Goa Open 2026

The Goa Open is back after a gap of 6 years. It's scheduled for Sunday, May 10, at the Goa Business School, starting 4pm.

It's open to all in teams of 3, but with one caveat. A team can contain a maximum of either:

* 1 person from List 1 and 1 person from List 2; 

or

* 2 persons from List 2

List 1: Doc Shekhar, Ira Prem, Nitish Wagle, Rajiv D'Silva, Shashwat Salgaonkar, Srijit Kumar, Vilas Pavithran

List 2: Aastha Dua, Ajey Patil, Anjali Sen Gupta, Chinmay Naik, Devika Shetty, Kunal Naik, Lucano Alvares, Parind Phadte, R Samyak, Raunak Nevgi, Ruchira Porob, Shujoy Dutta, Soham Gaunekar, Viola Rodrigues

Apart from that constraint, you are free to form your team in any way you like.

Registration is mandatory. You can register either as a team (please give your team a name in this case), or individually. Annie will combine those who register independently into teams as per his discretion. 

To register, send an email with the header 'Goa Open registration' to seqcgoa@gmail.com by midnight of Friday May 8.

The quiz will begin with a written Prelims at 4pm, from which the top 8 teams will qualify for the Finals.

Date: Sunday, 10th May 2026

Time: 4 pm (please be in place by 3.45pm)

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

Click here for map

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Participation: Open to all in pre-formed teams of 3, with rider as detailed above. 

Panjim monthly 03/May/2026 – Results

 QM: Rajiv D'Silva

1^st : Team 3:295 points 

Amey Parsekar, Vilas Pavithran, Abha Lal, Karan Dhingra, Devindra Dhingra, Aastha Dua, Raunak Nevgi, Ajit Nair, Mohammed Danish

2nd: Team 5: 260 points

Saareesh Naik, Vikram D'Silva, Angeline Pradhan, Shashwat Salgaocar, Ruchira Porob, Sanjay Parab, Kunal Naik

3rd: Team 6: 255 points

Kaivalya Karkare, Doc Shekhar,Adish Talwadkar, Tanmay Pereira Naik, Nikhil Shirsat, Walusha Fernandes, Pradyumna Madelkar, Clayton da Gama

4th: Team 2: 250 points

Harsh Bhatkuly, Upesh Pradhan, Siddhant Parab, Dhanraj Naik, Mervyn Fernandes, Bharat Bambawale, Michelle Mendonca Bambawala, Annie Sengupta

5th: Team 4: 190 points

Shaunak Sardessai, Mahesh Prabhu, Soham Gaunekar, Utsav Banerjee, Palash Kulkarni, Nandini Ray, Shivil Bhasin, Parind Phadte

6th: Team 1: 180 points

Paul Gatward, Kanchan Gatward, Swati Parab, Naintara Jain, Ajay Poonia

A Knock Out (Karan and Omkar)- recap of the Margao April Quiz

Review of the Margao April monthly by Assis Sequeira

For reasons not entirely clear, the regular Last Sunday Quiz at Margao draws fewer participants than the First Sunday Quiz at Dona Paula. It reminded me of the Port town of Vasco da Gama in the late 1990s, when shops, bars, and restaurants would remain deserted for the last few days of the month. But as the calendar page turned and salaries disbursed, these locations would spring back to life.

Margao quiz has its own charm, the huge auditorium, with great acoustics and lighting and the promise of a samosa that Dona Paula cannot match in texture and taste. With his trademark smile, Srijit, ably assisted by Vilas, shuffled participants into four evenly matched teams. Another hallmark of Margao monthly is its ability to attract fresh faces. This time, Gurjot with charming Poonam and the Phadtes (husband-wife duo of doctors from BITS Pilani) joined the fold.

The young quizmasters, Omkar Bhurke and Karan Dhingra, wasted no time in setting the pace. The opening written round featured ten clever questions—each tied to an IPL team through wordplay or picture clues, with bonus points for spotting the overarching connection. Only one team managed a perfect score; few others did crack the overall link.

The main rounds included a grid box challenge and two sets of Infinite Pounce questions. The grid comprised 16 boxes labelled Place, Animal, Name, and Thing, each numbered 1 to 4. The twist? Every answer was a single word beginning with one of just four letters. As the round unfolded, we realized with delight that the letters spelled QUIZ, each used exactly four times.

After a spirited tea break, with the customary samosa rush; the final round of four connects proved to be the true test. Tough to crack, yet immensely satisfying when solved, they had participants muttering, “I should have guessed that sooner!”

And that, to me, is the hallmark of a great quiz: one that keeps you on edge, challenges your instincts, and rewards persistence. This one certainly did. Thanks to the masterly shuffling by Srijit there was a winner no doubt, but the other teams were not too far behind.

Hats off to Karan and Omkar — what a knockout performance!

Margao monthly – 26/Apr/2026 – scores

QMs: Karan Dhingra and Omkar Bhurke 

1st: Team IV (Srijit Kumar, Parind Phadte, Abha Lal, Paul Gatward, Mohammed Danish, Amanda Fernandes, Brian Fernandes) – 325 points

2nd: Team II (Abhijeet Virginkar, Soham Gaunekar, Ajit Nair, Sameer Dhingra, Neil Barretto, Gurjot Sindhu, Poonam Chowdhury) – 310 points

3rd: Team I (Ira Prem, Devika Shetty, Viola Rodrigues, Magali Vaz, Maria Barretto, Kuhika Seth) and Team III (Amey Parsekar, Vilas Pavithran, Assis Sequeira, Shruti Nair, Diksha Mandlik, Tanvi Shet, Shubham Phadte, Leechi Dhawan) – 270 points

Margao monthly quiz – 26/April/2026 – content

QMs: Karan Dhingra and Omkar Bhurke