UK Daily Quiz — 26 May 2026

In the news recently...

Which Canadian rapper made UK chart history by debuting three studio albums inside the top 10 simultaneously?
💡 Drake
Which Premier League club secured their survival on the final day of the season with a win over Everton, thanks to a Joao Palhinha goal?
💡 Tottenham
The first astronaut from which city launched into space onboard a Chinese mission?
💡 Hong Kong

Mixed bag

In which sport would a player score points by hitting a shuttlecock over a net with a lightweight racket?
💡 Badminton
Which English scientist, working in the 17th century, formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, laying the foundations of classical mechanics?
💡 Isaac Newton
In mathematics, what name is given to the property of a sequence or series whereby its terms approach a finite limiting value as the number of terms increases without bound?
💡 Convergence

On this date (26 May)

On 26 May 1940, which major military evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches of northern France began, codenamed Operation Dynamo?
💡 Dunkirk
On 26 May 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their second 'Bed-In for Peace' in which Canadian city?
💡 Montreal
On 26 May 1637, English colonists and their Narragansett allies carried out a devastating attack on a Pequot village near the Mystic River, killing hundreds in what became known as which massacre?
💡 The Mystic Massacre