9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which annual BBC charity telethon, hosted by Davina McCall and featuring Idris Elba and The Traitors, raised £30 million this year?
💡 Comic Relief
Which Australian swimmer broke Cesar Cielo's long-standing men's 50m freestyle world record, which had been set during swimming's 'supersuit' era?
💡 Cameron McEvoy
Which notorious US messageboard mocked a £520,000 fine issued for UK online safety breaches, including a lack of age checks to prevent children seeing pornography?
💡 4Chan
Mixed bag
In which country would you find the ancient monument of Machu Picchu, perched high in the Andes mountains?
💡 Peru
Which South-East Asian country, home to the magnificent temple complex of Angkor Wat, has Phnom Penh as its capital city?
💡 Cambodia
In rhetoric, what term describes the figure of speech in which the normal syntactic order of words is deliberately inverted for emphasis or poetic effect — a device famously employed in the speech patterns of the Star Wars character Yoda?
💡 Anastrophe
On this date (21 March)
On 21 March 1960, police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters in Sharpeville, killing 69 people. In which country did this massacre take place?
💡 South Africa
On 21 March 1918, Germany launched a massive offensive on the Western Front known as Operation Michael. By what collective name are the series of German spring offensives of 1918 commonly known?
💡 Spring Offensive
On 21 March 1556, which former Archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake in Oxford during the reign of Mary I, having previously recanted his Protestant faith before withdrawing his recantation?
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