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. Popular in Western Africa and named after a former Senegalese empite, what is the common rice for the dish typically made with long grain rice, tomatoes, chilis, onions, spices, and sometimes other vegetables or meat in a single pot?
2. Paella, one of the best known Spanish rice dishes, broadly has three variants – paella de marisco (with seafood), paella mixta (with livestock), and a third version with chicken, duck, snails, and rabbits that gets its name from which autonomous community?
3. Danbauk is a style of biryani, served with either chicken or mutton alongside mango pickle and green chillies in which country?
4. Taco rice is a rice dish made up of taco-flavored ground beef on a bed of rice, often served with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato, and salsa. It is especially popular among US military personnel stationed on which island known for a different cuisine?
5. Rice along with meat or seafood, as well as a serving of sambal, anchovies, peanuts, and boiled egg, makes up what popular Malay dish?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 7, Quiz 4:

1. Maachis
2. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2
3. Chandni Bar
4. Virasat
5. Theme: Burial markers
   • Cairns
   • Dolmen
   • Vault
   • Mausoleum