MINDSWEEP 2012

It is with pleasure that we announce the inaugural edition of KQA’s International Solo Championship, titled MindSweep.

We have confirmations from the United Kingdom and the United States, and a few more countries will probably participate.

Mindsweep will be held during the weekend comprising Saturday, 7 January and Sunday 8 January 2012.

The quiz will require participants to answer 200 questions–in two sessions of 60 minutes each with a 30 minute break between sessions for corrections. Please register in advance using the form on this page.

The quiz is split into 10 sections of 20 questions each and is set by Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.

1. The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
2. Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
3. Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
4. Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
5. Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
6. Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
7. Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society. Film-writing
8. Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
9. Food & Drink: From all over the world.
10. Connections

Being knowledgeable and cognizant is futile, if one cant apply, reason or think rationally

Cudgel your brains for the most grueling and challenging business quiz in India.

”THE FUNDAMENTALIST”

The quiz master is renowned Giri ‘Pickbrain’ Balasubramanium. 24 teams ( campus + corporate ) will qualify for the semi final rounds, out of which the competition will be filtered down to the best 12 teams (campus + corporate ) battling it out in the final round.

The final round will take place at the NIMHANS Convention Center in Bangalore.

Event details :

Campus

Rewards :

1st Place : Rs. 50,000.

2nd Place : Rs. 25,000.

Qualifying Rounds :

In – Station Colleges

The qualifying rounds for in station colleges will take place on 14^th Jan 2012, where the top 7 colleges will then qualify for the semi-finals which will take place on 2^nd Feb 2012.

Out – Station Colleges

The qualifying rounds & semi finals will take place directly on 2^nd Feb 2012.

Semi – finals:

The top 12 teams from the qualifying rounds move on to the semi finals, where the top 6 teams qualify for the finals

Corporate

Rewards :

1st Place : Rs. 75,000.

2nd Place : Rs. 35,000.

Qualifying Rounds :

In – Station Corporate Teams

The qualifying rounds for In – station corporate teams will take place on 14^th Jan 2012, where the top 7 teams will then qualify for the semi-finals which will take place on 2^nd Feb 2012.

Out – Station Corporate Teams

The qualifying rounds & semi finals will take place directly on 2^nd Feb 2012.

Semi – final :

The top 12 teams from the qualifying rounds move on to the semi finals, where the top 6 teams qualify for the finals

Registrations :

To register please send in your details and the form attached to  “ precipice2012@cms.ac.in ”

Registration Form : Download

Rules & Regulations :

• The registration fee for all teams is Rs 200
• Each team must comprise of 2 members.
• The event is open to students from all streams of study.
• Multiple entries are allowed from each institute.
• Registrations will happen at the venue.
• All prelims will be written.
• The amount for train tickets will be refunded for the teams that qualify for the final round in Bangalore*, subject to submission of the tickets.
• Participants must carry valid ID Cards.
• The decision of the quizmaster will be final and binding.
• Each contestant is expected to maintain discipline and decorum at the event.

 * Conditions Apply.

MEGA-WHATS 2011

The third edition of Mega-Whats, KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship will be held on December 11, 2011.

The quiz will be held across thirteen cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have confirmations from Chennai, Guwahati, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Mysore, New Delhi, Pune, Thrissur, and Thiruvananthapuram.

Venues in each city are listed here: http://kqaquizzes.org/2011/11/29/mega-whats-2011-venues/

UPDATE: Online registrations are now closed. You can register on-the-spot at the venue.

View the list of registered teams.

The details:

Date: Sunday, 11 December 2011

General quiz, open to all.

Teams of FOUR members (or less).

Prior registration is essential.

To register, please use the form on this page.

Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team; also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college or open categories

Registrations will close on Tuesday 6th December 2011. City co-ordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.

Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.

The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X

School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.

Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.

Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.

Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.

The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.

We will rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.

The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.

The city-winners will face off in June 2012 as part of the KQA 29th Anniversary.

For more details, please call Arul Mani at 097312-14519.

Texas Instruments Science & Technology Quiz 2011 | Quiz Review

Bangalore. 5th December, 2011.

Nalanda Talent School, Kolkata, represented by VSP Abhishek and R Sri Krishna, emerged as national winners of the Texas Instruments Science & Technology Quiz 2011 held in Bangalore on Sunday. The team overcame stiff competition from finalists from Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and Bangalore. The trophy was presented by Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, president & managing director, Texas Instruments (TI) India.

Sri Sankara Senior Sec School, Adayar, Chennai, and Sri Vidya Mandir High School, finished second and third respectively in the national finals. The event drew an enthusiastic response from school students from Bangalore who thronged the venue and passionately cheered the winners and the finalists. Members of the team that won the national finals were awarded attractive iPADs while their school was awarded a trophy.

Sri Vidya Mandir High School, National Public School, Indiranagar and Poornaprajna High School, Sadashivanagar, won the regional rounds for Bangalore. The Texas Instruments Science & Technology Quiz has provided a platform for bright, young students of Class 8, 9 and 10 to test their skills of inquiry and scientific thinking. “The talent displayed by students in five cities was amazing. These are the innovators of the future. The quiz has been successful in inculcating a scientific spirit among high school students in the country,” said Mitra.

Source: DNA.

Other quiz reviews at Nuclear Energy Quiz @ SIMT | Quiz Review and TIME Aqua Regia | Chennai Review.

Event: Quiz Bowl ’09

Flavour : Business Quiz

Host: Icfai Business School, Bangalore

Quizmaster: Mitesh Agarwal

Date: 8th November 2009

More Details: http://www.quizometer.com/images/ibs/flash.swf

Questions from previous editions below

Landmark Quiz Chennai 2009

Landmark Quiz Mumbai 2009

Landmark Quiz Pune 2009

Landmark Quiz Bangalore 2008

Landmark Quiz Chennai 2008

Landmark Quiz Pune 2008

Landmark Quiz Bangalore 2007

Landmark Quiz Bangalore 2006

Landmark Quiz Chennai 2005

Apocryphopolis – The Open quiz will be unearthed this October at Unmaad. A challenge to quizzers everywhere, this edition of the Unmaad Open quiz is even bigger, with prizes worth Rs. 32,500 up for grabs… This contest is open to all citizens of the planet, regardless of age, gender, caste or creed. Questions will be trivial, general, and apocryphal… Just get together a team of 4, come down to IIM Bangalore, and prepare to be stumped

Date: 2nd October, 2009

Time: 2.00 pm

Venue: IIM Bangalore                                                                             

Registration on the spot

For any further queries, visit www.unmaad.com or call Vernon Fernandez at 9739308901

The Karnataka Quiz Association takes pleasure in inviting you to

PERSIFLAGE
The Blossom’s Book Quiz

DATE: 20 September 2009
VENUE: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road
SCHEDULE: Prelims at 1530hrs, Finals: 1700-1830hrs

RULES
Open to all
Teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-

PRIZES
Rs. 4000/-, Rs. 3000/- and Rs. 2000/- plus audience prizes, all sponsored by Blossom Book House.

The KQA Blog will feature a week of book-questions, with prizes, from the 13th onwards.

The Bangalore edition of Tata Crucible saw a close fight between Yahoo! and Kotak but Yahoo sealed it with a fantastic answer related to Ajay Bhat.

The other teams on stage were Onmobile, ITC, HSBC and DELL.

Find the prelim questions here. Finals questions soon.

FIND QUESTIONS FROM ALL THE CITIES THIS YEAR

The complete schedule and winners of the 2011 TCS IT Wiz here

Download important DATABASE questions below

DOWNLOAD FILE CONTAINING IMPORTANT IT-RELATED PHOTOS

Company Logos and product database

Some Questions from 2008 Edition (External Source: Shadow Line- Aditya)

Questions from the 2009 Edition

Questions from the 2010 Edition

TCS IT Wiz Sample Questions downloadable here

Bangalore: Bishop Cotton Boys School - Rishab Mehta & Manish Burman

Kolkata: St. James School - Anurag Sarkar & Vaarnan Drolia

Bhubaneshwar: DAV Pokhariput – Aurojyoti Das & Ambarish Sarangi

Find the review and prelims questions from Bhubaneshwar here

Kochi: Pallikoodam – Kottayam - Vignesh G & Roshan Joseph George

Questions from the Kochi Edition here

Delhi: DPS Noida - Abhishek Gupta & Arjun J

Review and Questions from Delhi Edition here

Coimbatore: St Jude’s Public School: Akash Lodha & Hiren Barai

Review and Questions from Coimbatore Edition here

Find the Updates, winners and tons of preparatory material here

Quiz: Corporate Classroom ’09

Host: Concern India Foundation

Date: 4th July 2009 ( 1300 hrs onwards)

Venue: Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore

Quiz host: Charu Sharma

Participation:
Corporates can send a team of 2 members. The participation fee is
Rs.7000 per team.  Multiple teams from each corporate will be
entertained.

Topic and Quizmaster:
It will be a general quiz on arts,entertainment, music, literature
etc. The Quiz will be conducted by Charu Sharma, a reputed
commentator, compeer and quizmaster.

Prizes: Prizes worth 1.5 lakhs to be won. There will be attractive
audience prizes as well.
Corporate Classroom 2008 had prizes like Lenovo Laptops Titan Watches,
Allen Solly Vouchers, Satya Paul ties etc. Winners of last year were
Yahoo, KPMG and Akamai Technology

For more details call 25549422 / 25305775 or mail at
bangalore@concernindia.org

KQA celebrates the 26th anniversary of its founding this year. This year’s ASKQANCE, our anniversary quiz festival, will feature seven quizzes to be held over two successive Sundays at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore

The Dates

Sunday 28 June 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009

The Venue

Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore

The Quizzes

5 July 2009

KQA Middle School Championships

QM: Ochintya Sharma

1030hrs to 1130hrs

Teams of three members, No Entry Fee.

KQA High School Championships

QM: Dibyendu Das

1200hrs-1430hrs

Teams of two members, No Entry Fee

KQA Intercollegiate Championships

QMs: Venkatesh S. and Vivek Kartikeyan.

Teams of three members

Separate finals for Junior College(XI/XII or PUC) and College (PUC to PG)

Prelims at 1500hrs

Junior College Final at 1600hrs

College Final at 1700hrs.

28 June 2009

An Open Film Quiz
An Open General Quiz

Official Website

Date: 28 June 2009
Venue: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore

Events on Sunday 28 June 2009 will be managed by Dibyendu Das and Mitesh
Agarwal.

Open Film Quiz
The questions will be drawn equally from Hollywood, Indian cinema (meaning not
confined to Bollywood), World Cinema and film language/history/technology.

Open to all, irrespective of age or institutional affiliation.
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Entry free for school teams

Schedule
Written Prelims: 1000-1030 hrs
Finals for 8 teams: 1100-1300hrs

Prizes
Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-.

Quizmasters: Anustup Datta and Arun Hiregange

Sesame
The KQA Open Championships

A general quiz open to all, irrespective of age or institutional affiliation.
Teams of four members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Entry free for school teams

Schedule
Written Prelims: 1330-1400 hrs
Finals for 8 teams: 1430-1630hrs

Prizes
Rs. 5000/-, Rs. 4000/- and Rs. 3000/- for the winners,
prizes for all finalists
and prizes for Best School Team (Std X and below), Best Ladies Team and Best
Family Team

Quizmaster: Arul Mani

For more details, please call Arul Mani (97312-14519).

Edition 5 of MOSStermind – the fun quiz at Moss continues tomorrow (Wednesday- June 3) at Moss Cocktail Lounge, Inner Ring Road, Domlur. Book a table at http://mosslounge.com

The World Quizzing Championships will be held at 4:00pm. on Saturday, June 6 2009. (Registration at 3:30 pm)

 The different cities and venues in India are mentioned below

Bangalore

The Auditorium 
Command Hospital Air Force 
Old Airport Road, Bangalore-7 

Contact @ Blore hospital is Maj. Puneet Aggarwal Ph:-9449815834. 

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Chennai

P.S Senior Secondary school, Alamelumangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai – 04

Ashwin Prabhu at +91 9840718533 or Ashwin.prabhu@gmail.com

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Delhi

Site: Room No. II – LT-1, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 
Tel. 09899238968 
Email : bshriram@gmail.com 

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Goa
Panjim City Corporation Hall, Panjim.
Email: tallulahdsilva@gmail.com

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Kolkata

Venue: International School of Business (ISB&M), EN-22, Sector-V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-64 (near WEBEL Gate)

Gautum Ghosh- 098300 44093

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Hyderabad

Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73

Lathish Venugopal (lathish@google.com) Ph:- 98858 02924

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Kerala

Site: Calicut University Campus Seminar Hall 
Mallapuzha, Kerala
Contact : Snehaj Srinivas 
Tel: +91 – 9895316264 

Mumbai 

Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House, 
Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road, 
North Avenue,  Santa Cruz (W), Mumbai

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This year’s event is taking place in 42 locations across 24 countries, making it the largest ever! This website contains information on how you can participate in the most prestigious quiz competition on the planet, along with hundreds of other players from around the globe.

More and complete details here

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

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

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.