9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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After his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he hasn't decided whether to proceed with a major arms package for which island?
💡 Taiwan
Which former reality TV star, known for his role on 'The Hills,' is now running for mayor of Los Angeles?
💡 Spencer Pratt
Which libertarian-leaning Kentucky congressman is facing a primary challenge backed by Donald Trump, testing whether voters can stay loyal to both?
💡 Thomas Massie
Mixed bag
Working tirelessly from before birth until your final breath, what is the name of the muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the human body?
💡 Heart
Overturning the 'separate but equal' doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, what landmark 1954 Supreme Court case unanimously declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
💡 Brown v. Board of Education
Developed by Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper as a way to draw the line between genuine science and pseudoscience, what is the name of the criterion holding that a theory is scientifically meaningful only if it makes predictions that could, in principle, be proven wrong by observation or experiment?
💡 Falsifiability
On this date (16 May)
On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted to acquit which American president during his impeachment trial, falling just one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to remove him from office?
💡 Andrew Johnson
On May 16, 1966, Mao Zedong issued a directive launching a decade-long political and social upheaval in China. What was this movement called?
💡 Cultural Revolution
On May 16, 1888, Nikola Tesla delivered a landmark lecture to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York, presenting his newly developed system for which type of electric motor that would prove central to modern power distribution?
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