Subscriber General Quiz: May 2026
A monthly 40-question quiz for paid subscribers
Welcome to the first of two monthly quizzes exclusively for paid subscribers: one general knowledge and one themed.
This general quiz for May 2026 covers a range of subject areas and difficulties, and as always, I want the questions to be interesting and likely to help you in a future quiz. Consider this you and me improving together. Enjoy!
Questions
Originating in a 2024 TikTok video by Screenshot HQ, a viral social media thought experiment prompted women to consider whether they would prefer to be alone in the woods with a bear or what else?
In May, which English football club was expelled from their EFL Championship play-off final with Hull City, and a chance for promotion to the Premier League, after admitting to spying on three teams’ training sessions during the season?
Used extensively by the ancient Phoenicians for shipbuilding, which evergreen tree appears on the flag of Lebanon and also sometimes names the 2005 revolution that led to withdrawal of Syrian troops in the country?
Geneva (2023) and The Cut (2025) are novels by which English actor, who played John Thornton in the 2004 BBC adaptation of North and South, and Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy?
Taking its name from the Afrikaans word for “ridge” after the ridge upon which many gold deposits and the city of Johannesburg are located, what is the currency of South Africa?
Which 11th century citadel and ruined city in Telangana, India, known for its role as a centre for diamond trading, shares its name with a 1953 painting by René Magritte?
