9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which French football club retained the Champions League title in 2026 with victory against Arsenal in the final?
💡 Paris St-Germain
Over 1,000 pages of documents were published about the appointment of which Labour grandee as UK ambassador to the US?
💡 Lord Mandelson
Which music giant rejected a takeover bid from billionaire Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, saying it fundamentally undervalued the business?
💡 Universal
Mixed bag
What is the name of the sea that lies between Europe and North Africa, bordered by countries including Spain, Italy, Greece, and Egypt?
💡 The Mediterranean Sea
In physics, what name is given to the law stating that the force between two electrically charged particles is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them?
💡 Coulomb's Law
Which 4th-century BC Greek philosopher, founder of the Cynic school, famously lived in a large ceramic jar in Athens, rejected all social conventions, and told Alexander the Great to stand out of his sunlight when the conqueror offered to grant him any wish?
💡 Diogenes of Sinope
On this date (2 June)
On 2 June 1953, which British monarch was crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony watched by millions on television for the first time?
💡 Queen Elizabeth II
On 2 June 1924, the US Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting citizenship to all native-born members of which group of people?
💡 Native Americans
On 2 June 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act, one of the so-called Coercive Acts. In which American city had a Tea Party protest taken place the previous year that helped provoke this legislation?