9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Chelsea beat which club 1-0 in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley to set up a final showdown with Manchester City?
💡 Leeds United
King Charles is set to address which body during his US state visit, where he is expected to defend democratic values?
💡 US Congress
Roman Dubowski, from Stockport, recently became the seventh person to win the jackpot on which ITV game show?
💡 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Mixed bag
The Taj Mahal, one of the most recognisable buildings on Earth, sits on the banks of the Yamuna river in which country?
💡 India
In economics, what term describes the hidden cost of any decision — specifically, the value of the best alternative you had to give up in order to make your chosen option?
💡 Opportunity cost
In philosophy, what term describes the position, associated with George Berkeley, that material objects have no existence independent of a mind perceiving them — summed up in the Latin phrase 'esse est percipi', to be is to be perceived?
💡 Idealism (accept immaterialism)
On this date (28 April)
On 28 April 1789, the crew of which British Royal Navy ship famously mutinied in the South Pacific, setting Captain William Bligh adrift in a small boat?
💡 HMS Bounty
On 28 April 1969, which French president resigned from office following the defeat of his referendum on regional reform and Senate reform?
💡 Charles de Gaulle
On 28 April 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, who had just been elected King of Jerusalem, was assassinated in Tyre by members of which secretive Nizari Ismaili order?
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