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

1. What statue, built between 1922 and 1931, was originally meant to have a globe in one hand and a cross in another, as it overlooks the landscape from atop Corcovado mountain?
2. Cristo Rei is a statue built in 1927 on which archipelago in the Atlantic, also the southernmost region of Portugal?
3. Built in 1966, Christ of the Ozarks was built in the city of Eureka Springs in which US state? Critics have called it a ‘milk carton with arms’.
4. Cristo del Pacífico is a 37m tall statue built in which capital city in 2011? This city traces its modern origin to Spanish foundations in 1535.
5. [Theme: 3 of 4] The first name of the author of the books Time’s Arrow and Yellow Dog is the same as the last name of the author whose works are mostly set in Westeros. What is the common name?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 34, Quiz 2:

1. Rwanda
2. Dominica
3. Tuvalu
4. Rumesh Tharanga
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday