SEQCm August results

QM: Amit Shet

1st: Abhijeet Virginkar, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Fatima Moniz, Marc Mascarenhas, Tallulah D'Silva, Terrence D'Costa - 105
2nd: Akshay Rege, Harsh Hegde, R. Kumar, V. R. Muralidharan - 60
3rd: [Adish Talwadker, Danny Travasso, Leander Paes, Nathan Moniz, Nitish Wagle, Paola Mambro] & [Anjali Sen Gupta, Julian D'Costa, Ira Almeida-D'Costa, Rajiv D'Silva, Viola Rodrigues, Zibane Paes] - 40

The next Margao monthly will be held on the 24th of September, to be hosted by Kiril Vaz.

SEQC September

Date: 4th September 2011
Time: 5.00 pm
QM: Sirish Nimmagadda
Flavour: General, with a generous dose of Indian mythology
Venue: Zuari Hall, The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
Participation: Open to all, entry free

Oasis Lone Wolf Quiz 2011

 
Organized by: BITS-Pilani
Date: 4th September 2011
Time: 10.30 am. The quiz will begin at 11.00 am sharp.
Format: This is a solo written quiz. The quiz will consist of 120 questions, to be answered in 90 minutes. 
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula - Panaji.
Participation: Open to all. Participants must register beforehand by sending an email to seqcgoa@gmail.com. Last date for receiving registrations is 3rd September 2011 at 5.30 pm. Spot entries will be accommodated depending on availability of question papers and seating

For more details, click here.

XCHR Goa History Quiz - Results

QM: Rajiv D'Silva

1st: Mushtifund, Panjim (Akshay Rege, Raunak Sakhardande, Shaileja Chopdekar) - 130
2nd: Rosary, Miramar (Cyrus Pereira, Jared D'Lima, Trisha Lopes) - 75
3rd: Rosary, Miramar (Aldrich Rodrigues, Krishna Arar, Larren Colaco) - 60
4th: Loyola, Margao (Gavin D'Mello, Marc Mascarenhas, Rohit Viegas) - 30

For pictures of the event, click here.

Aavishkar Quiz

Organized by: Padre Conceicao College of Engineering
Date & Time: Round 1 &2 on 8th September 2011 at 11 am, Final on 9th September at 2.00 pm
QM: Niyan Marchon
Flavour: General
Venue: Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna
Participation: Open to college students.
Prizes: 3k & 2k for Ist and 2nd respectively

For more details call Prajakt on 9049889267 or click here.

In'Quiz'itive Goa

Organized by: Dhempe College of Arts & Science
Date: 24th August 2011
Time: 9.30 am
QM: Harshvardhan Bhatkuly
Flavour: Goa
Venue: Club Gaspar Dias, Miramar
Participation: Open to college students, in teams of two.

SEQCm August Quiz

Date: 27th August 2011
Time: 5.00 pm
QM: Amit Shet
Flavour: General
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp Hospicio Hospital, Margao
Participation: Open to all, entry free

Incredible India Quizzes - Results

School Edition:

QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta

1st: Kunal Naik & Soham Gaunekar (Sharada Mandir School) - 60
2nd: Shashwat Salgaonkar & Shubham Tiwari (Mushtifund Aryaan HSS) - 42*
3rd: Suraj Painekar & Rajendra Deshprabhu (G.S. Amonkar Vidya Mandir) - 41*
4th: Atharv Joshi & Mangesh Sonawane (KV INS Mandovi) - 40*
5th: Shukr Usgaonkar & Tahir Noronha (Mushtifund Aryaan HSS) - 39*
6th: Siddharth & Aditya (Navy Children School) - -5
 * separated based on tie-breaker performance, after 4 teams ended tied at 40 points during the regular quiz

Open Edition:

QM: V.R. Muralidharan

1st: Amita Kanekar & Annie Sen Gupta - 120
2nd: Rajiv D'Silva & Harshvardhan Bhatkuly - 95
3rd: P.C. Sabulal & Nitya Sabulal
4th: Sachin Chatte & Ramnath Pai Raikar
5th: Ameya Mardolkar & Ajachi Chakrabarti
6th: Wilson Vaz & Mahesh Prabhu

(On account of the scoresheet being misplaced, scores of the teams placed 3rd-6th have not been posted. If anybody remembers these scores, or has the scoresheet, please leave a comment)

Incredible India Quizzes, Schools edition -- questions and answers

XCHR Goa History Quiz

Date: 20th August 2011
Time: 9.00 am
QM: Rajiv D'Silva
Flavour: History of Goa
Venue: The Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Alto-Porvorim
Participation: Open to students of Class X and below, in teams of three.
Prizes: Rs. 5000, 3000 & 2000 for the winners.

For more details, visit www.xchr.in.

SEQC August 2011 monthly -- questions and answers

SEQC August 2011 monthly -- Results

Another massive turnout at the International Centre Goa (ICG) for the August monthly, with close to 50 people participating, including a sizeable number of new participants. SEQC continues to thrive. Here are the results:

1st: Atharv Joshi, Francis James, Jatan Rodrigues, Kanchan Gatward, Rajiv D'Silva, Rohan Fernandes, Shaila D'Souza, Shubham Tiwari - 155

2nd: [Adish Talwadker, Akshay Rege, Akshay Surender, Chandrashekhar Rao, Mohan Kamat, Neeru Khera, Neil Khera, P.D. Mukherjee, Sameer Shaikh] and [Abhijeet Virgincar, Ajachi Chakrabarti, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Fiona Cardoz, Paniendra Kolluru, Sanchita Rodrigues, Shashwat Salgaonkar, Y. Sumanth Reddy] - 145

4th: Aaron-Paul Fernandes, Anirudh Wodeyar, Ashin George, Kunal Naik, Nishant Udupa, Nitish Fatarpekar, Sachin Chatte, Srijit Kumar, Sunil Sardessai, Valmiki Naik - 135

5th: Agastya Keni, Ameya Mardolkar, Anjali Sen Gupta, Soham Gaunekar, Sunil Thomas, Surbhi Verma, Vernon Fernandes - 80

6th: Amit Shet, Anil Rodrigues, Dominic Da Costa, Nikhil Shirsat, Paola Mambro, Sahil Prabhudesai, Shishir Shankhwalker - 75

The next SEQC monthly will be held on September 4 at ICG. The QM (to be confirmed) is likely to be Anant Lawande.

Kids' Special - Results

QMs: Akash Kulkarni & Shubham Tiwari

1st - Akshay Rege, Saheel Wagh, Sahil Prabhudesai, Atharv Joshi - 180
2nd - Jatan Rodrigues, Julian D'Costa, Maithili Majithia, Iona Francis - 150 points
3rd - Shaswat Salgaocar, Nitish Fatarpekar, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Taran Mukherjee - 120 points
4th - Soham Gaunekar, Kunal Naik, Agastya Keni - 105 points

Time once again to flaunt your I!Q

Incredible India Quizzes return after successful debut

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On Independence Day last year, the International Centre Goa (ICG) in Dona Paula hosted the Incredible India Quizzes on Independence Day, August 15, in partnership with the Sunday Evening Quiz Club (SEQC). The turnout was overwhelming, and the seeds of an annual event were well and thoroughly sowed. This year, too, the Incredible India Quizzes will be held at the ICG, starting from 2pm on August 15.

The Incredible India Quizzes (IIQ) 2011 will be conducted as two editions -- the first one for Schools, and the second an Open quiz. The focus of both quizzes will be on all things Indian. The content will include audio, visual and video questions, buzzer rounds, and all the other bells and whistles that go into making an exciting event. The Schools edition will be conducted by SEQC founder-member Aniruddha Sen Gupta and the Open edition by Dr V. Muralidharan, both of them accomplished quizzers and experienced quizmasters.

Great prizes will be on offer for winners, participants and audience members.

Entries are invited for teams of two for each of the quizzes. Entry for both quizzes is free.

For the Schools edition, both team members must be from the same school, from any level up to Class XII. There is no restriction to the number of teams from each school.

For the Open quiz, any two people can team up. Participants in the Schools edition can also register for the Open edition, with the same or different partners.

The last date for registration is Saturday, August 13, 2011.To register or for answers to queries, e-mail seqcgoa@gmail.com, with 'IIQ 2011 registration' in the Subject line, and the names plus contact numbers or e-mail IDs of both team members (with school name, if entry is for the Schools edition) in the body of the message. Alternatively, you can send in your registration in the form of a letter listing the names of team members to Arjun Halarnkar, Programmes Manager, International Centre Goa, Dona Paula.

SEQC August

Date: 7th August 2011
Time: 5.00 pm
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Venue: Zuari Hall, The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
Participation: Open to all, entry free

SEQC Margao July - Content