Q20 · THE QUIZ POST
The Daily Quiz — 29 September 2026
Play the The Quiz Post quiz for 29 September 2026: 20 free general-knowledge questions covering Arts, Current Affairs, Film & TV and Geography, with explanations and crowd results.
About this edition
This 20-question The Quiz Post edition was published for 29 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, Film & TV and Geography.
Questions and sourced explanations
This archive edition remains playable. The notes below contain spoilers and provide the question text, explanatory context and source used for each item.
Read this edition’s question notes (spoilers)
Society & Culture · Easy
1. When an audience gives a standing ovation, what does it do?
A standing ovation is applause given while the audience is on its feet to show strong appreciation.
Film & TV · Easy
2. In Wallace & Gromit, which studio created the pair's stop-motion adventures?
Aardman developed Wallace & Gromit's distinctive model-animation films.
Sport · Easy
3. In basketball, what does a player do to collect a rebound?
A rebound is recorded when a player recovers the ball following a missed field-goal or final free-throw attempt.
Nature · Easy
4. Why does a hedgehog curl into a ball when it feels threatened?
Curling into a ball hides the hedgehog's vulnerable parts inside a protective covering of sharp spines.
Geography · Medium
5. Why does the International Date Line bend around some Pacific island countries?
Countries choose their own civil dates, so the date line curves around places such as Kiribati to keep their communities on the same calendar day.
Current Affairs · Medium
6. Which religious leader began a four-day visit to France on 25 September?
Pope Leo XIV arrived in France on 25 September for a visit taking in Paris, Lourdes and Metz, including an address at UNESCO.
Society & Culture · Medium
7. What does a school's PTA primarily bring together?
A parent-teacher association brings volunteers together to raise funds and help improve school life.
Science · Medium
8. What is the vacuum between the two walls of a thermos flask mainly designed to reduce?
With almost no particles between the walls, the vacuum greatly reduces heat transfer by conduction and convection. Silvered surfaces separately reduce radiation.
History · Medium
9. Who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving in December 1911?
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his party became the first to reach the South Pole in December 1911, before Robert Falcon Scott's party arrived in January 1912.
Geography · Medium
10. Newcastle and Gateshead face each other across which river?
Bridges across the Tyne link Newcastle with Gateshead.
Technology · Medium
11. A smartphone's gyroscope measures which kind of motion?
A gyroscope measures angular velocity: the rate at which a device turns around its axes.
Music · Medium
12. In music, what distinguishes a session musician from the artist named on a recording?
A session musician performs instrumental or vocal work in a live or recording engagement without being the featured artist, often hired one session at a time.
History · Hard
13. Which 1963 protest challenged racial discrimination by Bristol's bus company?
The bus boycott became a major campaign against racial discrimination and a landmark in Bristol's civil rights history.
Business & Economics · Hard
14. In a just-in-time manufacturing system, how is stock ideally managed?
Just-in-time production coordinates processes so that needed parts arrive at the right time and in the required amounts, reducing excess inventory and waste.
Current Affairs · Hard
15. What happened on 25 September to the privately built LINK spacecraft sent to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift telescope?
Katalyst Space announced that LINK re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 25 September without capturing and boosting NASA's Swift Observatory.
Arts · Hard
16. In sculpture, what distinguishes bas-relief from high-relief or a freestanding statue?
Bas-relief, or low relief, is sculpture in which forms project only a shallow distance from a background, unlike high relief or sculpture in the round.
Food & Drink · Hard
17. In traditional cheesemaking, what change does adding rennet produce in milk?
Rennet contains enzymes, notably chymosin, that act on casein proteins and cause the milk to coagulate into curds.
Film & TV · Hard
18. Which Scottish runner in Chariots of Fire refuses to race on a Sunday?
Liddell's religious convictions are central to the film's account of the 1924 Olympics.
Nature · Hard
19. What do carnivorous pitcher plants gain from digesting insects when they grow in nutrient-poor soil?
Pitcher plants still photosynthesise, but digesting trapped insects supplies mineral nutrients such as nitrogen that may be scarce in their soil.
Arts · Hard
20. In the Indonesian performance tradition wayang kulit, what creates the moving figures seen by the audience?
Wayang kulit uses flat leather shadow puppets manipulated by a puppeteer and projected onto a screen illuminated from behind.