Margao July monthly – 26/July/2026 – content

QM: Viola Rodrigues

Margao Monthly – 27/July/2026 – recap and results

QM: Viola Rodrigues

 Material Girl

‘Cause we are living in a material world

And I am a material girl

You know that we are living in a material world! 

(Lyrics from Material Girl)

The ‘material world’ conjured by the pop diva Madonna is not the material that Viola works with. A scientist by profession, Viola is observant, analytical and erudite. A true lover of science and scientific thinking.

For Viola, scientific facts and knowledge are not abstract, complex and technical to the point of being beyond the comprehension of a common person. Instead, she brings the scientific temper into the everyday and relatable aspects of life, especially through the food we eat, the beverages we drink and the clothes we wear.

Viola’s quiz spread over four rounds covered not only the flora and fauna, but also trivia on movies, literature, language and everything under the sun. It was above all a great learning experience; who knew that your navel could host some organisms that thrive in the Artic cold and others that survive the underwater vents of hot blasts. It is like Modi and Rahul living in the same small pothole.

There were a few references to the material world as against the materials that make the world by way of exotic food, for instance the macadamia nuts that compelled the pilot to turn back, the reproductive organs of the sea urchin that is a prized dish for the material people like Madonna and others.

The climax was the connect in triads and the grandmother – daughter - granddaughter overall connect. A fitting tribute to the Grandparents Day celebrated across parishes in Goa and other parts of the world.  

Voila! What a way to conclude a great quiz, Viola! May her tribe increase

Written by Assis Sequeira

Results:

1st: Team 2: 285 points

Kaivalya,Ira,Devika, Saud, Assis

2nd: Team 6: 275 points

Anirudh Kakodkar, Shiv Nadkarni, Srijit Kumar,Neha Kamat, Adish Talwadkar

3rd: Team 3: 250 points

Anjali Dar Sengupta, Annie Sengupta,Vinayak Singbal, Swati Parab

4th: Team 1: 240 points

Soham Gaunekar, Simran Dhond,Utsav Banerjee, Ajit Nair, Shujoy Datta

5th: Team 5: 195 points

Amey Parsekar, Vilas Pavithran, Melchior

6th: Team 4: 155 points

Ruchira Porob, Abhijeet, Sahil R, Nitish Wagle, Bhaskar Chakarborty

SEQC Panjim August Quiz

Date: Sunday, 2nd August 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM: Aman Agarwal 

Participation: Open to all

DQC Capital Punishment: National Written Qualifiers 2026

The Sunday Evening Quiz Club, will be hosting Delhi Quiz Club's Capital Punishment: National Written Qualifiers on the 2nd of August 2026 at 2pm.

As a curtain raiser to their marquee event: ✨ Oktoberfest 2026 ✨, the Delhi Quiz Club (DQC) is back once again with the third edition of their annual (offline) general quiz. 

The quiz can also be attempted by teams not looking to travel for the eventual fest in October as well, and treated as a standalone written quiz. Non-qualifiers from this written quiz can also attempt the on-ground prelims of Capital Punishment at Oktoberfest in New Delhi.

Details are as below:

Capital Punishment: National Written Qualifiers (CP:NWQ)

Question Setters: Anaamika, Aryan, Balagopal, Debasmita, Jyotesh, and Rohini 

Format & Theme: Written. General Quiz. Offline. 50 Questions. Run on slides by a proctor at each venue.

Team Size & Eligibility: Up to 3 members. Open to everyone.

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao 

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Time: 2 pm (IST)

Date: 2nd August 2026 (Sunday)

Duration: 2.5-3 hours (including checking of answers).

Proctor: Ruchira Porob 

Registration Link: Kindly register to participate at: https://forms.gle/qRU4jBv5kNG4QJrPA 

MQFx Dada: 2 quizzes by Bombay Quiz Club

The Sunday Evening Quiz Club will host two quizzes, conducted by the Bombay Quiz Club, as part of MQFx Dada, on 26th July 2026 at the South Goa District Hospital, Margao.

MQFx Dada is a quiz festival to remember BQC's former Acting President and Hall of Famer Anannya Deb aka Dada (1974-2026). Details of both quizzes are below:

QUIZ TIME FOR AFRICA

An open written quiz on all things Africa.
Date: Sunday, July 26th 2026
Time: 10.30 am (please be seated by 10.15 am)
Venue: Conference room, 4th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao 
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Proctor: Anjali Dar SenGupta
Participation: Open to all, entry free. No registration is required. 

LIFE UNIVERSE AND 4-4-2

BQCs quadrennial 'general quiz about football' centred around the FIFA World Cup.
Date: Sunday, July 26th 2026
Time: 2.30 pm (please be seated by 2.15 pm)
Venue: Conference room, 4th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao 
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Proctor: Anjali Dar SenGupta
Participation: Open to all, entry free. No registration is required.  

SEQC Margao July Quiz

Date: Sunday, 26th July 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

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

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QM: Viola Rodrigues

Participation: Open to all

FIFA Fo Fum football quiz – 12/July/2026 – content

QM: Nitish Wagle

FIFA Fo Fum football quiz – 12/July/2026 – results

QM: Nitish Wagle

1st: Team 5 (Rahul Upadhyay, Ankita Deb, Sudhanshu, Mervyn Fernandes, Arnold D'Souza, Sanjay Parab) – 270 points

2nd: Team 3 (Amey Parsekar, Raunak Nevgi, Dhiraj Kumar, Priyami Dutta, Vinayak Singbal) – 245 points

3rd: Team 1 (Nathan Souza, Rajiv D'Silva, Naintara Jain, Nihal Bhobe) – 175 points

4th: Team 6 (Valentino Alvares, Srijit Kumar, Atharva Mandrekar, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Annie Sen Gupta) – 140 points

5th: Team 4 (team sheet not received) – 105 points

6th: Team 2 (team sheet not received) – 90 points

Panjim Monthly – 05/July/2026 – recap and results

QM: Karan Dhingra

Karan’s Panjim monthly was a delightful ray of sunshine in the otherwise dark and foreboding weather we have been given. It was wonderfully light and even irreverent ,and made with an effort that showed.I find myself still surprised at how much of the QM’s personality shows up in a quiz that they set. We are allowed glimpses into what they like and find interesting, and what they are fascinated by. It is an unlikely but a true way of getting to know someone who stands up there on the dais and lets us walk through their mind. It is as if the mind is in conversation with us directly, and the QM is merely a conduit-“Come tell me what you see”.

The quiz was set in six brisk rounds, with the first being a written round on the theme of “5”. Perhaps a nod to date of the quiz?. The next round was quite fun, once you had arrived at the theme of the three columns. I especially liked the column with the capital cities. Then there were two short rounds of pounce and bounce on general topics . I particularly appreciated that the QM designed two compact sets of twelve questions, separated by a tea break. It made the quiz feel lighter and far more palatable than one long marathon. In the round five,we had to identify popular idioms and phrases using AI-assisted image clues. And then we moved to the end of the quiz with three connect questions.

What a lovely way to spend a rainy evening. Fun questions that spanned a multitude of topics, hot chai, good conversations and getting to leave with the feeling that one has learnt slightly more than when one walked into the room. A good quiz makes us feel good at the end;it reminds us that although there is still so much we do not know about the world, we have made some headway today.

Also, a big thank you to Shujoy for the beautiful show and tell from his trip to Africa. The stories were fun and the pictures, awe-inspiring!

Teams and Points

1st: Team 5: 445 points

Annie Sen Gupta, Shujoy Dutta, Nikhil Shirsat, Nigel Dias, Utsav Banerjee, Poonam Chowdhury, Gaurish Sawant.

2nd : Team 6: 435 points

Srijit Kumar, Omkar Bhurke, Devika Shetty, Mohammed Danish, Gurjot Sidhu, Anirudh Kakodkar, Jaanvi Saraf, Dhruv Sharma

3rd: Teams 1 and 2: 380 points

Team 1 : Jay Chowdhury, Naintara Jain, Rajiv D'Silva, Mahesh Prabhu, Ruchira Porob, Anjali Sengupta, Karishma D'Mello, Shivangi Sharan

Team 2: Atharva Mandrekar, Aastha Dua, Dhanraj, Aman Agarwal, Raunak Nevgi, Assis Sequeira

5th: Team 4 : 345 points

Ajay Poonia, Asha Rane, Ajit Nair, Prabhav Sidhaye, Prem Shankar, Melchior Teles, Safvana Khalid, Sayan Kundu, Mervyn Fernandes

6th : Team 3: 325 points

FIFA Fo Fum, football quiz

Date: Sunday, 12th July 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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Flavour: Football

QM: Nitish Wagle

Participation: Open to all

June Margao monthly – 28/June/2026 – content

 QM: Lynn Barreto Miranda

Margao monthly – 28/June/2026 – results

QM: Lynn Baretto Miranda

1st: Team 4 (Paul Gatward, Sanjay Parab, Melchior Teles, Harsh Khandeparkar, Rashmi Khandeparkar) – 305 points

2nd: Team 2 (Ajit Nair, Soham Gaunekar, Prashant Maurya, Neil Barretto) – 260 points

3rd: Team 1 (Devika Shetty, Maria Barretto, Magali Vaz, Aruna D'Costa, Fatima Moniz) – 235 points

4th: Team 3 (Vinayak Singbal, Sparsh Kulkarni, Mursaleen Nazir, Amey Parsekar, Parind Phadte) – 170 points