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

1. The Lady Hughes affair in 1784 was a maritime incident between Britain and the Qing dynasty, when an illegal gun salute fired by a sailor on the ship Lady Hughes killed two Chinese sailors in a nearby boat. Which Chinese port city did this happen in? Either name will do.
2. The sinking of the RMS Lusitania, an event that would lead among other things to US entry into World War I, took place 20km off the coast of which present-day country?
3. Operation Gideon was an unsuccessful attempt, in 2020, to infiltrate which country by sea and remove its President from power? Operation Absolute Resolve a few years later succeeded in kidnapping the President.
4. Later immortalized in a film starring Tom Hanks, the Somali pirate hijacking of which ship captained by Richard Phillips led to a hostage situation and eventual rescue?
5. [Theme: 3 of 4] Subtitled Europe at War, what was the title of the World War II turn-based strategy game released by Slitherine software in 2007?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 15, Quiz 2:

1. Yotsuba
2. Beauty and the Feast
3. Hokusai (the manga is Teach Me, Hokusai)
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday