9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which actor, famous for playing Giles on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and appearing in 'Ted Lasso,' recently passed away at age 72?
💡 Anthony Head
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping aid and sanctions package targeting which two countries?
💡 Ukraine and Russia
Which Milwaukee Brewers pitcher threw a 103.7 mph pitch, the fastest by a starter since pitch tracking began in 2008?
💡 Jacob Misiorowski
Mixed bag
Tipping the scales at around three pounds and performing over 500 vital functions — from filtering toxins to producing bile — what is the name of the largest internal organ in the human body?
💡 Liver
What is the name of the cognitive bias in which people judge an event as more likely to have been predictable after it has already occurred — leading them to say 'I knew it all along'?
💡 Hindsight bias
Formulated by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century, what thought experiment imagines a tiny demon controlling a trapdoor between two chambers of gas, seemingly able to decrease entropy and violate the second law of thermodynamics by sorting fast and slow molecules?
💡 Maxwell's demon
On this date (7 June)
On June 7, 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed a nuclear reactor near Baghdad belonging to which country, in a strike known as Operation Opera?
💡 Iraq
On June 7, 1494, Spain and Portugal signed a treaty dividing newly discovered lands outside Europe between them. What is the name of that treaty?
💡 Treaty of Tordesillas
On June 7, 1692, a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated which Caribbean port city, then one of the wealthiest in the Americas, causing much of it to sink into the sea?
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