Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published on Monday. The theme for this week ran from Mon-Thu; a new theme will come up on Monday.

And the questions follow:

1. Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain was first published in 1924, and is set in what Alpine resort town that is known in recent years for an annual gathering of leaders?
2. The short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway features a writer on safari in Africa dying of what, after scratching his leg on a thorn and neglecting to disinfect the wound?
3. The award-winning film Brokeback Mountain is based on a short story by author Annie Proulx, and is set on the fictional mountain of the title in which US state?
4. Subtitled First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak, the 1951 book by French climber Maurice Herzog is about the first successful summit of an 8,000m+ mountain. Which one?
5. What mountain is the subject of an 1816 ode by PB Shelley, written during his travels during the Chamonix valley?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 6, Quiz 4:

1. Centipedes
2. Millipedes
3. Soft shell
4. Insecta / insects
5. Theme: First words of Clint Eastwood films
   • Letters
   • Million
   • Unforgiven
   • Mystic