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In the news recently...
Suspected Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan was recently arrested in which Middle Eastern city?
💡 Dubai
US actress Christine Baranski is making her West End debut opposite Richard E Grant in a new production of which Noel Coward comedy?
💡 Hay Fever
Which Scottish Premiership club had five players named in the PFA Scotland Team of the Year, more than any other club?
💡 Motherwell
Mixed bag
In music, what Italian term describes a gradual increase in loudness, often indicated in a score by a hairpin symbol that opens from left to right?
💡 Crescendo
What term in music describes the Italian instruction to perform a passage smoothly and connectedly, with no breaks between successive notes — the opposite of staccato?
💡 Legato
Which American physicist, in his 1957 doctoral thesis at Princeton, proposed the radical interpretation of quantum mechanics in which every possible outcome of a measurement actually occurs — each in its own branching version of reality?
💡 Hugh Everett III
On this date (18 April)
On 18 April 1775, American patriot Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride to warn colonial militias of approaching British troops. Which Massachusetts town was he riding to warn, famously associated with the first shots of the American Revolution?
💡 Lexington
On 18 April 1955, which renowned theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity, died in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 76?
💡 Albert Einstein
On 18 April 1689, the citizens of Boston rose up and arrested which unpopular royal governor of the Dominion of New England, effectively ending his authoritarian rule over the colonies?
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