Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published on Monday. The theme for this week ran from Mon-Thu; a new theme will come up on Monday.

And the questions follow:

1. Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1903 for his study of phototherapy in disease treatment, was the first person born in what territory to win a Nobel Prize?
2. Awarded the Chemistry Nobel in 1908, who was the first New Zealander to win a Nobel Prize?
3. António Egas Moniz was a neurologist considered the father of the lobotomy procedure, for which he won a Medicine Nobel in 1949. This made him the first from which country to win this prize? There have been recent calls to rescind the prize, due to criticism of his methods.
4. South Africa-born Max Theiler won the Medicine Nobel in 1951 for developing a vaccine against what viral disease, making him the first person born in Africa to win the Nobel Prize?
5. Baruj Benacerraf was an immunologist, and the first person from which country to win a Nobel Prize, doing so for Medicine in 1980? The country’s second win came in 2025, though this medal is unlikely to ever enter the country!

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 41, Quiz 4:

1. Whoop
2. Pebble
3. Nike, Apple
4. Ultrahuman
5. Theme: Akshay Kumar’s Khiladi films
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