9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which social media platform launched a £3.99 monthly subscription for an ad-free experience in the UK?
💡 TikTok
Keir Starmer announced plans to nationalise which major industrial company, which has been under government control for almost a year?
💡 British Steel
Former England rugby coach Eddie Jones was suspended for four games while coaching which country's team for abusing match officials?
💡 Japan
Mixed bag
In which country would you find the ancient temple complex of Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, where the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922?
💡 Egypt
Which 19th-century American poet, who spent much of her reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote nearly 1,800 poems yet saw fewer than a dozen published during her lifetime?
💡 Emily Dickinson
What is the name of the famous unsolved problem in computer science — one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems — that asks whether every problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time?
💡 P versus NP
On this date (14 May)
On 14 May 1948, which new Middle Eastern state declared its independence, with David Ben-Gurion as its first Prime Minister?
💡 Israel
On 14 May 1955, the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc nations signed a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw. What is this alliance commonly known as?
💡 The Warsaw Pact
On 14 May 1264, which English king was captured by Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes, marking a major turning point in the Second Barons' War?
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