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The Daily Quiz — 12 September 2026
Play the The Quiz Post quiz for 12 September 2026: 20 free general-knowledge questions covering Arts, Current Affairs, Geography and History, with explanations and crowd results.
About this edition
This 20-question The Quiz Post edition was published for 12 September 2026. Answer all four-option questions to reveal sourced explanations and see how other players answered.
Topics in this edition include Arts, Current Affairs, Geography and History.
Questions and sourced explanations
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Film & TV · Easy
1. Which Actor played Satine in the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!?
Nicole Kidman played Satine, the star performer at the Moulin Rouge, opposite Ewan McGregor.
Geography · Easy
2. The Amazon River flows across which continent?
The Amazon basin lies in South America, with the river flowing chiefly through Brazil and Peru.
Music · Easy
3. Which British group recorded Yellow Submarine?
The Beatles released Yellow Submarine in 1966, with Ringo Starr singing the lead vocal.
Nature · Easy
4. Honey bees make honey primarily from what substance collected from flowers?
Worker bees collect floral nectar and process it in the hive to produce honey.
Current Affairs · Medium
5. Which organisation released the UK's July 2026 monthly GDP estimate on 11 September?
The ONS produces the official monthly estimates of UK economic output.
Source: GDP monthly estimate, UK: July 2026 - Office for National Statistics
Society & Culture · Medium
6. Antony Gormley's Angel of the North stands near which town?
The large steel sculpture was installed at Gateshead in 1998.
Source: Angel of the North – Permanent Sculpture – Antony Gormley
Geography · Medium
7. Mount Etna, one of Europe's most active volcanoes, is on which Italian island?
Mount Etna rises on the eastern side of Sicily, near Catania.
Science · Medium
8. In ordinary double-stranded DNA, adenine pairs with which base?
In DNA, adenine pairs with thymine, while guanine pairs with cytosine.
Sport · Medium
9. Who ended Britain's 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men's singles champion in 2013?
Murray's 2013 victory made him the first British men's singles champion at Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936.
Arts · Medium
10. Which architect is most closely associated with Barcelona's Sagrada Família?
Antoni Gaudí took over the Sagrada Família project in 1883 and devoted much of his later life to it.
Food & Drink · Medium
11. Black Forest gateau is traditionally associated with which country?
Black Forest cake, or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, is a German dessert associated with the Black Forest region.
Literature · Medium
12. Who wrote The Little Prince, first published in 1943?
French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince, which was first published in 1943.
Current Affairs · Hard
13. Google announced a €13 billion AI-infrastructure investment this week alongside its first nuclear-power deal outside the US. In which country?
Google announced at least €13 billion of AI-infrastructure investment in Finland and a long-term nuclear-power agreement with Fortum.
History · Hard
14. The Congress of Vienna of 1814–15 chiefly reorganised Europe after which series of conflicts?
The Congress of Vienna reshaped Europe's borders and political order after the Napoleonic Wars.
Arts · Hard
15. Which artist painted Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway?
Turner's painting depicts a train approaching through atmospheric rain on the Great Western Railway.
Literature · Hard
16. Which writer published the novel Invisible Man in 1952?
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was published in 1952 and won the US National Book Award for fiction.
Music · Hard
17. Which trumpeter led the ensemble on the landmark 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue?
Miles Davis led the sextet on Kind of Blue, one of the most influential jazz recordings.
Science · Hard
18. What type of chemical bond links amino acids together in a protein chain?
A peptide bond forms between amino acids, creating the backbone of a polypeptide chain.
History · Hard
19. The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht was a major settlement in which European war?
The treaties signed at Utrecht in 1713 helped end the War of the Spanish Succession.
Society & Culture · Hard
20. Hangul is the alphabetic writing system created for which language?
Hangul was created in 15th-century Korea under King Sejong as a writing system for the Korean language.