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Which London club was relegated from the Premier League on the final day of the 2025-26 season, ending a 14-year stay in the top flight?
💡 West Ham
NASA has revealed plans for a permanent human base on the Moon. By what year does the space agency aim to have permanent habitation there?
💡 2032
British conductor Daniel Harding, who also works as a pilot for Air France, has been named the new music director of which major US orchestra?
💡 LA Philharmonic
Mixed bag
In the human body, what name is given to the two bean-shaped organs that filter waste products from the blood and produce urine?
💡 Kidneys
Which 19th-century American author wrote the short stories 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher', pioneering the genre of gothic horror and the detective story?
💡 Edgar Allan Poe
In mathematics, what name is given to the theorem, proved by Georg Cantor, which demonstrates that the set of real numbers is strictly larger than the set of natural numbers — establishing that there are different sizes of infinity?
On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of which mountain?
💡 Everest
On 29 May 1919, observations made during a solar eclipse provided the first experimental confirmation of whose general theory of relativity?
💡 Albert Einstein
On 29 May 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River after a collision, killing over 1,000 people. In which country's waters did this disaster occur?
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