Margao December Quiz

Date: Sunday, December 31st, 2017
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Nathan Moniz
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all

Quiz Pro Pros - final standings

Quiz Pro Pros, the competition that has played out over the last three months, finished with a bang on Sunday the 17th. The Concrete Junglies (Team Buildings), the only team to remain unchanged across the three stages of the tournament, bulldozed the opposition to finish on top of the table. They were helped by a depleted turnout from W.G. Disgrace (Team IT) who finished at the bottom in this episode, and as a result went down from the top spot they were in earlier to third place. Miscellaneous Medley rose one place to finish in second place. Here are the final standings:

Quiz Pro Pros episode 3 - results and content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

1st: The Concrete Junglies (Team Buildings: Anant Sridhar Prabhu, Mayur Shett, Rajiv D'Silva, Srijit Kumar, Sunil Sardessai) - 255 points

2nd: Damn You, Autocorrect! (Team Media & Comms: Anjali Sen Gupta, Madhura Chakraborty, Shaunak Sardessai, Vidyadhar Gadgil) - 200

3rd: Miscellaneous Medley (Team Misc: George Varghese, Gouthami, Kanchan Gatward, Mahesh Prabhu, Susheela) - 190

4th: Four-year Transform (Team Engineering: C.N. Prabhakar, Harsh Hegde, Nitish Wagle, Rahul Kakodkar, Sahil Ramchandani, Soham Gaunekar) - 160

5th: Quacks of All Trades (Team Medicine: Chandrashekhar Rao, Govinda Kubal, Gowri Yale, Pallavi Dhakne, Sham Talwadker) - 155

6th: W.G. Disgrace (Team IT: Aaron Araujo, Nathan Moniz, Parind Phadte) - 105

Content

Quiz Pro Pros episode 3

The ongoing Quiz Pro Pros competition will reach a rousing finale this Sunday, the 17th of December, at the International Centre Goa (ICG) in Dona Paula.

Date: Sunday, December 17th, 2017
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all

The current standings are as below:

Asiasweep - 11/Dec/2017 - Results

Proctor - Kanchan Gatward

1. Rajiv D'Silva + Srijit Kumar = 52
2. Nitish Wagle + Vidyadhar Gadgil = 46
3. Devdas Krishnan + Sahil Ramchandani = 43
4. Divij Sinha + Roshan Dattatri = 33
5. Mayur Shett + Paul Gatward = 32
6. Suwas Prasanna + Vithal Yellambalse = 21

Mahaquizzer - 10/Dec/2017 - Results

Proctor - Kanchan Gatward

1. Annie SenGupta = 65

2. Rajiv D’Silva = 45

3. Vidyadhar Gadgil = 35

4. Devadas Krishnan = 30

5. Rahul Kakodkar = 25

6. Mayur Shett = 21

6. Paul Gatward = 21

8. Anjali SenGupta = 16 (Ladies Category)

9. Sahil Ramchandani = 15 (College Category)

10. Roshan Dattatri = 14 (College Category)

11. Divij Sinha = 13 (College Category)

12. Suraj Kamat = 10

13. Nishat Belwadi = 9

14. Suhas Prasanna = 6 (College Category)

15. Vithal Yellambalse = 3 (College Category)

Young GALF 2017 Books Quiz

Mahaquizzer and Asiasweep 2017

Mahaquizzer
Date: 10th December 2017
Time: 10.00 am (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 10.30 am sharp.
Venue: Room A 10, Faculty Block A, Goa University, Bambolim
QM: KQA
Proctor: Kanchan Gatward
Flavour: General
Format: Written. 150 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.
Participation: Open to all, entry free. For individual participants.

Asiasweep
Date: 10th December 2017
Time: 2.30 pm (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 3.00 pm.
Venue: Room A 10, Faculty Block A, Goa University, Bambolim

QM: KQA

Proctor: Nathan Moniz
Flavour: Asia-specific
Format: Written, 100 questions
Participation: Open to all, entry free. For teams of two (solo participants are also allowed).

Panjim Dec monthly - content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Panjim Monthly - 3/Dec/2017 - Results

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

1st: Team 3 - Anuradha Goyal, Harsh Hegde, Paul Gatward, Pallavi Dhakne, R Samyak - 365 points

2nd: Team 1 - Abhijit Sen Gupta, Anjali SenGupta, Ashwin Mascarenhas, CN Prabhakar, CK Siddharth, Rahul Kakodkar, - 345 points

3rd: Team 5 - Anny Cassinath, Cass Cassinath, Chandrashekar Rao, Christine Veloso, Kanchan Gatward, Leroy Veloso, Nathan Moniz, Nishat Belwadi, Nitish Wagle - 315 points

4th: Team 6 - Abhijeet Virgincar, Aditya Mallya, Shaunak Sardessai, Tejan Karmali, Vidyadhar Gadgil - 305 points

5th: Team 4 - Anant Prabhu, Chaitanya Naik, Mayur Shett, Pratik Bhandare, Pritha Sardessai, Rajiv D'Silva, Srijit Kumar - 265 points

6th: Team 2 - Arvind S, Devadas Krishnan, Madhura Chakraborty, Sahil Ramchandani, Sunil Sardessai - 245 points

Panjim December Quiz

Date: Sunday, December 3rd, 2017

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Quiz Pro Pros episode 2 - content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Quiz Pro Pros episode 2 - results

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

1st: W.G. Disgrace (Team IT: Aaron Araujo, Devadas Krishnan, J. Krishnamurthi, Parind Phadte) - 250 points

2nd: The Concrete Junglies (Team Buildings: Anant Sridhar Prabhu, Mayur Shett, Rajiv D'Silva, Srijit Kumar, Sunil Sardessai) - 210

3rd: Damn You, Autocorrect! (Team Media & Comms: Anjali Sen Gupta, Arvind Siva, Harsh Bhatkuly, Madhura Chakraborty, Vidyadhar Gadgil) - 205

4th: Miscellaneous Medley (Team Misc: Amey Parsekar, George Varghese, Gouthami, Kanchan Gatward, Sanjay Parab, Shwetambari Parab, Susheela) - 175

5th: Quacks of All Trades (Team Medicine: Aproop Prabhudessai, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Chandrashekhar Rao, Mohnish Sardessai, Leander Paes, Pallavi Dhakne, Zibane Paes) - 130

6th: Four-year Transform (Team Engineering: Nitsh Wagle) - 115

Competition standings

Quiz Pro Pros episode 2

Date: Sunday, November 19th, 2017
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all. Second part of a three-part competition, with teams composed based on participants' work areas.
New entrants are welcome to participate. Check out the team divisions, and get in touch with the relevant team captain. If you don't have their contacts, send mail at seqcgoa@gmail.com, and we'll make the connection.

XCHR Goa History Quiz 2017

Dates: Prelims - 13th November 2017, Finals - 18th November 2017
Venues: South Goa Prelims - Loyola High School, Margao
North Goa Prelims & Finals - XCHR, Porvorim
Time: 9.30 am
QM: Rajiv D'Silva
Flavour: Goa's history
Format: The top 24 teams in the prelims held on 13th November, 12 each from North & South Goa, will participate in 4 Semi-Finals of 6 teams each, on 18th November. The winners of each Semi-Final will meet in the Final, to be held on the same day.
Participation: Open to students of Std. X and below, teams of three members each. Max two teams per school.
For details: Call 2417772 or 2414971, or visit www.xchr.in.

Brainbuster 2017 - Goa scores

Proctored by Chandrashekhar Rao, one of the setters of the quiz, the Quiz Dubai Brainbuster was held in Goa on November 5. Other centres will follow in subsequent weeks, and the consolidated scores put up at the appropriate time. In the meantime, here are the Goa scores.

Annie Sen Gupta	60
Rajiv D'Silva	32
Vidyadhar Gadgil	32
Rahul Kakodkar	21
Gouthami	18
Arvind s	17
Paul Gatward	17
Sahil Ramchandani	16
Nathan Moniz	10
Harsh Hegde	9
Anjali Sen Gupta	9
Mayur Shett	8
Anant Prabhu	5
Pratik Bhandare	3
Vikas Mahale	2

Panjim November quiz - content

QM: Srijit Kumar

Panjim Monthly - 5/Nov/2017 - Results

QM: Srijit Kumar

1st: Team 4 - Anjali SenGupta, Mayur Shett, Paul Gatward, Rajiv D'Silva, Shaunak Sardessai - 320 points

2nd: Team 3 - Arvind S, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Harsh Hegde, Kanchan Gatward, Sunil Sardessai - 275 points

3rd: Team 1 - Anant Prabhu, Annie Sen Gupta, C N Prabhakar, Gouthami, Nathan Moniz - 245 points

4th: Team 2 - Ashwin Mascarenhas, Chandrashekar Rao, Rahul Kakodkar, Sadhika Buddhaseth, Sahil Ramchandani - 210 points

Panjim November Quiz

Date: Sunday, November 5th, 2017

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Srijit Kumar
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Quiz Dubai Brainbuster 2017

Date: Sunday November 5th
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Time: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm (reporting time 2.45pm)
Proctor: Chandrasekhar Rao
Flavour: General
Format: Solo written quiz, 90 questions to be answered in 60 minutes.
Participation: Open to all, entry free.

NOTE: All participants should bring their own pens and backing boards, and be at the venue at least 15 minutes before the event begins. We will start at 3 pm on the dot.

Margao October Quiz - Content

Margao Monthly - 29/Oct/2017 - Results

QM: Rahul Kakodkar

1st: Team 3 - Anjali SenGupta, Ira Prem, Sahil Ramchandani, Sanjay Parab, Srijit Kumar - 300 points

2nd: Team 1 - Annie Sen Gupta, Chantal D'Costa, Terrence D'Costa, Vilas Pavithran - 290 points

3rd: Team 2 - Abhijeet Virginkar, Anish Dhaimodkar, Aproop Prabhudessai, Nathan Moniz, Rajiv D'Silva - 245 points

4th: Team 4 - Elvino Barreto, Gouthami, Harsh Hegde, Ira Almeida, Paul Gatward - 200 points

Margao October Quiz

Date: Sunday, October 29th, 2017

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Rahul Kakodkar
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Quiz Pro Pros episode 1 - content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Quiz Pro Pros episode 1 - results

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

1st: Four-year Transform (Team Engineering: C.N. Prabhakar, Gaurav Haloi, Harsh Hegde, Lucky Kaul, Nishat Belwadi, Rahul Kakodkar, Rohan Mehrotra, Roshan Dattatri, Sahil Ramchandani, ) - 105 points

2nd: Quacks of All Trades (Team Medicine: Ashwin Mascarenhas, Chandrashekhar Rao, Mark Monteiro, Mohnish Sardessai, Pallavi Dhakne, Zibane Paes) and Miscellaneous Medley (Team Misc: Akash Kulkarni, Amey Parsekar, Gouthami, Kanchan Gatward, Mahesh Prabhu, Sanjay Parab, Shailaja Sardessai, Suraj Kamat) - 100

4th: The Concrete Junglies (Team Buildings: Anant Sridhar Prabhu, Mayur Shett, Rajiv D'Silva, Srijit Kumar, Sunil Sardessai) and W.G. Disgrace (Team IT: Aaron Araujo, Akshat Shah, Chinmay Agarwal, Devadas Krishnan, J. Krishnamurthi, Nathan Moniz, Siddharth K.V., Tejan Karmali) - 90

6th: Damn You, Autocorrect! (Team Media & Comms: Anish Dhaimodkar, Anjali Sen Gupta, Anuradha Goyal, Madhura Chakraborty, Shaunak Sardessai) - 65

Competition standings
1st: Four-year Transform (Team Engineering) - 100 %ile
2nd: Quacks of All Trades (Team Medicine) and Miscellaneous Medley (Team Misc) - 95.24
4th: The Concrete Junglies (Team Buildings) and W.G. Disgrace (Team IT) - 85.71
6th: Damn You, Autocorrect! (Team Media & Comms) - 61.90

Quiz Pro Pros episode 1

Date: Sunday, October 15th, 2017
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all. First part of a three-part competition, with teams composed based on participants' work areas.

Quiz Pro Pros -- teams and competition format

The Quiz Pro Pros competition will be held on three Sundays over October-December -- October 15, November 19 and December 17.

Six teams have been created based on the current or most recent occupations of the 40-odd registrants, as follows:

1. Engineering: Rahul Kakodkar (captain), C.N. Prabhakar, Harsh Hegde, Lucky Kaul, and Sahil Ramchandani

2. IT: J Krishnamurthi (captain), Aaron Araujo, Devadas Krishnan, Nathan Moniz, Tanmay Pereira Naik, and Tejan Karmali

3. Buildings: Rajiv D'Silva, (captain, Architect), Anant Sridhar Prabhu (Construction), Mayur Shett (Construction), Srijit Kumar (Real Estate), and Sunil Sardessai (Architect)

4. Medicine: Chandrashekhar Rao (captain), Anurag Dalal, Aproop Prabhu Dessai, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Leander Paes, Mohnish Sardessai, Pallavi Dhakne, and Zibane Paes

5. Media & Communications: Anjali Sen Gupta (captain, Communications Consultant), Anuradha Goyal (Writer), Arvind Sivakumaran (Filmmaker), Madhura Chakraborty (Editor / Writer), Pamela D'Mello (Journalist), and Vidyadhar Gadgil (Editor / Journalist)

6. Misc: Gouthami (captain, NGO Sector), Akash Kulkarni (Education), Delson Roche (Merchant Marine), George Varghese (Farmer), Kanchan Gatward (Banking), Mahesh Prabhu (Logistics), Paul Gatward (Football Official), Pranab Mukhopadhyay (Education), Sanjay Parab (Retailer), Suraj Kamat (Football Official), and Susheela (Farmer)

There is a bit of an overlap between Engineering and IT, as there are a whole lot of Engineering students doing Computer Science who have registered -- I have divided them between the two teams for evenness.

The competition format has been left flexible, so that non-registered participants who land up can join in relevant teams as per their work areas. The absence of limits on the number of people in a team also makes it possible for people to miss episodes along the way without disrupting the team structures.

For the overall competition, points will be calculated on a percentile basis. For each quiz, the top team will be awarded 100 points, and the other teams a percentile score equal to their percentage of the top team's winning quiz score. The final rankings will be determined by the total of the teams' percentile scores across all three episodes.

The BiG Q 2017 - Scores

No.	Name	Centre	Category	Score
1	Chandrashekhar Rao	Panjim	Open	79	The BiG Q
2	Harsh Hegde	Margao	Open	76	Margao winner
2	Vidyadhar Gadgil	Panjim	Open	76	Panjim winner
4	Rahul Kakodkar	Margao	Open	65
5	Devadas Krishnan	Panjim	Open	63
6	Gouthami	Panjim	Open	62
7	Madhura Chakraborty	Panjim	Open	60
8	Sanjiv Prabhudesai	Margao	Open	57
9	Parind Phadte	Panjim	Open	53
10	Sahil Ramchandani	Margao	Open	52
11	Mayur Shett	Panjim	Open	48
12	Arvind Sivakumaran	Panjim	Open	46
13	Paul Gatward	Panjim	Open	45
14	Sunil Sardessai	Panjim	Open	43
14	Tanmay Naik	Panjim	Open	43
16	Anjali Sen Gupta	Panjim	Open	41
17	Terrence D’Costa	Margao	Open	37
18	Ira Almeida	Margao	Open	35
19	Manas Hadkar	Panjim	School	27	School winner - Panjim
20	Neeta Rana	Panjim	Open	22
21	Chantal D’Costa	Margao	School	20	School winner - Margao
22	Siddharth Subramanium	Panjim	School	18
23	M. M. Subramanium	Panjim	Open	13
23	Nikhilesh Rana	Panjim	School	13
25	C. N. Prabhakar	Panjim	Open	6

Additionally, a few people took the quiz non-competitively:

1. Aniruddha Sengupta (Goa) - 109

2. J. Krishnamurthi (Hyderabad) - 95

3. J. K. Lakshmi (Hyderabad) - 78

And here are the questions and answers of the quiz.

Quiz Pro Pros: a new series

Every year, SEQC runs a multi-part competition with teams composed in different ways. In the past, we've had, among other things, teams based on people's places of residence (In The Zone, 2013) or birth years (Decade-nce, 2016). This year, it's going to revolve around your professional choices.

Announcing Quiz Pro Pros, our series competition for 2017. For teams made up of doctors, or architects, or engineers, or management professionals, etc. The competition will be held between October and December, with the first episode to be held on Sunday, October 15.

To begin with, what is required is that all those interested in participating send in a pre-registration mail specifying your work area. You are free to describe it any way you like, but please clearly indicate what industry you work in, and a basic job function. For example, civil engineer in the construction industry; or marketing professional in the automotive business. Many of us have been different things through the course of our lives; your self-description can be from any part of your career.

College students can specify the stream that you are studying in; school students, just send your name and, if you like, what you would be interested in becoming.

Send this mail to seqcgoa@gmail.com before midnight on Tuesday, October 10. I will then compile all registrants and announce teams. 

Panjim October monthly - content

QM: Chandrashekhar Rao

Panjim October monthly - results

QM: Chandrashekhar Rao

1st: Anjali Sen Gupta, Annie Sen Gupta, Chinmay Naik, Savitri Rao, Tanmay Pereira Naik - 314 points

2nd: Arvind Sivakumaran, Ashwin Naik, Chaitanya Naik, C.N. Prabhakar, Paul Gatward - 298

3rd: Jeet Pendam, Madhura Chakraborty, Mohnish Sardessai, Sadhika Buddhaseth, Shounak Sardessai, Sunil Sardessai - 259

4th: Dharma Rane, Mahesh Prabhu, Rajiv D'Silva, Shreyash Kerkar, Sidhiya Kerkar - 245

5th: Devadas Krishnan, Parind Phadte, Sahil Ramchandani, Suhas Kerkar - 222

6th: Anant Sridhar Prabhu, Bijon Shaha, Kaivalya Karkare, Kanchan Gatward, Srijit Kumar - 210

Panjim October Monthly

Date: Sunday, October 1st, 2017

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Dr. Chandrashekhar Rao
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

The BiG Q 2017

Date: Saturday, September 30th, 2017

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula & Urban Health Centre, Margao
Set by: Rajiv D'Silva
Format: Written, solo. 150 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.
Participation: Open to all. To register, send an email to seqcgoa@gmail.com, mentioning which centre - Panjim or Margao - you are participating from.