9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
A former boss of which major tech company has been confirmed as the BBC's new Director General?
💡 Google
Which AI company has closed its Sora video-making app and cancelled a billion-dollar deal with Disney?
💡 OpenAI
Which English golfer recently won his third US PGA Tour title and is being tipped as a Masters favourite at Augusta?
💡 Matt Fitzpatrick
Mixed bag
In music theory, what term describes the distance in pitch between two notes, with an octave being the most familiar example?
💡 Interval
Which Italian city, built across more than a hundred small islands and threaded by canals, hosts a celebrated annual film festival and is home to the Doge's Palace?
💡 Venice
Which 19th-century French mathematician, who died in a duel at the age of twenty, developed the branch of abstract algebra now bearing his name, which provides a framework for understanding the solvability of polynomial equations?
💡 Évariste Galois
On this date (27 March)
On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747 aircraft collided on a runway in the Canary Islands, resulting in the deadliest accident in aviation history. On which island did this disaster occur?
💡 Tenerife
On 27 March 1964, a massive earthquake struck Alaska, killing around 130 people and causing widespread destruction. By what name is this earthquake commonly known, referencing the day on which it occurred?
💡 Good Friday earthquake
On 27 March 1794, the United States Congress passed an act authorising the construction of six frigates, effectively establishing which branch of the American armed forces?
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