9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which anonymous street artist confirmed he was behind a new sculpture in central London depicting a man walking off a plinth while holding a flag?
💡 Banksy
Which Mercedes driver took pole position for the Miami Grand Prix after bouncing back from a difficult sprint race?
💡 Kimi Antonelli
Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe received a hero's welcome on returning home after achieving what historic athletic milestone?
💡 Sub-two-hour marathon
Mixed bag
Which element, the very lightest on the periodic table with atomic number 1, makes up the overwhelming majority of the universe's ordinary matter and fuels the nuclear reactions of stars?
💡 Hydrogen
Which West African country, with Accra as its capital, was the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence from colonial rule, doing so from Britain in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah?
💡 Ghana
In classical music, what name is given to the compositional technique, developed by Arnold Schoenberg, in which all twelve notes of the chromatic scale are arranged into a fixed sequence — called a tone row — that governs the entire piece?
💡 Twelve-tone technique (also accept serialism or dodecaphony)
On this date (3 May)
On 3 May 1469, which Italian statesman and political philosopher, famous for writing 'The Prince', was born in Florence?
💡 Niccolò Machiavelli
On 3 May 1951, the Festival of Britain opened on the South Bank in London. Which British monarch officially opened the festival?
💡 King George VI
On 3 May 1765, the first medical school in the American colonies was established in Philadelphia. At which university was this school founded?
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