SEQC Panjim October Quiz

Date: Sunday, 5th October 2025

Time: 5.00 pm 

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM:  Chinmay Naik & Samyak Rajanala

Participation: Open to all.

Irish Open 2025

Date: Sunday, 5th October 2025

Time: 2.30 pm (reporting time: 2.15 pm)

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao (click here for maps)

Set By: Irish Quiz Organisation

Proctor: Kanchan Gatward

Participation: Solo, open to all. Please bring your own pens and backing boards.

Format: Written, 240 questions to be answered in 2 hours

Register at: https://forms.gle/HFWZXYuBvP5CMbDc8

An evening to remember

Imagine if you will a scenario- you are on an evening drive with your new girlfriend (or boyfriend) and “Ek mai aur ek tu, dono mile is tarah” starts to play on the radio. The memories from that drive are likely to be imprinted in your mind forever- the smell of the river, the hue of the twilight sky, the gentle way in which she smiles at you while the breeze blows her hair in her face, and the absolute joy you feel when you realize how aptly the song adds to the promise of your future together.

One of life’s most beautiful truths is the universality of music. Most people will feel the urge to speed up like SRK when “Yeh dil! deewanaa, dewanaaaaaaaa hai ye dil” starts playing in our cars, and all of us gaze into the distance in melancholia when we hear “Kahiiiin door, jab din dhal jaaye”.”Music is the soundtrack to celebrating the big moments of life, but also, the mundane ones like cooking, cleaning and working. It is a silent witness and a steady companion to our stories.

Last Sunday’s Antakshari quiz has set a high benchmark for SEQC. Thanks to our well-versed Quiz masters, Shwetambari and Sanjay, we were treated to an evening of musical magic. Their quiz was a masterclass – concise and entertaining in equal measure-and included rounds such as singing missing lines, identifying songs from their opening bars to pictionary and dumb charades. Songs spanned decades to include hits from the 1950s to recent chart busters like “Saiyaara”, thus ensuring everyone was included - even those who are tone deaf.

My personal favorites were 1) the singing round because it was a pleasant surprise to see folks singing with great voices and enthusiasm and 2) the “hook step” dumb charades because Shwetambari chose such spot-on songs and even aided the teams by doing them when we were not able to.

The QMs were expertly supported by their kids, Sudhanshu and Siddhanth, who seemed to have been infected by their parents’ musical bug as well! Together they ensured that party to pakki thi!! The evening was aided by the expert attention of the staff at Carlito’s Attique who kept us well fed with lip-smacking goan food and delicious cocktails.

A huge thank you to the Parab family for doing this and to Devika and Srijit, for securing a venue that matched the raucous spirit of the event. Here’s hoping this quiz marks the beginning of a new annual SEQC tradition. Until then—gaata rahe humara dil!

SEQC Margao September Quiz

Date: Sunday, 28th September 2025

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: SGDH Auditorium, 5th Floor, South Goa District Hospital, Margao

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QM: Naintara Jain, Swati Parab, Viola Rodrigues

Participation: Open to all.

Panjim Monthly - 07/Sep/2025 - Results

QM: Annie Sen Gupta

Are you Wordy or Not?

If you attended the Panjim Monthly on the 7th, you would know what it means to be in thrall of a true connoisseur of the words. There were just so many words- wordplays, words within words and verbose texts that had us scratching our heads and pulling our hair -this was mostly Mayur Shett- to arrive at the answers.

Annie was at his loquacious best as the QM, deftly navigating multiple genres with aplomb– from Taiwan politics to Greek mythology and from Zulu songs to Bombay mafia and even 6 connect questions thrown in for good measure.

It was a good day for SEQC overall as some of our folks scooped up the awards at the Janaki Kamat Memorial quiz organized by Suraj Kamat and team at The Quizlabs earlier in the day. With high energy and a full house,we embarked into various rounds starting with the“Kangaroo” set. The chai and samosa break was especially welcome yesterday as we powered through six rounds in pursuit of Wordsmithdom.

We didn’t get an “Annie” question this time, but there was a self-referential Ho Chi Minh image—whose birth name was Nguyễn as we learned —so that sort of counts, I guess. Team 4 turned out to be wordy wise and came first with 335 points, with other teams not too far behind.

Overall, it was good fun and next time please bring your reading glasses (especially the back benchers).

-Ruchira Porob

Results

1st Place: Team IV (Shashwat Salgaocar, Kaivalya Karkare, Devika Shetty, Karan Dhingra, Omkar Bhurke, Aniruddh Kakodkar, Nikhilesh Rana, Saud Sayed, Husain Shetranjiwala) - 335 Points

2nd Place: Team V (Rajiv D'Silva, Ashwini Joglekar, Assis Sequeira, Upesh Pradhan, Melchior Teles, Chandrashekhar Rao, Isha Usgaonkar, Shreyas Naik, Siddhant Parab, Utsav Bannerjee) - 295 Points

3rd Place: Team II (R Samyak, Sanjay Parab, Ajay Poonia, Chinmay Naik, Saaereesh Naik, Vilas Pavithran, Viola Rodrigues, Swati Parab)   - 290 Points

4th Place: Team III (Sujoy Dutta, Ruchira Porob, Mayur Shett, Arvind Sivakumaran, Nikhil Shirsat, Terrence D'Costa, Aaron Augustine, Anna Augustine, Arthur Augustine, Tarun Robbins) - 225 Points

5th Place: Team I (Aastha Dua, Anjali Sen Gupta , Magali Vaz, Srijit Kumar , Raunak Nevgi, Sunil Sardesai , Ira Almeida, Parind Phadte) - 205 Points

6th Place: Team VI (Ajey Patil, Ashwin Mascarenhas, Shaunak Sardessai , Soham Gaunekar, Ajit Nair, Rupika V, Angeline Pradhan, Dhanaraj) - 175 Points