Date: August 15, 2010
Time: Schools edition 3 pm (registration and check-in 2.30pm); Open edition 5pm
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: India
Venue: International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
Participation: Schools edition: students up to Class XII; Open edition: open (what else?)
Teams: Schools edition: two members from the same school; Open edition: two members, Schools edition participants can also participate, with same or different partners
Registration: Send names and contacts of team members to seqcgoa@gmail.com, or letter to Arjun Halarnkar, Programme Director, International Centre Goa, Dona Paula. Spot registration may be allowed, depending on availability of prelims questions papers.
Prizes: Sponsored by Department of Tourism, Goa

Incredible India Quizzes on Independence Day

The Incredible India Quizzes (IIQ) will be organised on Independence Day, August 15, partnership with the International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula. The quizzes will be held at the ICG, starting from 3pm. Here are the details:

* The IIQ 2010 will be conducted as two editions -- the first one for Schools, and the second an Open quiz.

* Entries are invited for teams of two for each of the quizzes. For the Schools edition, both team members must be from the same school.

* For the Open quiz, any two people can team up, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or whatever. Participants in the schools edition can also register for the Open edition, with the same or different partners.

* The last date for registration is Friday, August 13, 2010.

* Entry for both quizzes is free.

* The focus of both quizzes will be on all things Indian. The content will include audio, visual and video questions, buzzer rounds, the works.

* In each of the editions, there will be a written preliminary round for all registered teams, with the six top teams going up on stage for the final quiz.

* A tentative schedule for the day is as follows:
-- 3pm to 3.30pm: Schools edition prelims
-- 3.30pm to 5pm: Schools edition finals (six teams on stage)
-- 5pm to 5.30pm: Open edition prelims
-- 5.30pm to 7.30pm: Open edition finals (six teams on stage)
-- 7.30pm to 8pm: Prize distribution and wind-up

* Great prizes are being offered by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Goa, for the top two teams in each of the editions. Certificates will be awarded to all participating students in the schools edition.

* The quiz will be conducted by Annie Sen Gupta,.

* To register, e-mail seqcgoa@gmail.com, with 'IIQ 2010 registration' in the Subject line, and the names plus contact numbers or e-mail IDs of both team members (with school name, if entry is for the schools edition) in the body of the message. Alternatively, you can send in your registration in the form of a letter listing the names of team members to Arjun Halarnkar, Programmes Manager, ICG, Dona Paula.

* For more details, call Aniruddha Sen Gupta on 2415449.

Gol! The Football Quiz -- questions and answers

Gol! The Football Quiz began with a written elimination called the Qualifiers. The files for these are uploaded in the Files section of the SEQC Google group. You can access them here:
http://groups.google.com/group/seqc-goa/files

Six teams then qualified for the League Stage:


At the end of the League stage, the two bottom teams were elminated, and the top four teams faced off in the semis, Team 1 vs Team 4 and Team 2 vs Team 3. The two semis PPTs are below:





The teams that won the semis then met each other in the finals



Each of the matches had buzzer rounds, which can also be accessed at the Google Groups URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/seqc-goa/files

A reviewer reviewed

A report on the August 2010 monthly by Annie Sen Gupta

A little bird -- actually, quite a big one -- told me a little story about the SEQC August 2010 monthly. I will retell it, with apologies to the bird and to his informant for playing a little fast and loose with the facts.

The mantle of responsibility for setting the quiz had been draped over the shoulders of our Little Master, Sachin Chatte, at the previous meet. So, this bird called up Sachin a few days before the current monthly was due, and enquired how things were shaping up. The answer was sufficiently non-commital and vague for the bird to assume the worst -- that Mr Chatte had not yet got going on it. Further probing on the subject revealed as much.

"So what's the problem?" the bird enquired.

"It's not very easy," was the response. "You guys are used to it."

"But you did fine the first time around," the bird reminded the recalcitrant QM, referring to Sachin's previous foray on the SEQC proscenium.

"Yeah, but that time I was motivated."

I was told this tale while we waited for Sachin to make an appearance, as a warning that perhaps our QM was going to be a no-show. Thankfully, however, Sachin pulled no such stunt, and reported for duty, perhaps a little late but with laptop full of questions. The bird and I breathed sighs of relief.

In case you didn't know this, Sachin's thing in life is to watch movies first-day first-show, and then make fun of them on television, radio and the odd newspaper (a very odd newspaper, in fact). Watch Prudent TV on Sunday night, and you'll know what I mean. His quiz, he announced early on in the evening, would naturally contain a fair bit of filmology, some music (oh yeah, he's also an RJ on an FM channel) and some cricket.

As Sajan complained after the show, the cricket component seemed to consist exclusively of questions about Bhausaheb Nimbalkar. One question that we realised Sachin had missed out on was what Nimbalkar's first name was. To illuminate, it was Jack -- his full name being Jack B. Nimbalkar. If you don't get the joke, you don't know your nursery rhymes.

All in all, it was a rollercoaster quiz -- some questions as inaccessible as the moon being succeeded by ones completely down to earth. But a lot of fun was had, and there was applause for many questions, even though there was no claque. Must have been a clique. Turnout was a little low, perhaps due to the rain, but there were participants from Margao, Vasco and perhaps further afield.

The end game was cliff-hanging, with Rajiv's answer on 'Smoke on the Water' (from a description of the circumstances by Deep Purple during an interview with Sachin himself) ensuring a tie for the first place -- the first time that this has happened at an SEQC monthly.

August Quiz Results

QM: Sachin Chatte

1st: [Ananya Mukherjee, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Jatan Rodrigues, Paola Mambro,Rajesh Panicker, Raunaq Rao] & [Conrad Fernandes, Julian Fernandes, Kiril Vaz, Neha Khadpe, Raj Kunkolienkar, Rajiv D'Silva, Vinita Panicker] - 110
3rd: [Adish Talwadker, Ameya Mardolkar, Anant Lawande, Anil Rodrigues, Leroy Veloso, Shaila D'Souza] & [Akshay Rege, Anjali Sen Gupta, Anurag Panicker, Pranab Mukherjee, Sajan Venniyoor] - 80
5th: Anagha Panicker, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Lucarno Alvares, Omkar Borkar, P. D. Mukherjee - 50
6th: Abhijeet Virgincar, Ashwin Mysore, Mahesh Prabhu, Sunil Sardessai, Suyash Kamat, Tallulah D'Silva, Taran Mukherjee - 45

The next monthly quiz will be held on the 5th of September. Some uncertainty prevails over who the quizmaster will be, but fear not, it will all pan out in the end.
(Update: The uncertainty has now been resolved. Rajiv D'Silva will QM the September Quiz)