Play it again, Vikram Joshi

As time goes by, Vikram Joshi never ceases to amaze as he keeps churning out highbrow quizzes with such fine frequency. The reigning Landmark National champion (and fresh off his victory at the WQC), hosts his first quiz of the season this Sunday. He plans on being a bit adventurous, by including sports and other hoi polloi friendly topics in this quiz. It will be nothing less than top-notch quizzing.

Quizmaster: Vikram Joshi
When: 3 PM, Sunday, 19th June, 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

Mahaquizzer 2011 Results

Mumbai contestants in the Mahaquizzer Top 100:
Rajiv Rai 75
Harikrishnan Menon 73
Sumant Srivatsan 67
Vinoo Sanjay 67
Mukund Sridhar 65
Anannya Deb 64
Balakrishnan S 58
Vibhendu Tiwari 55
Vikram Joshi 52
Govind Grewal 52
Abhinav Dasgupta 48
Nikhil Sonde 48
Pravin Varma 48
Prasann Potdar 46
Anil Kothuri 46
Sumo 43
Aditya Gadre 40
Chandrachud Basavaraj 37
Anand Sivashankar 36
Srinath 36

Ladies Winner Preyoshi Ganguly 29
College Winner Pranav Shetty 27

Rest of the results: http://kqaquizzes.org/2011/06/10/mahaquizzer-2011-top-100-and-international-results/

WQC 2011 Results

1st - Vikram Joshi 119

2nd - Sumant Srivatshan 114

3rd - Rajiv Rai 110

Sectional Winners:

Entertainment: Vikram Joshi 14

Culture: Vikram Joshi 17

Lifestyle: Sumant Srivathsan 19

Science: Antariksh Bothale 20

History: Vikram Joshi 23

Media: Sumant Srivatshan, Govind Grewal 22

Sport:Shubhankar Gokhale 19

World: Antariksh Bothale 20

Dhruv Mookerji

Completing a hat-trick of bong quizmasters, Dhruv Mookerji will host his first quiz for the BQC this Sunday.

Dhruv, an actor by profession and a stand-up comic by avocation, guarantees a wholesome quiz with a large helping of visuals and audio.

We can expect a treat.

Quizmaster: Dhruv Mookerji

When: 3 PM, Sunday, 5th June, 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

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

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/

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

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.