Food & Travel Quiz – 28/Dec/2025 – content

QM: Swati Parab

 

A trivial start to 2026 :Recap of the Panjim monthly- 4th January 2026

Here we go again. A bright, shiny new year unspooling before us, waiting to be filled with memories and musings. It feels like the new year is not made of days but threads, dangling in front of us. Some threads are glamorous and remarkable -these are the “Big Life Events”- and some are colourful and happy, marking all the fun we have had.  Most, though, are beige, because they represent our daily lives in all their unnoticed, ordinary glory. Yet, some of these beige threads are actually Trojan horses, sneakily making their way into our hearts, so we remember later.

Now, frankly my dears, what kind of thread do you think the quiz hosted by Shujoy and Raunak shall be? Perhaps only time will tell. One fine day at a party, you might throw in trivia about how there is only one British monarch named Victoria, or how Armenia uses Ararat Mountain symbolism despite it being in Turkey.

Quizzers must be annoying to other party guests.

Last Sunday’s quiz was a good start to the new year. The homage to Trivial Pursuits was sweet as that is how Shujoy said he started quizzing. Raunak had some sports questions that even lay people could answer. What else do we need at the start of the year other than a host of new things to learn and some wedges!

They had 4 rounds with one hex round at the end. Round 1 was written, for answers ranging from 1-10 only. You would think it would be easy to guess how many times an Indian PM has visited Pakistan!

Rounds 2 and 4 were set in the Trivial Pursuit format. Questions ranged from geography, history, arts and literature, sports and leisure and entertainment. Each topic had wedges that would earn the team bonus points. Due to the nature of the game, the questions alternated between topics for each team. Therefore, even though it continued for two rounds, it felt quite dynamic. The questions were also assiduously set by the QMs.

Round 3 was called sibling rivalry. It paired two teams for a set, with 3 questions each. The Gen Alpha slangs were fun to decipher and thoroughly confused the multiple generations present.

Thus ended the inaugural SEQC quiz of the year 2026. Thank you to the quizmaster duo for knitting such a beautiful patchwork thread into our Sunday. Hope this one has whetted your appetite as we have a full quizzing calendar ahead.

See you at the next one!

Scores:

Team 3: 370 points

Team 2: 330 points

Team 4: 315 points

Team 6: 305 points

Team 1: 295 points

Team 5: 250 points

SEQC 'Origins' Quiz

A quiz about the origins of words, ideas and random stuff.

Date: Sunday, 11th January 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM: Nitish Wagle

Participation: Open to all

Recap of the Monthly quiz, Margao on December 28th, 2025

Is the way to quizzers’ hearts through (questions on) food?

Quizmasters Swati and Rahul (in absentia) attempted to find out through their quiz set last Sunday. We were served 5 courses of food themed quiz for the last SEQC shindig of the year 2025.It was a perfectly chosen theme for this time of year.

Humour me for a moment and recall your favourite festival memory. You will most likely remember the food associated with it, and the warmth and laughter of the people surrounding you. The festival itself is usually just a reason to gather around, cook and swap stories. Like most festival meals, this quiz had the flair of a potluck; combining many flavours and cuisines to create an elaborate fare.

The Menu:

·       The first written round, called the Aperitif, was quite novel in that it involved identifying mathematical terms associated with food! It had a lot of us scratching our heads trying to figure out if the images looked like noodles, pasta or pretzels!

·       Next, they served the Appetizers that were almost like a heavy main course. Each question had 3 parts to be answered on various food related trivia- e.g. why is a panettone hung upside down. My one grouse was the points system, which was slightly confusing to keep track of.

·       Round 3 was an Alphabet soup on the new year’s festivals and traditions around the globe.

·       This was followed by round 4 titled Pièce de resistance. This was a straightforward round of more multiparter questions-an interesting one was about eating a man!

·       Finally, we ate the desserts. These included connect questions, identifying the drink from the AI image recipes, and matching the emotions associated with Ugadi Pachadi recipe.

Hence concluded the delightful meal.Wishing you all a very happy 2026. May the new year bring us a wealth of new discoveries and “aha” moments at SEQC. 

See you on the other side!

Scores:

Team 2: 295 points

Team 4: 270 points

Team 1: 265 points

Team 3: 240 points

Team 5: 205 points

SEQC Panjim January Quiz

Date: Sunday, 4th January 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM: Raunak Nevgi & Shujoy Dutta

Participation: Open to all