9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which rapper's right to enter the UK is under review following controversy over his past antisemitic comments and a planned London festival appearance?
💡 Kanye West
Bayern Munich are sweating on the fitness of which England striker ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid?
💡 Harry Kane
Which Reform UK housing spokesman was sacked after making remarks about the Grenfell Tower disaster that were called 'ignorant and callous'?
💡 Simon Dudley
Mixed bag
Which country is home to the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system?
💡 Australia
In the history of science, what name is given to the discredited 18th-century theory, overturned by Lavoisier's work on oxygen, which proposed that a fire-like element was released during combustion?
💡 Phlogiston theory
In rhetoric, what term describes the figure of speech that makes an understatement by affirming something through the negation of its opposite — as in saying 'not bad' to mean 'very good' or 'not inconsiderable' to mean 'large'?
💡 Litotes
On this date (7 April)
On 7 April 1948, which United Nations specialised agency dedicated to international public health was established, with its headquarters in Geneva?
💡 World Health Organisation
On 7 April 1939, Fascist Italy invaded which small Adriatic kingdom, forcing its king Zog I to flee into exile?
💡 Albania
On 7 April 1933, the Nazi government enacted the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which required civil servants to prove their descent from which group in order to keep their jobs?
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