Karnataka Quiz Association

The Karnataka Quiz Association (or KQA) was founded in 1983 by the late Wing Commander G.R.Mulky and other quizzing enthusiasts. The KQA is a non-profit association devoted to popularizing the mindsport among students and the general public in Bangalore and beyond. Contests are held regularly in the following categories: Middle School, High School, Junior College, College, and Open-to-all. In addition, specialist quizzes in the areas of Literature, Entertainment, Music, Art, Comics and Business are held every year.

The KQA holds events in English and Kannada.

Apart from holding contests, the KQA also conducts workshops in quizzing for school students and provides quizmasters for events held by other organisations.

The KQA has an informal membership policy. People interested in quizzing sign up to receive a free email newsletter about forthcoming contests. The newsletter goes out to about 1200 people at present.

KQA quizzes normally happen once every month at the Daly Memorial Hall, a charming British-era building on Nrupatunga Road.

KQA's flagship event, ASKQANCE, is held in the third week of June every year and comprises three quizzes, one each in the School, Corporate and Open Categories. The KQA also holds a solo quiz titled [Mahaquizzer] across India's several quizzing cities annually. Since 2003, the KQA has collaborated with the TI Foundation in conducting the Jack Kilby Quiz in Science and Technology for high school students.

ASKQANCE

The quizzing season in Bangalore has always begun with an open quiz in June to mark the anniversary of the founding of the KQA. This tradition was reworked around the time of the 20th anniversary in 2003 to include a School Quiz, a Corporate Quiz and the customary Open Quiz. This festival of quizzing was christened ASKQANCE to celebrate the ethic of thinking laterally and working things out. ASKQANCE draws teams from other quizzing centres such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, New Delhi and Pune.

Jack Kilby Quiz

The TI Foundation has conducted a quiz in science and technology for school students since 2003 in collaboration with the KQA. The quiz is named after Nobel laureate Jack Kilby who designed the first Integrated Circuit while working for Texas Instruments. The first three editions of the quiz, hosted by Ochintya Sharma, were held in Bangalore, and attracted participation from more than 200 schools in the region. The quiz went national in 2006, with winners from Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi facing off at a grand finale in Delhi.

Jack Kilby Quiz winners

:2003: National Public School (Indiranagar):2004: Delhi Public School, Bangalore:2005: Sri Kumaran Children's Home:2006: Bangalore Winners -- National Public School (Indiranagar):2006: Chennai Winners -- SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya:2006: New Delhi Winners -- DPS RK Puram:2006: Overall Championship: National Public School (Indiranagar):2007: New Delhi Winners -- Bluebell:2007: Chennai Winners -- Vidya Mandir, Mylapore:2007: Bangalore Winners -- Sri Kumaran Children's Home:2007: Overall Championship -- Vidya Mandir, Mylapore, Chennai

MahaQuizzer

Mahaquizzer was begun in 2005 as an attempt to popularise KQA-style quizzing in other parts of the country. The quiz is a solo championship requiring contestants to try out 150 questions over 90 minutes on the same day at different venues across the country. The first edition of the quiz was held in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai. The quiz was extended to New Delhi, Pune and Kolkata in 2006 while Bhubaneshwar became a venue in 2007.

Winners are declared for each city and the overall winner is awarded the MahaQuizzer title for that year. Since 2006, the Wing Commander G.R. Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence has been awarded to the overall winner.

MahaQuizzer winners

2005: Anustup Datta, Bangalore
2006: Swaminathan G., Kolkata
2007: Samanth Subramanian, Chennai
2008: Arul Mani, Bangalore

Go Ogle

KQA also holds an online solo quiz championship titled Go Ogle on New Year's Day. The quiz attracts participants from a small band of diehard quizzers across the world.

Go Ogle winners

2006: Anustup Datta, Bangalore
2007: Siddhartha Sen, Bangalore
2008: Kiran Vijayakumar, Chennai

See also

* Quizzing in India
* Mahaquizzer

External links

* [http://kqaquizzes.org The New KQA site]
* [http://members.tripod.com/~asimha/main.htm The Karnataka Quiz Association]
* [http://members.tripod.com/~asimha/main.htm MahaQuizzer Questions]
* [http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/kqanews KQA Newsletter]
* [http://www.livejournal.com/community/kqaquizzes/ Daly Haal - The KQA journal]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/13668.html Go Ogle]
* [http://desicritics.org/2006/02/04/092354.php Wing Commander G.R. Mulky, 'Wingco', Founder, KQA, Passes Away February 4, 2006]