9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which NBA team clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs after beating the 76ers 116-93?
💡 Detroit Pistons
On the anniversary of 'Liberation Day,' President Trump signed an executive order imposing tariffs of up to 100% on what type of product?
💡 Patented drugs
Which grandson of President John F. Kennedy launched a congressional campaign in New York City, generating buzz partly due to the nickname 'Love Story'?
💡 Jack Schlossberg
Mixed bag
During the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, who became the first human being to set foot on the Moon?
💡 Neil Armstrong
What is the literary term for a figure of speech that fuses two contradictory ideas into a single expression, as in 'living death' or 'deafening silence'?
💡 Oxymoron
Associated with linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, what hypothesis proposes that the language a person speaks shapes or constrains their perception and understanding of the world around them?
💡 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
On this date (5 April)
On April 5, 1614, the Native American princess Pocahontas married which English colonist at Jamestown, Virginia?
💡 John Rolfe
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage against the United States. For which country were they convicted of passing nuclear secrets?
💡 Soviet Union
On April 5, 1242, Russian forces under Alexander Nevsky defeated the Teutonic Knights in a battle fought on a frozen lake. What is the name of that lake?
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