9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which Scottish craft beer company, famous for its Punk IPA, went into administration before being bought by a US firm for £33 million?
💡 Brewdog
In which city region was the by-election seat located where the Green Party achieved their historic first Westminster by-election victory, pushing Labour into third place?
💡 Greater Manchester
Which AI company, maker of the Claude chatbot, rejected a Pentagon demand to drop its AI safety safeguards?
💡 Anthropic
Mixed bag
In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
💡 Basketball
Which Colombian author conjured up the fictional town of Macondo and the Buendía family across generations in his landmark 1967 novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
💡 Gabriel García Márquez
In rhetoric, what term describes the device of directly addressing an absent, dead, or imaginary person or entity — as when a poet speaks to the moon or a playwright's character cries out to a deceased loved one?
💡 Apostrophe
On this date (5 March)
On 5 March 1953, which Soviet leader died after suffering a stroke, ending nearly three decades of rule over the USSR?
💡 Joseph Stalin
On 5 March 1770, British soldiers killed five colonists in an incident that became known by what name, helping to inflame tensions before the American Revolution?
💡 The Boston Massacre
On 5 March 1872, George Westinghouse was granted a patent for a braking system that would revolutionise railway safety. What type of brake did he patent?
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