9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Apple is expected to unveil new AI features at its annual developers conference, which will be the last one featuring which CEO before he steps down?
💡 Tim Cook
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski threw a pitch clocked at 103.7 mph, setting a record as the fastest pitch by what type of pitcher since tracking began in 2008?
💡 Starter
Which maverick Republican senator from Oregon, who resigned in the 1990s after a scandal that ruined his reputation as a champion of women's rights, recently died at 93?
💡 Bob Packwood
Mixed bag
After years of observing finches, tortoises, and fossils on his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, what English naturalist published 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859, laying out his groundbreaking theory of evolution by natural selection?
💡 Charles Darwin
In chemistry, what is the name of the type of chemical bond formed when one atom transfers an electron to another, creating oppositely charged ions that attract each other — as in table salt?
💡 Ionic bond
In a 1972 ruling that remains a cornerstone of First Amendment jurisprudence, what Supreme Court case held that the press does not have a constitutional right to refuse to testify before a grand jury, even when compelled to reveal confidential sources?
💡 Branzburg v. Hayes
On this date (8 June)
On June 8, 1968, James Earl Ray was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport for the assassination of which prominent American civil rights leader?
💡 Martin Luther King Jr.
On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a US Navy intelligence ship, was attacked by Israeli air and naval forces during which Middle Eastern war?
💡 The Six-Day War
On June 8, 1794, the French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre presided over a new civic religion's inaugural festival in Paris. What was the name of this deist religion that he promoted as a replacement for Christianity?
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