Margao Monthly - 29/July/2018 - Results

QM's: Gowri Yale and Anjali Sengupta

1st Place: Team I (Abhijit Virginkar, Krishnamurthi J, Nathan Moniz, Neha Kamat) - 273 points.

2nd Place: Team III (Altamash Panjwany, Arvind Sivakumaran, Nishranth Mahesh, Rahul Kakodkar, Viola Rodrigues) - 243 points.

3rd Place: Team V (Amey Parsekar, Harsh Hegde, Shalini Raju, Vilas Pavithran) - 223 points.

4th Place: Team IV (Aman Agarwal, Manuel Pereira, Rajiv D’silva, Vrindah P) - 216 points.

5th Place: Team VI (Ira Almeida, Ira Prem, Nitish Wagle, Sahil Ramchandani) - 214 points.

6th Place: Team II (Amey Karpe, Aproop Prabhu Dessai, Lorraine Fernandes, Sanjay Parab, Srijit Kumar) - 173 points.

Margao July Quiz

Date: Sunday, July 29th 2018
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: Urban Health Centre, opp. Hospicio, Margao
QM: Anjali Sengupta, Gowri Yale
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all

On Life, Universe and the 4-4-2

Date: Sunday, July 22nd 2018

Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
Set by: Aditya Gadre and Anannya Deb of the Bombay Quiz Club

Proctored by: Nathan Moniz

Flavour: Football, specifically, the FIFA World Cup

Format: Written. 100 questions to be answered off a projected set.
Participation: Open to all, in teams of two.

Panjim Monthly - 01/July/2018 - Results

QM: Dr Chandrashekhar Rao

1st Place: Team VI  (Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Arnesh Jayaram, Parind Phadte, Sahil Ramchandani, Savitri Rao, Vinay Jayaram) - 356 points.

2nd Place: Team II  (Arvind Sivakumaran, Gaurav Mahambrey, Harsh Hegde, Mariette Correia, Paul George, Rajiv D'Silva) - 304 points.

3rd Place: Team III (Abhijit Virginkar, Adish Talwadker, Mohnish Sardesai, Nitish Wagle, Pritha Sardessai) - 286 points.

4th Place: Team V (Mahesh Prabhu, Mayur Shet, Soham Gaunekar, Srijit Kumar, Sunil Sardessai, Viola Rodrigues) - 246 points.

5th Place: Team I (Anant Prabhu, Anjali Sengupta, Ann Mary Thomas, Kaivalya Karkare, Pamela Noronha, Riza Noronha, Vidhyadhar Gadgil) - 236 points.

6th Place : Team IV (Ajey Patil, Gowri Yale, Ian Pereira, Nathan Moniz, Pallavi Dhakne, Samir Nazareth, Shaunak Sardessai) - 221 points.

In which Annie gives us those puns

A report on the Margao June monthly by Sahil Ramchandani

It was the last Sunday of June. The weather was pleasant with little to no rain. A perfect day for quizzing (is there any that isn’t?). The quiz began at the official SEQC time of 5pm sharp, which in IST translates to anywhere between 5.15pm and 5.30pm.

It being the football season and all, there were plenty of football questions thrown in by Annie, who was the QM of the day. The ball got rolling with the first round which was a ten question written round on the nicknames of footballers. The questions were tailored in such a manner that any football-dunce could still manage to hit the net. Peppered with puns, the answers could be worked out even without any prior football knowledge.

Then came the bounce and pounce. Being the kind-hearted soul that he is, Annie kept a negative of only 5 points for a wrong answer on the pounce. This led to a volley of pounces from most of the teams. It was not without its demerits though as it led to quite a few precipitated pounces from many teams which, keeping to the theme, can be said to have scored an own goal.

The third round was a Connect round. Annie had benignly pointed out earlier during the quiz that the theme of the day would be nicknames and football. Predictably, the theme of the Connect round was related to nicknames. As it turns out, only Nitish had his eyes on the ball, and his team got the theme before anyone else, after the second question.

Then, there was a break and snacks were served. Had Enid Blyton been writing this, she would have vividly described how scrumptious the snacks were, using as many adjectives as she possibly could. But, fortunately or unfortunately, she is not. So, the fact that there were samosas and tea for everyone should suffice.

After the half-time, the teams kicked off with the fourth round. It was based on the identification of countries playing in the World Cup from the doodles that have been running on Google lately. Our team fared miserably in that round. Rajiv later pointed out that had he seen the score of the football matches during the break, we would have gotten a couple of answers more. Adding the bonus to that would have given us a full 15 points, which was the exact margin that we eventually ended up runners-up by.

The next two rounds were Bounce + Pounce and Connect again. Another volley of questions with most being answered and some going through. Eventually, Team 3 which comprised of Nitish, Anjali and a few others won the quiz quite comfortably. Team 2, Rajiv, Ashwini, Shreya and I, lived up to its name and was the runner-up. All in all, it was an extremely enjoyable and light-hearted quiz that I was glad to be a part of. The puns, of course, were a welcome bonus.