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. What Indian cosmetics brand started in 1952 is named after an 1883 opera, itself named after an Indian goddess?
2. Who named her cosmetics brand LoveChild, in an attempt to reclaim a term often used as an insult in her early life?
3. The skincare brand launched in 2023 by Kriti Sanon is named after which punctuation mark?
4. Originally begun as a homoeopathic pharmacy in New York in 1851, what cosmetics brand was acquired by Loreal in 2000?
5. What multinational cosmetics company, founded in Tokyo in 1872, is named after a passage in the I Ching, and began as a pharmacy and soda fountain?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 12, Quiz 4:

1. Tamale
2. Chawanmunshi
3. Spotted dick
4. Mongolia
5. Theme: Characters in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
   • (Charles) Boyle
   • (Michael) Hitchcock
   • (Amy) Santiago
   • (Rosa) Diaz