9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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A San Francisco jury found which tech billionaire had misled Twitter investors in 2022?
💡 Elon Musk
Which London museum overtook the British Museum to become the UK's most visited tourist attraction, breaking the record for visitors in a single year?
💡 Natural History Museum
Radio 1 host Greg James completed a Comic Relief challenge raising over £4 million by cycling 1,000 kilometres over eight days on what type of bicycle?
💡 Tandem
Mixed bag
What is the name of the longest river in the world, which flows northward through Africa before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea?
💡 The Nile
Which ancient wonder of the world, said to have been a giant bronze statue erected to celebrate a military victory, once stood at the entrance to the harbour of the Greek island of Rhodes?
💡 The Colossus of Rhodes
Which 20th-century Austrian logician proved, in his incompleteness theorems of 1931, that within any sufficiently powerful formal mathematical system there exist true statements that cannot be proved within that system?
💡 Kurt Gödel
On this date (23 March)
On 23 March 1775, which American patriot delivered a famous speech in Virginia ending with the words 'Give me liberty, or give me death'?
💡 Patrick Henry
On 23 March 1919, Benito Mussolini founded a new political movement in Milan that would eventually become the Italian Fascist Party. What was the name of this movement?
💡 Fasci Italiani di Combattimento
On 23 March 1743, George Frideric Handel's oratorio 'Messiah' received its London premiere at which theatre?
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