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. First featured in a seven-page supplement by the Guardian in 1977, what fictional island nation was invented as an April Fools’ Day prank?
2. The Barbie Liberation Organization (BLO) are a group of activists who first gained infamy in 1993 for switching voice boxes in talking Barbie dolls with which brand of toys?
3. A fake newspaper story run by a Denver publication in 1899 focused on a plan by American businessmen to demolish what iconic structure and replace it with a road? A subsequent urban legend sprang up crediting this news story with the Boxer Rebellion.
4. A 1976 hoax by BBC Radio posited that a conjunction of two bodies in the solar system would cause a noticeable reduction in gravity on Earth. Which two bodies?
5. A June 2023 online hoax stated that Sweden had declared what activity a sport, and was gearing up for Europe’s first competition in that sport?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 15, Quiz 4:

1. Castlevania
2. Pedro Pascal, in The Last of Us
3. Street Fighter
4. Final Fantasy
5. Theme: Sports franchises based in Washington DC
   • Capital
   • National
   • Commander
   • Wizard