The Solar System, Explained
A friendly tour of the planets, moons and the star at the middle of it all.
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Pick a topic, answer ten questions, and find out why each answer is right. No account, no timer, no pressure.
The universe, the atom, and every living thing in between.
Capitals, borders, rivers and the shape of the planet.
Instruments, composers and the songs everyone knows.
Gods, heroes and the stories cultures told themselves.
Where words come from and how languages fit together.
The classical world and how much of it we kept.
Two conflicts that reorganised the modern world.
Cinema classics, cult hits and the small screen.
A friendly tour of the planets, moons and the star at the middle of it all.
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
The remarkable machine you live in, from your bones to your immune system.
What is the largest organ of the human body?
Ten capitals that trip up even confident travellers, from Canberra to Abuja.
What is the capital of Australia?
The breakthroughs that rewired daily life — and the people behind them.
Who is credited with introducing the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1440?
The giants that ruled the Earth for 165 million years — and the day it all changed.
Roughly when did the last non-bird dinosaurs go extinct?
City-states, empire and the inheritance still in daily use.
Which Greek city-state was best known for its military discipline?
From Sumer to the Inca — eight questions for the serious history lover.
Which river was central to the rise of Ancient Egypt?
The blue that covers most of the planet, from the Pacific to the Dead Sea.
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Record-breakers, oddities and the rules that sort the living world.
What is the largest animal ever known to have lived?
From the inside of a cell to the logic of natural selection.
What is generally considered the basic unit of life?
Ptolemy, al-Idrisi, portolan charts and the draughtsman who straightened the Underground.
Ptolemy's Geographia, written in the second century, was influential chiefly because it did…
The pantheons and legends still hiding in everyday language.
In Greek mythology, who is the king of the gods?
What the words in every economic headline actually mean.
What is the currency of Japan?
The games and machines that built the biggest entertainment industry.
Which company created the character Mario?
From the Nile to the Amazon — the great rivers that shaped where we live.
Which river is traditionally considered the longest in the world?
Three pounds of tissue, eighty-six billion neurons, and the most complex object we know of.
Which is the largest part of the brain, responsible for thought and voluntary movement?
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