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In the news recently...
King Charles III's upcoming state visit to which country has been described as the toughest test yet of his reign?
💡 United States
Warner Bros shareholders approved a takeover by which rival Hollywood studio in a deal worth $111 billion?
💡 Paramount
What is the name of Chelsea's little-known interim head coach who took the team to an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley?
💡 Calum McFarlane
Mixed bag
What is the name of the world's longest wall, a series of fortifications stretching across northern China, built to protect against invasions from the north?
💡 The Great Wall of China
Which ancient Greek physician, often called the father of medicine, gave his name to the ethical oath traditionally sworn by doctors upon entering the medical profession?
💡 Hippocrates
In linguistics and cognitive science, what name is given to the hypothesis — associated with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf — that the language a person speaks shapes or constrains the way they perceive and think about the world?
💡 Linguistic relativity (also accept the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)
On this date (25 April)
On 25 April 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published their landmark paper describing the double helix structure of which molecule, fundamental to all living organisms?
💡 DNA
On 25 April 1982, Israel completed its withdrawal from which peninsula, returning it to Egypt in accordance with the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty?
💡 Sinai
On 25 April 1507, a German cartographer published a world map that was the first to use the name 'America' for the New World. What was the surname of this cartographer, after whom the map is named?
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