Monday, May 30, 2011

2011 World Quiz Championship Mumbai

We start off our double header this weekend with the Bombay Round of the World Quiz Championship this Saturday. Details of last year's event here .

Registrations are now closed. We will accept on-the-spot-entries if adequate seating, and enough surplus question-papers are available

Team Size: Solo Written Quiz
Co-ord: Vibhendu Tewari
Entry Fee: 50 Rs.
When: 3 PM, Saturday, 4th June 2011 (Please be there on time as we have to wrap up by 6)
Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions:From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for the quiz.From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.

Registrations so far:
Aditya Gangrade
Aditya Sharma
Alankar Jain
Amit Pandeya
Anand S
Anannya Deb
Aniruddha Sen
Ankush kumar Chakraborty
Anoop Vasu
Antariksh Vinod Bothale
Aparna Dixit
Arish tavadia
Arjun Sinha
Arjun Siva
Ashish Sharma
Atul Mathew
Augustine Correa
Avirup Bose
BL
Chandrachud Basavaraj
Devang Ghia
Francis Thomas
Govind Grewal
Harikrishnan Menon
Harshal Modi
Jose A
Mayur Srinivasan
Mukund Krishnan
Praful Patil
Pranav Shetty
Prasann Potdar
Prashant Shanbhag
Priyadarshan Babu
Rajarshi Chanda
Rajiv Rai
Riccu Varghese
Rinie Nag
Rupesh Gupta
S BALAKRISHNAN
Saransh Verma
shivam sharma
Shubhankar Gokhale
Siddhartha Banerjee
Somsubhra GanChoudhuri
Sourav Roy
Sreeharsha
Srimukh Prasad V K
Srinath TB
Sumant Srivathsan
sumit singare
Suraj Menon
Varun Sharma
Vighnesh Vatsal
Vijay Shanbhag
Vikram Joshi
VINOO SANJAY

Monday, May 23, 2011

Mahaquizzer 2011

MAHAQUIZZER 2011

MahaQuizzer 2011, the seventh edition will be held in Bangalore and several other cities on Sunday 29th May 2011.

Bombay Venue:
Landmark Bookstore
Infiniti Mall, No.619, New Link Road
Oshiwara, Lokhandwala
Andheri West

Coordinator: Rajiv Rai (98192-18415)
KQA Proctor: V V Krishnan (99206-90605)

As usual, the quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes.

We have a new bunch of setters this year: Mitesh Agarwal heads a team comprising Urmila Lakshmanan, Vivek Kartikeyan, Rajagopal P.S., Rahul Suhas Kottalgi and Gautam Shenoy.
Prizes in each city for best School, College, Lady and Open entrant.

Registrations for Mahaquizzer are now closed. Centre Coordinators may accept on-the-spot-entries if adequate seating, and enough surplus question-papers are available.

View a list of all registered participants here: http://kqaquizzes.org/2011/05/13/mahaquizzer-2011-registrations/

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Supriyo Saha

Supriyo Saha hosts his first BQC quiz this weekend. It's a General Quiz with a slight MELA (Music,Entertainment,Literature,Arts) bias so it should be fun. See you Sunday.

Quizmaster: Supriyo Saha
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 15th May, 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).
Directions: here

Friday, May 06, 2011

2011 Kartik Bose Open

Anannya hosts the latest installment of the Kartik Bose Open this week. Based on his recent adventures, you can expect a lot of questions on SE Asia. And let's not forget Kartik Bose.

Quizmaster: Anannya Deb
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 8th May 2011 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
Where: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W)
.Directions:From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for the quiz.From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.