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

1. Alfred Hitchcock never won the Academy Award for Best Director, but he was nominated five times. Which 1960 horror film, often considered one of the greatest of all time, won him his fifth and last nomination?
2. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca was nominated for eleven Academy Awards including Best Director. If Laurence Olivier was nominated for Best Actor, who was nominated for Best Actress?
3. Which 1944 Hitchcock film, which saw him nominated for Best Director, is set in the aftermath of a freighter being sunk by a German U-boat?
4. Which 1954 Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly focuses on a journalist in a wheelchair who is confined to his apartment?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] Which now acclaimed actor helped his mother manage a bakery shop, while covering boxing matches as a photographer, before his first big break playing a doctor in a 2003 film directed by Rajkumar Hirani?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 17, Quiz 1:

1. Joseph Kabila
2. Bongbong Marcos
3. Gabon
4. Tarique Rahman
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday