Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships

The Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships (APQC) is the premier team quiz event in the Asia-Pacific region.

Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships
SportTrivia
Founded2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Countries6
 Australia
 India
 Malaysia
 New Zealand
 Philippines
 Singapore
Most recent
champion(s)
India (3rd title)
Most titlesSingapore, India (3 titles each)

History

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The tournament began in 2012 as the ASEAN Quizzing Championships, an annual quiz competition held among quizzers from ASEAN, primarily those living in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. In 2015 the competition expanded to include participants from India and a number of off-site chapters and became the Asian Quizzing Championships (AQC). After teams from the Asia-Pacific region such as Australia (from 2017) and New Zealand (from 2018) began participating, the event was renamed the Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships to reflect this wider geographical participation.

The event was founded by Caleb Liu from Singapore and Movin Miranda from India (and a long time resident of Malaysia) with the goal of fostering friendly competition and growing interest in quizzing in the region. The teams are selected by the National Quiz Associations of the respective member countries.

Format

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Teams of four compete in three separate rounds, with the highest cumulative score being crowned champions.

  • Round 1 - Individual written round, modelled after the World Quizzing Championships. Participants answer 200 questions worth 1 point each, with 25 questions drawn from each of eight categories:
    • Culture
    • Entertainment
    • History
    • Lifestyle
    • Media
    • Science
    • Sport
    • World

The contribution to the overall team score which will be the cumulative total of the top three individual scores in each of the eight categories (with the lowest score for each category dropped). For example, if the four members of a team scored 15, 15, 15, 7 for Sport, the team score for Sport will be 45. Maximum score = 600 points.

  • Round 2 - Individual Response Round. Participants are asked questions individually in turn. They may answer themselves, or pass the question to a teammate. There is a maximum of three passes per player, once to each teammate. 40 questions (10 per team member), 4 points each. Maximum score = 160 points.
  • Round 3 - Team Discussion Round. Participants work as a team to answer 50 questions worth 5 points each. Maximum score = 250 points.

The maximum team score is therefore 1010 points though in practice teams do not approach that limit.

Host City and Results

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Edition Year City Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
XI 2024 Penang TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
X 2023 Colombo   India 461   Malaysia 431   Australia 396
IX 2022 Kota Kinabalu   India 704   Australia 657   Malaysia 595
VIII 2019 Singapore   Singapore 455   Australia 444   Malaysia 420
VII 2018[1] Kuala Lumpur   Australia 593   Malaysia 542   Singapore 469
VI 2017[2] Kuala Lumpur   India 607   Australia 534   Singapore 518
V 2016[3] Singapore   Malaysia 475   Singapore 474   Singapore B 341
IV 2015 Singapore   India 530   Singapore 519   Singapore B 491
III 2014[4] Manila   Singapore 437   Malaysia 396   Philippines 385
II 2013[5] Singapore   Singapore 414   Philippines 396   Malaysia 326
I 2012 Kuala Lumpur   Malaysia 310   Singapore 263   Philippines 216

The event was not contested in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19

Scoring

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The current scoring format was adopted in 2017. From 2012-16 there were only 20 questions for each category in the written paper rather than 25. From 2017 onwards, 4 points were awarded in the Individual Response round instead of 5. From 2018 onwards, teams could be awarded half points (i.e. 2 points) in the team round alongside a full point score of 5 points.

Participating teams

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Teams Australia India Malaysia New Zealand Singapore Philippines Unaligned TOTAL
2023 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 6
2022 2 1 4 0 1 1 0 9
2019 3 3 1 0 3 0 0 10
2018 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 9
2017 2 1 2 0 1 2 1 9
2016 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 6
2015 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 8
2014 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 4
2013 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 4
2012 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 4
TOTAL 11 9 16 1 17 10 5 69

Medal summary

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Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
Singapore 3 3 4 10
India 4 0 0 4
Malaysia 2 3 3 8
Australia[6] 1 3 1 5
Philippines 0 1 2 3

Winning Teams

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Year Country Team Members
2023   India Rajiv Rai, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Nikhil Sonde, Vinoo Sanjay
2022   India Brajendu Bhaskar, Sania Narulkar, Rajiv Rai, Thejaswi Udupa
2019   Singapore Ravikant Avva, Caleb Liu, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Mukund Sridhar
2018   Australia Rick Bakker, Ross Evans, Michael Logue, Aaran Mohann
2017   India Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Rajiv Rai, Thejaswi Udupa
2016   Malaysia G. Krishnamurti, Movin Miranda, Chong MinHow, Jaideep Mukherjee
2015   India Gopal Kidao, Rajiv Rai, Jayakanthan R, Swaminathan Ganesh
2014   Singapore Ravikant Avva, Jake Jacobs, Caleb Liu, Rohan Naidu
2013   Singapore Caleb Liu, Jake Jacobs, Nirav Kanodra, Iain Carmichael
2012   Malaysia Neil Bruce, Kee Choonlee, Shiva Gurupatham, Movin Miranda

Highest Individual Scorers

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While a team event, the APQC also acknowledges the highest scorers in the first (individual) round.

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2023   Vinoo Sanjay   Rajiv Rai   Brandon Blackwell
2022   Ross Evans   Jojo Torio   Rajiv Rai,   Thejaswi Udupa (tie)
2019   Movin Miranda   Michael Logue,   Pradeep Ramanathan,   Mukund Sridhar [tie]
2018[1]   Ross Evans[7]   Kelvin Lange   Rick Bakker
2017[2]   Arun Hiregange   Thejaswi Udupa   Ravi Avva
2016[3]   Movin Miranda[8]   G. Krishnamurti   Pradeep Ramanathan,   Mukund Sridhar (tie)
2015   Rajesh Kannan   Sunny Chu   Leonardo Gapol
2014   Movin Miranda   Leonardo Gapol   Caleb Liu
2013   Leonardo Gapol   Movin Miranda   Caleb Liu
2012   Movin Miranda   Caleb Liu   Leonardo Gapol

Records

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  • Largest Winning Margins
    • India by 73 points (2017)
    • Australia by 51 points (2018)
    • Malaysia by 47 points (2012)
    • India by 47 points (2022)
    • Singapore by 41 points (2014)
  • Narrowest Winning Margins
    • Malaysia by 1 point (2016)
    • Singapore by 11 points (2019)
    • India by 11 points (2015)
    • Singapore by 18 points (2013)

Results last updated: 6 December 2023

References

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  1. ^ a b "Results of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships" (PDF). 25 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Results of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships" (PDF). 26 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b minyichua (5 December 2016). "Results and Proceedings of AQC 2016".
  4. ^ "Results of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships" (PDF). 13 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Results of the 2013 Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships" (PDF). 28 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Quizzing Australia". Quizzing Australia. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Player Profile - Ross Evans" (PDF). Quizzing Australia.
  8. ^ "Asia Pacific – Top 20 – World Quizzing Championships".
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