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

1. Marion Dunlop and Mary Clarke in Britain, and Alice Paul in the USA, are amongst several people to have undergone hunger strikes in support of what late 19th to early 20th century movement?
2. Which activist’s 58-day hunger strike ended with his death on December 15, 1952, leading to a reorganization of the country’s states?
3. Guillermo Farinas has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of which country’s government, that is one of the world’s last remaining communist states?
4. Bobby Sands died in 1981 after a 66-day hunger strike, during which period he also successfully ran for parliament in which ‘troubled’ region?
5. [Theme: 3 of 4] In the original video game released in 1996, which character was described as a British aristocrat who, after finishing school, is stranded in the Himalayas following a plane crash, and comes to love adventures? The backstory has been changed in subsequent games as well as movie adaptations.

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 31, Quiz 2:

1. Michael Ondaatje
2. Saki / HH Munro
3. William Makepeace Thackeray
4. Rudyard Kipling
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday