Quiz Club
IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club is the official quiz society of IIT Kharagpur. A great place for quiz enthusiasts, it is an open society where any sort of exclusive membership is not required. It organises regular quiz sessions on the campus. These sessions are usually held at the Yoga Room (1st floor) in Gymkhana at 10 PM. Prior information is circulated via the facebook page of Quiz club. Students participate in various competitions like Inter IIT Tech Meet, Inter IIT Cultural Meet, Nihilanth, Tata Crucible Biz Quiz, TAPMI QoTB, DDM IT Quiz and various other college and open quizzes in and around Kharagpur. The recent exploits of IIT Kgp Quiz Club in various quizzes all over India has garnered them respect in the Kolkata quizzing circuit.
Beginnings
Quiz Club formally started on 14th March 2004. Since then, it has reached new heights under the leadership of various governors over the years.
Conducted Events
Freshers' Quiz
Every year the quiz club welcomes the freshers at IIT Kharagpur with a fun quiz to encourage the young minds to pursue their interests in quizzing. Participation is open to all freshers and they come together in teams to win handsome prizes for themselves.
Open IIT Quiz
Another event of great importance in our quizzing calendar. With a great turnout, participants indulge in intense quizzing and with great answers to take home the prize. Past governors and eminent quizmasters are invited to host the event and it has been a great success in recent years.
General Championship quizzes
The Biz, Sci-Tech and General quizzes during the General Championships are very important events in the College. They constitute a good number of points and the respective halls battle their wits to come out on the top. Major Chandrakant Nair, the quiz master for 2018, commented that such enthusiasm for Inter-hall competitions in college is very enthusing.
The quizmasters for 2019 were Samanway Banerjee for the Biz and Sci-Tech quizzes along with Baneswar Sarker and Arindam Dutta for the General quiz.
Quiz Week
A brand new event hosted by the Quiz Club for the first time in 2018, the quiz week has 8 quizzes in its array for an entire week, with a quiz also held exclusively for women participants on International Women's Day. Participation was open to all and the event turned out to be a huge success for the club
List of Governors
- 2022-23 : Devika Narayanan (MF'23), Mihir Shrivastava (PH'23), Yashashvi Srivastava (ME'23)
- 2021-22 : Anshuman Agarwal (CH'22), Girish Suranje (GG'22)
- 2020-21 : Piyush Kedia (MT'21), Deepanshu Sinha (MI'21), Kaustav Mandal (CH'21)
- 2019-20 : Abhimanyu Bharade (CH'20), Shubham (MI'20), Baibhab Pattnaik (PH'20)
- 2018-19 : Mohit Tulsyan (IE'19), Amit Kumar Ram (MT'19), Harsh Agarwal (NA'19)
- 2017-18 : Ashutosh Dwivedi (HS'18), Mayank Roy (CS'18)
- 2016-17 : Arkopal Datta (NA'17), Naman Mitruka (EC'17), Shashank Kuchibothla (CS'17)
- 2015-16 : Arijit Patra (ME'16), Digant Pandey (CE'16), Saumaric Dangwal (GG'16)
- 2014-15 : Arman Sharma (EC'15), Ratan Rahul (CS'15), Somashish Ghosh (CE'15)
- 2013-14 : Ajay Viswanathan (EC'14), Keshav Vats(IE'14), Yogarishi Vyas(CS'14)
Achievements
| Year | Event | Quiz Type | Location | Team | Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | India Quiz | IIT Kanpur | Piyush Kedia, Shubham, Ashutosh Dwivedi | Silver |
| 2017 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | MELA Quiz | IIT Kanpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Baibhab Pattnaik, Piyush Kedia | Silver |
| 2017 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | Sports Quiz | IIT Kanpur | Abhimanyu Bharade, Deepanshu Sinha, Piyush Kedia | Bronze |
| 2017 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | General Quiz | IIT Kanpur | Shubham, Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia | Gold |
| 2017 | Tata Crucible Campus Quiz | Biz Quiz | Jamshedpur | Shubham, Harsh Agarwal | Regional Finalist |
| 2018 | Quiz on The Beach | Biz Quiz | Manipal | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Semifinalists, Regional winners |
| 2018 | Nihilanth | India Quiz | IIM Ahmedabad | Harsh Agarwal, Baibhab Pattnaik, Abhimanyu Bharade | Gold |
| 2018 | Gyandhara | General U-25 Quiz | IIEST Shibpur | Ashutosh Dwivedi, Baibhab Pattnaik, Piyush Kedia | Bronze |
| 2018 | Quiz | General Quiz | KPC Medical College | Ashutosh Dwivedi, Piyush Kedia | Gold |
| 2018 | Convolution | General Quiz | Jadavpur University | Ashutosh Dwivedi, Baibhab Pattnaik, Amit Kumar Ram | Gold |
| 2018 | Heritage quiz festival | General Quiz | Heritage Institute of Technology | Ashutosh Dwivedi, Mayank Roy, Amit Kumar Ram | Silver |
| 2018 | Bizzathlon | Biz Quiz | NIT Jamshedpur | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Silver |
| 2018 | Tata Crucible Campus Quiz | Biz Quiz | Jamshedpur | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia | Regional Finalist |
| 2018 | GES IIT Kgp | Biz-Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Harsh Agarwal, Shubham, Abhimanyu Bharade | Gold |
| 2018 | GES IIT Kgp | Biz-Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Rupam Kumar Dubey, Harsha Vattem | Bronze |
| 2018 | Quizzario, VGSoM | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Piyush Kedia | Gold |
| 2018 | Quizzario, VGSoM | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Shubham Kumar, Venkatesh Jaiswal | Bronze |
| 2018 | Spectrum | General Quiz | NIFT Kolkata | Venkatesh Jaiswal, Piyush Kedia | Gold |
| 2018 | Quizzomania, Impulse IIT Kgp | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Shubham Kumar, Abhimanyu Bharade | Gold |
| 2018 | Quizzomania, Impulse IIT Kgp | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Mohit Tulsyan | Silver |
| 2018 | COMPOSIT | Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Mohit Tulsyan, Mayank Roy, Bhutwala Raj, Sourav Kundu | Gold |
| 2018 | COMPOSIT | Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Silver |
| 2018 | MEGALITH | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Kaniska Ghosh, Shubham Mitra, Agnimitra Anand, Sourav Chirania | Gold |
| 2018 | MEGALITH | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Harsh Agarwal | Silver |
| 2018 | MEGALITH | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Ashutosh Dwivedi, Mayank Roy, Baibhab Pattnaik, Amit Kumar Ram | Bronze |
| 2018 | Wipro Quiz, Spring Fest | Environment Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Kaustav Mandal, Rupam Kumar Dubey | Silver |
| 2018 | Kshitij | Biz Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Harsh Agarwal, Shubham Kumar, Abhimanyu Bharade, Abhinav Jha | Gold |
| 2018 | Rendezvous | Sci-Tech | IIT Delhi | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Bhutwala Raj | Bronze |
| 2018 | NSSC | Space Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Baibhab Pattnaik, MIhir Shrivastava | Gold |
| 2018 | NSSC | Space Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Hemansh Kashyap, Deepanshu Sinha, Kaustav Mandal | Silver |
| 2018 | NSSC | Space Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia | Bronze |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | Sci-Tech Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Silver |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | Sports Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Deepanshu Sinha | Silver |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | Biz Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | India Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Deepanshu Sinha, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | MELA Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Baibhab Pattnaik. Amit Kumar Ram, Piyush Kedia | Bronze |
| 2018 | Inter IIT Cultural Meet | General Quiz | IIT Roorkee | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | Sci-Tech Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Bronze |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | India Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Harsh Agarwal, Shubham Kumar, Piyush Kedia | Gold |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | Biz Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Abhimanyu Bharade, Piyush Kedia, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | MELA Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Hemansh Kashyap, Mihir Shrivastava, Shubham Kumar | Bronze |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | Sports Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Piyush Kedia, Deepanshu Sinha, Kaniska Ghosh | Bronze |
| 2019 | Nihilanth | Lone-Wolf Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Piyush Kedia | Bronze |
| 2019 | Quiz on The Beach | Biz Quiz | Manipal | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Regional WInners |
| 2019 | Tata Crucible Campus Quiz | Biz Quiz | Kolkata | Piyush Kedia, Rupam Kumar Dubey | Winners (Kolkata Round) |
| 2019 | SBI Numero Yono | Biz Quiz | Patna | Piyush Kedia, Rupam Kumar Dubey, Girish Suranje | Runners up (Patna Round) |
| 2019 | QvicQvid | General U-25 Quiz | Presidency College | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2019 | QvicQvid | Food, Flags and Travel Quiz | Presidency College | Mihir Shrivastava, Abhimanyu Bharade | Bronze |
| 2018-19 | Kolkata Quiz Festival | College General Quiz | Kolkata | Piyush Kedia, Deepanshu Sinha, Amit Kumar Ram | Gold |
| 2018-19 | Catechyst | Biz-Tech Quiz | IIEST Shibpur | Piyush Kedia, Rupam Kumar Dubey | Bronze |
| 2019 | Spring Fest | SpEnt Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Baibhab Pattnaik, Bhutwala Raj, Mihir Shrivastava | Silver |
| 2019 | Spring Fest | SpEnt Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Gold |
| 2019 | Spring Fest | Biz-Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Baibhab Pattnaik, Sourav Kundu, Mihir Shrivastava | Silver |
| 2019 | Spring Fest | Biz-Tech Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade, Bhutwala Raj | Gold |
| 2019 | Mary Bucknell Trophy,
Spring Fest |
General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Baibhab Pattnaik, Sourav Kundu, Mihir Shrivastava | Silver |
| 2019 | Mary Bucknell Trophy,
Spring Fest |
General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Piyush Kedia, Abhimanyu Bharade | Gold |
| 2018-19 | XLRI Ensemble Valhalla | General Quiz | XLRI Jamshedpur | Baibhab Pattnaik, Shubham Kumar | Bronze |
| 2018-19 | XLRI Ensemble Valhalla | SpEnt Quiz | XLRI Jamshedpur | Baibhab Pattnaik, Shubham Kumar | Silver |
| 2018-19 | Quiz | Bollywood Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Piyush Kedia, Deepanshu Sinha, Venkatesh Jaiswal | Bronze |
| 2019 | Quarks | General Quiz | IEM Calcutta | Avi Sankritya, Abhinav Japesh, Somnath Jena | Gold |
| 2018-19 | Pantheon | Biz-Tech | BIT Mesra | Piyush Kedia, Rupam Kumar Dubey | Gold |
| 2019 | Carpe Diem | General Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Amit Kumar Ram, Agnimitra Anand, Girish Suranje | Gold |
| 2019 | Carpe Diem | General Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Hemansh Kashyap, Deepanshu Sinha, Sourav Kundu | Silver |
| 2019 | Carpe Diem | General Quiz | IIM Calcutta | Kaustav Mandal, Rupam Kumar Dubey, Harsha Vattem | Bronze |
| 2019 | Quizzario, VGSoM | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Venkatesh Jaiswal, Shubham Kumar | Silver |
| 2019 | Quizzario, VGSoM | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Baibhab Pattnaik, MIhir Shrivastava | Gold |
| 2019 | MEGALITH | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Abhimanyu Bharade, Shubham Kumar | Gold |
| 2019 | MEGALITH | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Kaniska Ghosh, Hemansh Kashyap, Girish Suranje, Agnimitra Anand | Silver |
| 2019 | Quizzomania, Impulse | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Amit Kumar Ram, Girish Suranje | Gold |
| 2019 | Quizzomania, Impulse | General Quiz | IIT Kharagpur | Kaustav Mandal, Kaniska Ghosh | Silver |