This week's Saturday quiz spans topics from US statehood to rock duos and Newton's laws. Questions include identifying which US state was once an independent monarchy (Hawaii), the cold spell from circa 1300 to 1850 (the Little Ice Age), and the bestselling book series abbreviated as Acotar (A Court of Thorns and Roses).
Other queries cover the word for haughty derived from Latin for eyebrow (supercilious), the pop compilation series launched in November 1983 (Now That's What I Call Music!), and the most visited UK museum (the Natural History Museum in London). Liza Minnelli is revealed as the celebrity who called herself 'the original nepo baby' in a 2026 memoir.
The connections section links items such as rock duos (Death From Above 1979, Royal Blood, the Black Keys, the Kills, the White Stripes), missions to Mercury (Mariner 10, Messenger, BepiColombo), and Whitehall cats (Evie and Ossie, Gladstone, Larry, Palmerston). Newton's three laws of motion are tied to inertia, acceleration/force, and action/reaction.
