“Karnataka Quiz Association”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Karnataka Quiz Association (or KQA) was founded in 1983 by the late Wing Commander G.R.Mulky, Deepak Murdeshwar, Rajeev Gowda, Thomas Uthup, K.N.Mahabala, Thribhuvan Kumar, P.Raju and Jagadish Raja^[1] 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.

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 2000 people at present.

KQA quizzes normally used to take place once every month at the Daly Memorial Hall, a charming British-era building on Nrupatunga Road. Now, however the venue has shifted to Arakere Hall(also known as the IAT Hall) on Queen's 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 as well as a solo quiz event called MindSweep 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.

The Texas Instruments Science and Technology Quiz

The TI Foundation has conducted a quiz in science and technology for school students since 2003 in collaboration with the KQA. The quiz was originally named after Nobel laureate Jack Kilby who designed the first Integrated Circuit while working for Texas Instruments but is now known by the name of the company. 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.In the year 2008, the contest was extended to two more cities - Pune and Kolkata.

Texas Instruments Science & Technology Quiz winners

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 each year.

MahaQuizzer winners

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

Mega-Whats

Mega-Whats is the National Open Quizzing Championship, begun in 2009. The contest is held simultaneously in several Indian cities on the second Sunday in December every year. Winners from these cities then meet each other for the Mega-Whats Face-off the following June during the KQA Anniversary.

Mega-Whats City Winners 2009

Mega-Whats City Winners 2010

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/about/|title=About KQA|work=Karnataka Quiz Association|accessdate=2011-11-01}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2011/06/10/mahaquizzer-2011-top-100-and-international-results/|title=Mahaquizzer 2011 Top 100 and International results|date=9 June 2011|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2012/06/12/mahaquizzer-2012-top-100-scores/|title=Mahaquizzer 2012 – Top 100 scores|date=12 June 2012|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2013/06/09/mahaquizzer-2013-top-100-scores/|title=Mahaquizzer 2013 – Top 100 Scores|date=9 June 2013|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2013/12/21/anniversary-mahaquizzer-2013-scores/|title=Anniversary Mahaquizzer 2013 Scores|date=21 December 2013|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2014/12/28/mahaquizzer-2014-scores-and-ranks/|title=Mahaquizzer 2014 – Scores and Ranks|date=27 December 2014|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2015/12/28/mahaquizzer-2015-results/|title=Mahaquizzer 2015 Scores and Ranks|date=28 December 2015|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2017/01/02/mahaquizzer-2016-results/|title=Mahaquizzer 2016 – Results|date=2 January 2017|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://kqaquizzes.org/2018/01/10/mahaquizzer-2017-rankings/|title=MahaQuizzer 2017 – Rankings|date=9 January 2018|website=kqaquizzes.org}}
10. ^http://kqaquizzes.org/2018/12/24/mahaquizzer-2018-results/