A new year, a new series of 5Q Daily questions. 5Q Daily is now in its third year! If you haven’t already, you can check out the questions from 2022 and 2023 here.

And here are today’s questions. Answers will be published tomorrow. The theme will run from Mon-Thu.:

1. Eleven countries replaced their currency with the Euro on January 1, 1999. Which was the twelfth country to join the Euro, doing so two years later? It was also the first country to require a bailout.
2. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, or Overseas Indian Day, is observed on January 9 every year to commemorate what event that occurred on this date in 1915?
3. Bounty Day is celebrated on January 23 every year on which island, where the royal vessel HMS Bounty was burnt by its mutineers in 1790?
4. India observes Army Day on January 15 every year, to commemorate whose takeover as first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Francis Roy Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India?
5. [Theme: 1 of 4] Which fictional character formerly co-founded Gray Matter Technologies before leaving to work as a high-school chemistry teacher?