9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which Oscar-winning editor of the original 1977 'Star Wars' recently passed away at age 80?
💡 Marcia Lucas
Which company, owner of the Golden Nugget and Rainforest Cafe, is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for nearly $6 billion?
💡 Fertitta
A 3-foot-wide meteor entered the atmosphere near the border of New Hampshire and which other U.S. state, causing loud booms heard across the East Coast?
💡 Massachusetts
Mixed bag
Ratified in 1791 to protect individual liberties from government overreach, how many amendments make up the United States Bill of Rights?
💡 10
Familiar to anyone who has ever tried to squeeze one more worker into a crowded kitchen or one more acre into an overworked farm, what economic principle holds that adding more of one input to a fixed amount of others will eventually yield smaller and smaller gains in output?
💡 Law of diminishing returns
In a fiercely contested 1989 ruling, what Supreme Court case held that burning the American flag as a form of political protest constitutes protected symbolic speech under the First Amendment — a decision so controversial that Congress immediately attempted to pass legislation overturning it?
💡 Texas v. Johnson
On this date (31 May)
On May 31, 1889, a catastrophic flood destroyed the town of Johnstown in which U.S. state, killing over 2,200 people?
💡 Pennsylvania
On May 31, 1916, the largest naval battle of World War I began off the coast of Denmark. What is the name of this battle, named after a nearby peninsula?
💡 Battle of Jutland
On May 31, 1578, English navigator Martin Frobisher set out on his third voyage to the Arctic in search of what geographic feature?
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