January 27, 2023
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Which actor scored the first Oscar nomination of his decades-long career for the film "The Whale"?
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The U.S. and Germany have agreed to send tanks to help the Ukraine in its war with Russia. The Pentagon will send the M1 Abrams tank. What is Germany's tank called?
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Yoga is now an $80 billion global industry. Over 2000 years ago, the very first text on yoga was written in India by the sage Patanjali. He described yoga as “citta-vrtti-nirodhah,” which means what?
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Most U.S. colleges and universities no longer require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT. Research has repeatedly shown that what other factor is a better predictor of a high school student's college success?
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The person who killed 11 people in Monterey Park, California, on Jan. 21 was different from the typical American mass shooter in what way?
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Recent studies show that between 2020 and 2022, the United States probably undercounted between 130,000 and 412,000 deaths caused by what?
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The majority of enslaved people who fled Southern slavery before the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation never crossed the Mason-Dixon line to freedom in the Northern states. Where did they escape to instead?
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Indicted crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is a proponent of a charitable movement that aspires to find the best ways to address the world's most pressing problems. What is this movement called?
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