Announcing QuizStock 2020

The Sunday Evening Quiz Club's annual festival of quizzing, QuizStock, now reduced to a slim and trim single day of quizzing, will return on Sunday, January 12, 2020, at the International Centre Goa (ICG) in Dona Paula.

 

First up will be Akela, the Goa Solo Quiz, for pre-formed teams of one (heh heh), with Rajiv D'Silva as QuizMaster. This will begin at 10am, and will consist of a written prelims followed by an onstage finals. 

After lunch, starting 2pm, QM J Krishnamurthi will take you Places, with a quiz on geography, travel, and culture. This one's for pre-formed teams of two (the 'pour deux' part), and will be answered in writing off a projected set. 

Immediately afterwards, say 4pm, will commence the festival's flagship quiz, the Goa Open, conducted by Annie Sen Gupta. This quiz, again on a prelims-and-finals format, will be for teams of three.

So that's a one-two-three-go for QuizStock!

Panjim January Quiz

Date: Sunday, January 5th, 2019

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Chandrashekhar Rao

Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all.

Endings - 29/Dec/2019 - content

QM: Kaustubh Chakraborty

The content can be downloaded from here (PDF file, 31MB)

Rite of Passage Redux - 29/Dec/2019 - content

QM: Nitish Wagle

The content can be downloaded from here (PDF file, 2.3MB)

Endings - 29/Dec/2019 - Results

QM : Kaustubh Chakraborty

1st Place : Team IV (Annie Sen Gupta, Abhijeet Virginkar, Arunima Bose, Grishma) - 208 Points

2nd Place : Team II (Nitish Wagle, Anant Prabhu, Smita Nair, Molu Garg) - 195 Points

3rd Place : Team I (J Krishnamurthi, Mayur Shett, Dhruv Swamini) - 185 Points

4th Place : Team V (Gowri Yale, Chandrashekhar Rao, Soham Gounekar, Shalini Raju, Ajay Poonia) - 134 Points

5th Place : Team III (Aman Agarwal, Srijit Kumar, Ojaswi, Ameya Mardolkar, Saud Sayed) - 105 Points

6th Place : Team VI (Anjali Sen Gupta, Arvind Sivakumaran, Kunal Naik) - 90 Points
 

Rite of Passage (Redux) and Endings - two quizzes on Dec 29th, 2019

All signs indicate that the end is nigh. The end of the year, at least, and (as per some people) the end of the decade (yes yes, we know that the decade technically ends on 31st December, 2020; we're quizzers, you know).

To mark the end of days, there will be two quizzes this Sunday, 29th December.

Rite of Passage (Redux)
 Date: 29th December 2019
Time: 4pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Nitish Wagle
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free

Endings 
Date: 29th December 2019
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Kaustubh Chakraborty
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free

Quizzing by Letters Final - 15/Dec/2019 - content

Set 1
QM: Chandrashekhar Rao

A to M 
Download PDF file

N to Z
Download PDF file


Set 2
QM: Srijit Kumar

A to Z

Quizzing by Letters Final - 15/Dec/2019 - results

The Final of the Quizzing by Letters long-format competition went the way of the 2003 Cricket World Cup final, with the pitched battles and close finishes of the qualifying rounds climaxing with a bit of a one-sided match at the end.

QMs: Doc Shekhar and Srijit Kumar

Aces High (Abhijeet Virginkar, Abhijit Sengupta, Amey Parsekar, Anant Prabhu, Annie Sen Gupta, Anjali Sen Gupta, Arvind Sivakumaran, Ashwin Mysore, Ashwini Kamat) bt Mughals (Lynn Barreto Miranda, Mahesh Prabhu, Mayur Shett, Nitish Wagle, Parind Phadte, Paul Gatward, Raghunandan Mysore, Rajiv D'Silva, Ramakrishna M, Rohan Ghatkar) 260-145

Quiz Housie - 15/Dec/2019 - content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Quiz Housie - 15/Dec/2019 - Results

QM : Annie Sen Gupta

1st Place : Team IV (Rajiv D'silva, Rohan Ghatkar, Parind Phadte, Ashwini Kamat, Suraj Kamat, Sunil Sardessai) - 150 Points

2nd Place : Team II (J Krishnamurthi, Gowri Yale, Sanjay Parab, C N Prabhakar) - 125 Points

3rd Place : Team V (Nitish Wagle, Mahesh Prabhu, Anjali Sen Gupta, Abhijeet Sen Gupta, Shukla Sen Gupta) - 100 Points

4th Place : Team I (Lynn Miranda, Ashwin Mysore, Chandrashekhar Rao, Abhijeet Virginkar) - 85 Points

5th Place : Team VI (Paul Gatward, Anant Prabhu, Sadhika Buddaseth, Srijit Kumar, Shona Sardessai) - 55 Points

6th Place : Team III (Mayur Shett, Viola Rodrigues, Arvind Sivakumaran, Amey Parsekar, Ram Krishna M, Raghhunandan M S) - 50 Points

Quizzing by Letters - Final

The three-month-long saga of Quizzing by Letters comes to an end on Sunday, December 15, as Aces High and the Mughals go head-to-head in the Finals of this long-format quiz series.

Date: 15th December 2019
Time: 5pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Multiple
Flavour: General
Participation: Teams that have qualified for the Final. Open to all to watch, entry free.

Quiz Housie

This Sunday (December 15), we'll be trying out a fun new format that combines the skill of quizzing with the element of chance that is central to housie / tambola. Whichever one your game is strong in, come give it a shot! As with any housie afternoon, there will be some small cash prizes to be won.

Date: 15th December 2019
Time: 4pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all, entry free

QuizDubai Brain Buster - 01/Dec/2019 - Results

Proctor : Gowri Yale

Kaustubh Chakroborty	39
Chandrashekhar Rao	33.5
Nitish Wagle	21
Ajey Patil	20.5
Paul Gatward	17
Jubal Fernandes	16
Arvind Shivakumaran	12
Rajiv Rajaram	12
Viola Rodrigues	11
Mayur Shett	9.5
C N Prabhakar	2

Mahaquizzer & AsiaSweep 2019

Mahaquizzer
Date: 8th December 2019
Time: 10.00 am (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 10.30 am sharp.
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
QM: KQA
Proctor: Paul Gatward
Flavour: General
Format: Written. 150 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.
Participation: Open to all, entry free. For individual participants.

AsiaSweep
Date: 8th December 2019
Time: 2.30 pm (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 3.00 pm.
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula

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 monthly - 1/Dec/2019 - content

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Panjim Monthly - 01/Dec/2019 - Results

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

1st Place : Team IV (Kaustubh Chakraborty, Sanjay Parab, Dhruv Swamini, Jubal Fernandes, Anudnya Pai Vernekar) - 185 Points

2nd Place : Team III (Nitish Wagle, Kalpa Govekar, Rajiv Rajaram, Mayur Shett, C N Prabhakar) - 155 Points

3rd Place : Team V (Sharbani Dasgupta, Anjali Sengupta, Arvind Sivakumaran, Rahul Basu) - 120 Points

4th Place : Team I (Abhijit Virginkar, Ajey Patil, Ram Krishna M, Sadika Buddaseth, Shakuntala Buddaseth) & Team II (Harsh Hegde, Srijit Kumar, Gowri Yale, Shwetambari Parab) - 95 Points

6th Place : Team VI (Chandrashekhar Rao, Viola Rodrigues, Nathan Moniz, Paul Gatward) - 85 Points