Edition No. 48 · GlobalEst. 2026
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Daily News Challenge: Monday, September 14

Put your current-affairs knowledge to the test with today's five-question quiz on major global developments and the life of a pioneering scientist.

Daily challenge for 2026-09-14

1. Dr. Mark Norell, the renowned paleontologist who passed away at age 68, spent decades leading expeditions and serving as a curator at which major institution?

2. During his extensive fieldwork in the Gobi Desert, which landmark discovery did Dr. Mark Norell and his team uncover that provided direct evidence of bird-like reproductive behavior in dinosaurs?

3. In 1993, Dr. Mark Norell co-led a joint expedition in Mongolia that discovered which exceptionally rich fossil site in the Gobi Desert?

4. Beyond his work in the Gobi Desert, Dr. Mark Norell collaborated closely with researchers in which Chinese province to document groundbreaking discoveries of feathered theropod dinosaurs?

5. In 2016, Dr. Mark Norell curated which landmark exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History exploring how modern birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs?