What is Qwikipedia?
Ever been on Wikipedia to look up an article? More often than not, we start with one topic, click on a few links and within no time are reading about something else.
Qwikipedia is a game that tries to quench this curiosity in us. The objective is to get to a particular wiki page, starting from a specific article, using minimal clicks. There is no single correct answer, so we might surprise ourselves by finding new routes each time!
Friday’s Free rider
>Circadian rhythm —> >Ciro Immobile
Circadian rhythm
Any biological process that shows an oscillation of about 24 hours is said to be in circadian rhythm. Though circadian rhythm is built-in in most cases, it is also adjusted to the local environment by external cues. This is why even when we travel across time zones, our body clock is able to adjust to the local time and cope with it.
Scientists have recently found how exactly our body clock works, with two particular genes being responsible for it.
Time zone
A time zone is a region that has a uniform standard time to serve several purposes. Most time zones are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) since 1972, which replaced Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
So while the time now when I am writing this is 12:30 pm in India, it is 9 am in Bosnia and Herzegovina and 4 pm in Japan. Takes a while to get attuned to the idea, but once you've caught on, you'll be able to tell which country is where by relatively comparing the time in two places!
Bosnia and Herzegovina
A country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula, its capital and largest city is Sarajevo. Football is one of the most popular sports in the country and they made their debut in the largest stage when they played the World Cup this year. Sergez Barbarez, Bosnian retired footballer, played for many German clubs including Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV and Bayer Leverkusen.
Borussia Dortmund
Founded in 1909, Dortmund play their home games in Westfalenstadion, the biggest stadium in Germany. One of the more prominent clubs from Germany in current times, Dormund have become a force to reckon in Europe as well. Despite missing several key players, they opened their Champions League campaign this season with a 2-0 win over Arsenal.
Ciro Immobile
>Ciro Immobile scored one of those two goals , his first for Dortmund. Playing as a striker, he rose to prominence by scoring 22 goals in his only season at Torino, thereby bagging the top scorer award in Serie A (2013-14). At 24, he has already started playing for Italy and was also part of the squad that went to Brazil for the World Cup this year.
So the path that we have traversed today is:
Circadian rhythm —> Time zone —> Bosnia and Herzegovina —> Borussia Dortmund —> Ciro Immobile
Four clicks! Hop over. It’s time for the next question:
Monday’s Marauder
>Frank Bainimarama —> >Friends
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