SEQC November

Date: 6th November 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

Waves Open Quiz 2011

Venue: BITS Pilani (Goa Campus), NH17B, close to Dabolim Airport
Date: November 4, 2011
Time: 12.15 pm
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free. Teams of three.

Land up by noon, as registration, etc, takes a little while. There will be a 25-question prelims, followed by a six-team final. Cash prizes for winning teams.

For more details, contact Sohag Sen, Quiz Coordinator, BITS Pilani, on 9552518857 or Aditya Ramani on 9975153043.

October Panjim Quiz - Content

SEQCm October Quiz

Date: 29th October 2011
Time: 5.00 pm
QM: Abhijeet Virgincar
Flavour: General
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp Hospicio Hospital, Margao
Participation: Open to all, entry free

The BiG Q 2011: all the details

Date: October 23, 2011
Time: 10am-1pm
Locations: Margao, Panjim, Ponda and Vasco (venues detailed below)
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Movin Miranda
Flavour: General
Format: Solo written quiz, 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes
Participation: Open to all, entry free

Venues and coordinators

• Margao: 1st floor, Urban Health Centre, opposite Hospicio Hospital
  Coordinator: Ira Almeida, 9657320872
• Panjim: Zuari Hall, International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
  Coordinator: Aniruddha Sen Gupta, 9860089733, 2289883
• Ponda: GVM’s SNJA Higher Secondary School, Farmagudi
  Coordinator: Ameya Mardolkar, 9823171842
• Vasco: St Andrew’s School, St Andrew’s Church
  Coordinator: Mahesh Prabhu, 9823010242

Pre-registration for all venues closes at 9pm on Friday, October 21. Spot registrants will be allowed in on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability of extra question papers at the respective venues.

Schedule

• 10-10.15am: Check-in and spot registration
• 10.15-10.30am: Participant briefing
• 10.30am-12noon: Quiz time
• 12noon-1pm: Corrections, score tallying, announcement of venue winners*
  * On-the-spot corrections and tallying will be carried out through the exchange of papers among participants. The scores thus recorded will only be provisional. The final tallying will be done by an SEQC team, and the prizes awarded to winners at the SEQC monthly on November 6, 2011, at the International Centre Goa (ICG) in Dona Paula.

Prizes

• Best School Quizzer (BSQ) at each venue: Rs 400 each
• Best Open Quizzer (BOQ) at each venue: Rs 600 each
• Best-in-Goa Quizzer* (BiG Q): Rs 1000
  * The second-placed quizzer from the BiG Q's venue will be awarded the BOQ prize for that location.

Looking once more for the Best Quizzer in Goa

For two years now, SEQC has been posing the same question: who's the best quizzer in Goa? It's time to find an answer to this question a third time around.

The BiG Q 2011, which expands to the 'Best-in-Goa Quizzer' will be held on Sunday, October 23. This is the BiG Q’s third year, following on from two successful editions. The BiG Q went from 80 participants across three venues in 2009 to more than 120 in four locations last year. This year, too, the event will be conducted simultaneously in Margao, Panjim, Ponda and Vasco, and it is hoped that the turnout will be significantly larger than last year.

The BiG Q is a written quiz for solo participants, with 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Reporting time at the venues is 10am. This year, the BiG Q is being set by last year’s overall winner, Arun Hiregange, with help from Movin Miranda. Both of them are among the top in the country.

Entry to the quiz is free, and open to all, from the youngest school student to the sprightliest senior citizen. There are prizes for Best Open Quizzer and Best School Quizzer (for students of up to Class XII) at each of the four locations, plus a special prize for the Best-in-Goa Quizzer.

Pre-registration is essential for participation. To register, e-mail seqcgoa@gmail.com, using the Subject line 'BiGQ2011 registration' and mentioning in the body of the message your name, contact details and the city where you will take the quiz.

The venues at which the competition will be held in different cities will be announced here soon.

SEQC October monthly results

QM: Nitish Wagle

1st: Agastya Keni, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Jared D'Lima, Jatan Rodrigues, Sanchita Banerjee, Shaunak Sardessai, Tanmay Naik, Taran Mukherjee - 105 points

2nd: Ameya Mardolkar, Ashish Rebello, Atharv Joshi, Maithili Majithia, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Sachin Chatte, Saurabh Lawande, Soham Gaunekar - 50

3rd: Akshara Kulkarni, Akshay Rege, Ananya Mukherjee, Anjali Sen Gupta, Arathi Abraham, Nikhil Shirsat, Om D'Costa, Shaila D'Souza, Varsha Kulkarni - 40

4th: Anand P.S., Ayush Majithia, Conrad Fernandes, Delano Rodrigues, Julian Fernandes, Kunal Naik, P.D. Mukherjee - 25

5th: Akash Kulkarni, Anil Rodrigues, Kedar Naik, Mahesh Prabhu, Paul Gatward, Shubham Tiwari, Srijit Kumar - 20

6th: G.S. Banerjee, Kanchan Gatward, Lara Pereira, Nitish Fatarpekar, Paola Mambro, Samrah Kazi, Shashwat Salgaocar, Sunil Sardessai, Sushmeet Hawaldar, Tallulah D'Silva - 10