9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which Northern Irish golfer is the defending champion at the 2026 Masters at Augusta National?
💡 Rory McIlroy
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square made a $64 billion takeover offer for which music giant, home to artists including Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter?
💡 Universal Music Group
Pioneering wildlife cameraman Doug Allan, who won eight Emmy Awards for work on series including Blue Planet, died in which country?
💡 Nepal
Mixed bag
Which German composer, deaf for much of his later life, wrote nine symphonies — the last of which famously features the choral setting of Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'?
💡 Ludwig van Beethoven
Which Central Asian country, landlocked and largely covered by the Karakum Desert, has Ashgabat as its capital and holds some of the world's largest reserves of natural gas?
💡 Turkmenistan
In set theory, what name is given to the self-referential paradox, formulated by Bertrand Russell in 1901, that arises when one considers the set of all sets that do not contain themselves as a member?
💡 Russell's paradox
On this date (9 April)
On 9 April 1865, which Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the American Civil War?
💡 Robert E. Lee
On 9 April 1969, the British prototype of which supersonic passenger aircraft made its maiden flight, taking off from Filton near Bristol?
💡 Concorde
On 9 April 1626, which English philosopher and statesman died of pneumonia, reportedly contracted while experimenting with snow as a means of preserving meat near Highgate?
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