Monday, October 31, 2016

Panjim November Quiz

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

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Margao October Monthly

Date: Saturday, October 29th, 2016
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Harsh Hegde & Sahil Ramchandani
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Earthen Oven Pub Quiz


Master, Mind It! events rescheduled

The opening Round of matches scheduled for Margao on October 29 has been rescheduled. It will now be held – at the Urban Health Centre in Margao – on November 27. The semi-finals of the MMI competition will now be held on December 18, and the finals as part of QuizStock, SEQC's annual quizzing festival, in January 2017.

Master, Mind It! Round 1 (Panjim) – content

Match 1



Match 2




Match 3

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Master, Mind It! - 16/Oct/2016 - Round 1 (Panjim) Results

Each quizzer selected a topic based on which questions were set by the QuizMaster, Aniruddha Sen Gupta.

Match 1
Ajey Patil - Weather Phenomena
Delson Roche - Stamps of Independent India
Anjali SenGupta - Medieval Indian History

Match 2
Chirag Mutgi - Comics
Sanjay Parab - Bollywood Movies
Vidyadhar Gadgil - 20th Century Political Revolutions
Mahesh Prabhu - Indian Politics

Match 3
Srijit Kumar - Superheroes
Madhura Chakraborty - Cats and Dogs
Sunil Sardessai - Hindu Mythology
Anant Sridhar Prabhu - Indian Cricket

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Master, Mind It! Round 1 (Panjim)

Date: Sunday October 16th
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 5 pm onwards
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Flavour: Two rounds – Chosen Subject + General Knowledge (like Mastermind, but with masala)
Participation: Pre-registered contestants only. Open to all to watch, entry free.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Goa History Quiz - 24/Sep/2016 - Results

QM: Rajiv D'Silva

FINAL

1st: St John of the Cross High School, Sanquelim (Agnes Fonseca, Saniya Mahendra Pednekar, Shreyas Jamkhandi) - 150 points

2nd: Holy Family High School, Porvorim (Eden Heredia, Salvius D'Cunha, Ujwal Tendulkar) - 130 points

3rd: Holy Family High School, Porvorim (Aloma Saldanha, Ariston Rodrigues, Madhusudan Hasbe) - 125 points

4th: A. J. De Almeida High School, Ponda (Anish Dhaimodkar, Ajinkya Sawkar, Rajay Kolhapurkar) - 120 points

5th: Bhatikar Model High School, Margao (Harsh Prabhudessai, Sanket Sinari, Rahul Swar) - 80 points

6th: Bhatikar Model High School, Margao (Gaurang Nayak, Ashish Kelkar, Sanket Bhat) - 70 points

[Bold face below signifies teams qualifying for the Finals]
Semi-final 1
1st: Holy Family High School, Porvorim (Eden Heredia, Salvius D'Cunha, Ujwal Tendulkar) - 65 points
2nd: St Britto High School, Mapusa (Hrishikesh Chanekar, Mervyn Fernandes, Noah Martins) + St Mary's Convent High School, Mapusa (Arya Gauns, Brianne D'Souza, Zenia Braganza) - 55 points
4th: Dr K.B. Hedgewar High School, Panjim (Manas Hadkar, Rounak Naik, Saitej Amonkar) - 40 points
5th: St Britto High School, Mapusa (Ansley Lobo, Calvin D'Mellow, Siddhant Shet) - 20 points
6th: Dr K.B. Hedgewar High School, Panjim (Atharva Bhatta, Rohan Vadyekar, Shreyash Naik) - 40 points

Semi-final 2
1st: St John of the Cross High School, Sanquelim (Agnes Fonseca, Saniya Mahendra Pednekar, Shreyas Jamkhandi) - 90 points
2nd: Holy Family High School, Porvorim (Aloma Saldanha, Ariston Rodrigues, Madhusudan Hasbe) - 55 points [qualified via tie-breaker]
3rd: Mushtifund High School, Cujira (Atharva Kenkre, Rishikesh Kalghatkar, Sarvesh Lad) - 40 points
4th: St Mary's Convent High School, Mapusa (Maria Dancho, Radhiya Mahambrey, Shannon Vaz) + Chubby Cheeks Spring Valley High school, Porvorim (Aldrin A.A. Fernandes, Diguesh A. Parab, Reuben Nazareth) + G.S. Amonkar Vidya Mandir, Mapusa (Amit S. Balekundri, Tejas R. Takkekar, Varun P. Desai) - 35 points

Semi-final 3
1st: Bhatikar Model High School, Margao (Gaurang Nayak, Ashish Kelkar, Sanket Bhat) - 60 points
2nd: Loyola High School, Margao (Jeremiah Pacheco, Irvin Joao, Rahul Shanbag) - 30 points
3rd: Fatima Convent High School, Margao (Karina Pinto Do Rosario, Khiara Pinto Do Rosario, Rianne Barretto) + Government High School, Betoda (Rushikesh Chari, Priyanka Gaonkar, Riya Gaonkar) - 5 points
5th: Mae Dos Pobres High School, Nuvem (Yeshoda Colaco, Meenaba Gohil, Muriel Barretto) + Loyola High School, Margao (Jyle Fernandes, Reeve Rodrigues, Amit Sukhtanker) - -5 points

Semi-final 4
1st: A. J. De Almeida High School, Ponda (Anish Dhaimodkar, Ajinkya Sawkar, Rajay Kolhapurkar) - 80 points
2nd: Bhatikar Model High School, Margao (Harsh Prabhudessai, Sanket Sinari, Rahul Swar) - 65 points
3rd: St. Theresa of Jesus High School, Chaudi (Sayuga Kenkre, Chirag Desai, Moeesha Kenkre) - 45 points
4th: Anjuman H. I. High School, Vasco (Imam Mulla, Anand Madar, Summaiya Attar) - 20 points
5th: St. Rita’s High School, Maina-Curtorim (Christopher D’Souza, Amisha Silva, Maloma Rebello) + St. Rita’s High School, Maina-Curtorim (Paula Dacosta, Chloe Antao, Kalpana Kammar) - 15 points

Friday, October 7, 2016

BiG Q 2016 – scores and content

A total of 40 participants took The BiG Q test across Panjim and Margao, down from 51 in 2015 -- continuing a relentless downward trend in the number of people answering this quiz. The format changes initiated last year were enhanced this time around, with several new sections added. The total number of possible points in The BiG Q 2016 amounted to 150.

As with last year, Rajiv D'Silva and Vidyadhar Gadgil are the two quizzers at the top of the rankings. Where this year's results differ from the previous edition, though, is that there is no tie, with Rajiv beating Gadgil by 76 points to 72. This year's BiG Q, therefore, is Rajiv D'Silva, while Vidyadhar Gadgil takes the crown of Best Open Quizzer from Panjim. The Margao Best Open Quizzer is Sanjiv Prabhudessai, who scored 49 points. The top Schools quizzers across both venues were closely bunched around the 30-point mark. Altamash Panjwany, who scored 31, beats his nearest competitor, Ishan Kakodkar, by 2 points to take the title of Best Schools Quizzer from Margao; the BSQ in Panjim, Kaivalya Karkare, is slotted between them in the overall rankings, with 30 points.

Since this post has been a little delayed, the Panjim prizes have already been awarded -- during the Panjim monthly on October 2. The Margao prizes will be awarded on the sidelines of the Master, Mind It! competition scheduled for end-October. Winners are requested to try and attend.

Here are the top 10 finishers:


For the complete list of scores, click here.

The question paper (without answers) can be accessed here; and the answer key here.

BiG Q 2016 -- outstation venues

The BiG Q 2016 was answered by participants in Hyderabad, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These are the scores reported from those venues:

Abu Dhabi
Prasann Potdar 72
Biju James 40

Dubai
Alok Mohan 87
Nikhil Soneja 83
Shafeek M. K. 80
Doc Chandrashekhar Rao 72
Sandeepan Chaudhuri 67
Aniruddh Sivaram 48

Hyderabad
JKrishnamurthi 87
JK Lakshmi 77
Prasanna Karmarkar 63

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Panjim Oct Monthly - Results

QM -Ameya Mardolkar
Date -2/Oct/2016

1st:- Aarina Alphonse, Dyaneshwar Kamat, Mahesh Prabhu, Nehara Pandey, Pratham Naik, Rajiv D'Silva, Rutwik S. Sawant, Saish Borkar, Varun D'Silva - 32,128 points

2nd: - Aayush Jadhav, Affan Shaikh, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Anjali SenGupta, C N Prabhakar, Lynn Barreto Miranda, Soham Bhatkuly, Tanmay Pereira Naik, Vinaykumar H. - 13,857 points

3rd: - Abhijeet Virgincar, Anant Prabhu, Nitish Wagle, Parind Phadte, Sahil Garud, Viola Rodrigues, Yogesh Garud - 5130 points

4th:- Anjali Ameya, Anuradha Goyal, Gouthami, Paul Gatward, Shaunak S. Nagverkar, Terrence D'Costa, Vishwanath Rajan - 4698 points

5th:- Ajey Patil, Delson Roche, Kaivalya Karkare, Kanchan Gatward, Manali Manjarekar, Rutuja Kundaikar, Srijit Kumar - 4116 points

6th:- Astrid Vas, Chantal D'Costa, Ira Almeida, Madhura Chakraborty, Pranab Mukherjee, Shaila D'Souza, Shaunak Sardessai, Sunil Sardessai,Veenu Vas - 492 points

A scoring system in the spirit of the Olympics - it is not the victory, but the fight; not to have won, but to have done well!!!

Irish Open - 25/Sep/2016 - Results



Name Total



1 Aniruddh Sen Gupta 101
2 Rajiv D'Silva 87
3 Vidyadhar Gadgil 85
4 Ajey Patil 65
5 Nitish Wagle 61
6 Delson Roche 51
7 Paul Gatward 47
8 Viola Rodriguez 41
9 Anant Prabhu 36
10 Prabhakar 11
11 Anil Kumar 10