9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which former Channel 4 News presenter, who fronted the programme for 32 years, recently revealed he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease?
💡 Jon Snow
Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton warned the UK is in its most dangerous period, citing incursions into UK defences by which country?
💡 Russia
Which young Mercedes driver had 'everything click' at the Monaco Grand Prix, in stark contrast to struggling team-mate George Russell?
💡 Kimi Antonelli
Mixed bag
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, London, and serves as the reference point for measuring longitude around the world?
💡 The Prime Meridian
Which 19th-century American poet, known for his expansive free verse and his collection 'Leaves of Grass', celebrated democracy, nature, and the self in lines that broke sharply with the formal conventions of his time?
💡 Walt Whitman
In particle physics, what name is given to the theoretical mechanism, proposed independently by several physicists including Peter Higgs in 1964, by which fundamental particles acquire mass through their interaction with a pervasive quantum field — confirmed by the discovery of its associated boson at CERN in 2012?
💡 Higgs mechanism
On this date (8 June)
On 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his dystopian novel set in a totalitarian future state ruled by Big Brother. What is the title of this novel?
💡 Nineteen Eighty-Four
On 8 June 1783, the Laki volcanic fissure began a catastrophic eruption in which European island nation, causing widespread famine and killing a large proportion of its population?
💡 Iceland
On 8 June 1042, which Anglo-Saxon king, later known for his religious devotion and for rebuilding Westminster Abbey, ascended to the English throne?
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