9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which pop star pleaded guilty to reckless driving after being arrested in California earlier this year?
💡 Britney Spears
Which Middle Eastern country recently announced it is leaving the oil cartel OPEC after nearly 60 years of membership?
💡 UAE
Which Sunderland defender became the third player to be sent off for pulling an opponent's hair in the Premier League this season?
💡 Dan Ballard
Mixed bag
In which sport would a player serve an ace, winning a point outright without the opponent touching the ball?
💡 Tennis
Which Austrian composer, who died at the age of just 35, produced an extraordinary body of work including 41 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, and the operas 'The Magic Flute' and 'Don Giovanni'?
💡 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In mathematics, what name is given to the theorem, proved by Pierre de Fermat and independently by Leonhard Euler, stating that if p is a prime number and a is any integer not divisible by p, then a raised to the power of p minus one is congruent to one modulo p?
💡 Fermat's little theorem
On this date (5 May)
On 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space aboard a spacecraft named Freedom 7. What was the name of the NASA programme of which this mission was a part?
💡 Mercury
On 5 May 1955, West Germany regained its sovereignty and joined which Western military alliance?
💡 NATO
On 5 May 1260, Kublai Khan was proclaimed ruler of the Mongol Empire. Which of his brothers did he succeed as Great Khan?
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