9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which company launched its biggest and most powerful Starship rocket yet on a test flight from Texas?
💡 SpaceX
The first live MMA event on Netflix featured a double-comeback bout between Gina Carano and which former UFC champion, drawing record US MMA viewership?
💡 Ronda Rousey
Which Canadian province announced plans for a public vote on whether to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada?
💡 Alberta
Mixed bag
From the neon-lit streets of Shibuya to the ancient temples of Asakusa, what city serves as the capital of Japan?
💡 Tokyo
Signed in 1848 and bringing the Mexican-American War to a close, what was the name of the peace treaty that transferred vast territories in the American Southwest from Mexico to the United States?
💡 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Imagine stirring a cup of coffee: no matter how vigorously you swirl it, at least one point in the liquid will always end up exactly where it started. This intuitive result is a consequence of what famous theorem in topology, proved by Dutch mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer in 1910, which states that any continuous function mapping a compact convex set to itself must have at least one fixed point?
💡 Brouwer fixed-point theorem
On this date (24 May)
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long-distance telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to which nearby city in Maryland?
💡 Baltimore
On May 24, 1941, which famous British battlecruiser was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, killing all but three of her crew?
💡 HMS Hood
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse's historic telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore quoted a phrase from which book of the Bible?
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