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This rocket and AI company's record-shattering June 2026 IPO raised roughly $75 billion.
What is SpaceX?
This person has served as Chancellor of Germany since 2025, leading the country after the CDU/CSU won that year's federal election.
Who is Friedrich Merz?
This Southeast Asian island nation's capital shares its name with the country itself.
What is Singapore?
This element, atomic number 1, is the most abundant in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
This 1789 event, marked by the storming of the Bastille, France.
What is the Bastille/French Revolution?
This operation is the name of the operation the United States uses to describe its strikes against Iran.
What is Operation Epic Fury?
This leader has served as President of Russia since 2012.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Canberra, not Sydney, is the capital of this country.
What is Australia?
This organelle, the "powerhouse of the cell," produces Adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
What is Mitochondria?
This is the year that the Berlin Wall fell, which symbolized the end of the Cold War. Funnily... this year has something to do with Taylor Swift.
What is 1989?
This 2026 tournament kicked off in Mexico City and is the first edition expanded to 48 teams, co-hosted by Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
This Italian politician became the country's first female Prime Minister in 2022, leading the Brothers of Italy party.
Who is Georgia Meloni?
This country's capital is Astana, renamed Nur-Sultan and then back to Astana.
What is Kazakhstan?
This law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, the third of its namesake's three laws.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This 1648 set of treaties ended the Thirty Years' War and is often credited with establishing the modern concept of state sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
China detained Min Zin, head of a think tank focused on this Southeast Asian nation, on suspicion of espionage.
What is Myanmar?
Re-elected in 2024, this president of El Salvador is known for his mass anti-gang crackdown and embrace of Bitcoin.
Who is Nayib Bukele?
Indonesia is relocating its capital from Jakarta to this newly built city on Borneo.
What is Nusantara?
This gene-editing technology, derived from a bacterial immune mechanism, won its developers the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
What is CRISPR?
This Indian independence leader led the 1930 Salt March in protest of British colonial taxes.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This ousted South Korean president was sentenced in June 2026 to 30 years over a 2024 scheme involving drone flights over Pyongyang, North Korea.
What is Yoon Suk Yeol?
This leader became President of Indonesia in October 2024, succeeding Joko Widodo after serving as defense minister.
Who is Prabowo Subianto?
This South American country's three branches of government sit in three different cities, with La Paz as the administrative capital and Sucre as the constitutional one.
What is Bolivia?
This particle, sometimes called the "God particle," was confirmed at CERN in 2012 and gives mass to other particles.
What is the Higgs boson?
This 1955 conference of Asian and African states, held in Indonesia, launched the Non-Aligned Movement.
What is the Bandung Conference?