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

1. Born in Colombo in 1943, which writer eventually settled in Canada as a professor of English literature? His most well-known work won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was adapted into an award-winning film.
2. Which writer was born in present-day Myanmar? He followed his father into the Indian Imperial Police before switching to writing, though it was on a battlefield that he would meet his death.
3. Which writer was born in then-Calcutta in British India in 1811? He was sent to England at the age of four, and his best known work, a satirical novel, was originally published in serialized form in 1847-48. No relation to an Indian political family.
4. Who was born in 1865 in Mumbai where his father was Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the newly opened Sir JJ School of Art? He was named after a lake in Staffordshire where his parents had first met.
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] Whose performance as Tinker Bell in the 1991 film Hook won her a Razzie nomination for worst supporting actress?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 31, Quiz 1:

1. Three rings, for Asia, Africa, and Europe
2. Vatican City
3. Alexandria
4. Tunis
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday