UK Daily Quiz — 8 March 2026

9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer

In the news recently...

Which pop star was arrested in California on suspicion of driving under the influence in early 2026?
💡 Britney Spears
Microsoft announced a next-generation console codenamed what, as it looks to revive the Xbox brand?
💡 Project Helix
Which Labour MP had the party whip restored after rebelling against the government's controversial farm tax plan?
💡 Markus Campbell-Savours

Mixed bag

Which author created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot?
💡 Agatha Christie
Home to lemurs found nowhere else on Earth, this large island nation sits off the east coast of Africa — but in which ocean does Madagascar actually lie?
💡 Indian Ocean
Which economic principle, named after a Tudor-era financier and adviser to the English Crown, states that when two forms of currency circulate together, the inferior one tends to drive the superior one out of circulation?
💡 Gresham's Law

On this date (8 March)

International Women's Day is celebrated annually on 8 March, but in which decade was it first officially recognised by the United Nations?
💡 1970s
On 8 March 1702, which monarch succeeded King William III to the throne of England, becoming the last Stuart ruler of Great Britain?
💡 Queen Anne
On 8 March 1862, during the American Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia attacked Union wooden ships in Hampton Roads, Virginia. By what earlier name had the Virginia originally been commissioned as a Union vessel?
💡 USS Merrimack