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