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MegaWhats is a quiz designed to answer the question `Which is India’s best open quizzing team?’.

The operative word here is `open’; anybody can form a team to participate, and any team can win.  The syllabus, to preempt the obvious question, is surprise.
The quiz will be held across nine cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have tentative venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Kolkata. More information on venues soon.
The venue in Bangalore is The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road.
Date: Sunday, 13 December 2009
Info
1. General quiz, open to all.
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email kqaquizzes@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2009 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Sunday 6th December 2009.  Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field a maximum of TWO teams (of four members each)
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. The quiz will start at 1500hrs (sharp) and end by 1730hrs.
11. Contesting teams will answer a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced on the same day–prizes will be given out for Best School Team and Best Open Team.
13. The prizes are small–Rs. 250 x4 for the Open and School winners.
14. We will also announce a national winner and rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-master will be final and binding on all participants.
For more details, please call 97312-14519

Inspiron ’09 was won by Rituraj and Dishant from Christ University, followed by Anirudh and Akash from UVCE. The other teams on stage were: MSRIT (Srikanth & Rahul Jadhav), Icfai Business School (Bala & Anup), NITK/BMSCE (Varun Balan & Balram) , Christ University (Roshan & Arjun)

The cut off was 11 on tie break and the highest was 14 . Below are the questions from the prelim:

The final rounds of Texas Instruments science and technology quiz was held at St John’s auditorium, Bangalore on Sunday(22nd November 2009). 

This year, Sri Kumaran Public School’s (Bangalore) Atihith K and Subham Nandy, both Class 9 students, won at the regional and national finals. Beating last year’s finalists S Varun Raja Gopal and V Harish Krishna from Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, Chennai, the Kumaran team went on to win Sony Vaio notebooks.

The regional quiz round started on October 30 in Kolkatta, followed by Delhi, Chennai and Pune. In the regional round in Bangalore held on Sunday, 55 schools, 261 teams and 522 children participated. Also, at the regional round, Anjana Krishnamurthy won the `lonely discoverer of hidden talent’ award.

At the regional finals, the Kumaran team from Bangalore won the first prize, Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondry School, Chennai, was first runner-up and Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad, came third. Other teams were from Abhinaya Vidyalaya English Medium High School, Pune and Birla High School, Kolkata.

Winner Shubham expressed joy in winning and anxiety in facing a school test to be held on Monday. “I had dual pressure. One from my teammate Atihith to prepare for the quiz, and second from my parents to prepare for tomorrow’s test.”

Atihith said his school team won the third prize last year. “This year, our head madam wanted us to come first. We are happy for achieving it,” said Atihith.

According to the winning team, it was daily learning habits like reading newspapers and science magazines, which helped them to prepare for the quiz.

B Bobby Mitra, president and MD, Texas Instrument, India, said: “This is the seventh year of the national-level quiz. We plan to expand it to more cities.”

The Quiz is conducted by: Ochintya Sharma of KQA

News Courtesy: TOI

Quiz: UVCE Student Management Quiz

Part of: Inspiron 2009

Flavour: Business Quiz with a flavour of IT (not Tech)

Date – 20 Nov 2009, Friday

Quizmaster – Rohit Nair

Prelims – 10:00AM

Open to: Students (Teams of 2 ;Mixed Student teams allowed; UG/PG etc. No ICAI though)

Prize Money – 8K total in cash

Venue: University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering (UVCE)
K R CIrcle
Bangalore-560 001

Contact for Regn or any other clarifications:

Pavan S R            9964725196      pavansr.89@gmail.com
Amarnath M L       9742084656     amar.uvce@gmail.com

Quiz: UVCE Corporate Business Quiz

Part of: Inspiron 2009

Date – 21 Nov 2009, Saturday

Quizmaster – Mitesh Agarwal

Prelims – 10:30AM

Open to: Corporates (Teams of 2 ;Mixed Corporate teams allowed)

Entry Fee – Rs. 200/- per team

Prize Money – 10K (I Prize), 5K (II Prize)

Venue: University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering (UVCE)
K R CIrcle
Bangalore-560 001

Contact for Regn or any other clarifications:

Pavan S R            9964725196      pavansr.89@gmail.com
Amarnath M L       9742084656     amar.uvce@gmail.com

Quiz: Tata Crucible UK 2009

Flavour: Business Quiz

Date: 22nd November 2009

Venue: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Quizmaster: Giri Pickbrain Balasubramaniam

Official Site: http://www.shobiziems.com/tatacrucibleuk2009/

 Find questions from all previous editions of Tata Crucible here

Quiz: Japan Quiz 2009

Flavour: Quiz on Japan- people, culture, hsitory etc

Open to: School Students

Date: 20 November 2009

Venue: Sai International Auditorium, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Prize:  A trip to Japan

For more info- info@quizcraft.in

Quizebee has reviewed the Business Quiz at Quo Vadis ’09 on his blog.

Also find some questions from the prelims here

Find the questions from the finals here

Genesis 2009- Business Quiz at Fore School of Management, Delhi was conducted by Avinash Mudaliar. The prelim was an online quiz . The theme of the quiz was majorly on regional and Indian Business. Find the fantastic quiz below.

Dates– 21st (Saturday) and 22nd (Sunday) November, 2009.
 
Venue – NLSIU Campus, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore.
 
What –
 
Saturday 21st:
 
1. Sports Quiz (College)

Starts at 10.30 AM.
Teams up to 3 people.
QMs: Eashan Ghosh and Raghuram Cadambi.
 
2. General Quiz (College)

Starts at 3.30 PM
Teams up to 3 people.
QMs: Pranav and Arvind (they go as one) and Badri.
Mixed college teams allowed.
 
Sunday 22nd:
 
1. The NLSIU Ipso Facto Open Quiz

Starts at 10 AM.
Teams of up to 4 people
QM: Varun Rajiv.
 
1. The CPA Global Intellectual Property Open Quiz – a veritable quiz pot pourri with tracks on business (trademark), science (patent), the arts (copyright), and other things we’re not yet giving away. 
Preliminary round starts right after Ipso Facto prelim – please just turn up for both.
Teams up to 4 people. 
QM: Varun Rajiv.

More details: mail- varunrajiv@gmail.com

Quiz: Quiz for Concern India Foundation

Flavour: General Quiz

Date: November 21, 2009

Time: 1 pm

Venue: C.E.S.S , Ameerper, Hyderabad

Open to: Corporates and BB-Schools (Teams of 2)

Quizmasters: Nitish Khadiya and Diwakar Pingle

Registration fee: Rs 5000/ per team (Rs 4000/- per team if more than 2 teams froms ame Institution)

For any further clarifications/confirmations please contact :
Laxmi Sukumaran
Tel:+91-40-2773 1460 / 2773 4936

Akash Lodha and Hiren Barai of St Jude’s Public School, Kotagiri, in the Nilgiris district were the winners of the TCS IT Wiz 2009 quiz held at Coimbatore on Nov 10th.Sibhi Kumaran and Gowthem Nachimuthu of SBOA Matric and Higher Secondary School of Coimbatore were the runners-up.

Following are some questions from the prelims. Courtesy: Sibhi from SBOA Matric School. Thanks a lot!

1) Picture of N.Chandrasekaran
2) Creeper detected first on ARPANET .What is it?-VIRUS
3) Infopath,Groove,OneNote are from?MS OFFICE
4) AutoCAD is a product from which company? AUTO DESK
5) Picture of Steve ballmer
6) What are ‘And ,or,not’ called? LOGIC GATES
7) Logo of Skype
UNIVAC abbreivation
9) Whom did carol bartz replace at Yahoo? JERRY YANG
10) Which operator launched 3G first in India? MTNL
11) Jack dorsey? TWITTER
12) Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce? INTEL

Sample Questions, Database Questions and Questions from other cities available here

Host: RVCE, Bangalore

Date: Nov 14th 2009

10.30 AM A General Quiz
TransIT 2009
Dept of Instrumentation Tech

1.30 PM The Riddler
A General Quiz
INFINITY 2009
Dept of Info Science and Engg

Open to: Students

The following PDFs (available on the TCS IT Wiz site) represent a flavour of the questions asked in the prelims.

The following documents are downloadable.

Some questions from the Kozhikode Edition. Questions thanks to Rithwik, who came second in the Kochi Edition. Congrats Rithwik and wish you far greater victories.

1.Name the french becteriologist who invented HIV virus.
- Luc Montaginer
2.What was the aim of Crey commission ?
- Super computers
3.Name the first person to devvelop camera films.
- George eastman
4.What was the contribution of Douglas Engelbert to IT ?
- Computer Mouse
5.Give one word for family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
- RSS Feed
6.Expand BASE in BASE Jumping.
- Building Antenna Span Earth
7.First feature length Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. The film has become the most well-known adaptation of the book of the same name by Jules Verne.
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
8.Its main uses are for storing high-definition video, PlayStation 3 video games, and other data, with up to 25 GB per single layered, and 50 GB per dual layered disc. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.What ?
-Blue ray disc
9.How do we better know Lord William Thomson ?
-Lord Kelvin
10.What is a Taikonaut ?
- Chinese space traveller

Host and Venue: IIFT, Delhi

Date: 15th November 2009

Crusade- The General Quiz

Time: 9 am

Rules: Open to only Students (UG and PG): Teams of 3 from the same Institution

Bizdom- The Business Quiz

Time:  2 pm

Quizmaster: Arul Mani

Rules: 3 Corporate and 3 student teams in the finals

For more details, pls contact

Praveen P: +919910688107, praveen_d10@iift.ac.in

Dhruv Chandras: +9717654289, dhruvk_d10@iift.ac.in

The Delhi edition of the quiz shattered all previous records of the quiz with 909 teams from over 100 schools taking part in the contest. For the first time in the history of the quiz two prelims were held to accommodate all the teams. It was a complete blockbuster.
The final was extremely exciting with the action moving right till the last minute. In the final round the young duo from New Era English School got cracking on the buzzer to move into the third position with all the other teams finishing joint fourth. Sardar Patel settled for the runner up spot and DPS Noida keeping a very close watch on the scores, took no undue risks to ensure they won the title they just missed a year ago.

Questions below, Courtesy: Shadow Line

DAV Pokhariput – Aurojyoti Das & Ambarish Sarangi won the quiz followed by Rajendra Vidyalaya – Anurag Ranjak & Arnab Ghosh. It was a high voltage quiz with 4 teams having an open chance to win the quiz till the last question.

Find below the prelim questions:

1) Which product is Aamir Khan associated with?
Tata Sky

2) The producer of TCP/IP is now working with google. Name him?
Vinton Cerf

3)Idenitfy the ceo of xerox (picture question)?
Anne Mulcahy

4) Which company gave the defination of java J2EEE environment?
Sun microsystems

5) Who gave the idea of one laptop per child?
Nicholas Negroponte

6) Name the country which uses .gb?
Great Britain or UK

7) Which was the world’s first GUI browser developed by Marc Anderseen?
Mosaic or Netscape
Which company’s name is Lucky Goldstar?L.G

9) Identify the chairman of AMD (Picture question)?
Hector Ruiz

10) The aspire and travelmate series of laptops are from which company?
Acer

11) Identify the logo of Skype (Pic Question)?

12) iPhone is associated with which company?
Apple

13) Akio Morita can be associated with which company?
Sony

14) What is the shortcut for italic letters in MS Word?
Ctrl + I

15) Identify this game? Dave

Questions from other cities and other downloadable preparatory material here (Click)

Please find the review of the quiz by a member of IQL here

Find questions from previous Landmark quizzes here