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

1. Also called the whale-headed stork despite being from the pelican family, what East African wading bird that can be as long as 60 inches gets its name from the shape of its bill?
2. What bird with a black body and white throat is best recognized by its beak, typically yellowish-orange with a black spot at the tip?
3. Found in the Andean regions, what bird with a beak longer than its body uses it to drink nectar from flowers with long corollas? Even with the beak, the bird weighs only a few grams.
4. Found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, what bird that has a bright yellow and black casque on top of its large beak gets its name from what the beak looks like from a side view?
5. [Theme: 1 of 4] The TV series starring Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov is named for what Russian item, indicating the story’s complexity and looping?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 12, Quiz 5:

1. Lakme
2. Masaba Gupta
3. Hyphen
4. Kiehl’s
5. Shiseido