Sport
This African nation was the first to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in 1974.
What is Zaire (now DR Congo)?
This subatomic particle has no electric charge and was discovered by James Chadwick.
What is the neutron?
This international agreement, signed in 2015, focuses on limiting global temperature rise.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This African country has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
What is South Africa?
This musical term indicates a gradual increase in loudness.
What is crescendo?
In football analytics, “xG” is an abbreviation for this metric.
What is Expected Goals?
CRISPR-Cas9 is a technology primarily used for this purpose.
What is gene editing?
This philosopher wrote Leviathan, advocating for a strong centralised state.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This African lake is the world’s second-deepest freshwater lake.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
This Nigerian artist’s album African Giant gained global acclaim in 2019.
Who is Burna Boy?
This athlete has won Olympic gold medals in both the 100 m and 200 m at three consecutive Olympic Games.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This law states that entropy in an isolated system never decreases.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
This invention by Tim Berners-Lee changed how the world shares information.
What is the World Wide Web?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia in Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This classical composer became deaf later in life yet continued composing.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This country won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, famously uniting a post-apartheid nation.
What is South Africa?
This brain structure is responsible for balance and motor coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This economic concept describes a situation where demand exceeds supply, causing rising prices.
What is inflationary pressure?
This capital city is located at the highest elevation in Africa.
What is Addis Ababa?
This genre blends traditional African rhythms with jazz and funk and was pioneered by Fela Kuti.
What is Afrobeat?
This sport uses terms like “love,” “deuce,” and “ace.”
What is tennis?
This mathematical framework underpins modern neural networks and deep learning optimisation.
What is gradient descent (or calculus / linear algebra accepted)?
This term describes the ability to use knowledge creatively to solve problems.
What is intelligence?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia.
What is Ethiopia?
This term describes the simultaneous combination of different rhythmic patterns in music.
What is polyrhythm?