9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which Canadian singer, diagnosed with a rare condition affecting her voice and mobility, has announced comeback shows saying 'I'm so ready for this'?
💡 Céline Dion
Italy's failure to qualify for the 2026 World Cup means they have now missed how many consecutive World Cups?
💡 Three
Which 217-year-old British pottery company recently appointed administrators from FRP Advisory?
💡 Denby
Mixed bag
What is the name of the fairy-tale girl who visits a house belonging to three bears and samples their porridge, chairs, and beds?
💡 Goldilocks
In thermodynamics, what name is given to the statement that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time, providing a thermodynamic arrow of time?
💡 The second law of thermodynamics
Which 9th-century Persian mathematician, working in Baghdad's House of Wisdom, wrote the treatise 'Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala', whose title gave the modern world the word 'algebra'?
💡 Al-Khwarizmi
On this date (2 April)
On 2 April 1982, which South American country invaded the Falkland Islands, triggering a war with the United Kingdom?
💡 Argentina
On 2 April 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany, bringing America into which global conflict?
💡 World War One
On 2 April 1863, a large-scale food riot broke out in the Confederate capital during the American Civil War. In which city did this so-called Bread Riot take place?
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