QM: Rajiv D'Silva
The evidence of the popularity of a quiz is in the enthusiastic recapping ! Today, we have not just one but two hearty recaps, one by Sanjay Parab and the other by Assis Sequeira. For your reading pleasure, below:
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Log kehte hain Rajeev ka quiz mazedaar hota hai… aur log jhooth nahi bolte.
Sunday evening ko log apne dimaag ki thakaan mitaane ke liye SEQC ke quiz mein jaate hain. Is Sunday bhi hum pahunch gaye — umeed thi dimaag fresh hoga, lekin quiz ne bachi-khuchi energy bhi nikaal li.
Quiz bahut badhiya tha.
Pehla round August ke baare mein tha — bhot hi badhiya.
Sholay ka question toh made my day. ❤️
Kuch shit ke baare mein bhi do rounds the…
Maps ka round bhi tha, lekin maine “take right” aur “take left” dono miss kar diye.
Connect round accha tha… sabko aakhirkaar raaste pe laa diya. 😎
Samosa bhi tha, lekin mere taste ka nahi tha — bilkul fika. Quiz ke saamne samosa thoda underwhelming nikla.
Aakhir mein itna hi keh sakta hoon:
Google ki kasam…
Quiz bahut badhiya tha. 🔥
- Sanjay Parab
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1999 – Charli XCX with Troye Sivan
‘I just wanna go back, back to 1999
Take a ride to my old neighbourhood
I just wanna go back, sing
“Hit me, baby, one more time”
Rajeev reminds me of an uncorked champagne bottle, bubbling and frothing with enthusiasm and energy. The quintessential quiz master, he researches meticulously, framing the quiz like a multi-coloured quilt, with diversity yet retaining the core theme.
Rajeev chose an octave, apt for the eight month of the year, named after Emperor Agustus (Octavius Gaius). The theme was reflected not only in the content of the questions but also in the number of questions in the written and ‘theme a little theme’ round.
For the first time in months the auditorium at SGDH buzzed. More than thirty-two participants. To add colour to the proceedings, Shaswat, otherwise based in Bangalore, participated. There were also a few first timers and Rajeev in his inimitable style welcomed them and put them at ease.
The quiz started with a written round fixated on events that occurred in the month of August of years gone by. The Quizmaster then seamlessly moved to the next round intriguingly titled as ‘Regular Shit’ with limited pounce. The logic for the title, that I could figure, is that a regular shit should be interrupted a limited number of times only.
Personally, I found the next round titled ‘x y marks the spot’ as the most challenging. Colourful maps listing legends to be unearthed ranging from the spread of Giraffes in Africa to the number of live births to parents of different religious beliefs district wise were projected. One map that foxed all the teams was the distribution of cricket and football as the premier sports in different countries.
Post tea break, Rajeev started with a nostalgic ‘Back to 1999’ posting the full lyrics and also playing the full video. All the teams scored well in this round, displaying how rooted we remain even after a good twenty six years after 1999.
The next round titled ‘Same shit Different Direction’ had again limited pounce. It covered trivia like ‘Curry’ as a surname in UK and Ireland. The suggestion that the surname had something to do with Indian kitchens threw most off track.
The icing of an enjoyable evening was the last round of ‘theme a little theme’ with high stakes for pouncing and for guessing the theme. Annie, who flew in the morning from Mumbai after a sleepless night, enroute from Thailand was overjoyed on getting the theme right on the first try.
But with Shaswat around, his team won the first place. Rajeev remained bubbly till the end. The image that I left SGDH was Rajeev as a ‘gurguret’ efficient, cool and certain to quench one’s thirst for Knowledge. Yes, and the lovely lyrics and music of 1999.
-Assis Sequeira
Teams and Scores
1st : Team 4: 335 points
Shashwat Salgaoncar, Bonny,Ajit Nair,Mursaleen Salroo, Muntaha Amin
2nd: Team 3: 305 points
Sanjay Parab, Siddhant Parab, Nikhil Shirsat, Annie Sen Gupta, Anirudha Kakodkar, Shiv Nadkarni
3rd: Team 1: 275 points
R Samyak,Terrence DCosta,Paul Gatward,Raunak Nevgi,Viola Rodrigues, Swati Parab
4th : Team 5: 260 points
Kaivalya Karkare, Devika Shetty,Assis Sequeira,Amoli Birewar,Cosme Araujo,Merwyn
5th: Team 6: 255 points
Srijit Kumar, Adish Talwadkar,Altamash Panjwany,Neha Kamat,Amey Parsekar, Melchior Teles,Parind Phadte
6th : Team 2: 250 points
Ashwini Joglekar, Dr Ira Almeida, Ira Prem, Kanchan Gatward, Angeline Pradhan, Ruchira Porob
