9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Tens of thousands of officers from which federal agency were set to receive $0 paychecks during a partial government shutdown, causing chaos at airports?
💡 TSA
Which character actor, known for playing authoritarian figures in 'Top Gun' and 'Back to the Future,' recently passed away at age 94?
💡 James Tolkan
Scientists at which European research organization conducted a first-ever test of transporting antiprotons on the road?
💡 CERN
Mixed bag
Used for everything from purifying water to making whiskey, what is the name of the process in which a liquid is heated into vapor and then cooled back into a purer liquid form?
💡 Distillation
Fiercely debated and passionately defended, which amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right of citizens to keep and bear arms?
💡 2nd Amendment
When Lincoln declared that government should be 'of the people, by the people, for the people,' he was wielding what rhetorical device — defined as the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses?
💡 Epistrophe
On this date (30 March)
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a hotel in which American city?
💡 Washington, D.C.
On March 30, 1842, American surgeon Crawford Long became the first physician to use which anesthetic during a surgical procedure?
💡 Ether
On March 30, 1822, the U.S. Congress passed legislation combining East Florida and West Florida into a single organized territory. What was the name of this newly unified territory?
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