SEQC Margao November Quiz

Date: Sunday, 30th November 2025

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: SGDH Auditorium, 5th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao

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QM: Chandrakant Kudchadker

Participation: Open to all

KQA MahaQuizzer & AsiaSweep 2025

MahaQuizzer

Date: 14th December 2025

Time: 10.00 am (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 10.30 am sharp.

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau 

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Proctor: Swati Parab

Flavour: General

Format: Written. 150 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.

Participation: Open to all, entry free. For individual participants.

Register here for MahaQuizzer 2025- https://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer/

You can check if your registration has gone through by visiting this page- https://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer-registrations/

AsiaSweep

Date: 14th December 2025

Time: 2.30 pm (reporting time). The quiz will begin at 3.00 pm and go on till 5:30 pm (approximately)

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau

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Proctor: Devika Shetty

Flavour: Asia-specific

Format: Written, 75 questions

Participation: Open to all, entry free. For teams of two (solo participants are also allowed).

Register here for AsiaSweep 2025- https://kqaquizzes.org/asiasweep/

You can check if your registration has gone through by visiting this page- https://kqaquizzes.org/asiasweep-registrations

To register for both quizzes and for more details, visit https://kqaquizzes.org/2025/10/27/mqas25/

Recap of History Quiz on November 16, 2025

The most important thing about history is not that it repeats itself. It’s the fact that it is so hungry- constantly at our heels, breathing down our necks. It eats every moment that we live and breath, and stores it within its hallowed annals, mostly to lie forgotten.

Think about it : how many things have happened this year? How many movie stars gone, how many new IPOs released? How many hurts have we nursed and how many goodbyes were said? How many bombs blasted and governments overthrown. It is hard to remember already.

Such is life. Today’s news is already tomorrow’s history quiz funda. And that was the ambit of Mayur’s excellent History quiz. With a wide scope that included global royalty to freedom fighters, Mayur ran a tight ship with 4 crisp and quick moving rounds. There was also a fun historical meme round! It was apt that we were back in the old auditorium at the GBS. That room had already moved into the soft pastel hues of SEQC history.

Mayur covered major events that once dominated headlines like Lincoln’s assassination. He reminded us of facts that are now forgotten, only to be remembered by sharp minded quizzers. Do you know why a bus is called a bus, or who a moirologist is? Or who the woman is whose likeness made its way to countless households as Laxmi and Saraswati?

The blessed thing about humanity is that it marches on. When all else is old the world is new. Our memories are mercifully brief, and that is our superpower. It allows us to nurse our heavy hearts, pick up our tired bodies and wake up to the next day’s adventures.

If we are lucky, someone will think of us decades later.

The fact that Mayur’s quiz was conducted almost as this year grinds to its weary end is probably a sign. To remember that nothing lasts forever- not money, not peace, not even wisdom. The voracious appetite of history will devour us all. But, until then, we quiz, and honour the people who have come before us, in a way that SEQC knows best- on a cold Sunday evening, in our cosy orange carpeted auditorium.

Scores:

Team 2 : 315 points

Team 3: 270 points

Team 5: 260 points

Team 4: 245 points

Team 6: 225 points

Team 1 : 210 points

SEQC History quiz

Date: Sunday, 16th November 2025

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM: Mayur Shett 

Theme: History

Participation: Open to all

Recap of November monthly - QM Doc Chandrashekhar - 2/Nov/2025

Musings of a Sunday Evening quiz

There is something redolent in the waters of Goa that makes the environment perfect for quizzing. We are deluged with torrential downpours for half the year; and the other half is spent in sun dappled serenity. The weather adds the secret umami to how we quiz here, how we live here. Life follows a winding rhythm, a gentle slowing of pace that invites one to sit down, take notes, and read a little more.

And much like how our Arabian sea has its moods and vagaries, I have come to the realisation that a quiz set often reflects the QM’s state of mind. There is no hiding- their interests are laid bare for the audience to see. It is an intimate relation really, one that lets you peek inside their minds and connect at a very unique and personal level.

So, that brings me to the excellent mind of Doc Chandrashekhar, our QM for last Sunday’s Panjim monthly. If I may borrow a musical metaphor- he was a maestro, expertly wielding the orchestra of his vast knowledge to compose a perfect score. There were staccato notes like the connect rounds and thrilling arias like the rapid-fire round, and then, the crescendos where we collectively went “Aha” like in the Netflix intro music question. It was a symphony of genres and tempos that reflected his eclectic taste, and what a good show it was! For e.g., do you happen to know the difference between judicial and suicidal hangings? Pity it was not a question in the break neck rapid fire round!

Do I even need to mention the Afsoses? Doc seemed to have restrained himself before the chai break, but post the added fortifications, it was Afsos galore! We were cowering under the volley, but this is now a rite of passage- especially for the new comers who filled the auditorium.

Teams 3 and 6 tied to take the top prize and thus ended a much-anticipated event on the SEQC calendar. So long till the next time and the next protean QM!