US Daily Quiz — 14 April 2026

In the news recently...

Which golfer won the 2026 Masters at Augusta National, finishing one stroke ahead of Scottie Scheffler?
💡 Rory McIlroy
Which reality TV star and entrepreneur made her Broadway producing debut with the criminal justice play 'The Fear of 13'?
💡 Kim Kardashian
Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller won the Georgia US House seat formerly held by which controversial congresswoman?
💡 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Mixed bag

What is the name of the longest bone in the human body, running from the hip all the way down to the knee?
💡 Femur
What is the name of the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, and limits of human knowledge — asking fundamental questions like 'What can we know, and how do we know it?'
💡 Epistemology
Formulated by Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925, what principle of quantum mechanics states that no two identical fermions — such as electrons within an atom — can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state?
💡 Pauli exclusion principle

On this date (14 April)

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Who pulled the trigger?
💡 John Wilkes Booth
On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster published the first major American dictionary. What were the first two words of its full title?
💡 An American
On April 14, 1890, the International Union of American Republics was established in Washington, D.C., an organization that would eventually be renamed what?
💡 Organization of American States