A new year for a new series of 5Q Daily questions. 5Q Daily is now in its fourth year! If you haven’t already, you can check out the questions from 2022 to 2024 here.

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

1. Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi were awarded joint first place in the men’s 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship, but what 18-year-old won the Rapid Chess Championship outright a few days earlier?
2. What ball sport that is played on a curved table and combines elements of sepak takraw and table tennis saw Hungary and Thailand dominate the medals table at its 2024 World Championships?
3. Max Verstappen won his fourth F1 Drivers’ championship, making it four in a row from 2021 to 2024. Which driver was the first to win four championships in a row?
4. Real Madrid beat what Mexican club 3-0 to win the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup final in Lusail, Qatar?
5. [Theme: 1 of 4] What 1986 fantasy film starred Jennifer Connelly as the protagonist who must journey through a maze to rescue her baby brother from the goblin king played by David Bowie?