9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which pop star entered a substance abuse treatment facility weeks after being arrested on suspicion of DUI?
💡 Britney Spears
Which NBA star punched his own team's mascot Hugo in celebration after knocking the Miami Heat out of the play-in tournament?
💡 LaMelo Ball
Paul Dans, a key author of Project 2025, dropped his Republican primary challenge against which sitting US senator from South Carolina?
💡 Lindsey Graham
Mixed bag
What is the name of the process by which liquid water transforms into water vapor and rises into the atmosphere — the first step in the water cycle?
💡 Evaporation
Ratified in 1964, which amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the use of poll taxes in federal elections, removing a tool that had long been used to suppress voting among low-income citizens?
💡 24th Amendment
In a deeply controversial 1944 ruling that has since been widely condemned, what U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II?
💡 Korematsu v. United States
On this date (16 April)
On April 16, 1889, which legendary British-born comedian and filmmaker, famous for his portrayal of the Little Tramp, was born in London?
💡 Charlie Chaplin
On April 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of a substance he had synthesized five years earlier. What is the common abbreviated name of that substance?
💡 LSD
On April 16, 1799, during his Middle Eastern campaign, Napoleon Bonaparte's forces repelled an Ottoman assault at the Battle of Mount Tabor near which ancient city in present-day Israel?