Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships

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

Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships

Sport	Trivia
Founded	2012 (2012)
Countries	6 Australia India Malaysia New Zealand Philippines Singapore
Most recent champion(s)	India (3rd title)
Most titles	Singapore, India (3 titles each)

History

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

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.

Participating teams

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
2021^
2020^
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

^Not contested due to COVID-19

Host City and Results

Year	Venue	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
2024	Malaysia (city TBA)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
2023	Colombo	India	461	Malaysia	431	Australia	396
2022	Kota Kinabalu	India	704	Australia	657	Malaysia	595
2019	Singapore	Singapore	455	Australia	444	Malaysia	420
2018	Kuala Lumpur	Australia	593	Malaysia	542	Singapore	469
2017	Kuala Lumpur	India	607	Australia	534	Singapore	518
2016	Singapore	Malaysia	475	Singapore	474	Singapore B	341
2015	Singapore	India	530	Singapore	519	Singapore B	491
2014	Manila	Singapore	437	Malaysia	396	Philippines	385
2013	Singapore	Singapore	414	Philippines	396	Malaysia	326
2012	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	310	Singapore	263	Philippines	216

The current scoring format was adopted in 2017. Up to 2016 there were only 20 questions for each category in the written paper instead of 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.

Medal summary

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

Winning Teams

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

While a team event, the AQC 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	Ross Evans	Kelvin Lange	Rick Bakker
2017	Arun Hiregange	Thejaswi Udupa	Ravi Avva
2016	Movin Miranda	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

• 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

External links

Official website