Phase Forward ACE 2008 Corporate Quiz

Thanks to everyone who helped with WQC and Mahaquizzer. Another quiz is on the cards. It has a blog.

The Hyderabad chapter of Asha, in association with Phase Forward and the Indian School of Business present their annual summer fund-raising even, the Phase Forward ACE 2008 Corporate Quiz.

Date: 14^th June, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Khemka Auditorium, ISB, Gachi Bowli, Hyderabad

Quizmasters: Quizerati

Prizes: A total of Rs. 50,000 +

Entry: Rs. 5000 per team of 2, Rs. 4000 per team if more than one team from the same organization, Rs. 4500 for the Early Birds (before May 31^st)

More details, entry forms, FAQ etc. on the website.

Do help Asha by being a sponsor or participant, and with publicity etc.

World Quizzing Championship - 2008 @ Hyderabad

The World Quizzing Championships - 2008, an individual quiz contest, will be held on Saturday, 7th June 2008 at Hyderabad and five other cities across India and 23 countries worldwide.


The quiz would have 240 questions spread across 8 genres to be answered in 2 hrs (120 qns on either side of a 15 minute break).


Those interested in participating must mail quizhyd@yahoogroups.com or priyambad@gmail.com.

Please do try and register by Thursday 5th June 2008. On-the-spot entries will be allowed if seating is available, but in the event of a space-crunch, first preference will be given to those who had registered before the deadline.


Date: 7th June, Saturday

Time of Registration: 1600hrs ( 4 PM)

Event starts at: 1630hrs (4:30 PM simultaneously at all locations).

Venue:
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd.
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad -73

Directions:
From Punjagutta, take the road that goes towards Ameerpet. Cross the Fantoosh-greenlands road junction. Keep going on the road till you see HUDA Complex- Maitrivanam on the RIGHT. Swarnajayanti Complex is the complex immediately after the HUDA complex on the RIGHT.

Map:


















Coordinator: Priyambad Pattanayak(91-9948 453388)

Other cities: New Delhi. Chennai. Mumbai. Bangalore. Kolkata.

Additional information:
The categories of the quiz [and general content areas] are a combination of academic and popular culture topics including:

Culture [Architecture, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Museums,Religion,Mythology]

Entertainment [Music (Classical, Blues, Film Score, Jazz, Rock, World), Ballet, Musicals and Operas, Radio, Television]

History [(<450AD),(450- 1492),(1492- 1900),(1900- date), Current Affairs, Explorations, Famous People, Civilizations]

Lifestyle [Costume, Design, Fashion, Food & Drink, Handicrafts, Health & Fitness,Human Body, New Age Beliefs, Products & Brands, Tourism]

Media [Movies [(1900-1980) , (1980-2000)] , (recent), Literature [(<1900),(1900- 1980),(recent) ], Poetry, Drama, Comics, Language]

Science [Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Social Sciences, Fauna, Flora]

Sport [Track and Field, Team Sports, Motor Sports, Winter Sports, Games, Hobbies & Passtimes, Records]

World [Geography, Cities, Space, Technology, Transport, Inventions]

Phase Forward ACE 2008 Corporate Quiz

The Hyderabad chapter of Asha, in association with Phase Forward and the Indian School of Business present their annual summer fund-raising even, the Phase Forward ACE 2008 Corporate Quiz.

Date: 14^th June, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Khemka Auditorium, ISB, Gachi Bowli, Hyderabad

Quizmasters: Quizerati

Prizes: A total of Rs. 50,000 +

Entry: Rs. 5000 per team of 2, Rs. 4000 per team if more than one team from the same organization, Rs. 4500 for the Early Birds (before May 31^st)

More details, entry forms, FAQ etc. on the website.

Do help Asha by being a sponsor or participant, and with publicity etc.

Mahaquizzer 2008

The 2008 edition of the Karnataka Quiz Association's annual individual written quiz Mahaquizzer will be held this weekend. This is an open quiz.

There are prizes for best overall quizzer, best woman participant, and best student participant. Please carry valid identification if you are competing as a school/college student.

Write to kqaquizzes [AT] gmail [DOT] com or mahaquizzer [AT] gmail [DOT] com to register, mentioning which city you would like to appear from in the subject line.

Date: 18 May, 2008 (Sunday)

Reporting Time: 0930 (Please be in your seats by this time. No one will be allowed in after 0945.)

Venue:
Innobox Systems Pvt Ltd
#G19, Ground Floor,
Swarnajayanthi Complex,
SR Nagar, Hyderabad - 73

Map:



Directions: From Punjagutta, take the road that goes towards Ameerpet. Cross the Fantoosh-greenlands road junction. Keep going on the road till you see HUDA Complex- Maitrivanam on the RIGHT. Swarnajayanti Complex is the complex immediately after the HUDA complex on the RIGHT.

Hyderabad Coordinator: Satyajit Chetri (91-99591-89943)

Classroom,Classroom...My kingdom for a classroom!

Or, maybe not.

The point being that the 4th edition of the Karnataka Quiz Association's annual summer written individual Mahaquizzer quiz is scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m., on Sunday, 18 May.

And we are trying to help them arrange a venue for the same. And it is turning to be a herculean task at the moment. So please if any of you out there have any information/contact who can help us with the same then do let us know by dropping a mail to quizhyd[at]gmail [dot] com.

Help would be much appreciated. Helpers would be suitably rewarded too.

Mahaquizzer 2008

FYI

> From: arulmani_98@yahoo.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:08:50 +0000
> Subject: [kqanews] Mahaquizzer 2008
>
> Hello,
>
> Mahaquizzer, KQA's annual solo championship, will be
> held on Sunday, > 18 May 2008. As usual, the
> contest will require you to answer 150 questions in
> 90 minutes.
>
> Those who have already begun shuffling towards
> encyclopedias devoted to vague plants and animals
> should note first that this year's contest is being
> set by a new team--Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa,
> Avinash Thirumalai and Mihir Jayaraman, coordinated
> by Ochintya Sharma.
>
> The contest will be held simultaneously in nine
> cities: Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad,
> Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.
>
> We are working on finalising the venues--a list
> with full addresses will be put up at
> http://kqaquizzes.org
> in a couple of weeks.
>
> Four prizes will be given out in each city: Best
> Quizzer, Best Lady Quizzer, Best College Quizzer
> and Best School Quizzer.
>
> The person recording the highest score across all
> centres will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for 2008.
> She/he will also be awarded the Wing Commander
> G.R. Mulky Trophy for Quizzing Excellence. This
> trophy will be awarded in June 2008 during the KQA
> 25th Anniversary event.
>
> You can have a look at previous editions of the quiz
> here: http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes
>
> Participants interested in registering should mail
> mahaquizzer AT gmail DOT com. Please mention the
> city where you would like to appear from in the
> subject-header. Please do mention age and
> institutional affiliations if you are a student.
>
> For clarifications or for more information, please
> call me at 98452-06690.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Best Regards
>
> Arul Mani

THRILLA in HQC

QM : Priyambad Pattayanayak and Nitish Khadiya

Format : Written prelims followed by a final for six teams
Finals - Infinite Bounce and one written round.

Winners : 1.Kiddo and Diwakar
2.JK and Vijay
3.Majji and Borax

Report : Those present at the vasavi audi on 6th april came to experience first hand what back with a bang meant.
After a couple of months in the wilderness HQC came back with a quiz that enthralled one and all. It is hard to find a specialist quiz that satisfies everyone but this came mighty close with questions on every facet of sport from polo to atari to origin of the word sport itself.
The prelims were very good bunch of workoutable questions mixed with some trivia and due diligence questions. The final that followed topped it by a mile, there were very few repeats and the quiz covered a wide range of sports and not just three or four.
Kiddo and Diwakar(who scored an incredible 20.5/25 in the prelim) raced into a lead early on and comfortably won the quiz and it always looked like a race for the second spot which was taken by the team of vijay and jk who came up with some memorable cracks.
The audience were kept interested throughout with new funda's in every question and the special written round were one had to recall one hit wonders like Helder postiga, Kanitkar and Pat Cash was particularly enjoyable.

On the whole a sunday morning well spent.

Thumbs Up:
1.Awesome questions.
2.No repeats.
3.Diwakar :-)

Thumbs Down:
1.Kiddo won again :-)
2.The hall was not great
3. the quiz was probably not advertised well enough.

Memorable questions:
Divot stomping, Augusta masters, Badminton, Superstars settling it in a WWE match, Atari and Go. I could go on.

On behalf of Praveen (Thanks a lot dude for the effort)