9 questions across 3 rounds · tap a question to reveal its answer
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Phil Foden, Cole Palmer and Trent Alexander-Arnold all missed out on selection for which manager's England World Cup squad?
💡 Thomas Tuchel
Under what stock ticker symbol will SpaceX trade when it makes its stock market debut?
💡 SPCX
The so-called 'Steroid Olympics', an event allowing performance-enhancing drugs, took place this weekend. What is the official name of this competition?
💡 Enhanced Games
Mixed bag
What is the name of the currency used in Japan?
💡 Yen
In astronomy, what name is given to the two points in the year when the Sun crosses the celestial equator, making day and night of approximately equal length all over the world?
💡 Equinoxes
Which 20th-century Czech author, writing largely in German, produced the unfinished novels 'The Trial' and 'The Castle', in which protagonists are ensnared by vast, impenetrable bureaucratic systems — giving rise to the adjective that bears his name?
💡 Franz Kafka
On this date (23 May)
On 23 May 1934, American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed in a police ambush in which US state?
💡 Louisiana
On 23 May 1701, the Scottish privateer Captain William Kidd was hanged in London, having been convicted of what crime?
💡 Piracy
On 23 May 1618, Protestant Bohemian nobles threw two Catholic royal governors and their secretary from a window of Prague Castle, an incident that helped spark the Thirty Years War. By what name is this event known?
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