9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which TV presenter, best known for hosting ITV's long-running travel show 'Wish You Were Here...?', died aged 90?
💡 Judith Chalmers
Which major UK supermarket chain announced plans to close 100 stores in the coming months, blaming significant cost increases from government policy?
💡 Morrisons
Which young driver took control of the Formula 1 title battle at the Canadian Grand Prix, according to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson?
💡 Antonelli
Mixed bag
Which is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still largely intact today?
💡 The Great Pyramid of Giza
In music, what term describes the number of beats in a bar and which beat receives the primary stress — for example, three-four time in a waltz?
💡 Time signature
Which 19th-century Scottish physicist unified electricity, magnetism, and light into a single theoretical framework through his equations of electromagnetism, and also made foundational contributions to the kinetic theory of gases and colour photography?
💡 James Clerk Maxwell
On this date (25 May)
On 25 May 1977, which science fiction film directed by George Lucas was released in the United States, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time?
💡 Star Wars
On 25 May 1961, US President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress setting a national goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of which decade?
💡 The 1960s
On 25 May 1787, delegates gathered in Philadelphia to begin the Constitutional Convention, with which Virginian statesman presiding over the proceedings as its president?
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