QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Are you Wordy or Not?
If you attended the Panjim Monthly on the 7th, you would know what it means to be in thrall of a true connoisseur of the words. There were just so many words- wordplays, words within words and verbose texts that had us scratching our heads and pulling our hair -this was mostly Mayur Shett- to arrive at the answers.
Annie was at his loquacious best as the QM, deftly navigating multiple genres with aplomb– from Taiwan politics to Greek mythology and from Zulu songs to Bombay mafia and even 6 connect questions thrown in for good measure.
It was a good day for SEQC overall as some of our folks scooped up the awards at the Janaki Kamat Memorial quiz organized by Suraj Kamat and team at The Quizlabs earlier in the day. With high energy and a full house,we embarked into various rounds starting with the“Kangaroo” set. The chai and samosa break was especially welcome yesterday as we powered through six rounds in pursuit of Wordsmithdom.
We didn’t get an “Annie” question this time, but there was a self-referential Ho Chi Minh image—whose birth name was Nguyễn as we learned —so that sort of counts, I guess. Team 4 turned out to be wordy wise and came first with 335 points, with other teams not too far behind.
Overall, it was good fun and next time please bring your reading glasses (especially the back benchers).
-Ruchira Porob
Results
1st Place: Team IV (Shashwat Salgaocar, Kaivalya Karkare, Devika Shetty, Karan Dhingra, Omkar Bhurke, Aniruddh Kakodkar, Nikhilesh Rana, Saud Sayed, Husain Shetranjiwala) - 335 Points
2nd Place: Team V (Rajiv D'Silva, Ashwini Joglekar, Assis Sequeira, Upesh Pradhan, Melchior Teles, Chandrashekhar Rao, Isha Usgaonkar, Shreyas Naik, Siddhant Parab, Utsav Bannerjee) - 295 Points
3rd Place: Team II (R Samyak, Sanjay Parab, Ajay Poonia, Chinmay Naik, Saaereesh Naik, Vilas Pavithran, Viola Rodrigues, Swati Parab) - 290 Points
4th Place: Team III (Sujoy Dutta, Ruchira Porob, Mayur Shett, Arvind Sivakumaran, Nikhil Shirsat, Terrence D'Costa, Aaron Augustine, Anna Augustine, Arthur Augustine, Tarun Robbins) - 225 Points
5th Place: Team I (Aastha Dua, Anjali Sen Gupta , Magali Vaz, Srijit Kumar , Raunak Nevgi, Sunil Sardesai , Ira Almeida, Parind Phadte) - 205 Points
6th Place: Team VI (Ajey Patil, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Shaunak Sardessai , Soham Gaunekar, Ajit Nair, Rupika V, Angeline Pradhan, Dhanaraj) - 175 Points
