9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which pop star was arraigned on a DUI charge in Southern California in May 2026?
💡 Britney Spears
GameStop's Ryan Cohen made a $56 billion buyout bid for which online marketplace company?
💡 eBay
Doris Fisher, who passed away at 94, co-founded which iconic American clothing chain in 1969?
💡 The Gap
Mixed bag
Blazing through the vacuum of space fast enough to circle the entire Earth more than seven times in a single second, approximately how many kilometers per second does light travel?
💡 300,000 kilometers per second
What is the name of the branch of philosophy that grapples with the most fundamental questions about reality itself — asking what exists, what the nature of being is, and whether the world we perceive is all there is?
💡 Metaphysics
When a politician declares 'I won't even bring up my opponent's embarrassing tax scandal,' they are using what rhetorical device — defined as the act of drawing attention to something by pointedly claiming to pass over it in silence?
💡 Apophasis
On this date (5 May)
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space aboard which spacecraft?
💡 Freedom 7
Cinco de Mayo commemorates a famous Mexican military victory on May 5, 1862, over a larger invading army. Which European nation's forces were defeated at the Battle of Puebla?
💡 France
On May 5, 1891, which famous concert hall in New York City opened with a performance conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
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