Answers at the bottom!
1) Which singer became the first ever artist to have all ten songs in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100?
2) Which footballer’s 1986 shirt went to auction earlier this year, eventually selling for over £7 million?
3) Which physical media overtook CDs and Playstation games to become the second highest selling physical format this year?
4) What NFT-based product went on the market for a record £29 million in Hampton this year? Was it…
a) A house
b) A painting
c) A yacht
5) BAFTA-nominated actor Idris Elba announced his plan to lean away from acting in February, to focus on doing what instead?
6) Which of the following awards were not presented live as part of the 2022 Oscars ceremony?
a) Best Original Score
b) Best Song
c) Best Supporting Actress
d) Best Cinematography?
7) Speaking of the Oscars, that’s not all that happened… But what film won the award for Best Picture on the infamous night Will Smith slapped Chris Rock?
8) Which ‘television institution’ came to a potentially temporary end in 2022 after nearly 37 years?
9) Which pop singer received an Olivier Award nomination for her role as Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story?
10) This year, Sehah Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. It was his second novel, after Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, which focused on an alcoholic journalist, tracking down a missing former star in which sport?
Sean Connery as 007 in Dr. No
11) As of March this year, what American streaming giant owns James Bond?
12) What song embroiled Ed Sheeran in a lengthy court case which he described as “deeply traumatising”? Sheeran eventually won the decision.
13) Which American artist announced an NFT project called ‘Moon Phases’, where they woukd send a series of sculptures to the moon and sell digital copies, down here on earth?
14) Which 20th century visual artist, famous for his influence on the ‘Pop Art’ movement, is set to have his work shown in Saudi Arabia in what will be a Middle Eastern first?
15) The stars of which comedy TV show feature in FIFA 23?
16) Which beloved Apple product did the manufacturers discontinue this year?
17) They went head to head in the quarter finals, but of the competing countries at this year’s Qatar World Cup, who ranked higher on the Global Democracy Index – England (the UK) or France?
18) Which noughties hip-hop trio staged a reunion tour this year, 11 years after originally splitting?
19) Which famous film director, who made his debut in 1992 and last released a film in 2019, released a book – part memoir, part critique, part history – titled Cinema Speculation earlier this year?
20) What UK cinema chain got in hot water this year when it reportedly pulled horror film Dashcam for its offensive content?
Gunna
21) Which Atlanta rapper (pictured above) was arrested on RICO charges related to his YSL music label earlier this year? Gunna (pictured) was also arrested.
a) Jay Electronica
b) Young Thug
c) Lil Baby
22) Which hit 2019 comic book movie announced a musical sequel this year starring Lady Gaga?
23) Which man joined Dwight Eisenhower as only the second US President to win an EMMY? The accolade is added to the Grammy he’s already won?
24) Which Hollywood actor made his public sculpting debut in Finland this year?
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra are the current champions of Eurovision.
25) Which UK city will host Eurovision 2023 in place of last year’s victorious country, Ukraine?
26) Which Marvel director became co-CEO of DC Studios this year?
27) Thieves in Germany cut off the power to an entire town to steal millions of euros worth of what items?
a) NFTs
b) Antique football shirts
c) Celtic coins
28) Which major fashion house faced allegations of ‘evil’ due to a controversial ad campaign including children?
29) Brendan Fraser will be boycotting the Golden Globes this year, but he is an awards show favourite to win best actor for his comeback role in which 2022 movie?
30) And finally, please match the Susie Dent picked words to the Susie Dent given definitions.
Words:
– Bumbershoot
– Shot-clog
– Microlipet
– Desiderate
– Spuddling
Definitions:
– To feel an intense desire or longing for something we once possessed, but that is now lost.
– The colleague who never fails to get worked up over utterly trivial things.
– A word for an umbrella, first coined in the US in the late 1800s and picked up in Britain a few decades later.
– To work ineffectively and feebly, simply because your heart isn’t in it.
– This 400-year-old expression means a fool or bore who is only tolerated because they are buying the next round.
Answers below!
1) Taylor Swift
3) Vinyls
4) a) An NFT House.
5) Making music
6) a) Best Score
7) CODA
8) Neighbours
9) Lily Allen
10) Cricket
11) Amazon
12) ‘Shape of You’
13) Jeff Koons
14) Andy Warhol
15) Ted Lasso
16) iPod
17) England
18) N-Dubz
20) Vue
21) Young Thug
22) Joker
23) Barack Obama
24) Brad Pitt
25) Liverpool
26) James Gunn
27) C) Celtic Coins
28) Balenciaga
29) The Whale
30) In order –
Bumbershoot: A word for an umbrella, first coined in the US in the late 1800s and picked up in Britain a few decades later.
Shot-clog: This 400-year-old expression means a fool or bore who is only tolerated because they are buying the next round.
Microlipet: the colleague who never fails to get worked up over utterly trivial things.
Desiderate: To feel an intense desire or longing for something we once possessed, but that is now lost.
Spuddling: To work ineffectively and feebly, simply because your heart isn’t in it.
