9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which tech billionaire lost his high-profile court case against OpenAI and its executives?
💡 Elon Musk
Pope Leo XIV is set to launch his first encyclical on May 25 alongside the co-founder of which AI company?
💡 Anthropic
Which Democratic National Committee chair is reportedly losing the confidence of party officials barely a year into his term?
💡 Ken Martin
Mixed bag
Home to the Australian Parliament and nestled between the rival cities of Sydney and Melbourne, what city serves as the capital of Australia?
💡 Canberra
When a car salesman opens negotiations with an outrageously high sticker price, or a retailer dangles a 'was $200, now $80' tag in front of you, they are exploiting what cognitive bias — the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered when making subsequent judgments?
💡 Anchoring bias
Consider this argument: 'If it is raining, the ground is wet; the ground is wet; therefore it is raining.' Despite its convincing surface logic, this is a classic example of what named logical fallacy — in which someone incorrectly concludes that because the consequent of a conditional statement is true, the antecedent must also be true?
💡 Affirming the consequent
On this date (19 May)
Which wife of King Henry VIII was executed by beheading at the Tower of London on May 19, 1536?
💡 Anne Boleyn
British World War I officer T.E. Lawrence, famous for his role in the Arab Revolt, died on May 19, 1935, from injuries sustained in what type of accident?
💡 Motorcycle accident
On May 19, 1941, Ho Chi Minh founded which Vietnamese independence movement, whose name roughly translates to League for the Independence of Vietnam?
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