9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which employee-owned department store chain announced it would pay its first staff bonus in four years, equivalent to an extra week's pay?
💡 John Lewis
Which British tennis player produced a superb fightback to beat Novak Djokovic and reach the Indian Wells quarter-finals?
💡 Jack Draper
The Archers is celebrating a special anniversary in 2026 with a nationwide tour. How many years has the world's longest-running drama been on air?
💡 Seventy-five
Mixed bag
What chemical formula represents the compound you sprinkle on your chips — common table salt?
💡 NaCl
What is the name of the logical fallacy in which a conclusion is assumed within one of the premises used to support it — sometimes described as 'circular reasoning'?
💡 Begging the question
Which 19th-century Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso pioneered the symphonic poem as a musical form and gave his name to a technique of thematic transformation used throughout a large-scale work?
💡 Franz Liszt
On this date (13 March)
On 13 March 1781, which planet was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel, becoming the first planet to be identified using a telescope?
💡 Uranus
On 13 March 1943, a failed assassination attempt was made on Adolf Hitler when a bomb was smuggled aboard his aircraft. The bomb failed to detonate because the detonator froze. Which German officer was the chief organiser of this plot?
💡 Henning von Tresckow
On 13 March 1868, the impeachment trial of which US President began in the Senate, largely over his removal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act?
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