MINDSWEEP 2.0 & MEGA-WHATS 2012
What’s what
MindSweep is KQA’s international open solo quizzing championship while Mega-Whats is our annual national open quizzing championship for teams of four members.
MindSweep is KQA’s international open solo quizzing championship while Mega-Whats is our annual national open quizzing championship for teams of four members.
When
From this year on, MindSweep and Mega-Whats will be held on the same day over forenoon and afternoon sessions respectively.
From this year on, MindSweep and Mega-Whats will be held on the same day over forenoon and afternoon sessions respectively.
The date: Sunday 9 December 2012
Schedule
MindSweep: 1000hrs-1300hrs
Mega-Whats: 1500hrs-1830hrs
MindSweep: 1000hrs-1300hrs
Mega-Whats: 1500hrs-1830hrs
About Mega-Whats 2012
This year’s edition is set by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar and will be held in fourteen cities: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Guwahati, New Delhi, Panaji, Pune, Mysore, Coimbatore, and Thrissur. The winners from each of these cities, and two more from the top ten teams nationally, will battle it out at the Mega-What’s Face-off in ASKQANCE 2013, KQA’s 30th Anniversary Quiz Fest.
This year’s edition is set by Arun Hiregange and Kiran Vijayakumar and will be held in fourteen cities: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Guwahati, New Delhi, Panaji, Pune, Mysore, Coimbatore, and Thrissur. The winners from each of these cities, and two more from the top ten teams nationally, will battle it out at the Mega-What’s Face-off in ASKQANCE 2013, KQA’s 30th Anniversary Quiz Fest.
About MindSweep 2.0
MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.
MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.
The setters (Navin Rajaram, Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani) have enjoyed taking (and bulbing at) the World Quizzing Championships, perhaps because Indian quizzing is a wee bit different from its international cousin. MindSweep is our attempt at sharing the things we enjoy about quizzing with an international audience.
So, what the devil is distinctive about Indian quizzing? A privileging of good guesswork over memory; the triumph of generalists over specialists; bombing a syllabus, rather than using one; the pleasure of parsing, or unknotting, or sometimes being pythoned by a carefully coiled question; a festive relationship with the English language; and the strange appetite for knowing joy and defeat in one instant–a mystical state known as AJM, or Goddamn-it-I-was-that-close.
After the first edition of MindSweep in Jan 2012, several embittered souls sent in their punning suggestions (not all of them were polite) for what we should actually have called the quiz. We laughed, and carried on. The first edition of a quiz, like a first kiss, must elicit some reaction, some ‘hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of repose,’ or what’s a contemptibly long zindagi for?
In MindSweep 2.0, the taker will meet ten sets of questions (200 in all) over two one-hour sessions–this means two installments of five sets of questions, interrupted by a short 30-minute break for answers, corrections, and worship of the bladder.
MindSweep 2.0: The Topics
- The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
- Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
- Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
- Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
- Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
- Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
- Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society, Film-writing
- Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
- Food & Drink: From all over the world
- Travel: Places, Peoples, Languages, Landmarks, Journeys, Voyages, Means of Transport
If you would (after all this) like MindSweep to be held in your city/country, please mail kqaquizzes@gmail.com, and cc:arul.mani@gmail.com
from
http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep-2-0-mega-whats-2012/
from
http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep-2-0-mega-whats-2012/
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