Wednesday, December 27, 2017

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

Monday, December 18, 2017

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

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

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:

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

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)

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

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).

Monday, December 4, 2017

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

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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.

Monday, November 20, 2017

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


Monday, November 13, 2017

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.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

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.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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

Monday, November 6, 2017

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

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

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

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

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.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

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

Thursday, October 12, 2017

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.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

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. 

Monday, October 2, 2017

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

Monday, September 25, 2017

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.