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Which country within the UK voted to ban greyhound racing after a vote in the Senedd?
💡 Wales
Before appointing Lord Mandelson as US ambassador, the Prime Minister was warned about Mandelson's relationship with which disgraced financier?
💡 Jeffrey Epstein
From June 2026, games containing loot boxes will receive a minimum age rating of 16 from which European age-ratings body?
💡 PEGI
Mixed bag
Which ocean is the largest on Earth?
💡 Pacific Ocean
Which 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter is renowned for his mastery of light and shadow, and created works including 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'The Milkmaid'?
💡 Johannes Vermeer
Which Austrian-British philosopher argued in his early masterwork 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' that the structure of language mirrors the structure of reality, and that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent?
💡 Ludwig Wittgenstein
On this date (18 March)
On 18 March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to do what outside a spacecraft?
💡 Walk in space
On 18 March 1967, the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of Cornwall, causing a major environmental disaster. What cargo was it carrying?
💡 Crude oil
On 18 March 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in which city, which had only recently been recaptured from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War?