Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Panjim January 2016 Monthly

Date: Sunday January 3
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 5pm onwards
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Margao December Quiz

Date: Sunday, December 27, 2015
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Sahil Ramchandani
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Mixed Doubles Stage 2 - Results

QM: Rajiv D'Silva

Match 3:
1st: Gouthami & Srijit Kumar - 120
2nd: Anjali & Aniruddha Sen Gupta - 110
3rd: Kanchan Gatward & Sanjay Parab - 70
4th: Ira Almeida & Vidyadhar Gadgil - 60
5th: Neha & Ramchandra Salgaonkar - 40

Match 4:
1st: Viola Rodrigues & Paul Gatward - 90
2nd: [Ashwini Joglekar & Nitish Wagle] & [Nehara Pandey & Ameya Mardolkar] - 65
4th: Chantal & Julian D'Costa - 60
5th: Kalpa Govekar & Siddhesh Shere - 30

Points table:
Team
Matches
Points scored
Points
Anjali & Aniruddha Sen Gupta
2
265
10
Gouthami & Srijit Kumar
2
210
10
Viola Rodrigues & Paul Gatward
2
165
9
Ashwini Joglekar & Nitish Wagle
2
125
7
Pamela D’Mello & Vidyadhar Gadgil
1
105
6
Nehara Pandey & Ameya Mardolkar
2
90
6
Kanchan Gatward & Sanjay Parab
2
130
5
Kalpa Govekar & Siddhesh Shere
2
90
4
Alyssa Patil & Vishwanath Rajan
1
70
4
Ira Almeida & Vidyadhar Gadgil
1
60
2
Chantal & Julian D’Costa
1
60
2
Neha & Ramchandra Salgaonkar
1
40
2
Sushila Mendonca & Mahesh Prabhu
1
0
2

The last and final stage of the competition will be held on the 17th of January.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

AsiaSweep - Goa Scores

Proctored by: Kanchan Gatward

1. Aniruddha Sen Gupta & Nitish Wagle - 33
2. Shashwat Salgaonkar & Vidyadhar Gadgil -24
3. Suraj Kamat & Vilas Pavithran - 15
4. Abhinav Dasgupta & Maitreyi Gupta - 14
5. Paul Gatward & Viola Rodrigues - 11
6. Sahil Ramchandani - 1

Mahaquizzer - Goa Scores

Proctored by: Kanchan Gatward

1. Aniruddha Sen Gupta - 65 (Open winner)
2. Abhinav Dasgupta - 48
3. Vidyadhar Gadgil - 43
4. Julian D'Costa - 41 (School winner)
5. Shaswat Salgaonkar - 38 (College winner)
6. Nitish Wagle - 27
7. Vilas Pavithran - 27
8. Paul Gatward - 21
9. Viola Rodrigues - 18 (Ladies winner)
10. Maitreyi Gupta - 16
11. Sunil Sardessai - 14
12. Sahil Ramchandani - 13
13. Suraj Kamat - 13
14. Joseph Da Silva - 6

Panjim December - Results & Content

QM: Vidyadhar Gadgil

1st: Aadit Barkataky, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, C. K. Siddharth, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Rajat Govekar, Sanjay Parab - 235
2nd: Ameya Mardolkar, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Blessie James, Eeshaan Vernekar, Pranjal Modak, Rajiv D'Silva - 200
3rd: Anou Raut Desai, Leroy Veloso, Paul Gatward, R. Samyak, Sahil Garud, Sunil Sardessai - 170
4th: Ashwin Kumar, Fatima Kumar, Pranav Khadpe, Shubham Tiwari, Shubhankar Gokhale, Soham Kamat, Srijit Kumar, Sven Falkenberg, Viola Rodrigues - 130
5th: Anant Prabhu, Anjali Sengupta, Mahesh Prabhu, Manas Hadkar, Sachin Chatte, Shashwat Salgaonkar, V. Sivakumar, Vedang Acharya - 125
6th: Gouthami, Kaivalya Karkare, Kanchan Gatward, Nitish Wagle, Vilas Pavithran, Yogesh Garud - 105

The next Panjim Monthly will be held on the 3rd of January 2016, to be hosted by Aniruddha Sen Gupta.

Quiz Dubai Brainbuster - Goa Scores

Proctored by: Kanchan Gatward

1. Aniruddha Sen Gupta - 47
2. Shashwat Salgaonkar - 29.5
3. Vidyadhar Gadgil - 26.5
4. Paul Gatward - 22.5
5. Ajey Patil - 18
6. Gouthami - 17.5
7. Viola Rodrigues - 15.5
8. Vilas Pavithran - 13.5
9. R. Samyak - 11.5
10. Amey Karpe - 11
11. Ameya Mardolkar - 9.5
12. Anjali Sengupta - 8.5
13. Vedang Acharya - 5
14. Shubham Tiwari - 5
15. Sahil Ramchandani - 5
16. Soham Kamat - 5
17. Rajat Govekar - 4
18. Dharma Rane - 3.5
19. Anou Raut Desai - 2.5
20. Pranjal Modak - 1.5

Asian Quizzing Championships - Goa Scores

Proctored by: Kanchan Gatward

1st: Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Anou Raut Desai, Gouthami, Nitish Wagle - 376
2nd: Chinmay Naik, Mohnish Sardessai, R. Samyak, Sahil Ramchandani - 254.5
3rd: Devansh Cholera, Paul Gatward, Suraj Kamat, Viola Rodrigues - 249
4th: Ajey Patil, Ameya Mardolkar, Amey Karpe, Sunil Sardessai - 223
5th: Dharma Rane, Rajat Govekar, Soham Kamat, Vedang Acharya - 120

Margao November Quiz - Results

QM: Nitish Wagle

1st: Aniruddha Sengupta, Chantal D'Costa, Jeremiah Pacheco, Sunil Sardessai, Suraj Kamat - 165
2nd: Ameya Mardolkar, Ira Almeida, Julian D'Costa, Lovell D'Souza, Lynn Barretto Miranda, Prasad Padhye - 85
3rd: J. Krishnamurthi, Soham Gaunekar, Srijit Kumar, Tanveer Mascarenhas - 80
4th: Priya Ramachandran, Rajiv D'Silva, Sahil Ramchandani, Sanjay Parab, Siddhant Parab - 70

The next Margao Monthly will be held on the 27th of December, to be hosted by Sahil Ramchandani.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Announcing QuizStock 2016


Begin the New Year with a quizzing bang! SEQC will host QuizStock 2016 on the weekend of January 9 and 10, 2016. Here's what's in store.

Saturday January 9

10.30am-1pm: The Year That Was Quiz
QM: Lynn Barreto Miranda
Non-competitive

2.30pm-4.30pm: Books Quiz
QM: Vidyadhar Gadgil
Competitive, written

5pm-8pm: The Goa Open
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Competitive, prelims and finals

Sunday January 10

10am-1.30pm: Bollywood Quiz
QM: Sanjay Parab
Non-competitive

2.30pm-4.30pm: Travel Quiz
QM: Rajiv D'Silva
Competitive, written

5pm-8pm: Sports Quiz
QM: Nitish Wagle
Competitive, prelims and finals

  • The quizzes are open to all, and entry is free.
  • There will be cash / kind prizes (even if minor ones) for all the competitive quizzes.
  • All competitive quizzes will be for teams of 3 (or fewer).
  • In both the prelims-based competitive quizzes, eight teams will qualify for the finals.
  • In the written quizzes, questions will be projected, and all teams will write down answers. Answers will be revealed and scores adjudged immediately afterward.
  • In the non-comp quizzes, all those who land up will be put into teams made up on the spot.

Mixed Doubles Stage 2


Mahaquizzer & Asiasweep

Mahaquizzer
Date: 13th December 2015
Time: 10.00 am (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 10.30 am sharp.
Venue: Urban Health Centre, Opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: KQA
Proctor: Kanchan Gatward
Flavour: General
Format: Written. 150 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.
Participation: Open to all, entry free. For individual participants.

Asiasweep
Date: 13th December 2015
Time: 2.30 pm (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 3.00 pm.
Venue: Urban Health Centre, Opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: KQA
Proctor: Kanchan Gatward
Flavour: Asia-specific
Format: Written, 100 questions
Participation: Open to all, entry free. For teams of two (solo participants are also allowed).

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Panjim December 2015 monthly

Date: Sunday December 6
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 5pm onwards
QM: Vidyadhar Gadgil
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free.

Quiz Dubai Brainbuster 2015

This is the annual solo written quiz put together by Dr Chandrashekhar and others at Quiz Dubai.

Date: Sunday December 6
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 3pm to 4.30pm (reporting time 2.45pm)
Proctor: Kanchan Gatward
Flavour: General
Format: Solo written quiz, 90 questions to be answered in 60 minutes.
Participation: Open to all, entry free.

NOTE: All participants should bring their own pens and backing boards, and be at the venue at least 15 minutes before the event begins. We will start at 3pm on the dot.

Asian Quizzing Championship (AQC) 2015, Goa edition

Date: Sunday December 6
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 9.30am to 1.30pm (reporting time 9.15am)
Proctor: Kanchan Gatward
Flavour: General
Participation: For pre-formed teams of four. Open to all, entry free.

This quiz has a complicated and long-winded format. It will be run in three parts: Part I is a 160-question written paper to be answered in 90 minutes. The 160 questions will cover eight categories: Entertainment, Media, Culture, Lifestyle, Sports and games, Science, World and History. This is to be taken by all members of the teams individually. The top three out of four individual scores for each category will be tallied for the final team score.

Part II of the quiz is a 50-question projected quiz, to be answered by the teams together.

Part III is a 60-question projected quiz, to be answered by individual members of the teams by rotation.

The final standings of the quiz will be determined by the cumulative scores of all the teams across the three parts.

Last year's question sets are available here for review:
Part I
Parts II and III

NOTE: All participants should bring their own pens and backing boards, and be at the venue at least 15 minutes before the event begins. We will start at 9.30am on the dot.

Whole lotta quizzin'

There's a whole lotta quizzin' coming up, with two consecutive Sundays full of day-long events.

December 6, ICG, Dona Paula9.30am-1.30pm: Asian Quizzing Championships
3pm-4.30pm: Quiz Dubai Brainbusters
5pm-8pm: Panjim monthly

December 13, Urban Health Centre, Margao10am-1pm: Mahaquizzer
2.30pm-4.30pm: Asiasweep
5pm-8pm: Mixed Doubles stage 2

These aside, the weekend of January 9-10 will witness QuizStock, our club's annual festival of quizzing. Six quizzes over two days, the schedule for which will be announced shortly.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Margao November Quiz

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2015
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Nitish Wagle
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Soliloquiz 2.0 - Goa scores


Name
Section 1
Section 2
Total
1
Aniruddha Sen Gupta
12.5
15
27.5
2
Ajey Patil
6.5
10
16.5
3
Ameya Mardolkar
5.5
8
13.5
4
Vidyadhar Gadgil
7.5
6
13.5
5
Kunal Naik
5
7
12
6
Paul Gatward
7
4
11
7
Vishwanath Rajan
3.5
7
10.5
8
Viola Rodrigues
5
5
10
9
Sunil Sardessai
4
5
9
10
Srijit Kumar
4.5
4
8.5
11
Anjali Sengupta
1
6
7
12
Gouthami
2
5
7
13
Parind Phadte
3
4
7
14
Manas Hadkar
1
2
3
15
C. N. Prabhakar
0
0
0
16
Karthik
0
0
0

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Mixed Doubles Round 1 - Results

QM: Rajiv D'Silva

Match 1:
1st: Pamela D'Mello & Vidyadhar Gadgil - 105
2nd: Alyssa Patil & Vishwanath Rajan - 70
3rd: Ashwini Joglekar & Nitish Wagle - 60
4th: Nehara Pandey & Ameya Mardolkar - 25
5th: Sushila Mendonca & Mahesh Prabhu - 0

Match 2:
1st: Anjali Sengupta & Aniruddha Sen Gupta - 155
2nd: Gouthami & Srijit Kumar - 90
3rd: Viola Rodrigues & Paul Gatward - 75
4th: Kanchan Gatward & Sanjay Parab + Kalpa Govekar & Siddhesh Shere - 60

Points table:
Team
Matches
Points scored
Points
Anjali Sengupta & Aniruddha Sen Gupta
1
155
6
Pamela D’Mello & Vidyadhar Gadgil
1
105
6
Gouthami & Srijit Kumar
1
90
4
Alyssa Patil & Vishwanath Rajan
1
70
4
Viola Rodrigues & Paul Gatward
1
75
3
Ashwini Joglekar & Nitish Wagle
1
60
3
Kanchan Gatward & Sanjay Parab
1
60
2
Kalpa Govekar & Siddhesh Shere
1
60
2
Nehara Pandey & Ameya Mardolkar
1
25
2
Sushila Mendonca & Mahesh Prabhu
1
0
2

The next round of the competition will be held on the 13th of December in Margao.