9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Which Canadian rapper dropped a surprise three-album release, his first new music since his high-profile beef with Kendrick Lamar?
💡 Drake
Which energy supplier has been ordered to pay £20 million over a scandal involving the force-fitting of prepayment meters on vulnerable customers?
💡 British Gas
Which player, sharing a surname with a famous former England striker, scored the late winner as Manchester City beat Manchester United in the FA Youth Cup final?
💡 Reigan Heskey
Mixed bag
Which planet in our solar system dazzles observers so brightly at dawn and dusk that it has earned the nicknames the morning star and the evening star?
💡 Venus
Which American author captured the glittering excess and moral hollowness of the Jazz Age in his 1925 novel featuring the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession with the green light across the bay?
💡 F. Scott Fitzgerald
In chemistry, what name is given to the rule, formulated in 1869, stating that when a hydrogen halide adds across a double bond in an alkene, the hydrogen attaches to the carbon already bearing the greater number of hydrogen atoms?
💡 Markovnikov's rule
On this date (16 May)
On 16 May 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was declared over by Nazi SS commander Jürgen Stroop. In which country did this uprising take place?
💡 Poland
On 16 May 1877, a constitutional crisis in France known as the Seize Mai crisis began when President Patrice de Mac-Mahon dismissed which republican Prime Minister?
💡 Jules Simon
On 16 May 1811, the Battle of Albuera was fought during the Peninsular War. In which present-day country did this battle take place?
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