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Which BBC Breakfast weather presenter announced she will leave the role on 1 April?
💡 Carol Kirkwood
Which horse won the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the 2026 Cheltenham Festival, trained by Willie Mullins?
💡 Il Etait Temps
Which Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer departed the UK for the eastern Mediterranean to protect RAF Akrotiri after it was hit by an Iranian-made drone?
💡 HMS Dragon
Mixed bag
What is the term in linguistics for a word that reads the same forwards and backwards, such as 'racecar' or 'level'?
💡 Palindrome
Which Russian novelist wrote the epic 'War and Peace', following aristocratic families through the Napoleonic invasion of Russia?
💡 Leo Tolstoy
In mathematics, what name is given to a curve traced by a point on the rim of a circle as it rolls along a straight line — a shape that also solves the brachistochrone problem of fastest descent?
💡 Cycloid
On this date (12 March)
On 12 March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began a famous act of civil disobedience by leading a march to the sea to protest against British taxes on which everyday commodity?
💡 Salt
On 12 March 1938, German troops crossed the border into which neighbouring country in an annexation known as the Anschluss?
💡 Austria
On 12 March 1918, the Bolshevik government moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to which city, reversing a change made by Peter the Great over two centuries earlier?
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