Panjim October Quiz

Date: Sunday October 5, 2014
Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: The International Centre Goa (ICG), Dona Paula
QM: Srijit Kumar
Flavour: General
Participation: Open to all

September Margao Quiz – Results

QM: Harshvardhan Bhatkuly

1st: Nitish Wagle, Suraj Kamat, Sushant Harite, Tarun Mascarenhas – 95 points
2nd: [Anant Prabhu, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Nathan Moniz, Viraj Nayak] and [Abhijeet Virginkar, Julian D'Costa, Mahesh Prabhu, Sanjay Parab] – 75
4th: Ameya Mardolkar, Anjali Sen Gupta, Harsh Hegde, Ira Almeida, Paul Gatward – 60

The next Margao Monthly will be held on the 25th of October, to be hosted by Paul Gatward.

BiG Q 2014 – scores and content

A total of 36 participants took The BiG Q test across Panjim and Margao. The general asssessment was that it was easier than in previous years, an opinion borne out by the higher scoring across the board.

Rajiv D'Silva retained the title of The BiG Q, scoring 76 points. Hot on his heels were Julian D'Costa with 74 and Vidyadhar Gadgil on 73, who win the Best Open Quizzer prizes for Margao and Panjim, respectively. Tarun Mascarenhas, who scored 50, is the Best Schools Quizzer from Margao; while Dhanraj Naik with 29 wins that title from the Panjim venue.

Prizes will be awarded during the Panjim monthly to be held on October 5. Winners, you are requested to try and attend, as there's always the chance that your prize money will end up being used for booze if you're not there to grab it.

Here are the top 10 finishers:

Participant Venue Category Score ** *    
Rajiv D'Silva Panjim Open 76     2 6  
Julian D'Costa Margao School 74     2 6  
Vidyadhar Gadgil Panjim Open 73     3 5  
Pradhyumna Bhat Margao Open 57     2 4  
Rajeev N. Panjim Open 57     2 3  
Sangeeth S. Varma Margao Open 54     1 5  
Harsh Bhatkuly Panjim Open 53     1 3  
Anjali Sen Gupta Panjim Open 52     1 3  
Tarun Mascarenhas Margao School 50     2 4  
Raunaq Rao Panjim Open 46     1 2

For the complete list of scores, click here.

The question paper for the quiz is available here, and the paper with the answers here. 

The BiG Q 2014 – Outstation scores

The BiG Q 2014 quiz was conducted in several venues outside Goa. Many thanks to Anannya Deb of the Bombay Quiz Club, Prasanna Karmarkar/Pranav Mihir Kandada of K-Circle in Hyderabad, Dr Chandrashekhar Rao/Shivakumar Vishwanathan of Quiz Dubai, Gautam Ghosh/V. Senthil in Madurai, Suarav Ranjan Datta in Kolkata, and JN Ramanand of the Boat Club Quiz Club, Pune for hosting the quiz in these locations.

Here are the scores as received from these centres (a few are pending):

Hyderabad

Participant Score ** *   
Nitish Khadiya 75 0 7  
Mustafa Hashmi 67 4 8  
Sarada Anne 59 2 5  
Krishna B. 59 1 4  
Prasanna Karmarkar 54 0 6  
Arjun S. Kallapur 47 1 3  
Siddhartha V. 38 2 3  
Ram Mohan 36 2 1  
Vivek C. 34 1 1  
Sriraj. R. Iyer 34 1 1  
Siddharth 30 1 3  
Ratna Kumar 26 1 2  
Mohan 18 0 0

Dubai

Participant Score ** *    
G Krishnamurthi 76 3 6  
Alok Mohan 69 2 8  
Prasann Potdar 68 3 8  
Ramkey 61 3 3  
Murali 57 5 5  
Raghuraman 57 2 5  
Chandrashekar Rao 54 1 6  
Jonathan 54 0 4  
Raunaq Paul 42 0 3  
Rahul Gupta 35 2 4

Mumbai

Participant Score ** *    
Vikram Joshi 94 4 8  
Vinoo Sanjay 88 3 8  
Pravin Varma 80 7 2  
Bala S. 76 6 3  
Sachin Deshpande 75 3 7  
Nikhil Sonde 75 1 6  
J Krishnamurthi 74 2 5  
Venkatraghavan S. 74 2 5  
Rahul Kottalgi 73 4 6  
Govind Grewal 69 2 5  
Anil Kothuri 69 1 5  
Aniket Khasgiwale 62 2 6  
Jagdeep Kannarath 59 6 0  
Suvajit Chakraborty 51 1 2  
Sundesh Shetty 49 0 2  
Debashish Misra 48 1 3  
Karthik Ganesh 44 0 1  
Kaushik Saha 44 0 0  
Omkar Kamalapur 42 1 3

Kolkata

Participant	Category	Score	**	*
Sandeep Shankar	Open	74	3	7
Kinshuk Biswas	Open	69	3	7
Abhijit Banerjee	Open	67	2	8
Devarshi Ghosh	Open	59	2	2
Somnath Chanda	Open	51	2	3
Somasish Ghosh	Student	50	3	3
Sreshth Shah	Student	47	1	6
Bedbyas Datta	Student	43		5
Arkapaul Datta	Student	33		2
Ashoke Sanyal	Open	31		1
Sanjay Chakraborty	Open	25		2

Goa History Quiz 2014 - Content

QM: Rajiv D'Silva

Semi-Finals:

Finals: