9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Which Hollywood legend was surprised with an honorary Palme d'Or at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival for his directorial debut?
💡 John Travolta
Which Louisiana Republican senator did Trump call 'disloyal' while endorsing a primary challenger against him?
💡 Bill Cassidy
Which university defeated Texas 4-3 to win its seventh NCAA men's tennis championship?
💡 Virginia
Mixed bag
On a standard soccer pitch, how many players from each team are allowed on the field at the same time during a match?
💡 11
When a rat learns to press a lever to receive a food pellet, or a dog sits on command to earn a treat, the animal is demonstrating what type of learning — pioneered by psychologist B.F. Skinner — in which behavior is shaped by its consequences through rewards and punishments?
💡 Operant conditioning
Providing a definitive baseline for entropy calculations and implying that absolute zero can never actually be reached in practice, which law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a perfect crystal approaches exactly zero as temperature approaches absolute zero?
💡 Third law of thermodynamics
On this date (18 May)
On May 18, 1980, which volcano in Washington State erupted in a catastrophic explosion that killed 57 people and flattened surrounding forests?
💡 Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding which controversial legal doctrine that permitted racial segregation?
💡 Separate but equal
On May 18, 1917, the U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to raise a national army for World War I through what process?
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