9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which hip-hop mogul's lawyers are appealing his conviction using a First Amendment argument?
💡 Sean Diddy Combs
According to federal weather data, which month in 2026 smashed the record as the most abnormally hot month for the continental US in 132 years?
💡 March
The president of which small East African nation was reelected to a sixth term with nearly 98% of the vote?
💡 Djibouti
Mixed bag
In geometry, what name is given to an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees — the kind you'd find at every corner of a perfect square?
💡 Right angle
What is the term for the point in the Moon's orbit when it is closest to the Earth — the opposite of apogee?
💡 Perigee
Described by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno, what famous paradox argues that swift Achilles can never overtake a plodding tortoise given a head start, because he must always first reach the point where the tortoise was — by which time it has moved on again?
💡 Achilles and the tortoise
On this date (12 April)
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. How many minutes did his historic orbital flight last?
💡 108
On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. Which U.S. Vice President was sworn in as president that same day?
💡 Harry S. Truman
On April 12, 1934, the strongest surface wind speed ever recorded at the time was measured atop which mountain in New Hampshire, clocking in at 231 miles per hour?
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