Q20 · THE QUIZ POST
The Daily Quiz — 2 September 2026
Play the The Quiz Post quiz for 2 September 2026: 20 free general-knowledge questions covering Business & Economics, Current Affairs, Geography and Nature, with explanations and crowd results.
About this edition
This 20-question The Quiz Post edition was published for 2 September 2026. Answer all four-option questions to reveal sourced explanations and see how other players answered.
Topics in this edition include Business & Economics, Current Affairs, Geography and Nature.
Questions and sourced explanations
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Sport · Easy
1. Which London cricket ground is traditionally called the Home of Cricket?
Lord's in St John's Wood is the historic home of the Marylebone Cricket Club and is widely known as the Home of Cricket.
Geography · Easy
2. Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, is in which country?
Salar de Uyuni lies on Bolivia's Altiplano and is the largest salt flat in the world.
Nature · Easy
3. What mainly gives flamingos their pink colour?
Flamingos metabolise carotenoid pigments from algae and small crustaceans, which colour their feathers pink.
Literature · Easy
4. Who wrote the novel Catch-22?
Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22, his first novel; its title later became a common term for a no-win bureaucratic dilemma.
UK · Medium
5. Which king created the New Forest as a royal hunting ground in 1079?
William the Conqueror established the New Forest for royal hunting after the Norman Conquest.
Current Affairs · Medium
6. Which Nordic country voted on 29 August to reject reopening negotiations to join the European Union?
Icelandic voters rejected reopening EU accession talks in a national referendum, with 52.8 per cent voting against.
Film & TV · Medium
7. Who wrote and directed the Scottish film Local Hero?
Forsyth's comedy follows an oil company's attempt to buy a Scottish village.
Science · Medium
8. A healthy human cornea is unusual among living tissues because it normally contains no what?
The normal cornea is avascular: it has no blood vessels, a feature essential to maintaining optical transparency.
Food & Drink · Medium
9. Yeast used in bread and beer belongs to which biological kingdom?
Yeasts are fungi; their fermentation produces carbon dioxide for bread and ethanol in drinks such as beer.
Music · Medium
10. Who composed the ballet score The Rite of Spring, which premiered in Paris in 1913?
Igor Stravinsky composed The Rite of Spring; the ballet premiered at Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1913.
Technology · Medium
11. In the word 'laser', what does the letter S stand for?
Laser is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.
Business & Economics · Medium
12. The British trade body BPI primarily represents which industry?
The BPI represents British record companies and labels.
Geography · Hard
13. The high-Arctic Svalbard archipelago is part of which kingdom?
Svalbard has been part of the Kingdom of Norway since the Svalbard Act entered into force in 1925.
History · Hard
14. The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in which year?
The first signing took place at Waitangi on 6 February 1840; signatures were then gathered around New Zealand over subsequent months.
Current Affairs · Hard
15. Which NASA observatory launched on 30 August aboard a Falcon Heavy to study dark energy and exoplanets?
NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed for wide-field studies of dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets.
Science · Hard
16. In the Standard Model, which particle is the force carrier of the electromagnetic interaction?
Electrically charged particles interact electromagnetically by exchanging photons, the force carriers of the electromagnetic field.
Arts · Hard
17. Who painted The Arnolfini Portrait, dated 1434?
The National Gallery attributes the 1434 Arnolfini Portrait to the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck.
Nature · Hard
18. Which of these groups includes British mammals that genuinely hibernate?
Britain's true hibernating mammals include bats, dormice and hedgehogs.
Business & Economics · Hard
19. Luca Pacioli's 1494 Summa de arithmetica contains the first printed description of which accounting method?
Pacioli's 1494 printed work includes the earliest printed description of double-entry bookkeeping, based on the Venetian method.
Technology · Hard
20. In Doctor Who, the 'R' in TARDIS stands for which word?
TARDIS expands to Time and Relative Dimension in Space.