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

1. Easily surpassing the 15-minute limit during his record speech that lasted four hours and 29 minutes, which leader strongly attacked US foreign policy during his speech at the UN General Assembly in September 1960?
2. Which former leader referred to George W. Bush as ‘the devil’ and said the lectern smelt of sulphur during his fiery 2006 speech at the UN General Assembly? The US had better luck ‘handling’ his successor.
3. Which former leader, who had at the time ruled his country since 1969, tore a page from the UN charter and criticized global superpowers in his 2009 speech at the UN General Assembly?
4. Whose aggressive desk-pounding and loud Cold War rhetoric marked his speeches at the UN General Assembly in 1960, where he positioned his country as a champion of anti-colonialism?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] What word describes a mathematical operation, a large military formation, as well as a method by which biological cells propagate?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 36, Quiz 1:

1. BMW
2. Abu Dhabi
3. Guangzhou
4. London 2012
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday