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

1. Boys coming of age in the Sateré-Mawé tribe of the Amazon have to wear gloves interwoven with what creatures for several minutes to prove their manhood? Cries are seen as weakness, and the ritual may be repeated several times before the initiation is completed.
2. The quinceañera is a ceremony in several Latin American cultures, that celebrates a girl reaching what age?
3. Jewish boys and girls reach religious maturity at ages 13 and 12 respectively, and undergo the bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah ceremonies respectively. If the words bar and bat mean son and daughter respectively, what does mitzvah mean?
4. Genpuku is a coming of age ceremony now held annually on the second Monday of January, to celebrate the adulthood of children born in the previous year, in what country?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] What word derives from the Latin word ‘camera’ and was used to refer to a vaulted or arched room? It is now often used to refer to any room.

Here are the answers to 2025: Week 48, Quiz 1:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Steven Spielberg, in Jaws
3. Bree
4. Dune
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday