9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which legendary jazz musician, known as the 'saxophone colossus', died recently aged 95?
💡 Sonny Rollins
Kenneth Iwamasa was jailed for 41 months for his role in the ketamine-related death of which Friends actor?
💡 Matthew Perry
Who made history by being named as the first ever British and Irish Lions Women's coach, ahead of next year's inaugural tour to New Zealand?
💡 Yapp
Mixed bag
Which American inventor, working in the late 19th century, is credited with developing a practical incandescent light bulb and founding one of the world's first industrial research laboratories?
💡 Thomas Edison
In which country would you find the ancient stone city of Petra, the Wadi Rum desert, and the Dead Sea — the saltiest large body of water on Earth?
💡 Jordan
In particle physics, what theoretical framework proposes that every particle in the Standard Model has a partner particle — pairing each fermion with a boson counterpart and vice versa — with predicted partners known as sparticles?
💡 Supersymmetry
On this date (28 May)
On 28 May 1940, which Allied nation surrendered to Nazi Germany, leaving British and French forces increasingly exposed at Dunkirk?
💡 Belgium
On 28 May 1987, a teenage West German pilot made headlines by landing a small Cessna aircraft in which famous Moscow square?
💡 Red Square
On 28 May 1830, US President Andrew Jackson signed a controversial piece of legislation that authorised the forced relocation of Native American tribes. What was this act commonly known as?
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