June 2022 Entertainment News Super Quiz

Data collected by Newswhip from Apr. 4 to May 16, 2022, and published in Axios on May 17, indicated that news articles about the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial had generated more social media interactions per-article in the US compared to all other news topics.

Who won the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial?

On June 1, 2022, a seven-person jury in Fairfax, Virginia, found that Johnny Depp and his Ex-wife Amber Heard defamed each other. Heard was ordered to pay $10.35 million in damages for describing herself in a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp was ordered to pay $2 million in damages after the jury ruled that his lawyer had defamed Heard in one instance when he accused her of damaging the couple’s penthouse and blaming it on Depp. Heard plans to appeal.

Justin Bieber was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a virus that affects nerves in the facial area. In a video posted on Instagram, Bieber said the left half of his face was paralyzed, and his right eye was not blinking. About 75% of patients with the Ramsay Hunt syndrome who receive early treatment, including steroids and antivirals, make a full recovery.

Rebel Wilson was born on Mar. 2, 1980, making her 42 in 2022. A self-proclaimed “late bloomer” in love, Wilson revealed on her Instagram account on June 9, 2022, that she is dating fashion designer Ramona Agruma. Wilson had come out after a Sydney Morning Herald reporter asked her to comment about her new partner, giving her a two-day deadline. The reporter later apologized.

Kate McKinnon joined the Saturday Night Live cast in 2012, making the 2022 season her 11th, while Pete Davidson appeared on the show for eight seasons.

 Did Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson leave SNL?

Saturday Night Live said goodbye to Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Pete Davidson on May 21, 2022, as the show wrapped its 47th season – the season that had the biggest cast in SNL history. McKinnon brought back alien abductee Colleen Rafferty for the show’s cold open. Then she opened the show for the last time as a cast member: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night.” Davidson appeared on Weekend Update to mark his closure after eight seasons. Watch Davidson in a cut-for-time sketch rapping about the show’s producer, Lorne Michaels (and look for a surprise Eminem appearance towards the end).

Canadian-born Margaret Atwood famously authored The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985.

Is there a Burn-proof edition of The Handmaid’s Tale?

Screenshot: Penguin Random House

Atwood and Penguin Random House announced on May 23, 2022, that a one-off, unburnable edition of The Handmaid’s Tale would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York. Proceeds will be donated to PEN, which advocates for free expression around the world.

South Korean boy band BTS met with President Joe Biden at the White House on May 31, 2022, calling for a halt to crimes targeting Asian Americans. Attacks against people of Asian descent have escalated after former President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as “Kung flu” or “China virus.”

Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), which initially reached No 3 in the UK in 1985, has soared to the top of the UK and US iTunes charts in late-May, 2022, after featuring in the Netflix series Stranger Things. It has also made it to no. 4 in the Spotify Top 200 chart. Running Up That Hill – from the album Hounds Of Love – was played in the first episode of Stranger Things’ season four.

The Scorpions’ “Wind Of Change” used to open with the lyrics “Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park,” but the band decided to make some changes. “It simply isn’t right to romanticize Russia,” lead singer Klaus Meine told Die Zeit on May 29, 2022. Instead, the revised lyrics say: “Now listen to my heart / It says Ukrainia / Waiting for the wind to change.” The band is currently on an ongoing US and European tour, which opened in Las Vegas on March 26.

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.

Fortnite’s Chapter 3: Season 3, which started on June 5, 2022, introduces Darth Vader as a new character for players to unlock. Vader is joining the Obi-Wan Kenobi character made available in the Fortnite Item Shop on May 26. Later in the season, battle pass owners will also be able to unlock Indiana Jones.

What’s the vibe in Fortnite’s new season?

In Fortnite’s Chapter 3: Season 3, titled Vibin’, “the Island is one giant party,” equipped with a rollercoaster and a dance floor, among others, according to the Epic Games website. Watch the new season’s trailer. 

“Ms. Marvel,” based on the 2014 comic-book series, tells the story of Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim superhero, a Jersey City high schooler who admires the Marvel superheroes from afar — until she is granted powers that allow her to fight alongside them. Ms. Marvel started streaming on Disney+ on June 8, 2022.

With a Tony win for “A Strange Loop,” Jennifer Hudson, one of the show’s co-producers, joined on June 12, 2022, the select group of people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (aka EGOT). Hudson won an Oscar in 2007 for her role in “Dreamgirls,” two Grammys for the cast album of 2015’s “The Color Purple,” and a 2021 Daytime Emmy Award for an interactive animated short for which she was an executive producer, “Baba Yaga.” The EGOT club includes Rita Moreno, John Legend, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, and 16 others.