9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which pop icon announced a new album called 'Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II'?
💡 Madonna
Which MLB team dropped its 12th straight game after closer Devin Williams struggled again in a loss to the Twins?
💡 New York Mets
Which Democrat won the special election for the U.S. House seat in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District?
💡 Analilia Mejia
Mixed bag
Closest to the Sun and smallest of the eight planets, what is the name of the first planet in our solar system?
💡 Mercury
When a sports commentator says 'we need more boots on the ground' to mean soldiers, or a sailor refers to his crew as 'all hands,' they are using what rhetorical device in which a part stands in for the whole?
💡 Synecdoche
In economics, what is the term for an inferior good so unusual that its demand actually rises as its price increases — seemingly defying the basic law of demand — because the price hike makes consumers too poor to afford better substitutes?
💡 Giffen good
On this date (22 April)
April 22, 1970 marked the very first celebration of what annual environmental awareness day, now observed by over 190 countries?
💡 Earth Day
On April 22, 1915, German forces used a poisonous gas for the first time on a large scale during the Second Battle of Ypres in World War I. What was the name of the gas they deployed?
💡 Chlorine
On April 22, 1500, Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral became the first European to make landfall on the coast of what country, which he claimed for Portugal?
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