Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Monday, September 25, 2023

Irish Open 2023 - 24/Sep 2023 - scores

 

Rank

Player Name

Total

1

Annie Sen Gupta

103

2

Shashwat Salgaonkar

100

3

Rajiv D'Silva

80

4

Vilas Pavithran

75

5

Vineeth G. Nair

72

6

Ira Prem

66

7

Chinmay S. Naik

61

8

Kaivalya Karkare

55

9

Paul Gatward

48

10

Viola Rodrigues

46

11

Naintara Jain

27

Monday, September 18, 2023

Irish Open 2023

Organized by: Irish Quiz Organisation
Proctored by: Kanchan Gatward (Panjim), Anjali Sengupta (Margao)
Date: 24th September 2023
Time: 10.00 am in Panjim, 2.00 pm in Margao
Format: Written, solo. The quiz will consist of 240 questions in 6 categories to be answered in two hours.
Venue: Panjim - Goa Business School, Taleigao. Margao - SGDH Auditorium, 5th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao.
Participation: Open to all. This is a solo event. Participants must register beforehand by sending an email to seqcgoa@gmail.com. Last date for receiving registrations is 22nd September at 1 pm. Spot entries will be accommodated depending on availability of question papers and seating space.

Margao September Quiz

Date: Sunday, 24th September 2023
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: SGDH Auditorium, 5th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao
QM: Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Participation: Open to all.

Friday, September 15, 2023

Movie quiz shelved

IMPORTANT: The movie quiz scheduled for this Sunday, September 17, has been cancelled for a variety of reasons. A later date will be announced when fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Return of Lights! Camera! Question!

UPDATE: This quiz has been shelved for now.

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Date: Sunday, 17th September 2023
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Participation: Open to all. Prelims to be taken solo. Teams for Finals based on Prelims scores (max 4 persons per team). Please bring your own pens for the Prelims.

The quiz will have questions based on international (mainly Hollywood) and Indian (mainly Bollywood) movies in an approximately 2:1 ratio.

Tentative schedule
Prelims:
3-4pm
Answers and corrections: 4-4.30
Tea: 4.30-5
Finals: 5-8.30

Sunday, September 10, 2023

BiGQ 2023 results

BiGQ 2023 saw the participation of 48 quizzers across venues in Margao and Panjim. This year’s edition was different from earlier ones, consisting of two parts – Part 1 consisting of 90 questions with 100 answers, to be answered in 60 minutes; Part 2 had 26 projected questions to be answered in writing.

Shashwat Salgaocar topped the quiz with a total of 88 points. The Top 10 scores across both venues are shown below.

Rank

Name

Centre

Part 1

Part 2

TOTAL

Comments

1

Shashwat Salgaocar

Panjim

67

21

88

BiG Q 2023

2

Rajiv D'Silva

Panjim

58

22

80

BOQ Panjim

3

Vilas Pavithran

Margao

53

18

71

BOQ Margao

4

Ajey Patil

Panjim

50

19

69

 

5

R Samyak

Panjim

48

19

67

 

6

Chandrashekhar Rao

Panjim

51

16

67

 

7

Ira Prem

Margao

52

12

64

 

8

Nitish Wagle

Panjim

47

15

62

 

9

Vineeth G Nair

Margao

34

21

53

 

10

Raunak Nevgi

Panjim

35

16

51

 

 For the full list of scores, click here.

You can access the Part 1 questions here, and the Part 1 answers here.

The Powerpoint file for Part 2 can be accessed here.