9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which hit HBO drama, known for its portrayal of troubled American teenagers, returned for a much-anticipated but critically mixed third season?
💡 Euphoria
Which Hungarian politician and leader of the Tisza party won a dramatic landslide victory, ending Viktor Orbán's era in power?
💡 Péter Magyar
Which Welsh First Minister called for the UK government to stop working with the US on a space radar station in Wales, citing Trump's 'contempt'?
💡 Eluned Morgan
Mixed bag
In mathematics, what name is given to a number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers — such as the square root of two or pi — and whose decimal expansion neither terminates nor repeats?
💡 Irrational number
Which Scottish-born inventor is credited with making the first successful telephone call in 1876, uttering the famous words 'Mr Watson, come here — I want to see you'?
💡 Alexander Graham Bell
Which 18th-century English chemist, working independently of the Swedish apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele, is widely credited with the discovery of oxygen in 1774, and also isolated several other gases including nitrous oxide and sulphur dioxide?
💡 Joseph Priestley
On this date (19 April)
On 19 April 1995, a truck bomb destroyed a federal government building in which American city, killing 168 people in one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in US history?
💡 Oklahoma City
On 19 April 1956, which Hollywood actress married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, becoming Princess of Monaco?
💡 Grace Kelly
On 19 April 1587, Sir Francis Drake sailed into Cadiz harbour and destroyed a large portion of the Spanish fleet in a raid he famously described as singeing whose beard?
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