Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships

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 wider 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.

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.

Year	Venue	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
2023	Colombo	TBA		TBA		TBA
2022	Kota Kinabalu	India	704	Australia	657	Malaysia	595
2021	Not contested due to covid-19
2020	Not contested due to covid-19
2019	Singapore	Singapore	455	Australia	444	Malaysia	420
2018[1]	Kuala Lumpur	Australia	593	Malaysia	542	Singapore	469
2017[2]	Kuala Lumpur	India	607	Australia	534	Singapore	518
2016[3]	Singapore	Malaysia	475	Singapore	474	Singapore B	341
2015	Singapore	India	530	Singapore	519	Singapore B	491
2014[4]	Manila	Singapore	437	Malaysia	396	Philippines	385
2013[5]	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.

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

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2022	Ross Evans	Jojo Torio	Rajiv Rai, Thejaswi Udupa (tie)
2021	Not contested due to covid-19
2020	Not contested due to covid-19
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

• 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: 7 December 2022

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