BiG Q 2012 -- Goa scores

The turnout for BiG Q in Goa was rather paltry this year. A total of 42 participants took the quiz in three centres.

The BiG Q for 2012 is Rajiv D'Silva, for the second year in a row. Whiz kid Julian D'Costa (all of what, 14 years?) is rapidly catching up with the bigger Qs, though. He was just 5 points behind Rajiv this time.

The Best Open Quizzers are Harshvardhan Bhatkuly (Panjim), Julian D'Costa (Margao) and Tanmay Naik (Vasco). The Best School Quizzers are Shashwat Salgaocar (Panjim), Harsh Hegde (Margao) and Satyajit Dey Pereira (Vasco).

Here are the top 10 scores for this year across all three locations:

1. Rajiv D'Silva 62
2. Julian D'Costa 57.5
3. V.R. Muralidharan 47.5
4. Harshvardhan Bhatkuly 39.5
5. Shashwat Salgaocar 38
6. Anil Rodrigues 36.5
7. Nitish Wagle 36
8. Sunil Sardessai 34
9. Amit Shet 32.5
10. Paul Gatward 29.5

The full list of scores can be accessed here.

Anjali took the test at home, and scored a very creditable 40.5 points. Unlucky for her she couldn't be part of the official edition.

BiG Q 2012 -- scores from other centres

The BiG Q 2012 quiz was also conducted by the Bombay Quiz Club, the Quiz Foundation of India in Chennai, K-Circle in Hyderabad, the Boat Club Quiz Club in Pune and Quiz Dubai, for their members. Here, in brief, are partial scores from all these centres.


Dubai
1. G. Krishnamurti 61
2. Prasann Potdar 56
3. Alok Mohan 54
4. Jonathan Justin 41
5. Rejoy Kurup 40
6. R. Sivaram 34
7. Raunaq Paul 25
8. Rahul Gupta 18

Pune
1. J Ramanand 73
2. Salil Bijur 63
3. Kunal Sawardekar 53
4. Ranajeet Soman 38
5. Rohan Danait 27
6. Debojyoti Adhikari 25
7. Mihir Talnikar 18

Hyderabad (only a few people took it as a written quiz, the rest as a regular infinite-bounce quiz with a QM)
1. J. Krishnamurthi Rao 69
2. Ravi Mundoli 65
3. Bhargava 55
4. J.K. Lakshmi 49
5. Prasanna Karmarkar 46

Bombay (top 6 of about 20 participants)
1. Vikram Joshi 72
2. Vinoo Sanjay 71
3. Pravin Verma 70
4. S Balakrishnan 67
5. Vibhendu Tewari 65
6. Sumant Srivatsan 64

College Winner
Pratik Gupte 56

School Winner (only 1 participant)
Sahil B 16

Chennai (top 6 of 16)
1. Jayakanthan 66
2.  Kiran Vijayakumar 59
3. Gopal Kidao 57
4. VijayaSarathy 53
5. Vinod Hariharan 50
6. Arun A. S 46

Oasis Lone Wolf - Content

For those who missed the quiz, here are the questions. And the answers.
Many thanks to the English Language Activities Society of BITS-Pilani for an enjoyable quiz.

SEQCm September - Results

QM: Sanjay Parab

1st: Deepa Vedartham, Paul Gatward, Rajiv D'Silva, Suraj Kamat - 140
2nd: Amey Parsekar, Nitish Wagle, Savio Victoria, Tallulah D'Silva, Viraj Nayak - 105
3rd: [Harsh Hegde, Lynn Barretto Miranda, Sahil Ramchandani, V. R. Muralidharan, Zibane Paes] & [Ameya Mardolkar, Anjali Sengupta, Kalpana Satarkar, Kanchan Gatward, Viola Rodrigues] - 100

The next Margao quiz will be held on the 27th of October, to be QMed by Suraj Kamat.

SEQC October

Date: 7th October 2012
Time: 5.00 pm
QM: Amit Shet
Flavour: General
Venue: Zuari Hall, The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
Participation: Open to all, entry free