9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which former England football manager has returned to the dugout at Bristol City at the age of 78, celebrating 50 years in management?
💡 Roy Hodgson
Which comedian has been in the news for buying Ayton Castle in the Scottish Borders?
💡 Alan Carr
A jawbone found in a cave in which English county has rewritten the story of when dogs were first domesticated?
💡 Somerset
Mixed bag
In anatomy, what name is given to the small, almond-shaped clusters of tissue at the back of the throat, one on each side, that form part of the body's immune defence system?
💡 Tonsils
Which Irish author, known for his pioneering stream-of-consciousness style, wrote the modernist novel 'Ulysses', set over the course of a single day in Dublin on 16 June 1904?
💡 James Joyce
Which 20th-century American linguist and cognitive scientist proposed the theory of universal grammar — the idea that the capacity for language is innate to humans and that all natural languages share a common underlying structure?
💡 Noam Chomsky
On this date (29 March)
On 29 March 1973, the last US combat troops withdrew from which country, effectively ending direct American military involvement in a conflict that had lasted over a decade?
💡 Vietnam
On 29 March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well near Xi'an accidentally discovered a vast collection of life-sized terracotta soldiers. Which ancient Chinese emperor did these figures belong to?
💡 Qin Shi Huang
On 29 March 1461, one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on English soil took place near Towton in Yorkshire during the Wars of the Roses. Which Yorkist king claimed victory and subsequently the English throne?
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