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Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: COEP (thanks to Mihir, Gaurav and other students for the arrangements) School Winner: Rohan College Winner: Aniket Khasgiwale(39) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (59) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . All scores are provisional pending adjudication. According to the KQA twitter feed , Arul Mani has won this year's Mahaquizzer with 87 points.

When: 22nd May, 2011 Where: BC, Pune By: Aniket, Aditya Gadre, Yash Marathe This year’s edition saw more major changes to the format. It has now moved away from the head-to-head knockout contests to a conventional quizzing IR format - a positive move IMO. Format: First, an elim determines 8 qualifiers. The qualifiers took part in a 60 qn format, after which 4 are eliminated. Scores are reset and another 36 qn semi takes place. The final is a one-to-one contest like last year's contest. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Home is basically direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong and the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers. Group stages The prelims cutoff was 12.5, with a top score of 19 by Anand. The 8 qualifiers in random order were: Anand, Suraj, Annanya, Kaushik, Srinath, Ramanand, Pradeep, and Dipanjan. Pradeep took his spot after a tie-break decider (just the beginning of the day for him). The Quarter F...

"Mahaquizzer" is India's biggest solo quiz. This year's edition will be held on the 29th of May (Sunday) from 10 am. Prior registrations are recommended as different venues have different seating capacities, and on-the-spot registrations cannot be guaranteed. Plus, this helps the organisers plan better. In Pune, the Quiz will be held at: Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5 Coordinator & KQA Proctor: Vishwajeeth Narvekar (98201-09984) The quiz is open to all and there are prizes for local winners in categories such as School, College, Open and Lady entrant. In Pune, we will be sponsoring additional prizes for schools and colleges. The rest of the details can be found at this KQA link . To check if you are registered, visit this link . * Previous results and reports from Pune * Questions from earlier editions .

This is the BCQC's annual individual, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the third edition. ( Reports for 2009 and 2010 editions) Format: "This is vastly, hugely mindbogglingly big quiz - if you thought Anand's lit quiz was long, that's just peanuts compared to this" - Douglas Adams First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers . These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 34 questions with scoring reset to zero. This is to keep the 'winning three consecutive matches' concept constant from last year's edition. The top two then go to the final. The finalists will then face off one-on one for a 24 question final. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Homeleg is basically direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong wich the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers (as per UEFA rul...

QM: Navin Jayakumar Results: 1st: The Dukes of Cambridge, .... - Shubhankar Gokhale, Srinath and Abhinav Dasgupta : 64 pts 2nd: The Travelling Pillsburys - Vibhendu Tiwari, Sumant Srivathsan and Anil Kothuri: 49 pts 3rd: Sigh Babas of Put-a-party - Salil Bijur, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre: 44 pts 4th: Ani Uris - Taking the 'p' out of pani puris - Anand Sivashankar, Amit Garde and Meghashyam Shirodkar : 44 pts* Other Finalists Your guess is as good as mine - Prasann Potdar, Amit Pandeya and Francis R Swami and friends - Alagarsamy, Nitish Khadiya and J Krishnamurthy Hazare Khwaeishen Aisi - Subhashish, Navin Sharma and [one more person] Born Losers Aniruddha Dutta and two more gentlemen (TCS) * Lost on tie breaker This year's Landmark open had a rather simple elim set which arguably led to a few surprises with regard to the finalists. A tougher elims would perhaps been a bit more fair and ensured that the best 8 teams in the auditorium qualified for the final. T...