9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
In the news recently...
Elon Musk lost his high-profile court case against which AI company, after a jury found he waited too long to sue?
💡 OpenAI
Which English golfer won his first major title at the 2026 US PGA Championship?
💡 Aaron Rai
Which British aerospace firm, hoping to win a contract to build replacement jets for the Red Arrows, has collapsed?
💡 Aeralis
Mixed bag
In which country would you find the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the famous bell tower that began tilting during its construction in the Middle Ages?
💡 Italy
Which French existentialist philosopher wrote 'Being and Nothingness' and famously declared that existence precedes essence?
💡 Jean-Paul Sartre
Which 20th-century British philosopher, in his 1962 work 'How to Do Things with Words', introduced the theory of speech acts — distinguishing between locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts to show that language does far more than simply describe the world?
💡 J. L. Austin
On this date (20 May)
On 20 May 1927, which American aviator departed from Roosevelt Field in New York on the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight to Paris?
💡 Charles Lindbergh
On 20 May 1902, which Caribbean island nation became the first republic in the Western Hemisphere to gain independence in the 20th century, ending American military occupation?
💡 Cuba
On 20 May 1862, US President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law, granting settlers how many acres of public land if they farmed it for five years?
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