UK Daily Quiz — 24 May 2026

In the news recently...

Which Greater Manchester mayor is lining up a third attempt to become Labour leader and needs to get back to Westminster first?
💡 Andy Burnham
Which British driver took pole position at the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, beating Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli?
💡 George Russell
UK scientists are developing a vaccine for a rare species of Ebola known by what name, which kills around a third of those infected?
💡 Bundibugyo

Mixed bag

Which American author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird', the 1960 novel set in the American South in which young Scout Finch watches her father defend a Black man falsely accused of a crime?
💡 Harper Lee
Which South American country is home to the world's highest navigable lake, Lake Titicaca, which it shares with Peru?
💡 Bolivia
In philosophy, what term describes the position that abstract objects such as numbers, sets, and universals exist independently of human minds and language — a view associated with Plato and defended in the modern era by Gottlob Frege?
💡 Platonism (also accept mathematical realism or abstract realism)

On this date (24 May)

Queen Victoria, who reigned over the British Empire for over 63 years, was born on 24 May in which year?
💡 1819
On 24 May 1976, the supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde began its first scheduled transatlantic service to which American city?
💡 Washington
On 24 May 1844, Samuel Morse sent his famous telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore. From which specific building in Washington was the message transmitted?
💡 The Capitol