9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which British actor, famous for playing Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appearing in Ted Lasso, died recently aged 72 from complications of pneumonia?
💡 Anthony Head
Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of which Scottish political party, was found to have embezzled funds from the organisation?
💡 SNP
Which country's representative won the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with the song 'Bangaranga'?
💡 Bulgaria
Mixed bag
In which sport would a competitor aim to score a 'bullseye' by hitting the very centre of a circular target with a small pointed missile?
💡 Darts
In economics, what term describes the situation where the true costs or benefits of a transaction are borne by parties not directly involved in it — such as when a factory's pollution affects nearby residents who had no say in the deal?
💡 Externality
Which 13th-century Scholastic philosopher and theologian, known as the Angelic Doctor, synthesised Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology in his monumental 'Summa Theologica' and argued for five rational proofs of God's existence?
💡 Thomas Aquinas
On this date (7 June)
On 7 June 1099, soldiers of the First Crusade arrived at which holy city, which they would go on to capture the following month?
💡 Jerusalem
On 7 June 1929, the Lateran Treaty came into force, creating which independent state within the city of Rome?
💡 Vatican City
On 7 June 1981, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a nuclear reactor near Baghdad in a surprise air strike. What was the name of this operation?
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