Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published tomorrow. The theme runs from Mon-Thu:

1. The largest of Antarctica’s subglacial lakes, what water body is located at the Southern Pole of Cold, 4,000m below the ice under the Russian station of the same name?
2. What sea of the Arctic Ocean is separated from the Kara Sea by the Novaya Zemlya islands? Its water are divided amongst Norway & Russia.
3. Often called an island, what ice rise in Antarctica’s Ross Sea was named after a head of state in 1934? An island in New York City was named after the same person in 1973.
4. 400km long and connected to the Beaufort Sea, the gulf in Canada’s Inuvik region lies at the western end of the Northwest Passage, and is named after which polar exploration pioneer?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] What river, the longest in its country, flows mostly westwards before emptying into Encounter Bay, a part of the Southern Ocean?

Here are the answers to 2025: Week 47, Quiz 1:

1. Beryllium & Aluminium
2. Cobalt & Chromium
3. Nickel
4. Zirconium
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday