9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
The crew of which NASA mission recently appeared on 'GMA' after completing a historic trip around the moon, farther than any humans have ever traveled?
💡 Artemis II
Following the royal visit by King Charles III, President Trump announced he would lift certain tariffs on what iconic British beverage export?
💡 Scotch whisky
Which horse was scratched from the Kentucky Derby, allowing a horse named Ocelli to enter the race?
💡 Fulleffort
Mixed bag
Pumping blood to every corner of your body without ever taking a break, the human heart is divided into distinct chambers. How many chambers does the human heart have?
💡 4
What is the name of the school of economic thought, developed by a British economist in the 1930s, that argues government spending and fiscal policy can pull an economy out of recession?
💡 Keynesian economics
Posed by a French mathematician in 1904 and left unsolved for nearly a century, what famous conjecture in topology — finally proven by Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman in the early 2000s — states that every simply connected, closed three-dimensional manifold is topologically equivalent to a three-sphere?
💡 Poincaré conjecture
On this date (1 May)
On May 1, 1931, which iconic New York City skyscraper was officially opened by President Herbert Hoover, who switched on its lights from Washington D.C.?
💡 Empire State Building
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic incident. Who was the pilot captured by Soviet forces?
💡 Francis Gary Powers
On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led the American Asiatic Squadron to a decisive victory over the Spanish fleet in which bay, during the Spanish-American War?
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