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

1. Designed to irritate the skin, what coarse garment made of animal hair has been worn in several Christian traditions as a means of repentance and penance? In the controversial novel The Da Vinci Code, it was described as a spiked belt worn around the thigh.
2. Several tribes in which linguistically diverse country cut hundreds of deep incisions into the skin of young men? The scars are meant to mimic the scaly hide of a crocodile.
3. Rouketopolemos is an annual event held in the town of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios on what annual holiday? In this event, two rival church congregations fire tens of thousands of homemade rockets at the opposing church, aiming for the belfry.
4. What ‘burden’ is often carried by devotees during the worship of Murugan? Such burdens that can weigh over 20 kgs are usually balanced on the devotees’ shoulders during processions.
5. [Theme: 4 of 4] In the fable by Leo Tolstoy about a well-fed mouse that brags about its easy life, under what structure does the mouse live?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 36, Quiz 3:

1. Dept. Q
2. Altered Carbon
3. Ray Donovan
4. True Detective
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday