Jan. 2022 Entertainment News Super Quiz

Amanda Gorman posted “New Day’s Lyric” with an accompanying video on Instagram on Dec. 29, 2021, to mark the end of 2021. Her bestselling collection “Call Us What We Carry” came out in early Dec. 2021. “New Day’s Lyric” is a five-stanza, 48-line resolution with themes of struggle and healing.

David Bowie’s 75th birth anniversary is on Jan. 8, 2022. Bowie died in 2016, aged 69.

What’s Bowie’s catalog’s worth in 2022?

In Jan. 2022, Warner Music Group announced it has bought David Bowie’s entire catalog spanning six decades, including songs from the 26 studio albums released during his lifetime and hits such as “Heroes” and “Let’s Dance.” A person familiar with the deal told Reuters the purchase was worth about $250 million.

Sony Pictures’ “Uncharted” is based on the PlayStation video game of the same name. Starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle, and Antonio Banderas, the movie’s release date was Feb. 18, 2022. Watch this mesmerizing plane fight scene from Uncharted.

Screenshot: Bob Saget on YouTube

Bob Saget, best known as single dad Danny Tanner from “Full House,” was the original host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” in the ’90s. His “Full House” partner Dave Coulier hosted America’s Funniest People around the same time. Saget died while on a stand-up tour on Jan. 9, 2022. He was 65.

Andrew Garfield won the 2022 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy for his appearance in the Netflix biographical musical “tick, tick…BOOM!”, based on the autobiographical broadway musical created by “Rent” writer, Jonathan Larson. The movie is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (“Hamilton”) feature directorial debut. “tick, tock…BOOM!” also earned Garfield a second Oscar nomination, following up 2017’s Hacksaw Ridge nod.

Was there a Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2022?

The Golden Globe Awards were announced in a live-blog event for its 79th edition, Jan. 9, 2022 – without a telecast, nominees, a red carpet, a host, press, or live stream. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire in 2021 after a Los Angeles Times report revealed ethical lapses and a lack of diversity. There was not a single Black journalist in the 87-person group.

Sidney Poitier was the first African American and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field. He died on Jan. 6, 2022, in Los Angeles. He was 94.

How long did it take for the second African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

It took seven years for James Earl Jones to become the second Black person to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in 1970. It took some extra three decades for Denzel Washington to win the category in 2001 (for “Training Day”), becoming the second African-American actor to receive the award for Best Actor. The same year saw the first time two African-American performers won Oscars in the same year, the other being Halle Berry, for “Monster’s Ball.” Berry is the first African-American actress to win Best Actress.

Kate Middleton, AKA Catherine, The Princess of Wales, was born on Jan. 9, 1982 – making her 41 in 2023.

How did the Princess celebrate?

The Royal Family’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts shared a post on Jan. 9, 2023, to celebrate Kate Middleton’s 41st birthday. “Wishing The Princess of Wales a very Happy Birthday today!” they wrote, along with a birthday cake emoji.

Last year, when she was still the Duchess of Cambridge, she released three new portraits of herself, taken by acclaimed fashion photographer Paolo Roversi, to mark her 40th birthday.

The Green Planet is a five-part series presented by the veteran naturalist David Attenborough about plants. The series started airing on the UK’s BBC One on Jan. 9, 2022.

Helen Mirren portrays Israeli late Prime Minister Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv’s biopic revolving around the 1973 traumatic Yom Kippur war.

What is “Jewface”?

The film raised some discussion in the UK about the non-Jewish star portraying Israel’s first female PM, going as far as inciting the use of the word ‘Jewface’ –  a backlash to the assignment of a significant Jewish role to someone not from that minority background.

American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, is considered the “Mother of American modernism.”

Did a tarantula destroy an O’Keefe?

A water-damaged painting, likely caused by a tarantula tunneling through the roof at the artist’s 18th-century  home in Abiquiú, New Mexico, is displayed at the Santa Fe Georgia O’Keeffe Museum after conservators spent 1,250 hours and $145,000 restoring it. The piece, titled “Spring,” is displayed at the museum through Oct. 10, 2022, before traveling to the San Diego Museum of Art in 2023.