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

1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sunrise on the Reaping are two prequel novels written by which author, to accompany her bestselling trilogy? The trilogy was adapted into four highly popular films.
2. Stormbreaker was the first book in which series of spy novels for young adults, written by Anthony Horowitz? The series featuring the titular spy has had fourteen novels.
3. Camp Half-Blood Chronicles is a popular book series written by Rick Riordan, and based on Greco-Roman mythology. Which book series did he base on Egyptian mythology?
4. Abnegation , Dauntless, Edurite, Amity, and Candor are the five specialized social functions in which young adult book series by Veronica Roth?
5. [Theme: 1 of 4] What agency was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, and went on to become one of the top funded agencies under the presidencies of Donald Trump?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 27, Quiz 5:

1. El Salvador
2. Italy
3. Yugoslavia
4. Austria and Switzerland
5. Just Fontaine