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. Also called the imperial cormorant or king cormorant, what is the common name of the only cormorant found in the Southern Ocean? The name is believed to come from a tuft on its head, and presumably not its promiscuous habits.
2. The skuas are a group of predatory, often kleptoparasitic birds, known for their hunting skills. The smaller species, especially the long-tailed skua, are thus also called what name of German origin?
3. Also called slime eels, what creatures, the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, are one of the few species of fish found in and around Antarctica?
4. Typically found across the world, what often misnamed species, the largest of its kind, has Antarctic populations with varying eye patch sizes that differentiate them from their cousins across the other oceans?
5. Scientifically known as Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic version of what insect, a member of the fly family often considered a pest, is the only insect that can survive year-round on the continent? No relation to a character from the Archie comics.

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 17, Quiz 4:

1. Canon (the prototype was ‘Kwanon’)
2. IBM
3. Firefox
4. Playboy
5. Theme: Types of tea / chai
   • (Walter) White
   • (Boman) Irani
   • Tandoori (chicken)
   • (Cameron) Green