UK Daily Quiz — 13 June 2026

In the news recently...

Which tech billionaire recently became the world's first trillionaire?
💡 Elon Musk
England women's forward Beth Mead joined Manchester City on a free transfer from which club?
💡 Arsenal
Which novel by Alice Jolly won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction at the Borders Book Festival?
💡 The Matchbox Girl

On this date (13 June)

On 13 June 1983, which NASA space probe became the first man-made object to travel beyond the orbit of Neptune, making it the most distant human-made object in space at that time?
💡 Pioneer 10
On 13 June 1966, the US Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling requiring police to inform suspects of their legal rights before questioning. What name is given to these rights, taken from the defendant in the original case?
💡 Miranda rights
On 13 June 1878, the Congress of Berlin opened to revise the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended a war between Russia and which other empire?
💡 Ottoman Empire