Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Don Quizote Winter League!

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With the start of a new semester and year, the Don Quizote Winter League has ended. We have seen a lot of people enthusiastically participate and answer!

On behalf of the Blogmakers, I would like to thank all those who answered, competed, or even just visited the site to check out the questions. Without people like you, our quizzing culture wouldn’t be as vibrant as it is, and it is due to this that we have gotten new successes at the Inter IIT!

So, to get to this post’s point, present The Winners!

Winning the First Mini-League, We have @Madhav Miglani soundly defeating any competition with 68 points.

The second mini-league winner is @Chinmay Kale, who had a strong performance of 47 points.

Winning the hotly contested Third Mini-League, we have @gsaksham coming with a solid but fiercely contested 91 points.

Congratulations to all the winners and to everyone who featured on the Leaderboards. Without you guys, this blog wouldn’t exist. Looking forward to seeing you guys continue participating in quizzing and Literati events.

And so I conclude my last post on this blog for the foreseeable future.

Keep quizzing and Stay Lit!

@aadsearthshaker out.

Announcing Mini League 3, Winter Season 2023

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Greetings quizzers!

After the conclusion of the final round of QoTDs, We are beginning with the 3rd and final Weekend Mini League

The Mini League will include 5 questions spread over the weekend. The questions will be published at:

  • 12 PM, Saturday
  • 6 PM, Saturday
  • 12 AM, Sunday
  • 12 PM, Sunday
  • 6 PM, Sunday

The quicker you comment the correct answer, the more points you get. The scoring system is as follows:
First 5 mins: 20 points
Next 5 mins: 18 points
Next 10 mins: 16 points
Next 10 mins: 15 points
Next 15 mins: 14 points
Next 15 mins: 12 points (one hour has passed)
Next 30 mins: 10 points (1.5 hours have passed)
After that, 1 point will be deducted for every 30 minutes passed.

For the 12 AM question, which has a 12-hour answering window from 12 AM to 12 PM, the duration of each interval in the scoring system above after the first 1 hour is doubled!

In the case of multiple attempts, the latest attempt, if correct, shall be considered, with half the points being awarded for it.

Your progress for the Mini League will be tracked on the Winter Season Leaderboard, which has its own separate page at https://donquizote.wordpress.com/leaderboard/, and the top 5 standings can be viewed on the homepage as well!

You need a WordPress account to comment your answers to the questions and participate in the leagues, so sign up!

To be notified whenever a new question is uploaded, join this group:
https://tinyurl.com/Quizzers-of-IITB

Question 5, Weekend Mini League 3

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The inventor of X was an electrician and air compressor operator who worked at hydroelectric plants. He used compressed air to test sound amplification and aimed to invent telephonic receivers with higher sensitivity, which he later sold to the US Navy on a contract. The first few models were hand-built in his kitchen, and he could only produce ten at a time. Despite the navy’s suggestion, he didn’t end up patenting X because he considered it a trivial invention.

ID X, you may find people wearing it on the bus or inside your bag.

Question 4, Weekend Mini League 3

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“The ____ heard around the world” refers to a famous event involving two people, X and Y, of which at least X was incredibly famous and popular. After the event was over, Y is sait have remarked, “That was the greatest _____ in the history of __________”

The event, which took the world by storm, generated ripples all over the world, and, for a short while, was the subject of numerous memes. Some swapped the people out with characters others kept them the same.

Regardless this very famous event was the start of a flurry of many other things.

P.S. The group does not condone ________ of any form.

ID X and Y, What was the event?

Question 3, Weekend Mini League 3

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This meme is based on a photo taken in 2005. A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) based on the picture was sold for approximately 500,000 dollars at an auction in 2021. The photograph was taken by the father of the young woman starring in it, an amateur photographer. The picture became famous when it won a photo contest for a magazine in 2007. The photograph was initially permitted to be used for educational purposes but has since been used to depict the extinction of dinosaurs or the sinking of the Titanic, among others. Identify this popular meme that has stood the test of time and the person it features for complete points.

Question 1, Weekend Mini League 3

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Alright! Let’s get started.

Referring to the group, the action, a clip, or the associated song, X is something that started(ironically) in March 2020. Used as the punchline for fail jokes, usually implying that the person involved has ____

The associated Ghanaian group first got attention through a documentary by a travelling YouTuber in 2015 and a BBC Africa documentary in 2017. After the spread of X, BBC Africa published a follow-up video in May, where they warn about the environment: “Stay at home or _____ with us”

Later in the same month, Donald Trump also made a reference to Joe Biden’s campaign using X.

ID the term X. Alternatively, give me the funda

QoTD#4, Week 3, Winter Season 2023

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This ritual had its first confirmed completion recorded on the 31st of August 2006, where it was done on live radio at a station in Michigan. While this went unnoticed, it later popped up independently in another place on the internet.

Although it could’ve potentially started in 1987, this is when it came to the attention of the internet, and its popularity exploded. What you touched was no longer guaranteed to be safe

While it derives from a series titled ‘Whenever you need somebody’, most onlookers will agree that it no longer carries that feeling. In modern consciousness, it is probably one of the most recognizable of its kind, with nearly everyone having seen or performed it once.

With how popular it is, there have been various memes created on how recognizable it is, with the most extreme example having just a 9-pixel square, and people in the thousands commenting on how it is still recognizable

The popularity is so high that there are WikiHow tutorials on how to perform it and actual books published on how to avoid it for the populace who do not like it

However, for the haters, there is probably no relief as the popularity continues to be high, with many influential figures taking part in it, including, but not limited to:

  • The Obama White House
  • YouTube
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
  • Nancy Pelosi
  • Julian Assange
  • Apple

Explain what this is in the most creative way possible. Go!!

You’ll need a WordPress Account to comment, so sign up for one already if you don’t have one! We’ll be having the Weekend Mini-League soon, and you’ll be happy you were ready! Remember, a jar of Nutella hangs in the balance!

QoTD #3, Week 3, Winter Season 2023

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X is an Indian postmodernist film that’s regarded as an LSD trip. It has a non-linear narrative and an absurd storyline that explores the themes of mythology, arts and politics. It won several international awards at its Berlin release back in the day, but this movie about a boy with an astounding ability to hold his breath wasn’t released in India until 26 years later. ID X.