UK Daily Quiz — 6 April 2026

In the news recently...

What name did the new Pope take when he was elected to lead the Catholic Church?
💡 Pope Leo XIV
New UK consumer laws introduced in April 2026 are designed to make it easier to do what with unwanted subscriptions?
💡 Cancel them
Which American golfer overtook Scotland's Robert MacIntyre to win the Texas Open?
💡 JJ Spaun

Mixed bag

What is the name of the longest bone in the human body, running from the hip down to the knee?
💡 Femur
Which Japanese art form, whose name translates roughly as 'the way of flowers', involves the careful and deliberate arrangement of cut stems, leaves, and blooms according to strict aesthetic principles?
💡 Ikebana
Which 20th-century German-American political philosopher, reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' to describe how ordinary people can participate in atrocities through thoughtlessness rather than malice?
💡 Hannah Arendt

On this date (6 April)

On 6 April 1917, which country declared war on Germany, entering the First World War on the side of the Allies?
💡 United States
On 6 April 1994, the shooting down of a presidential plane over Kigali triggered the start of a genocide in which African country?
💡 Rwanda
On 6 April 1320, Scottish nobles signed the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter addressed to which reigning Pope asserting Scotland's independence?
💡 Pope John XXII