9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which Oscar-winning actor reprises his role as Tommy Shelby in the newly released Peaky Blinders film, subtitled 'The Immortal Man'?
💡 Cillian Murphy
Which German media company has agreed to buy Telegraph Media Group in a deal worth £575 million?
💡 Axel Springer
Outside which country's capital did an explosion occur at the US embassy, with police releasing images of a suspect and confirming an improvised device was used?
💡 Oslo
Mixed bag
In mathematics, what is the name for a number that is equal to the sum of its proper divisors, such as 28, whose divisors 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14 add up to exactly 28?
💡 Perfect number
In which sport would a competitor perform a Fosbury Flop, the back-first technique that revolutionised the event after its debut at the 1968 Olympics?
💡 High jump
In traditional Japanese craft, what is the name of the art of repairing broken ceramics by filling the cracks with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum — treating the breakage as part of the object's history rather than hiding it?
💡 Kintsugi
On this date (10 March)
On 10 March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson. What nationality was Bell?
💡 Scottish
On 10 March 1959, a major uprising began in which Himalayan capital city, eventually leading the Dalai Lama to flee into exile in India?
💡 Lhasa
On 10 March 1906, a catastrophic colliery explosion in northern France killed over a thousand miners. In which town did this disaster occur?
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