2026: Week 15, Quiz 1

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

  1. In a match rendered infamous by Sunil Gavaskar’s unbeaten 36, who outscored the Indian team’s 132 to be named player of the match?
  2. The opposition team scored 82, including extras, to lose by 140 runs. His own teammates and extras accounted for 64 runs. Which landmark innings, in which the batter outscored everyone else put together in a first-of-its-kind game?
  3. Whose 119, scored in 431 minutes in sapping heat, was sufficient to outscore the opposition’s 59 and 53 all out, for a team win by an innings and 198 runs?
  4. Australia scored 203 and 123, each time with two key batsmen out injured, to lose by an innings and 579 runs. Who outscored Australia’s combined score and set a new record for the time?
  5. [Theme: 1 of 4] What word, commonly used in finance, comes from the Latin for ‘head’? It can also be used to indicate something is of top quality.

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 14, Quiz 5:

  1. Beijing
  2. JFK International Airport / Idlewild
  3. Gqeberha
  4. Basel
  5. New Zealand