US Daily Quiz — 18 March 2026

In the news recently...

President Trump postponed a planned diplomatic trip to which country in order to focus on the war in Iran?
💡 China
Which NBA head coach became an Oscar winner as part of the documentary short 'All the Empty Rooms'?
💡 Steve Kerr
Who is the current mayor of New York City whose administration is seeking to pull legal support for former mayor Eric Adams in a lawsuit?
💡 Zohran Mamdani

Mixed bag

In what year did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draw the United States into World War II?
💡 1941
Which psychologist conducted a famous 1960s experiment at Yale University in which participants were instructed by an authority figure to deliver apparent electric shocks to others, testing the limits of obedience?
💡 Stanley Milgram
In music theory, what term describes a chord in which the fifth is raised by a half step, creating a tense, unresolved sound often used in jazz and Romantic-era compositions?
💡 Augmented chord

On this date (18 March)

On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to do what outside a spacecraft?
💡 Walk in space
On March 18, 1871, a radical left-wing government known by what two-word name seized control of Paris and held it for over two months?
💡 Paris Commune
On March 18, 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in which city that had only recently been recaptured from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War?
💡 Thessaloniki