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Quite a good year for Pune quizzers at the second Mahaquizzer of the year. J. Ramamand makes the top 10 in India with a score of 63/150 Other quizzers who took the quiz in Pune and finished in the top 100 were: 29th: Nilay Puntambekar (51/150) 83rd: Saikat Sarkar (33/150) 92nd: Aniketh Rallabhandi (30/150) Also Srisha Haridas just missed out on the top 100 with 28/150 getting a rank of 105 Regular Pune quizzer Suraj Menon (took the quiz from Mumbai this year) won the All India College title with a score of 60 - finishing rank 15th in the country on the open section

KQA quizzes this Sunday. Mahaquizzer (solo event) starts at 9:30 am, AsiaSweep (team event) at 2:30 pm. Prior registration is a must for both events to allow proctors a chance to get the correct number of sheets. Links to register: http://kqaquizzes.org/asiasweep/ and http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer/ Pune venue: COEP Academic Complex, COEP, Shivajinagar, Pune.

Oops! We seem to have forgotten to post the results for Mahaquizzer this year. Pune results were as follows:  Open Category winner:  Kunal Sawardekar - 62 pts 2nd: J Ramanand - 57 pts College winner: Aditya Akhauri - 26 pts Ladies winner: Sravya Darbhamulla The official results (the top 100) has been published by the KQA here Four Pune quizzers made the top 100 (ranks in brackets) - Kunal (23), Ramanand (27), Aditya Gadre (51), Roshith Mohan (87) In addition to this, Suraj Menon (19) and Aniket Khasgiwale (78) also made the top 100.

The ninth edition of MahaQuizzer will be held on Sunday 26th May 2013. As usual, the quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes.Prizes in each city for best School, College, Lady and Open entrant. You can register for the quiz using this link . List of registered participants is here . The event starts at 1000 hrs sharp. Participants are requested to report latest by 0930 hrs on 26 May 2013 at the respective locations. In Pune, the event will be held at the College of Engineering, Pune, Shivajinagar. The room number is yet to be confirmed. Vibhav Bhave will proctor the proceedings.

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Nithin Manayath (many thanks!) Venue: COEP (thanks to Gaurav Keskar for the arrangements) School Winner: Aditya (DAV School) [Runner's up: Shaunak (DAV)] College Winner: Yogarshi (IIT Kharagpur) Open Category Winner: Kunal Sawardekar(63) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . All scores are provisional pending adjudication.

Please see below for details on Mahaquizzer. 22nd is the last day for online registrations. Registering in advance ensures your seat and also helps KQA & BCQC plan the number of seats & papers. The Pune venue : Co-ordinator: Ramanand J / Gaurav Keskar KQA Proctor: Nithin Mayanath Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5 KQA Announcement The eighth edition of MahaQuizzer will be held in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Panaji, Coimbatore, Thrissur and Mysore on Sunday 27th May 2012. MahaQuizzer is the National Solo Quizzing Championship. It is open to all, though we recommend that the taker be at least 12 years of age. The quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes--in celebration of the ethic of working out questions. Entry is free in most centres; some quiz associations may charge a nominal entry fee to recover...

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.

"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 .

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: Landmark, Pune (thanks to the staff for turning up so early and for the arrangements) School Winner: Roopak Karalkar (22) College Winner: Sukrit Munjal(32) Ladies Winner: Meghna Sreenivasan (11) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (69) Number of participants: ~40 to 50 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . Updated on 6 Jun * Links to Top 100 results , local winners , and rankings in the ladies, college & school categories . * Link to the Mahaquizzer 2010 Q & A . * Four people from Pune were in the top 100 (Ramanand, Kunal S, Suraj, and Salil), with a few more BCQC members from other centres. Roopak K was ranked 11th in the list of school students.

The announcement for this year's Mahaquizzer follows. A short summary (with Pune venue details) is as follows: When: 30 May (Sunday), 9 am onwards (timing to be confirmed) Where in Pune: Landmark, SGS Mall, Moledina Road, Pune To register: write to mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Pune in the subject line (since the venue may only has limited seating, it is recommended that you register in advance, by 23rd May). Prizes: for the best quizzer, lady quizzer, school quizzer, college quizzer; as usual, the BCQC will sponsor additional prizes in some of these categories. Note: the venue will not have desks, so you may want to get a writing pad along with your pen. The full announcement from the KQA: We will hold the sixth edition of Mahaquizzer across 14 cities on Sunday, 30 May 2010. The cities where centres are being offered are Bangalore , Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Guwahati, Panaji, Thrissur, Mysore and Coimbatore . If we are able to obtain...

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) School Winner: Sanket Bhilare - Abhinava Vidyalaya       BCQC prizes: 2nd: Rohan Danait (Abhinava), 3rd: Rajeev Galgali (Shamrao Kalmadi) College Winner: Yash Marathe (Modern)(45)       BCQC prizes: 2nd: Aditya Gadre (COEP), 3rd: Saransh Verma (SIT) Ladies Winner: Suparna Bhattacharya (12) Open Category Winner: Amit Garde (63) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link .

India's biggest solo quizzing competition Mahaquizzer returns with its fifth edition. See below for the official announcement. Pune is one of the centres, so here's a summary of the details with Pune-specific notes: Date: 24th May (Sunday) Quiz Timing: 10:00 to 11:30 am Venue (note: this is different from our usual Open Quiz venue at Persistent Systems): Symbiosis Law School Auditorium, Symbiosis Law School, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411004 Wikimapia link: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=18.522336&lon=73.83004&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2 Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/d2p46t Local contacts for directions: Ramanand (9764258560), Salil ((98231 12258)), Aditya (98811 01291) Prizes: Best Quizzer, Best Woman Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer. In addition, the BCQC will give out prizes to the 1st & 2nd runners-up in both the College & School categories. Prior registration is strongly encouraged so as to confirm your seat; it also he...

The Mahaquizzer national top 100 is finally out. You can peruse the entire list here . Congratulations are in order to Arul Mani for comprehensively topping (even if he did a Tendulkar-'07). Only 5 people achieve the 80+ mark, the level which many people claim should debar them from taking Mahaquizzer again ;) Congratulations are also in order to (Pune winner) Ramanand for a decent showing, even though he just misses out on the national top 10. Update: The list of city-wise winners (by category) is also up.

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks!) School Winner: nandan Gokhale - Fergusson College (24) College Winner: saransh Verma - Sinhgadh College of Engineering (27) Ladies Winner: maitreyi Gupta - Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (29)* Open Category Winner: J. ramanand (68) * maitreyi also had the highest score by a college student, but the Ladies and College prizes were awarded separately Number of participants: 32 (a little disappointing because some of the registered participants did not show up. Unluckily, we also did have about 6-8 people out of town.) Official Final standings will be out soon .

The KQA's annual solo quizzing championship Mahaquizzer will also be held in Pune, along with 8 other cities. The Pune details can be seen here, while click here for the official homepage .

Mahaquizzer 2007 - Results Open category winner: J. Ramanand College winner: Sandeep M. (IIT Madras) Ladies winner: Vibha Iyer (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) (Sadly, I don't remember the name of the school winner - if someone does, please leave name and school in the comments.)

KQA 'Mahaquizzer' 2007 The Karnataka Quiz Association will hold the third edition of Mahaquizzer, the annual solo quiz contest, in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and New Delhi on Sunday, 27 May 2007. Mahaquizzer is a written quiz; 150 general questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Prizes will be awarded to the person with the top score in each city, as also to the best woman entrant, the best college entrant and the best school entrant in each city. The person with the top score across the cities will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for this year. The winner will also receive the Wing Commander Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence from Wingco's family on Sunday, 24 June at the time of the KQA Anniversary. Date of contest: Sunday, 27 May 2007 Time: 1000hrs-1130hrs at all venues No entry fee Open to all (above the age of 12) A list of venues and city coordinators can be seen at this link . For Pune, the venue is...