9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Donald Trump's visit to which country marked the first US presidential trip there in almost ten years, testing a fragile tariff truce?
💡 China
Manchester City face which London club in the 2026 FA Cup final at Wembley?
💡 Chelsea
Children's entertainer Paul Chuckle is set to make his National Theatre debut in a production of which play?
💡 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Mixed bag
What is the name of the world's smallest country, an independent city-state nestled entirely within the city of Rome?
💡 Vatican City
What name is given to the school of economic thought, associated with a celebrated British economist, that argues governments should increase spending to stimulate demand and pull economies out of recession?
💡 Keynesian economics
Which 19th-century Russian mathematician developed a form of non-Euclidean geometry by replacing Euclid's parallel postulate with the assumption that through a point not on a given line, infinitely many lines can be drawn that never meet that line?
💡 Nikolai Lobachevsky
On this date (15 May)
On 15 May 1905, which Nevada city was founded after a land auction, going on to become famous worldwide for its casinos and entertainment?
💡 Las Vegas
On 15 May 1918, the United States launched the world's first regular airmail service, operating between Washington D.C. and which other American city?
💡 New York
On 15 May 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull Ad extirpanda, which authorised the use of torture by the Inquisition against which group of people?