9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Five professional dancers, including long-serving Karen Hauer, have been confirmed as leaving which BBC dance show?
💡 Strictly Come Dancing
Wu Yize recently became the second player from which country to win the World Snooker Championship?
💡 China
Which Romanian Prime Minister was ousted after the largest party in his coalition joined the far-right opposition in a no-confidence vote?
💡 Ilie Bolojan
Mixed bag
Which gas, lighter than air and used to fill party balloons, gives you a squeaky voice when inhaled?
💡 Helium
In physics, what name is given to the principle stating that no two identical fermions — such as electrons — can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously within a single system?
💡 Pauli exclusion principle
A group of mostly French mathematicians, active from the 1930s onwards, published a hugely influential series of textbooks reformulating mathematics on rigorous axiomatic foundations. Under what single collective pseudonym did they publish all their work?
💡 Nicolas Bourbaki
On this date (7 May)
On 7 May 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Reims, effectively ending which global conflict in Europe?
💡 World War Two
On 7 May 1833, the German composer Johannes Brahms was born in which northern German city?
💡 Hamburg
On 7 May 1663, which famous London theatre, documented in the diary of Samuel Pepys and associated with the Restoration era, opened its doors for the first time in Bridges Street?
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