All quizzes
Newest first. 37 so far.
- Thursday, 2 July 2026
Five medieval dates
The Viking Age, the crowning of Charlemagne, the First Crusade, the Hundred Years' War, and the Maid of Orléans.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Five places that vanished
An Alexandrian temple, a Carian tomb, a six-hundred-year bridge, a paternalist town, and a Wisconsin lumber centre.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Five who or what shaped the modern state
Westphalia, the Bastille, Kant, steam, and the assassination that ended the long peace.
5 questions
- Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Five Mediterranean stories
Egypt, Athens, the Library, Pompeii, and the founding of Rome.
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- Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Five medieval crises
The famine, the plague, the pope, the flagellants, and the queen who invaded her own country.
5 questions
- Monday, 29 June 2026
Five revolutions
France, Britain, Copernicus, Kant, and Luther — five different things called *revolution*.
5 questions
- Monday, 29 June 2026
Five English crowns and the doctors who served them
Two kings, two consorts, and the personal physician of Lord Byron.
5 questions
- Sunday, 28 June 2026
Five Crusader stories
Clermont, Acre, the Knights of Malta, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the city that fell in 1453.
5 questions
- Sunday, 28 June 2026
Five from the war on disease
A pump in Soho, a bacillus in Calcutta, a smell at Westminster, a Sicilian port, and a wet summer.
5 questions
- Saturday, 27 June 2026
Five early-modern turning points
Luther, Copernicus, Westphalia, Kant, and where it all began.
5 questions
- Saturday, 27 June 2026
Five who survived
A Strasbourg dancer, a Caribbean prisoner, a pope behind fires, a young Dane with a broken nose, and an officer on a rock in the Atlantic.
5 questions
- Friday, 26 June 2026
Five conquests
Jerusalem won, Jerusalem lost, Constantinople taken, the steppe in arms, and the Sultan who built it all.
5 questions
- Friday, 26 June 2026
Five stories the textbooks still get wrong
A cow, a cricket ball, a poker, a library, and a town that nobody remembers.
5 questions
- Thursday, 25 June 2026
Five 20th-century shocks
Two world wars, the end of an empire, the end of an era, and the steam that made it all possible.
5 questions
- Thursday, 25 June 2026
Five mighty noises
Tunguska, Krakatoa, Tambora, a comet that broke the heavens, and a Chicago fire.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Five classical foundations
When Rome was founded, the length of Egypt, the Athenian invention, the Library of Alexandria, and Pompeii.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Five who counted
Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, the man who decoded the palimpsest, and the corroded bronze that turned out to be a planetarium.
5 questions
- Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Five medieval moments
Charlemagne, the Vikings, the First Crusade, the bacillus that became the Black Death, and the long war over France.
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- Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Five from the Belle Époque (broadly)
A French president, a Jewish officer, a novelist, a Wisconsin firestorm, and a Caribbean volcano.
5 questions
- Monday, 22 June 2026
Five centuries of progress
Copernicus, Kant, Britain's steam, the Vikings in Newfoundland, and a bastille.
5 questions
- Monday, 22 June 2026
Five astronomers and the new sky
A duel, a precession, a comet, a sunspot, and a Greek bronze computer.
5 questions
- Sunday, 21 June 2026
Five wars
The world wars, the Hundred Years' War, the First Crusade, and the peace that ended the religious ones.
5 questions
- Sunday, 21 June 2026
Five British scenes
A king in a castle, a smell at Westminster, a bridge that froze the Thames, a queen of two countries, a pump in Soho.
5 questions
- Saturday, 20 June 2026
Five empires by size or length
Three thousand Egyptian years, the largest contiguous land empire, the longest sultanate, the longest Roman city.
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- Saturday, 20 June 2026
Five who died in odd places
A bedroom in Paris, the sand at Syracuse, the steps of an Alexandrian church, a Stabiae beach, a monumental tomb.
5 questions
- Friday, 19 June 2026
Five who began something
Rome, the Library, the Reformation, the Mongols, and the Renaissance.
5 questions
- Friday, 19 June 2026
Five plague stories
The arrival in Sicily, the pope behind the fire, the flagellants, the famine, and the dancers.
5 questions
- Thursday, 18 June 2026
Five turning points of European history
Pompeii, Constantinople, Genghis Khan, the Enlightenment, and Westphalia.
5 questions
- Thursday, 18 June 2026
Five Alexandrians
Hypatia, the Library, Eratosthenes, the Serapeum, and a prayer book that turned into Archimedes.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Five ends
Rome, Acre, the Hundred Years' War, Constantinople, and the last sultan.
5 questions
- Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Five eruptions and what they did
Krakatoa, Tambora, Vesuvius, Mount Pelée, and the Year Without a Summer.
5 questions
- Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Five edges of the medieval world
Vikings, Crusaders, the Black Death, Joan of Arc, and the Knights of Malta.
5 questions
- Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Volcanoes, water, and the shape of the Earth
Natural disasters, public-health epiphanies, and one Greek who measured the planet with a shadow.
5 questions
- Monday, 15 June 2026
Five turning points
Five things that ended an era — and one thing that started one.
5 questions
- Monday, 15 June 2026
Myths the textbooks still teach
Five famous historical stories, four of them false. Can you spot the survivor?
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- Sunday, 14 June 2026
Five canonical dates
The things schools used to teach — and a couple of dates worth getting right.
5 questions
- Sunday, 14 June 2026
Five strange deaths
Heads of state, mostly, and the parts that didn't make the obituary.
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