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

1. Also called the Great Dinosaur Rush, what two-word name was given to the period of ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery in the late 19th century, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh?
2. A major controversy from the 1960s until an IUPAC settlement in 1997, what two-word term described the fight to name elements 102 to 109? The name derived from the fact that they followed element number 100 on the periodic table.
3. The 1903 poisoning and electrocution of Topsy the elephant in New York was falsely attributed to which inventor, whose ‘war of the currents’ with Nikola Tesla and Geroge Westinghouse had ended by then?
4. A mistranslated term from French to German during an 1882 lecture triggered a fierce rivalry between the microbiologists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. What event from just over a decade earlier had stoked these tensions in the first place?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] In the 2021 film Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya played which leader of the Black Panthers in Chicago?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 32, Quiz 1:

1. Hershey
2. Pullman
3. Batanagar
4. Bournville
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday