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

1. The 1913 painting The Blue Window is considered as the view from the bedroom of which French artist? No wild beasts were visible in the view.
2. The Blue Boy is a full-length oil-on-canvas portrait in oil by which English artist? Completed in 1770, its subject’s identity remains disputed.
3. Made on sheets of Japanese tissue from a gampi tree, Blue is the name given to four paintings made in 1916 by which artist, often called the ‘Mother of American modernism’?
4. Now part of a private collection in Zurich, The Blue Rider is a 1903 oil painting by which Russian painter who was forced to move to France in 1939?
5. [Theme: 3 of 4] What is the alternate name of leprosy, named for a Norwegian doctor who first identified the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 18, Quiz 2:

1. Rose Bowl, Pasadena
2. Bulgaria
3. Oleg Salenko
4. Romario
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday