October Quiz - Results

QM: Raunaq Rao

1st: Aaron Fernandes, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Ashwin Mysore, Divya Ramaswamy, Nitish Fatarpekar, Prajakt Kamat, Pranab Mukherjee, Raghunandan Mysore, Sunil Sardessai, Tallulah D'Silva, Taran Mukherjee - 405
2nd: Aadish Talwadker, Anil Rodrigues, Anusha Pai, Jayant Karn, Joshan Abraham, Leroy Veloso, Navin Pai, Shaswat Salgaonkar, Sohag Sen, Vinita Panicker - 355
3rd: Abhijeet Virgincar, Ajachi Chakrabarti, Kanchan Gatward, Kiril Vaz, Krithika Pradeep, Mahesh Prabhu, Priyesh Pandey, Sunil Thomas, Tara Anne Coelho - 320
4th: Ajit Parulekar, Anant Lawande, Anjali Sen Gupta, Dhruv Usgaonkar, Jatan Rodrigues, Joel Vaz, Omkar Borkar, Paul Gatward, Prajeet Madkaikar - 290
5th: Akash Kulkarni, Anagha Panicker, Anurag Panicker, Atharv Joshi, Joel Pires, Paola Mambro, P. D. Mukherjee, Rajesh Panicker, Rajiv D'Silva, Srijit Kumar - 255
6th: Aisha Kalangutkar, Akshay Rege, Harshvardhan Bhatkuly, Joshua Anranjo, Raj Kunkolienkar, Shishir Shankhwalker, Shridhar Ramachandran, Shubham Tiwari, Soraya Mukherjee, Surbhi Verma - 235

The next monthly quiz will be held on the 7th of November, to be hosted by Paul Gatward.

Announcing The BiG Q 2010

The BiG Q 2010, which expands to the 'Best in Goa Quiz' will be held on Sunday, October 17. This is the BiG Q’s second year, following on from the success of the inaugural edition, in which more than 80 participants from Panjim, Vasco and Margao took the challenge. This year, Ponda will become the fourth city to host this premier quizzing event in Goa.

The BiG Q will be a written quiz for individual participants, with 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Reporting time is 11am, and the proceedings are likely to last till 1.30pm or so. This year, the BiG Q is being set by last year’s overall winner Annie Sen Gupta.

Entry to the quiz is free, and open to all, from the youngest school student to the sprightliest senior citizen. We are expecting at least a few outstation quizzers who will probably be here for the weekend, as the BITS Open Quiz is to be held the previous day.

Pre-registration is essential for participation. To register, e-mail seqcgoa@gmail.com, mentioning your name, contact number and venue. If you need more information, call Annie at 2415449, Anjali at 9860089733, Rajiv/Tallulah at 9823362217, or the coordinators at the other venues:

Margao: Ira Almeida, 9657320872

Vasco: Mahesh Prabhu, 9823010242

Ponda: Ameya Mardolkar, 9823171842

The long quiz of the law

A report on the SEQC October monthly by Aniruddha Sen Gupta

Never expect a lawyer to wind up anything quickly. Raunaq Rao lived up to professional stereotype with his quiz, the October monthly. At least, during its first couple of rounds. He had devised a complex, multiple-clue formula for the questions in the opening two rounds, which made for interesting quizzing, but involved a lot of people running helter-skelter, some vociferous arguments, much confusion regarding outcomes and the delivery of judgements from the bench. A typical day in court, so to speak.

After the first two rounds, though, the dust kind of settled, and the remaining eight rounds sped by like a... um, well... like a case on speed. The level of the questions was such that the quiz was enjoyed by everyone present. Those who often sit stupefied through SEQC quizzes, looking like they've suffered a roadroller incident, were for once animated and joining in the hubbub. One teammate of mine celebrated what he said was the first question at an SEQC quiz that he had been able to answer.

The scoring, however, went for a bit of a toss, with the two scorers split by irreconcilable differences. The hand of an international betting syndicate is suspected.

At the end of the day, we had probably the first SEQC quiz where the scores were not formally announced, as a combination of the lateness of the finish and the discrepancies of the scoring saw people departing sans results. I suppose we'll know who won when Rajiv puts up the scores on this blog.

As Rajiv put it (you know I'd never utter such words on my own), Raunaq lost his QMing virginity in style, and we all enjoyed the defloration. We all look forward to being party to more such cherry-picking incidents in future SEQC quizzes. Caligula never had it so good!

Riviera School Quiz

Organized by: Rotary Club Riviera, Panaji
Date: 8th October 2010
Time: 2.30 pm
Flavour: General
QM: Harshvardhan Bhatkuly
Venue: Gaspar Dias Club, Miramar
Participation: Open to students of Std. X and below in teams of 2.

Heritage Quiz

A quiz will wind up events at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Goa Heritage Action Group. The events that precede it ought to be quite interesting too. Everyone's invited.

Going Places
A Quiz on Heritage, Culture & Tradition

Date: 2nd October 2010
Time: 5.30 pm
QM: Rajiv D'Silva
Venue: Panjim Inn, Fontainhas
Participation: Open