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  ABOUT KQA
KQA maintains a mailing list of quiz enthusiasts and institutions interested in quizzing and mails to them, free of cost, a bimonthly newsletter containing information about forthcoming quizzes and other information of interest to quizzers.
KQA's Quiz masters are occasionally called to conduct quizzes for All India Radio.
KQA conducts quizzes every year as memorials to late Ganesh Nayak and late Vidhyasagar Rajan, two quizzers who died in their prime.
members.tripod.com /~asimha/history.htm   (1044 words)

  
  Desicritics.org: Wing Commander G.R. Mulky, 'Wingco', Founder, KQA, Passes Away
The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA) was founded in 1983 by Wg Cdr (retd) Mulky, Deepak Murdeshwar, Rajeev Gowda, Thomas Uthup, K.N.Mahabala, Tribhuvan Kumar, P.Raju and Jagadish Raja.
On the side, we trained for the KQA Open Quizzes with a passion, founding a "secret" quiz group called Metaquizziks consisting of Myself, Naman, Rajsekar, Sundar Raman, Satish Chander, Turab and Arul Mani (Arul was "admitted" after extensive lobbying).
Quiz to him was important, but not the only thing in life.
desicritics.org /2006/02/04/092354.php   (1838 words)

  
 Opera Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Collection of themed quiz questions and answers including general knowledge, USA state capitals, picture, cryptic, math, and interactive quizzes.
Players may also download a quiz or submit a quiz to be added to the site.
Trivia quiz games organized into topics that include art, astronomy, geography, history, movies, music, sports, and a picture image quiz of locations.
portal.opera.com /web/?cat=82869   (1354 words)

  
 Games - Quizzing in India
The KQA organises quizzes at various levels of the games throughout the year, ranks teams on the basis of their performance across the season and also provides Quizmasters for other quizzes.
In 2005, the Association began Mahaquizzer, a solo championship that was held simultaneously in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Trivandrum.
Many accomplished quizzers have been associated with it over the years, and make it a point to drop in at the YMCA for a spot of quizzing followed by a cup of tea at the nearby Garden restaurant, if they're in town on a friday evening.
listing-index.ebay.com /games/Quizzing_in_India.html   (814 words)

  
 Karnataka Quiz Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karnataka_Quiz_Association   (268 words)

  
 Bangalore Summary
The city is the capital of Karnataka State in southern India and is the sixth-largest city in the nation.
Kannada, the official language of the state of Karnataka, is widely spoken in Bangalore, as are Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi.
Later the same year, the Karnataka Government, acting upon the directives of the Government of India, agreed to release 205 tmc of water from the river Kaveri to the Government of Tamil Nadu, which resulted in anti-Tamil riots that left 20 people dead.
www.bookrags.com /Bangalore   (5691 words)

  
 TCS - Media reports > Quizbrain to conduct TCS' rural IT quiz event
The quiz will be a part of the Bangalore IT.com 2001 scheduled to be held from November 1 to 5, 2001.
The results of the preliminary round and venues of the Zonal quiz will be announced at the DDPIs, office of the Deputy Commissioner, chief executive of the Zilla panchayats, Block Education Office and the respective schools and colleges in the district.
The top 50 teams per district in the preliminary round will qualify for the Zonal level quiz to be held at Gulbarga on October 3, Bellary on October 5, Dharwad on October 8, Mangalore on October 10, Mysore on October 12 and Bangalore on October 15.
www.tcs.com /0_media_room/reports/200108aug/20010810_quizbrain.htm   (434 words)

  
 Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Games/Video_Games/Recreation/Trivia/Browser_Based
Cool Quiz Trivia Network - Test trivia knowledge with free quizzes, silly surveys, trivia questions, movie quotes, and forums for entertainment and educational purposes.
Karnataka Quiz Association - India quiz society site offering general knowledge trivia quizzes and information about the organization.
Stuart's Quiz Pages - Collection of themed quiz questions and answers including general knowledge, USA state capitals, picture, cryptic, math, and interactive quizzes.
reference.com /Dir/Games/Video_Games/Recreation/Trivia/Browser_Based   (1320 words)

  
 chitraloka.com ::: Mega Portal For Kannada Cinema - Kavitha's Outburst - Seeks Government Interference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
She is not a member of the Association, and hence their decision is not binding on her.
Besides, the association did not consult her before taking the decision even though she stands to suffer the most.
Should the association hinder or hamper the screening of the film, we will lodge a police complaint against the association and its members and continue screening of our film.
www.chitraloka.com /sections/scoop/kavitha_outburst.shtml   (707 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Students in 5th, 6th and 7th standard participated with zeal as this was the first ever quiz competition organized in any of the 7 schools.
The quiz masters team came from Karnataka Quiz Association, which visited all 7 schools to select top teams.
Karnataka Quiz Association gave away the prizes to the winners and all participants were given consolation prizes by Akshara Foundation.
www.indianngos.com /citigroup/akshara/news20.htm   (246 words)

  
 Daly Haal
Nicholas Parsons, OBE, and radio celebrity from the Beeb, was in Bangalore on Friday (the 17th of November) to cover the activities and doings of the KQA as part of a documentary.
To facilitate, an invitational open quiz was held (non-ranking) with higher than usual levels of premier-bookshop-coupon-prizes (4000-3000-2000 and 600 for all finalist teams), ostensibly to cover for the uncomfortable Friday evening scheduling.
The St. John's auditorium on Sunday (5th November, 2006) was witness to one of KQA's fastest growing annual quizzes, the Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz, for students between the 8th and 10th grades.
community.livejournal.com /kqaquizzes   (6783 words)

  
 All India Management Association
Change of Guard At All India Management Association The result will be updated on website after revaluation on 18th September 2007 Conclusions & Recommendations of the Directors' Conclave AIMA CME opens It's New Study Center at Lodhi Road, New Delhi Call for Papers for the Third Issue of e-journal.
The 8th Annual General Meeting of AIMA Alumni Association was held on 24th March 2007 at AIMA.
AIMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (AAA) solicited the presence of its alumnus, MOD III and Module IV students and their families on the evening of 22nd September 2006 at 7-00 p.m.
www.aima-ind.org /alumni_intro.asp   (948 words)

  
 K Circle | Quiz Links
University of Delaware and has archived several great questions from a now defunct quiz group quiz@cs.purdue.edu (several of whose members are now active on quiznet).
There is a quiz every month (with audio and visual questions), along with a caption contest.
is a popular TV quiz show, and these are questions from one monumental episode, when Bill McKeag achieved a maximum score of 433 at 15 to 1 - correctly answering 43 consecutive questions, three of them on the buzzer.
www.kcircle.com /quizlinks.htm   (782 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Mysore News : Quiz competition to promote tourism
According to CII, three-member teams from six colleges in the city would be participating in the quiz competition, scheduled to begin at 9.30 a.m.
Seeking to highlight Karnataka's potential in tourism, the CII said the State's great religions and philosophies had attracted travellers and trader for many years.
"Karnataka's rich and natural landscapes are punctuated with ancient heritage structures and modern structures of the present and its hopes for the future," the release added.
www.hindu.com /2006/09/27/stories/2006092717800300.htm   (369 words)

  
 Quizzing in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the nineties, a quiz club named Guwahati Quiz Foundation was formed that had almost all the reputed quizzers of the region as its members.
This was an all India solo quiz based on Indian culture and heritage, conducted by the Tourism Department on the National Television Channel DD1 in the 80s.
A quiz that appeared on television, it was produced by Rupavahini (SLBC) in 1994, and hosted by Ravi John, a well known host from Sri Lanka, and the next year by Synergy Communications (for DD) and hosted by the Grand Old Man of TV quizzing - Siddhartha Basu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quizzing_in_India   (3686 words)

  
 Avinash Mudaliar's Ryze Business Networking Page
it consumes remnants of the salmon and the tuna which tickles the palate of the exalted highness (incase you are confused, its me) and associates itself with the exalted highness himself....
Questioning the validity and credo of his milieu has been a hallmark of Avinash, ever since he serendipitously made an entry into his school quiz team.
Avinash is also one of India’s leading quizmasters, and the former Secretary of the Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA), South India’s foremost Quizzing organization, having conducted more than seven hundred quizzes, and won over 800 odd.
www.ryze.com /view.php?who=AvinashMudal   (837 words)

  
 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE
The GE sponsored General Quiz was conducted by none other than Mr.
The Business Quiz and The Lone Wolf were conducted by Mr.
The Science & Technology Quiz and the Sports Quiz were conducted by Mr.
www.iimidr.ac.in /iim/pages/participants/nihilanth1.jsp   (174 words)

  
 The Hindu Business Line : Texas Instruments to hold quiz in Bangalore
BANGALORE: Texas Instruments, India is holding the inaugural `Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz', an inter-school event in association with the Karnataka Quiz Association.
The event to be held in the J. Tata Auditorium in the IISc campus on November 9, is named after Jack Kilby the inventor of the breakthrought monolithic integrated circuit or the microchip at TI decades ago, according to the company.
The quiz will accept up to six teams from schools and is expected to increase in scope in coming years, the release states.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/11/04/stories/2003110401041701.htm   (249 words)

  
 beatzo: Of Mahaquizzer, and Sneak Previews
I was in Bangalore the last year when it happened, and was made the coordinator of the Hyderabad segment of the quiz.
If that is the case, then the KQA relly needs to sort this issue out by next year.
But these are relatively minor quibbles in what was an extremely enjoyable quiz, and one that you evil buggers had immense amounts of sadistic fun in setting, I'm sure.
beatzo.livejournal.com /110171.html   (1476 words)

  
 SEraja - Search Results on the EventWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Quiz Program organised by Karnataka Quiz Association, Malleshwaram...
NIIT is organising Brush with mouse contest for college students at Andheri,...
General Quiz (Mech Dept).- RV QuizCorp will be conducting two quizzes.
www.seraja.com /search_results.jsp?searchMethod=tag&tagID=555   (345 words)

  
 Bangalore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Karnataka High Court, also called "Attara Kacheri" (which once housed the original "Eighteen Departments"), is the supreme judicial body in Karnataka and is located in Bangalore.
Kannada, the official language of the state of Karnataka, is widely spoken in Bangalore, as are Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Marathi and Hindi.
He was also closely associated with the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science in 1909 and University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) which was founded in 1917, UVCE is one of India's most prestigious engineering institutions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bangalore   (5612 words)

  
 Enlaces Karnataka. Viajes e información sobre Karnataka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Review and photos of Karnataka performing live at the Limelight Theatre, Aylesbury, on 13 July 2002.
Karnataka Legislature: Legislative Assembly and Council in Bangalore.
A network of some of the largest social movements on the planet (including the Zapatistas, MST (Brazil), and the Indian Karnataka State Farmers' Association), this site is a clearing house for resistance and struggle against globalisation in all its forms.
destinia.com /guide/odp/Karnataka/30987/es   (524 words)

  
 Metroblogging Bangalore: May 2006 Archives
There is always a lot of debate on Kannada not being spoken in Karnataka - and especially Bangalore - and the panacea, as usual, is on enforcing Kannada usage (and denunciation of folks using English - especially).
The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA), one of the city institutions all Bangaloreans should be proud of, will hold the second edition of Mahaquizzer, the annual solo quiz contest, in Bangalore, Chennai,...
Karnataka has a rich tradition of folk arts - crafts and music, dance and drama forms which are facing near extinction due to lack of patronage.
bangalore.metblogs.com /archives/2006/05   (2436 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : In Bangalore Today
Karnataka State Cooperative Federation: Vice-Chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, M.N. Sheelavantar inaugurates "Strengthening Professionalism and Implementation of Mass Media Technology Day", Chairman of Karnataka State Cooperative Housing Societies' Federation S.T. Somashekhar presides, Lok Sabha Member for Uttarahalli Tejaswini Sriramesh distributes prizes, 3, Diwan N. Madhava Rao Road, Basavanagudi, 11.30 a.m.
Karnataka Advocates' Society: Release of 2007 Diary, former general secretary of Advocates' Association H.M. Mariappa chief guest, senior advocate N.S. Satyanarayana Gupta releases the diary, association president D.L. Jagadish presides, Vakeelara Bhavana, City Civil Court Complex, 2.30 p.m.
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum: Inauguration of South Zone Biodiversity Quiz for school children of South India, 10 a.m.; valedictory, Meenakshi Negi, Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests distributes prizes, Kasturba Road, 4 p.m.
www.hindu.com /2006/11/15/stories/2006111521150400.htm   (678 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: Desicritics Quiz Time 1
Individuals band together to form a quiz team, usually of 4 members, and give themselves a name.
Quiz topics are very broad, ranging from rock to culture to ancient history to abstruse trivia about commonplace things.
Being able to pull together the knowledge one has and present it on the spot in 30 seconds is an experience one cannot describe to the unitiated(British Quiz Association FAQ on quizzing) Most quizzers have their specialities, and a motley, eclectic collection of curiosities & complementary skillsmakes a good team
desicritics.org /2006/03/08/002146.php   (1344 words)

  
 AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
Interactive quiz site similar to the game show "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Questions include movie, sports and music trivia.
Compete against another online opponent to place a city on a world map as quickly and accurately as you can.
Set of educational trivia quizzes on a variety of specialty subjects.
www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Games/Video_Games/Recreation/Trivia/Browser_Based   (1305 words)

  
 Metroblogging Bangalore: KQA Mahaquizzer 2006
The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA), one of the city institutions all Bangaloreans should be proud of, will hold the second edition of Mahaquizzer, the annual solo quiz contest, in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and New Delhi on Sunday, the 21st of May, 2006.
The first edition of the KQA MahaQuizzer was conducted on June 12, 2005 at Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum and Mumbai.
And if you would want to try out the questions from KQA Mahaquizzer 1, here's where you will find them.
bangalore.metblogs.com /archives/2006/05/kqa_mahaquizzer_2006.phtml   (293 words)

  
 Anurag Jain's Blog on Bangalore, travel, events, IIM, management
The quiz is open to all members of the general public, irrespective of age or institutional affiliation.
Karnataka Tourism Forum, the accepted representative of Tourism industry in Karnataka is in association with Departments of Tourism of Government of Karnataka and Government of India, organizing a Treasure Hunt, in Bangalore, on August 15th 2004.
The proceeds from the quiz go towards education of underprivileged children in CRY projects across the country.
anuragjain.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_anuragjain_archive.html   (7163 words)

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