2026: Week 33, Quiz 1

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

  1. The Redshirts were volunteers who served which general during the wars of Italian unification?
  2. The Battle of Gennis in 1885 is considered the last battle that was confirmed to be fought by the British Army while wearing red coats. Which present-day country did it take place in?
  3. The term ‘Red Army’ has been used for several armies run by communist governments. Which country’s Red Army, first formed in 1921, was subject to a Stalinist purge in the late 1930s, on charges of conspiring with Japan? Monks were forcibly conscripted into the army as well.
  4. The Red Army is a hooligan group that follows the club Manchester United. They are also known for dressing in what color, as seen in the title of a 2006 book by former member Tony O’Neill?
  5. [Theme: 1 of 4] In the classic idiom about hypocrisy, what household item is called black by another?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 32, Quiz 5:

  1. Blue Mosque
  2. Dome of the Rock
  3. Cordoba
  4. Xi’an
  5. Dearborn