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In the news recently...
Which Star Wars movie topped the box office with $82 million in its opening weekend in the US and Canada?
💡 The Mandalorian and Grogu
Which Boston Celtics head coach won the NBA's Coach of the Year award, while repeating his claim that it should be a staff award?
💡 Joe Mazzulla
Which billionaire Democrat broke ad spending records in the California governor's race?
💡 Tom Steyer
Mixed bag
Expanding and contracting thousands of times a day without a second thought, what is the name of the pair of spongy organs in the human chest responsible for breathing?
💡 Lungs
In a landmark 2015 ruling that made same-sex marriage a constitutional right across all fifty states, what was the name of the Supreme Court case that settled one of the most fiercely debated civil rights questions of the era?
💡 Obergefell v. Hodges
Popularized by John Maynard Keynes, what is the name of the economic paradox holding that while saving money is perfectly rational for any individual household, if everyone in an economy simultaneously increases their savings during a downturn, total demand collapses — leaving the whole economy worse off?
💡 Paradox of thrift
On this date (27 May)
On May 27, 1937, which iconic suspension bridge in San Francisco opened to the public for the first time?
💡 Golden Gate Bridge
On May 27, 1964, which Indian Prime Minister, who led the country since independence, died in office in New Delhi?
💡 Jawaharlal Nehru
On May 27, 1905, the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo decisively defeated the Russian Baltic Fleet in which naval battle fought in the Korea Strait?
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