Q20 · THE QUIZ POST
The Daily Quiz — 23 September 2026
Play the The Quiz Post quiz for 23 September 2026: 20 free general-knowledge questions covering History, Literature, Current Affairs and Geography, with explanations and crowd results.
About this edition
This 20-question The Quiz Post edition was published for 23 September 2026. Answer all four-option questions to reveal sourced explanations and see how other players answered.
Topics in this edition include History, Literature, Current Affairs and Geography.
Questions and sourced explanations
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Geography · Easy
1. Which sea lies along much of the west coast of Wales?
The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland and borders much of western Wales.
Music · Easy
2. On a standard guitar, how many strings are normally played?
A standard guitar normally has six strings, although specialist guitars can have different numbers.
History · Easy
3. London's Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in which building?
The purpose-built Crystal Palace housed the exhibition in Hyde Park.
Source: The foundation of the V&A's Collections: the Great Exhibition of 1851 · V&A
Nature · Easy
4. Which animal is the largest living land animal?
The African savanna elephant is the largest living land animal, with adult males capable of weighing several tonnes.
Food & Drink · Medium
5. Feta cheese is most strongly associated with the traditional cuisine of which country?
Feta is a traditional Greek brined cheese, commonly made from sheep's milk or a mixture of sheep's and goat's milk.
Current Affairs · Medium
6. Which team returned to the top of the men's T20 cricket world rankings after completing a 3–0 series sweep of Sri Lanka on 19 September?
England completed a 3–0 T20 series sweep of Sri Lanka in Manchester and replaced India at the top of the men's T20 rankings.
Literature · Medium
7. Which Tudor statesman is central to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall?
Wolf Hall follows Cromwell's rise in the court of Henry VIII.
Sport · Medium
8. In rugby union, how many points does a try followed by a successful conversion earn?
A try earns five points and a conversion adds two, making seven in total.
History · Medium
9. Charles Darwin sailed on which ship during the voyage that helped shape his ideas about evolution?
Darwin travelled as a naturalist aboard HMS Beagle on its survey voyage from 1831 to 1836.
Business & Economics · Medium
10. When a central bank uses quantitative easing, what does it typically buy in financial markets?
Quantitative easing generally involves a central bank purchasing government bonds or other financial assets to add liquidity and lower longer-term borrowing costs.
Film & TV · Medium
11. In Casablanca, what is the surname of Humphrey Bogart's character Rick?
Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, the American expatriate who runs Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca.
Arts · Medium
12. In visual art, what is a triptych?
A triptych is a work composed of three panels or sections, often hinged together in traditional examples.
Science · Hard
13. What is the name for a material that can conduct electric current with zero electrical resistance below a critical temperature?
A superconductor is a material that, below its critical temperature, can carry electric current with zero electrical resistance.
Literature · Hard
14. Which novel won Hilary Mantel the Booker Prize in 2009?
Wolf Hall, the first novel in Mantel's Cromwell trilogy, won in 2009.
Current Affairs · Hard
15. Which AI developer was invited alongside Meta, Google and OpenAI to a parliamentary evidence session in letters published on 22 September 2026?
The Business Committee invited Anthropic and the other three companies to discuss AI security.
Source: Meta, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic invited to appear before Business Committee a
Technology · Hard
16. In computing, what is the main purpose of a cache?
A cache keeps copies of frequently or recently needed data in faster storage so it can be accessed more quickly than from the original source.
Geography · Hard
17. A fjord is a deep, narrow sea inlet created mainly by which process?
Fjords form where glaciers carve deep, steep-sided valleys that are later flooded by the sea.
History · Hard
18. What was England's Domesday Book chiefly compiled to record?
William I ordered the Domesday survey to record landholding, resources and property values across much of England, including information relevant to taxation.
Science · Hard
19. What process is the main source of energy in a main-sequence star such as the Sun?
Main-sequence stars generate energy by nuclear fusion in their cores, chiefly converting hydrogen into helium.
Literature · Hard
20. In poetry, what does 'enjambment' describe?
Enjambment occurs when a sentence or phrase continues from one poetic line into the next without a terminal pause at the line break.