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

1. Who seriously wounded Lieutenant Baugh and Sergeant-Major Hewson on March 29 about 170 years ago? His death via capital punishment a week later was a key moment.
2. Edward the Martyr, the juvenile king of the English, was murdered in March in 978 CE, likely at the behest of his stepmother, leading to the start of whose reign? This king, who took the reins at the age of ten, was presumably not prepared to be ruler.
3. The first international rugby match (keeping with the theme of violence) was played in March 1871 between which two teams?
4. The Treaty of Paris, signed on March 30, 1856, brought to an end which war, a loss for the Russian Empire that would eventually lead to the fall of its monarchy?
5. [Theme: 1 of 4] Thalassocratic empires have been noted in south India, Greece, and Southeast Asia, among other places. What military branch did they all presumably have the edge in?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 8, Quiz 5:

1. The Fighting Temeraire
2. The Raft of the Medusa
3. American Civil War
4. The death of (Horatio) Nelson
5. Paul Gauguin