02139′, and his other interests – ‘sharing good books, good food and exotic music and dance, tender embraces and unusual sense of humor’. Who are we talking about?
    1. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, who still stays in a room on the MIT campus!
16. µ What “in-the-news” word was popularized by Veer Savarkar in an ideological pamphlet written while imprisoned in Ratnagiri jail, smuggled out of the prison, and published in 1923 by his supporters under his alias “Mahratta”?
    1. Hindutva. The pamphlet was titled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?
17. µ In 2008, who or what replied to a question with this answer, “There’s water here; I’ve tasted it”
    1. Phoenix Mars Lander
18. µ Which part of Mumbai featured by NDTV as one of the Seven Wonders of Maharashtra got its name from the nearby St Thomas Cathedral?
    1. Churchgate
19. µ Which European football club was founded as a cricket club in 1899 by British expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin from Nottingham, and in honor of its origins, retained the English spelling of its city’s name, instead of changing it to the local spelling?
    1. AC Milan
20. µ What term in serial fiction, derived from computer science, means a discarding of much or even all previous continuity and storyline in the series, to start anew, recent examples being Batman Returns, and Casino Royale (2006)?
    1. Reboot
21. The Indian Order of Precedence is the protocol list of seating Indian government officials according to their rank. Where in this order does the Prime Minister figure?
    1. Third, after President and Vice-President
22. In 1982, toothpaste salesman Dietrich Mateschitz was surprised that certain Mr Taisho was in the top 10 list of tax payers in Japan and that he owned Krating daeng (“water buffalo”). This product that listed taurine as one of its ingredients was effective for jet lag. Mr M inspired by this idea created his empire based on Krating daeng. He said, “I was most fascinated by Zeus the king of Gods-the way he came to see Europa and got transformed.” By what name is Krating daeng known to us?
    1. Red Bull
23. Whose 2009 Lok Sabha election symbol is a harmonium?
    1. Mallika Sarabhai
24. In 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded for the practical extraction of ________. The winners felt that the committee had insulted their co-workers – Charles Best and James Collip – by not including them for the prize and so they shared the prize money with them. In a 2007 cross-Canada survey by the CBC, _________ topped the list of the10 Greatest Canadian Inventions. Fill in the blank.
    1. Insulin
25. What incident led to the creation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 1974?
    1. Pokharan nuclear test by India.
26. In which state of India is the Penal Code named the Ranbir Penal Code?
    1. Jammu and Kashmir; named after Ranbir Singh (grandfather of Maharaja Hari Singh).
27. The original of this was developed after a worker at Rowntree’s factory in York put a suggestion in the suggestion box for a snack that a ‘man could have in his lunch box for work’. It was launched in September 1935 in the UK as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. It was later renamed in 1937 to a brand that we are all familiar with. What?
    1. Kit Kat
28.  What name was given to the second son of King Rishabha because of the immense strength of his arms?
    1. Bahubali (bahu = arm ; bali = strong)
29. What word was coined by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, a physician at the San Antonio Air Force Hospital in Texas, to denote a system of exercise he developed to help prevent coronary artery disease?
    1. Aerobics. Cooper’s book about the exercise system, Aerobics, was published in 1968.
30. Which is the only field in which women have not yet won a Nobel Prize?
    1. Economics.
31. The Gahirmatha beach in Orissa is considered the world’s most important site for the nesting of what endangered species?
    1. Olive Ridley turtle
32. What did Stanley Morison, together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent, design for Britain’s The Times newspaper in 1931?
    1. Times New Roman serif typeface.
33. VISUAL: Identify the person. (Clue today’s quiz)
    1. St. Andrew
34. Where is this picture taken and which book is being autographed?
    1. Leopold Café / Shantaram
35. VISUAL: Name this animal which is the largest land-dwelling species of the weasel family.
    1. Wolverine/Glutton
36. VISUAL: What is depicted on this Google doodle that appeared on September 10, 2008? (Answer in 3 words)
    1. Large Hadron Collider
37. TRACK 1 MUSIC VIDEO: Name this group whose song “Human” was voted the Best Song of 2008 by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine.
    1. The Killers
38. TRACK 2 VIDEO: (a) Name this award-winning film. (b) What international charitable organization is featured in this film?
    1. Smile Pinki   b. Smile Train
39. TRACK 3 VIDEO: What extreme sport is this?
    1. Zorbing
40. TRACK 4 MUSIC VIDEO: Where is this song shot?
    1. St Xavier’s College
    
    
    Find Questions from the Older Landmark Quizzes here

Winners and complete review from the BCQC blog here

Quiziebee reviews the Landmark Quiz 2009 Mumbai Edition and has graciously posted the prelims.

Some questions from Landmark Mumbai

Q1.What is internationally accepted emergency radio communication in french ‘Come help me’?

Ans: May Day

Q2.Which part of Delhi is Delhi 6?

Ans: Chandni Chowk

Q3.Name the MTV Reality show which has the tagline”Where Love is War”?

Ans:Splitsvilla

For the complete list of questions click here