Written By: Aldous Dale G. Caballero and Jose Miguel C. Ballecer
Photo by: Jeremy Edera
Chemical Engineering Team hailed as the champion in the return of the long-awaited annual General Information Quiz Contest (GIQC), hosted by the Thomasian Engineer, garnering a total score of 76 points.
The coverage for the quiz competition include history of the university, history of the faculty of engineering, philippine history, current events, and topics in mathematics including algebra, calculus, plane trigonometry, plane geometry, solid geometry, analytic geometry, and physics. Questions used in the quiz competition were formulated by professors from different departments within the university.
For its 41st installment, the questions were put together by Prof. Marily C. Mabini, Ph.D., PIE, ASEAN Eng, former dean of the Faculty of Engineering and currently an Industrial Engineering Faculty member, Asst. Prof. Manolo P. Binuya, Electrical Engineering Faculty member, and Prof. Isabel S. Abao, Ph. D., Faculty member from the Department of History.
The contest proper featured three rounds in varying difficulty. The easy round merits three points for each correct answer with a 30-second time allotment for each question. Participants were given one minute in the average round, and five points if the question is answered correctly. Finally, the difficult round merits nine points per correct answer with a three-minute time allotment per question.
Chemical Engineering (ChE) Department and the Electronics Engineering (ECE) Department were tied for the top spot with 15 points each during the easy round. While at the conclusion of the average round, the ChE Department passed their competitor and took over the leaderboards gaining a total of 25 points.
The Electronics Engineering team garnered a finale-worthy 45 points in the difficult level, the highest number of points in the round. All of the teams used their lifeline in this last round of the competition, wherein they were given the chance to seek help from their faculty coach via Discord.
Afterward, the faculty representative from each department went head-to-head in the quiz competition, wherein the same mechanics, stages, and points awarded were used.
The easy round ended with Engr. Paul Marion Demapelis of the Civil Engineering Department and Engr. Raymond Serafica of the Electronics Engineering Department in the lead, both scoring six points. With a total of 10 points, Engr. Demapelis took the top spot in the average round. In the difficult round, Engr. John Carlo Perion of Electrical Engineering scored 18 points, taking the lead for the round alone.
The awarding of the top three winners of this year’s GIQC followed right after the student and faculty rounds.
For the student category, the Chemical Engineering team composed of Paolo de Castro, Franc Lorenz Cacal, Gian Miranda, Kyle Eunice Anisco, and their coach Asst. Prof. Basil James S. Santos, took first place with 76 points. The Electrical Engineering team comprised of Ken Isaac P. Calomot, Gilbert Andre D. Pascual, Justine Kylie Zaguirre, Paul Joshua Delos Santos, and their coach Engr. John Carlo Perion came in 2nd with a total of 72 points. They were followed closely by Kiel Ethan Lanzanas, John Earl Patrick Sandoval, Aliah Nicole Brillante, Marc Michael Nitro, and their coach Engr. Raymond Serafica of the Electronics Engineering team finished 3rd with a total of 71 points.
Engr. Paul Marion J. Demapelis, a Civil Engineering faculty member, earned the top spot in the faculty category with an overall score of 25 points. He was followed closely by Electrical Engineering faculty, Engr. John Carlo Perion, with an overall score of 24 points, finishing 2nd. Chemical Engineering faculty, Asst. Prof. Basil James S. Santos, MS, with a total score of 14 points, came in 3rd place.
Winners will also be recognized in the PAGHIMAYA: The Engineering Jukebox 2022, which is set to happen on March 5.
The infamous General Information Quiz Contest (GIQC), after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, has finally returned virtually to hold its 41st installment.
GIQC is an annual quiz bee hosted by the Thomasian Engineer, the Faculty of Engineering official student publication, and was sponsored this year by the UST Engineering Alumni Association Incorporated (UST-EAAI) Batch ‘97.
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