9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
President Trump recently traveled to Beijing for a high-stakes summit with which Chinese leader, who warned that the two nations will 'clash' if Taiwan is handled improperly?
💡 Xi Jinping
Which MLB franchise announced a tentative $2.3 billion deal with local officials for a new ballpark?
💡 Tampa Bay Rays
NASA's Psyche spacecraft recently performed a gravity-assist flyby of Mars on its way to study what type of celestial body?
💡 Metal asteroid
Mixed bag
Commanding the Continental Army through the Revolutionary War and later presiding over the Constitutional Convention, who became the first president of the United States?
💡 George Washington
When investors panic-sell after a market crash because they assume the downturn will continue, or a fan declares an athlete the greatest ever after a single brilliant season, they are likely falling victim to what cognitive bias — the tendency to give disproportionate weight to recent events when making judgments or predictions?
💡 Recency bias
Named after a French Nobel Prize-winning economist, what paradox in decision theory demonstrates that people systematically violate expected utility theory by consistently preferring a certain outcome over a higher-expected-value gamble — a pattern of choices that cannot be reconciled with any consistent utility function?
💡 Allais paradox
On this date (15 May)
On May 15, 1940, which fast-food chain opened its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California, marking the beginning of one of the world's most recognized burger brands?
💡 McDonald's
On May 15, 1972, Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and paralyzed while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination at a shopping mall in which U.S. state?
💡 Maryland
On May 15, 1905, the city of Las Vegas was officially founded when lots were auctioned off after the arrival of which railroad that had established a townsite there?
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