9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Mike Ashley's Frasers Group made a bid of £1.73 billion to buy all of which German fashion brand, of which it already owns over a quarter?
💡 Hugo Boss
Which British actor said 'Don't try to make James Bond woke' and acknowledged that some audiences would not accept a black male actor playing 007?
💡 Idris Elba
Which rare species of butterfly saw its population increase by 9,000% in Kent, according to a conservation charity?
💡 Duke of Burgundy
Mixed bag
In which sport would a competitor perform a 'checkmate', trapping their opponent's king with no legal escape?
💡 Chess
Which 20th-century British author wrote the dystopian novel '1984', set in a totalitarian state ruled by Big Brother where the Thought Police monitor every citizen?
💡 George Orwell
In philosophy, what term describes the position that the meaning of a proposition consists entirely in the method of its empirical verification — a doctrine central to the logical positivist movement of the Vienna Circle, which led its proponents to dismiss metaphysical claims as literally meaningless?
💡 Verificationism (also accept the verification principle)
On this date (11 June)
On 11 June 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc shocked the world by setting himself on fire in protest against the government of which country?
💡 South Vietnam
On 11 June 1955, a catastrophic crash at the Le Mans 24-hour race killed the driver and more than 80 spectators. In which country does this famous motor race take place?
💡 France
On 11 June 1770, which British explorer became the first European to sight the Great Barrier Reef, after his ship ran aground on it off the coast of Australia?
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