US Daily Quiz — 16 March 2026

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Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar in 2026 for his role in 'Sinners'?
💡 Michael B. Jordan
Amy Madigan won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in which supernatural thriller?
💡 Weapons
Which university won the American Athletic Conference Tournament to clinch its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2012?
💡 South Florida

Mixed bag

What is the name of the phobia characterized by an intense fear of enclosed or confined spaces?
💡 Claustrophobia
In geometry, what is the term for a polygon with all sides of equal length and all interior angles equal?
💡 Regular polygon
What is the name of the biochemical cycle, occurring in the mitochondria, that generates energy by oxidizing acetyl-CoA and is also known as the citric acid cycle?
💡 Krebs cycle

On this date (16 March)

On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in a village in South Vietnam. What is the name of that village, which became synonymous with the atrocity?
💡 My Lai
On March 16, 1926, American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. In which U.S. state did this historic test take place?
💡 Massachusetts
On March 16, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's expedition became the first Europeans to reach which archipelago in the western Pacific, making it a landmark moment in the first circumnavigation of the globe?
💡 The Philippines