9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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What is the name of NASA's mission that sent a crew further from Earth than any humans before, flying around the Moon in April 2026?
💡 Artemis II
Pope Leo XIV was filmed spinning a basketball on his finger with the help of which famous exhibition basketball team?
💡 Harlem Globetrotters
The Conservatives vowed to outlaw council four-day working weeks. Which district council is the only authority in England to offer staff a four-day week for full pay?
💡 South Cambridgeshire District Council
Mixed bag
In chemistry, what term describes a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without itself being consumed or permanently altered in the process?
💡 Catalyst
Which English physician, working in London in 1854, famously mapped a cholera outbreak in Soho by plotting cases on a street map and traced the source to a contaminated water pump on Broad Street?
💡 John Snow
In chemistry, what term describes a pair of molecules that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other — like left and right hands — sharing the same molecular formula and connectivity but differing in the spatial arrangement of their atoms?
💡 Enantiomers
On this date (10 April)
On 10 April 1912, which famous ocean liner departed from Southampton on its ill-fated maiden voyage?
💡 Titanic
On 10 April 1815, Mount Tambora in present-day Indonesia began its catastrophic eruption, which is considered one of the most powerful in recorded history. In which ocean is the island of Sumbawa, where Tambora is located?
💡 Indian Ocean
On 10 April 1710, the British Parliament passed the Statute of Anne, which is widely regarded as the world's first piece of legislation establishing what legal concept to protect authors and publishers?
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