9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
President Trump is having which famous Washington, D.C. landmark's pool coated in 'American flag blue'?
💡 Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Which Jeff Bezos-owned rocket company had its New Glenn rocket grounded after launching a satellite into the wrong orbit?
💡 Blue Origin
The slumping Philadelphia Phillies released which veteran right-handed pitcher before their game against the Cubs?
💡 Taijuan Walker
Mixed bag
On a standard American football field, how many players from each team are allowed on the field at the same time?
💡 11
Hanging on the walls of weather stations and ship cabins for centuries, what is the name of the instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure?
💡 Barometer
In calculus, what theorem guarantees that any function which is continuous on a closed interval must achieve both an absolute maximum value and an absolute minimum value somewhere within that interval?
💡 Extreme value theorem
On this date (24 April)
On April 24, 1990, NASA launched which famous space telescope into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery?
💡 Hubble Space Telescope
On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States, triggering a conflict over which island nation that Spain controlled in the Caribbean?
💡 Cuba
On April 24, 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first person to die during a space mission when his spacecraft's parachute failed on re-entry. What was the name of that spacecraft?