Q20 · THE QUIZ POST
The Daily Quiz — 21 September 2026
Play the The Quiz Post quiz for 21 September 2026: 20 free general-knowledge questions covering Society & Culture, Current Affairs, Film & TV and Literature, with explanations and crowd results.
About this edition
This 20-question The Quiz Post edition was published for 21 September 2026. Answer all four-option questions to reveal sourced explanations and see how other players answered.
Topics in this edition include Society & Culture, Current Affairs, Film & TV and Literature.
Questions and sourced explanations
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History · Easy
1. What are the two Houses of the UK Parliament called?
Parliament's two chambers are the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Society & Culture · Easy
2. Which language is the official language of Brazil?
Portuguese is Brazil's official language, reflecting more than three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule.
Science · Easy
3. Which instrument is used to measure wind speed?
An anemometer measures wind speed; common designs use rotating cups or propellers whose motion can be converted into a wind-speed reading.
Society & Culture · Easy
4. Which Scottish city is famous for its large Hogmanay street celebrations?
Edinburgh hosts well-known New Year celebrations, including its Hogmanay street party.
Geography · Medium
5. Which river flows through central Paris?
The Seine flows through Paris, dividing the city into the traditional Left Bank and Right Bank before continuing toward the English Channel.
Current Affairs · Medium
6. The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate on 18 September to what level, its highest in 31 years?
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25%, the highest level in 31 years, although two policymakers dissented from the decision.
Literature · Medium
7. Which poet wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, often known as Daffodils?
Wordsworth's poem recalls a scene of daffodils and the pleasure of remembering it later.
Society & Culture · Medium
8. Which board game uses letter tiles with different point values to form interlocking words?
Scrabble players form interlocking words from letter tiles, with each letter carrying a point value and some board squares multiplying scores.
Film & TV · Medium
9. In The Truman Show, what is the name of the seemingly idyllic town where Truman Burbank lives?
Truman believes he lives in Seahaven, an apparently perfect island town that is actually an enormous television set.
Business & Economics · Medium
10. A tariff is a tax imposed most commonly on what?
A tariff is a customs duty imposed on goods as they cross a border, most commonly on imports entering a country.
Nature · Medium
11. Which adaptation allows many desert plants to open their leaf pores mainly at night, reducing daytime water loss?
CAM photosynthesis lets plants such as many cacti open their stomata at night, taking in carbon dioxide while conditions are cooler and less drying.
Music · Medium
12. In music, syncopation places emphasis where?
Syncopation shifts rhythmic emphasis away from the normally expected strong beats, often stressing weak beats or off-beats instead.
Sport · Hard
13. In baseball, what is the designated hitter primarily used to do?
A designated hitter is selected to bat in place of another player, traditionally the pitcher, without taking that player's defensive position in the field.
Arts · Hard
14. In visual art, 'negative space' refers to which part of a composition?
Negative space is the empty or unoccupied area around and between the principal subjects or forms in an image or design.
Current Affairs · Hard
15. The joint committee appointed to examine the draft Conversion Practices Bill on 18 September 2026 draws members from which bodies?
A parliamentary joint committee includes members from both the Commons and the Lords.
Source: Joint Committee on draft Conversion Practices Bill appointed - Committees - UK P
Music · Hard
16. Which composer lived next door to the later London home of Jimi Hendrix?
Handel's and Hendrix's former homes are adjacent buildings on Brook Street.
Sport · Hard
17. Lord's Cricket Ground is on which London road?
MCC's home at Lord's is on St John's Wood Road.
Film & TV · Hard
18. Peter Sellers plays three separate roles in which Stanley Kubrick film?
Peter Sellers plays Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, US President Merkin Muffley and Dr Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove.
Nature · Hard
19. Sharks can detect weak electric fields from prey using sensory organs called what?
Sharks sense weak electrical fields through electroreceptors called the ampullae of Lorenzini, which connect to pores around the head and snout.
Literature · Hard
20. In Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, what is the name of Maxim de Winter's Cornish estate?
Maxim de Winter brings the novel's unnamed narrator to Manderley, his isolated family estate on the Cornish coast.