9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which rapper's exclusion from the UK led to the cancellation of this summer's Wireless Festival?
💡 Kanye West
Which British engineering company received the green light to build a nuclear power station, promising to create 8,000 jobs across Britain?
💡 Rolls-Royce
Which pioneering wildlife cameraman, who won eight Emmy Awards for his work on series like Blue Planet alongside Sir David Attenborough, died after falling ill in Nepal?
💡 Doug Allan
Mixed bag
In which sport would you deliver a ball down a lane aiming to knock over ten pins?
💡 Bowling (ten-pin bowling)
In which Italian city would you find the Uffizi Gallery, home to Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus' and a vast collection of Renaissance masterpieces?
💡 Florence
In mathematics, what name is given to the branch of number theory concerned with the distribution of prime numbers, whose central unsolved problem — concerning the zeros of the zeta function — remains one of the Millennium Prize Problems?
💡 Analytic number theory
On this date (14 April)
On 14 April 1912, which famous ocean liner struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, sinking the following day on her maiden voyage?
💡 Titanic
On 14 April 1931, King Alfonso XIII fled Spain following municipal election results that strongly favoured republicans, leading to the proclamation of which form of government?
💡 The Second Spanish Republic
On 14 April 1828, the first edition of which American reference work, compiled by Noah Webster, was published, standardising spelling and vocabulary for a nation?
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