9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which actor stars in the sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, which became 2026's biggest box office debut?
💡 Ryan Gosling
Which British middle-distance runner won her first world indoor title in the 800m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland?
💡 Keely Hodgkinson
Iran reportedly fired ballistic missiles at which British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean?
💡 Diego Garcia
Mixed bag
Which nursery rhyme character sat on a wall, had a great fall, and couldn't be put back together again by all the king's horses and all the king's men?
💡 Humpty Dumpty
In immunology, what term describes the process by which a cell — such as a white blood cell — engulfs and digests foreign particles, bacteria, or dead cells by wrapping its membrane around them?
💡 Phagocytosis
In music theory, what term describes a chord in which the notes are not all sounded simultaneously but are played in rapid succession — from the Italian word for 'harp', reflecting the technique's association with that instrument?
💡 Arpeggio
On this date (24 March)
On 24 March 1603, which Scottish king inherited the English throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth I, uniting the crowns of England and Scotland?
💡 James VI (James I of England)
On 24 March 1882, German physician Robert Koch announced his discovery of the bacterium responsible for which widespread and deadly disease, a breakthrough that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905?
💡 Tuberculosis
On 24 March 1603, the death of Elizabeth I brought to an end which royal dynasty that had ruled England since 1485?
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