9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which former Labour Prime Minister accused the current government of having 'no coherent plan' for the country, prompting Sir Keir Starmer to hit back?
💡 Tony Blair
Which striker's transfer from Newcastle United to Liverpool was described as the 'transfer saga of last summer'?
💡 Alexander Isak
A newly discovered species of what type of organism has raised hopes that native British habitats decimated by invasive moss could be restored?
💡 Fungus
Mixed bag
What is the name of the star at the centre of our solar system?
💡 The Sun
In music, what Italian term instructs a performer to play a passage in a lively, brisk manner — faster than andante but generally not as fast as allegro?
💡 Allegretto
In mathematics, what name is given to the unsolved conjecture, first posed in 1937 by Lothar Collatz, which proposes that repeatedly applying a simple rule — halving even numbers and tripling odd numbers then adding one — will always eventually reach the number one?
💡 Collatz conjecture
On this date (4 June)
On 4 June 1989, Chinese troops and tanks moved in to crush a pro-democracy protest in which famous Beijing square?
💡 Tiananmen Square
On 4 June 1896, Henry Ford successfully tested his first self-propelled vehicle, which he called the Quadricycle, in which American city?
💡 Detroit
On 4 June 1878, Britain and the Ottoman Empire signed a secret agreement giving Britain administrative control of which Mediterranean island?
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