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 2005: Anustup Datta 2006: Swaminathan G. 2007: Samanth Subramanian 2008: Arul Mani 2009: Anustup Datta 2010: Shouvik Guha 2011: Arul Mani 2012: Jayashree Mohanka 2013: Anustup Datta 2013*: Vikram Joshi 2014: Vinoo Sanjay 2015: Vinoo Sanjay 2016: Samanth Subramanian 2017: Rahul Kottalgi, Vinoo Sanjay 2018: Thejaswi Udupa A one-off KQA 30th Anniversary Special edition of Mahaquizzer was held 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 2009: Jayakanthan, Chennai 2010: Arun Hiregange, Bangalore 2011: Thejaswi Udupa, Bangalore Mega-Whats Mega-Whats is the National Open Quizzing Championship, begun in 2009. It is a general quiz open to teams that may consist of a maximum of 4 members. The contest is held simultaneously in several Indian cities on the second Sunday in May. The top 16 teams, including the top 8 city winners, compete against each other in the Mega-Whats Face-off the following June during the KQA Anniversary. Until 2012, the quiz was held on the second Sunday of December, and since then has shifted to the second Sunday in May. List of winners of Mega-Whats 2009: QED, Chennai, 67 (QED, Chennai) 2010: QED, Chennai, 76 (Insignificant Others, Chennai) 2011: QED, Chennai, 85 (QED, Chennai) 2012: MetaQuizziks, Bengaluru, 79 (QED, Chennai) 2014: MetaQuizziks, Bengaluru, 86 (QED, Chennai) 2015: QED, Chennai, 86 (QED, Chennai) 2016: We Are Like This (W)Only, Bengaluru, 72 (Remembrance of Things Fast, Chennai) 2017: QED, Chennai, 84 (We Are Like This (W)Only, Bengaluru) 2018: Aardvarks, New Delhi, 83 (We Are Like This (W)Only, Bengaluru) 2019: Remembrance of Things Fast, Bengaluru, 70 (QED, Chennai) (Mega-Whats Face-off winners in brackets) See also Quizzing in India Mahaquizzer References External links Article by Harshini Vakkalanka in The Hindu, 2011 Article by Sevanti Ninan in The Hindu, 2003 Student quiz competitions Organisations based in Bangalore Competitions in India 1983 establishments in Karnataka Organizations established in 1983