9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which Arsenal defender missed the decisive penalty as PSG won the 2026 Champions League final in a shootout?
💡 Gabriel
What is the name of Ferrari's first fully electric car, whose unveiling caused the company's shares to slump?
💡 Luce
Which former DUP leader is currently on trial facing 18 charges including one count of rape, all of which he denies?
💡 Jeffrey Donaldson
Mixed bag
What is the name of the fictional boy wizard who receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on his eleventh birthday?
💡 Harry Potter
Which East African country, with Nairobi as its capital, is famous for the Maasai Mara National Reserve and shares the shores of Lake Victoria with Tanzania and Uganda?
💡 Kenya
Which 20th-century Hungarian-British physicist formulated the principles of holography in 1947, work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971?
💡 Dennis Gabor
On this date (31 May)
On 31 May 1961, which African country became a republic and left the Commonwealth, following a referendum the previous year?
💡 South Africa
On 31 May 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging ended which conflict, bringing peace between Britain and the Boer republics in southern Africa?
💡 The Second Boer War
On 31 May 1578, the English navigator Martin Frobisher set sail on his third voyage to the Arctic in search of what?