Name the Celebrity Picture Quiz: 22 Faces of 2022 Fun Trivia

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On Dec. 7, 2022, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was named Time magazine’s person of the year, honoring his leadership during the war with Russia. A former comedian and actor, Zelenskyy is the first Jewish president of Ukraine. He was born to a Russian-speaking Ukrainian Jewish family in central Ukraine.

Rihanna, 33, delivered her son in May 2022 with rapper A$AP Rocky. The couple was photographed in New York City in late Jan. 2022, where Rihanna showed off her baby bump. A$AP Rocky was charged with two felonies on Aug. 15, 2022, in two counts of assault, for pulling a semiautomatic firearm on a former friend and firing twice in Hollywood in Nov. 2021. The victim sustained a minor injury. In 2019 the rapper was detained for nearly a month in Sweden following a street brawl. He was found guilty of assault.

The Great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, Princess Charlotte, is currently third in line to the British throne, behind her grandfather, King Charles, father, William, and elder brother George. Prince William and his wife Kate published three photos of Charlotte, the Royal couple’s daughter, taken by Kate in Norfolk, eastern England, one day before Charlotte turned 7, on May 2, 2022.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released a photo showing their daughter Lili (Lilibet Diana) celebrating her first birthday in a backyard picnic on June 4, 2022.

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion made a surprise addition to the Encanto cast’s performance of the breakout hit from the movie, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” in the 2022 Oscars, with an original rap verse.

Damien Hirst is considered the United Kingdom’s richest living artist, with a net worth of $700 million in 2021.

What is Damien Hirst’s The Currency?

The Currency is the first NFT collection by Damien Hirst of 10,000 NFTs, corresponding to 10,000 unique physical artworks stored in a secure vault in the UK. Hirst produced the project with HENI, an art services business. HENI sold each image in the series for the price of $2,000. They grossed about $18 million from the initial sale and, according to HENI, are collecting a further 5 percent of the proceeds from NFT resales.

Silk Sonic is the retro soul-funk project of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak (born Brandon Paak Anderson). The group won song of the year for “Leave the Door Open” at the 2022 Grammys. The song, a tribute to smooth ’70s soul, also won the record of the year trophy and the best R&B song award. Silk Sonic tied Jazmine Sullivan for best R&B performance.

Which all-time Grammy records does Bruno Mars hold?

The wins in both major categories make Mars the only artist, along with Paul Simon, to win record of the year three times. He also tied the record for most Song of the Year wins with two – an achievement shared with Henry Mancini, U2, and Adele.

Walt Disney Studios released the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake of “Pinocchio” on May 31, 2022, giving the first look at Tom Hanks as Geppetto. Pinocchio premiered on Sept. 8, 2022, on Disney+.

Wasn’t there another Pinocchio planned for 2022?

Netflix has set a Dec. 2022 release for Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion musical adaptation of “Pinocchio” starring Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro.

Former Downton Abbey’s Lady Rose, English actress and model Lily James, transformed into Pamela Anderson in the new HULU eight-part biopic series, Pam & Tommy. The series also stars Sebastian Stan as Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and Seth Rogen and Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman as the men who stole their famous sex tape. The actual Pamela Anderson hasn’t been involved in Pam & Tommy, which streams on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK from Feb. 2, 2022.

Pamela Anderson portrayed Roxie Hart between April 12-June 5, 2022, in the Broadway production musical “Chicago” at the New York Ambassador Theatre. Dozens of women have played the heroine of “Chicago” since the show opened in 1996, including Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Lisa Rinna, and Ashlee Simpson. Renée Zellweger famously portrayed the character in Chicago’s 2002 Oscar-winning film adaptation.

In a photo shoot for the March issue cover of British Vogue, Naomi Campbell, 51, appears with her baby daughter. Campbell announced the arrival of her daughter on Instagram in May 2021 and confirmed to the magazine that she was not adopted.

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.

Bradley Cooper has transformed into Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein in the Netflix biographical drama “Maestro.” The film marks Cooper’s directorial follow-up to the Oscar-winning “A Star Is Born.” “Maestro,” which also stars Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife, started production in May 2022 and should be released in 2023.

The Roku Channel dropped the new trailer for “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” on Aug. 29, 2022, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as the famed comic singer. The film, featuring Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey, Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, and Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento, is available to stream for free on The Roku Channel starting Nov. 4. Watch the trailer.

Pictured is The Mummy’s 53-year-old Brendan Fraser in the new Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) film, Whale, dealing with severe obesity. Fraser wears prosthetic appliances for this role. The film premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, on Sept. 4, with a Dec. 8 release date.

Rafael Nadal, 36, on June 5, 2022, beat Casper Ruud to win the French Open for the 14th time, making him the oldest man to win the French Open. It’s his 22nd Grand Slam win overall. The previous oldest French Open singles champion record holder was Andrés Gimeno (Spain), who won in 1972 at 34.

Despite Novak Djokovic spending the most weeks as world no. 1, Roger Federer has the record for most consecutive weeks at the top of the ATP rankings – 237.

Is Federer retiring from tennis?

After 25 years on tour, Federer, 41, announced his retirement. The Swiss star decided to play his final match alongside Rafael Nadal after facing him on the tennis court 40 times over the years. Federer’s appearance in the 2022 Laver Cup with Team Europe against Team World in doubles on Sept. 23, 2022, marks his final tour-level match.

While LeBron James, between ages 22 and 36, was the youngest NBA player to reach 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 25,000, 30,000, and 35,000 points in his career, Stephen Curry is the youngest NBA player to reach 3,000 3-Point Field Goals – an achievement he met in December 2021, at the age of 33 years, 289 days.

What happened in the 2022 NBA Finals?

On June 16, 2022, Stephen Curry won his first NBA Finals MVP award. He is the only player in NBA history to average at least five 3-pointers per game in the Finals – repeating the record in 2018 and 2022. Curry’s 31 3-pointers in 2022 were the most in a six-game series in any NBA Finals.

J-Hope of BTS will perform on July 31, 2022, as the finale act at Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major US musical festival. The festival organizers, Live Nation, also announced that South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT) would perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their US festival debut.

Bad Bunny won artist of the year at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Aug. 28, 2022 — becoming the first non-English-language performer to win the title.

You’re looking at Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher in “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Chris Hemsworth headlines the film in the title role, with Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, director Taika Waititi as Korg, and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, in her first appearance in the MCU since 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World.” The film was released on July 8, 2022. Watch the hilarious trailer.

On June 4, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II appeared in a pre-recorded comic sketch with Paddington Bear ahead of a pop concert outside Buckingham Palace – marking her platinum Jubilee as a queen. Paddington Bear first appeared in October 1958 in the children’s book A Bear Called Paddington and has been featured in over twenty books written by British author Michael Bond.