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. Who, in March 1618, came up with the third of three laws now named after him? All this despite being distracted by the trial of his mother for witchcraft (she was eventually absolved).
2. Uranus (in 1781) and Pluto (in 1930) were both discovered in March. But on what satellite was the first extraterrestrial volcano discovered in March 1979?
3. The discovery of antiseptic surgery was outlined by Joseph Lister for the first time in what journal in March 1867?
4. Who published the theory he is best known for in March 1916 (but not what won him the Nobel Prize), 37 years after his birth (also in March) in Ulm in the then German Empire?
5. What, the first comprehensive version of something all students of science are now familiar with, was first submitted to the Russian Chemical Society in March 1869?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 9, Quiz 4:

1. Monkey Shoulder
2. Haig
3. Rampur
4. Caol Ila
5. Theme: Types of beans
   • Navy
   • Calypso
   • Appaloosa
   • Kidney