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

1. What new territory, that became the nation’s capital in 1913, saw Prohibition laws passed in 1911 to prevent liquor sales? The Prohibition ended in 1928. Now, only some indigenous communities ban liquor in this country.
2. What are the numbers of the two amendments that introduced Prohibition to the USA in 1919, and then ended it in 1933?
3. Which country enacted Prohibition in 1919, as soon as it gained independence from the former Russian Empire? As smuggling and crime increased, it was repealed in 1932. By the end of the decade, the country had invented a cocktail of a different sort.
4. What island country, that set an election first for women in 1960, had a law in place banning adult women from buying alcohol from 1955 to 2018?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] In a now widely used quote that has often been traced to an original Latin version in Virgil’s Aeneid, what ‘favors the bold’?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 38, Quiz 1:

1. Greece
2. Angelina Jolie
3. Malala Yousafzai
4. Guus Hiddink
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday