May 2022 Entertainment News Super Quiz

Kim Kardashian appeared at the Met Gala red carpet on May 2, 2022, in a gold-beaded dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she sexily sang happy birthday to President John F. Kennedy 60 years earlier, on May 19, 1962, at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser. In 2016, Ripley’s Believe or Not! Museum in Orlando, Florida, bought the dress, designed by Jean Louis for $4.81 million.

With an estimated $185 million in ticket sales in its first weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness had the biggest opening weekend of the year, ahead of “The Batman’s” $134 million and the second biggest of the pandemic, behind “Spider-Man: Far From Home’s” $260.1 million.

The 29-year-old star of Netflix’s hit “Sex Education,” Ncuti Gatwa, born in Rwanda, will become the first Black actor to play the lead role in the BBC’s “Doctor Who.” He is taking over from Jodie Whittaker, the first woman in the role, as the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord in Oct. 2022, the BBC announced on May 8, 2022. It’s worth mentioning that Jo Martin appeared as an unnumbered incarnation of The Doctor in three episodes in 2020 and 2021, making her the first non-white person to play the role. Doctor Who famously regenerates, allowing different actors to play the role since the series was first broadcast in 1963.

Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue were TV’s Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell on the Australian soap opera “Neighbours” from its debut in 1985 until their departures in 1989 and 1988. Their wedding episode was watched by more than 2 million Australian viewers when it first aired in 1987 and later pulled in an audience of almost 20 million when it was shown in the UK in 1988, becoming one of the most-watched TV moments of the decade.

Are Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue coming back to “Neighbours”?

Minogue and Donovan, 53, returned to the show “to play a very special part in our series finale,” according to “Neighbours”‘s producers, before it ceased production in June 2022, ending a 37-year run.

Which other stars were introduced in “Neighbours”?

Along with Minogue and Donovan, the soap has helped launch the careers of Hollywood stars Margot Robbie, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, brothers Chris, Liam, and Luke Hemsworth, and singer Natalie Imbruglia.

That ’70s Show launched the careers of young Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Topher Grace, and Wilmer Valderrama. All five are returning for guest appearances in the Netflix sequel series That ’90s Show, alongside original cast members Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, who are set to reprise their roles as Red and Kitty Forman. The new show will focus on Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, visiting her grandparents for the summer. Netflix did not provide a release date for the 10-episode series, which according to its site, is “coming soon.”

Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972, making him 50 in 2022.

How Did He Celebrate?

On his 50th birthday, Johnson shared a funny video of him surprising fans as they posed with the actor’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds USA in Las Vegas. Johnson is set to star in DC’s Black Adam, which will see him take on the role of the film’s titular anti-hero. Black Adam will hit theatres on Oct. 21, a few months after the animated feature DC League of Super-Pets, where Johnson will make his DC debut.

Former child star and current How I Met Your Father actress Hilary Duff was born on Sept. 28, 1987, making her 34 in 2022. She’s also the mother of three children: Luca, 10, and daughters Banks, 3, and Mae, 1. Duff appears nude on the cover of May/June 2022’s body issue of Women’s Health.

The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened on May 10, 2022. It’s located at a century-old brick industrial building in downtown Tulsa on the same street as the Woody Guthrie Center – Dylan’s early hero. The museum was founded to display items from the Bob Dylan Archive, acquired in 2016 by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa for around $20 million.

In Jan. 2021, Kate Winslet told Variety she had to learn how to free dive and breath-hold to play her role in Avatar 2. The first trailer for James Cameron’s sequel to 2009’s Avatar was finally released on May 9, 2022. Avatar: The Way of Water brings back stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver to the story of the Na’vi, a race of blueish extraterrestrials under attack from humans. New cast members include Winslet, Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords), and Edie Falco (The Sopranos). Watch the teaser trailer.

Towards the second season of Apple TV+’s Tehran, which premiered on May 6, 2022, Glenn Close had to learn Farsi for her role as Marjan Montazeri, a British agent living in Tehran. The series revolves around an Israeli agent and computer hacker tasked with infiltrating an electric company in Iran.