The journey of Don Quizote, Summer 2026 is finally at an end. Whether you logged in daily or simply answered a question or two we’d like to thank all of you for going on this journey with us.
This season saw 738 answers from 120 players. Out of those 120, here are your top 5.
Results will also be up on our Instagram handle, Quizzers of IITB, where we have put up further questions, and more quiz content for all of you to enjoy
Don Quizote will ride again in the winter.
The final week of Don Quizote, summer ’26 was fiercely fought over, with both Hemish Singhvi and Vinay K Handa getting full houses, going 11 for 11 this week. Leaderboard perennial Aaditya Vichaare comes 3rd, with Soham Sahasrabuddhe and Riya Joglekar rounding out the top 5
And now, the final week of Don Quizote, summer 2026 winds to a close. Here are our top 5:
For the first time this season, we have a perfect Mini-league score of 150/150, with Hemish Singhvi nabbing all 25 points 6 times. He’s followed by Vinay K Handa and Aaditya Vichaare, both also having mini league full houses. Soham Sahasrabuddhe and Gautam Mahale round out the top 5
Certain families keep winning Nobels. The most famous such example was the X family. The first generation won 2 (Physics and chemistry). The next generation featured one Peace prize and a husband-wife pair winning Chemistry, for a total of 5 winners across 2 generations.
Which Family?
The Curies.
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the 1903 Nobel prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel. Marie Curie won Chemistry in 1911. Their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie shared the 1935 Chemistry Nobel prize with her husband Frederic Joliot; and their son-in-law Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. accepted the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF
The Japanese legend, Kenzaburō Ōe, promised his mother as a child that he would one day win a Nobel prize. However, when he received a Nobel in 1994, his mother remained unimpressed, stating that his promise was still “unfulfilled”
Why did his mother not find his Nobel satisfactory?
Kenzaburō had promised a Nobel prize in Physics, but won in Literature
The Nobel Prize winning scientist X, is said to have famously quipped “All science is either Physics or stamp collecting”.
Therefore, his subsequent Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a rather interesting irony.
Identify X, a name most of us are all too familiar with from our school days
Ernest Rutherford
In prohibition-era America, people would brew and sell their own alcohol, which they called moonshine. Moonshiners would rig their cars themselves to escape cops giving chasing, and once prohibition was lifted, a bunch of Americans just had souped up cars.
What did they establish using these cars afterwards, a legacy which still goes on today?
NASCAR
Wines require being tightly corked and stored very carefully, as upon exposure to oxygen or heat, they spoil and taste horrible. This leads to a lot of practices such as keeping the bottles sideways to stop the corks from drying out, smelling the cork before pouring the wine, and storing them cold.
However, the most famous exception is X wine, which supposedly tastes better upon being allowed to sit and oxidise, especially in heated environments. As the story goes, this unusual property was first found by sailors after an unsold shipment survived a round-trip from the X islands.
As a result, this process of wines oxidising in heat is named after the wine X.
Fill in the blanks with X, named for the Portuguese island its grapes come from
Madeira
After the landings on D-Day, the British troops found themselves running shockingly low on perhaps their most important supply. The supply chains struggled to deliver this substance to the soldiers who pined for it, forcing them to make do using French substitutes.
In response, the RAF began flying the stuff in by filling it in fuel tanks, or by attaching containers of the stuff under the wings of Spitfires, where the bombs would normally go.
What did they go to such great lengths to supply?
Beer
Indian Rupee notes are technically promissory notes, as they bear the signature of the governor of the RBI, guaranteeing that they promise to pay the bearer of the note the sum of Rupees that it is worth
However, there is a singular exception to this rule, where the notes are neither issued by RBI nor do they carry such a promise.
What is the exception (that somewhat proves the rule)
The 1 Rupee note, which is issued directly by the Government of India and signed by the Finance Secretary
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