2022 Famous Firsts Trivia Quiz: Who Done it First?

Updated on Sept. 25, 2022.

Year-End Quiz on 2022’s sports, political, and cultural first-time achievements. Who is the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics? Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first what? And which movie features Disney/Pixar’s first same-sex kiss? Take the 2022 Famous Firsts Trivia Quiz!

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2022 Year-End Quiz: 22 trivia questions about the famous first achievements in 2022. No time-limit. How smart are you this year?

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1. Who is the first actor to win an Emmy award for a non-English performance?

Screenshot: Television Academy – YouTube

Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game).

Álvaro Morte (Money Heist).

Sofia Helin (The Bridge).

Marco D’Amore (Gomorrah).

Squid Game is the first non-English language series ever nominated for best drama. It also landed Lee Jung-Jae the 2022 Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series, making him the first to win an acting award for a non-English language performance.

Which other Emmys did Squid Game win in 2022?

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk took home the director for a drama series Emmy. The show was nominated for 14 Emmys in 2022 and won additional awards for guest acting, stunts-production design, and visual effects.

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2. Who is the first non-English-language performer to win the artist of the year award at MTV’s VMAs?

Screenshot: MTV’s Video Music Awards 2022

Bad Bunny.

Daddy Yankee.

Shakira.

Enrique Iglesias.

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.

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3. Which movie features Disney/Pixar’s first same-sex kiss?

Screenshot: Disney / Pixar

Luca.

Toy Story.

Turning Red.

Lightyear.

The 2022 Toy Story prequel, Lightyear, features Disney/Pixar’s first onscreen same-sex kiss. In the film, starring Chris Evans as the real-life inspiration for the “Toy Story” character Buzz Lightyear, Buzz’s close friend is a female space ranger who marries another woman. A scene showing milestones in the couple’s relationship includes a brief kiss. As a result, Disney has been unable to obtain permission to screen “Lightyear” in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, and it’s unlikely to open in China, according to a June 14 Reuters report. Lightyear premiered on June 17 in theaters. Watch the trailer.

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4. Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first what?

Photo: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Supreme Court justice without Juris Doctor from Harvard or Yale.

Black female justice in the US Supreme Court.

Supreme Court justice without an Ivy League degree.

Supreme Court justice confirmed without a single vote from the Senate minority party.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female justice in the Supreme Court’s 200-plus-year history. She is the second Supreme Court justice since 1870 to be confirmed without a single vote from the Senate minority party. The first is Amy Coney Barrett.

But what are Ketanji Brown Jackson’s credentials?

In late February 2022, FOX News scandalist Tucker Carlson demanded that Jackson reveal her LSAT scores – implying she hasn’t had the credential needed to be a Supreme Court Justice. In actuality, Jackson attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude, spent 15 years as a public defender, and eight years as a trial court judge in the US district court in DC. On the other hand, Amy Coney Barrett holds the records for the first Supreme Court justice without an Ivy League degree since the 2010 retirement of John Paul Stevens and the only Supreme Justice who did not receive her Juris Doctor from Harvard or Yale.

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5. Karine Jean-Pierre is the first White House Press Secretary to be what?

Photo: Erin Scott, The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Black.

Openly Gay.

Black and openly gay.

Black and under 40.

On May 5, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Karine Jean-Pierre, 44, to replace Jen Psaki as spokeswoman, making her the first Black woman and first openly gay person to hold the high-profile position. Psaki’s last day as press secretary will be May 13. She is expected to take an on-air role with MSNBC.

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6. Anthony Albanese is Australia’s first Prime minister with what?

Screenshot: ABC News (Australia)

A non-Anglo surname.

Eyeglasses.

A New Zealand-born grandfather.

A career as a child actor.

Anthony Albanese was sworn in on May 23, 2022, as Australia’s 31st prime minister, marking the first time a person with a non-Anglo surname has held the office and making him the first Italian Australian to become prime minister. He replaced Scott Morrison, who had a minor acting career as a child.

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7. The 14th Dr. Who is for the first time what?

Photo: BBC ONE via doctorwho.tv

Played by a Jewish actor.

Played by a Black actor.

Played by a transgender actor.

Played by a non-white person.

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.

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8. Facebook owner Meta Platforms has its first physical store. What does it sell?

Screenshot: Reuters on YouTube

Virtual reality equipment.

Webcasting equipment.

Quantum computing equipment.

3D printers.

Meta Platforms Inc, the owner of Facebook, plans to open its first physical store on May 9, 2022. The store will sell virtual reality headsets and video conferencing devices, including Ray-Ban smart glasses, Portal video-calling devices, and Oculus VR headsets. The store can be found in the Silicon Valley town of Burlingame, at the main campus of Meta’s Reality Labs division.

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9. Air New Zealand is the first airline to offer what?

Photo: Air New Zealand on Twitter

Economy seats that recline into beds.

Economy bunk beds.

Kiwi’s eggs omelette.

Parachutes.

Air New Zealand is the first airline worldwide to offer economy passengers bunk bed-style sleeping pods on its 17-hour long-haul flights. The new cabins are set to be installed by 2024. According to the company, premium and regular economy passengers will be able to book four-hour sessions in the sleeping pods at an additional cost. The pods will have a mattress and sheets – which the cabin crew will change after each booking – and a privacy curtain, USB charging, and “ventilation outlets.”

Where can I rent a sleeping pod without flying?

A private rental listing in inner Melbourne, Australia, offers similar capsules. The capsules, stacked on top of each other downstairs, are rented out for $250 a week or $900 a month. They contain a single bed, mirror, ventilating fan, USB ports, digital control panels, adjustable color reading lights, safe locker, clothes hanger, and curtain door for privacy.

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10. Where is the first US national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history?

Photo: Marko Kudjerski from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

San Francisco.

New York City.

Las Vegas.

Boston.

The Stonewall National Monument in New York City’s Greenwich Village became the first US national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history in 2016. It’s across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where a rebellion against a police raid on June 28, 1969, helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement. The first rainbow flag to fly daily on federal land was dedicated at the Stonewall National Monument on June 1, 2022. June 24 marked the groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, expected to open in summer 2024.

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11. Who is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar?

Screenshot: 94th Academy Awards / ABC

John Gielgud.

Kevin Spacey.

Ariana DeBose.

Tilda Swinton.

Ariana DeBose is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar.

What about the rest?

While Tilda Swinton openly identified in 2021 as queer, that was not the case when she won the Oscar for Michael Clayton in 2007. Kevin Spacy came out publicly in 2017 amid sexual assault accusations against him, 18 years after winning the Best Actor award for American Beauty. The late John Gielgud publicly acknowledged his relationship with his long-time lover, Martin Hensler, in 1988 – seven years after winning his Oscar for Arthur.

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12. Who is Emmy’s first Black woman to win the lead actress in a drama series award TWICE?

Screenshot: Television Academy – YouTube

Cicely Tyson.

Debbie Allen.

Viola Davis.

Zendaya.

Zendaya has made Emmys history with her second win for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for Euphoria at the 2022 Emmys. The 26-year-old became the youngest two-time winner for acting in Emmy’s history and the first Black woman to win the Emmy for lead actress in a drama series twice.

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13. Which country’s representatives performed the first rap song to win the Eurovision Song Contest?

Screenshot: 2022 Eurovision Song Contest

The UK.

Finland.

Ukraine.

France.

“Stefania” by Ukrainian folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, making it the first song sung entirely in Ukrainian and the first rap song ever to win the competition.

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14. In the Brits’ first-ever genderless awards, who won more prizes?

Screenshot: Brits on YouTube

Nonbinary artists won two-thirds of the awards.

The awards were split 50:50 between male and female artists.

Female artists won two-thirds of the awards.

Male artists won two-thirds of the awards.

The Brits’ first-ever genderless award show was on Feb. 8, 2022 – with more women nominated than at any time in the past decade and female artists or female-fronted bands winning two-thirds of the awards. Adele won three out of the four main prizes in the ceremony, including the first-ever gender-neutral Artist of the Year award.

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15. The 2022 Grammy Awards were the first to be what?

Screenshot: Recording Academy / 64th GRAMMYs / CBS

In New York City.

In Las Vegas.

Split into a pre-show and a prime-time telecast.

Hosted by Trevor Noah.

The 64th Grammy ceremony had been initially scheduled for Jan. 31, 2022, in Los Angeles but had been moved to Las Vegas for the first time due to the Omicron variant. “Better late than never,” Second-time host Trevor Noah said as the CBS broadcast aired from the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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16. Who is the first woman to win both directing and writing Academy Awards?

Screenshot: 94th Academy Awards / ABC

Jane Campion.

Kathryn Bigelow.

Chloé Zhao.

Sofia Coppola.

On March 27, 2022, Jane Campion became the first woman to win both directing and writing Academy Awards. She won the Oscar for best original screenplay for 1993’s “The Piano” and best director for the Netflix 2021 Western “The Power of the Dog.”

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17. Which movie made history for being the first film from a streamer to win a best picture Academy Award?

Screenshot: CODA / Apple TV+

Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.

Netflix’s The Irishman.

Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Apple TV+’s CODA.

“CODA” from Apple TV+ won the Oscar for best picture in 2022, becoming the first film from a streaming service to win Hollywood’s top honor. On the other hand, Netflix won 16 awards in eleven categories over the years but no Best Picture Oscar.

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18. What is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman?

Screenshot: Turning Red / Pixar

Luca.

Inside Out.

Turning Red.

Brave.

Directed by Domee Shi, Turning Red is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman – with an almost entirely female crew. The film’s protagonist, 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), is a Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader in the throes of puberty. The film was released on March 11, 2022.

Who was the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio?

Brenda Chapman, co-director of Pixar’s Brave (2012), became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio in 1998 when she helmed DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt.

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19. What was Steven Spielberg’s first movie in a film festival’s official lineup?

Screenshot: TIFF Originals on YouTube

The Fabelmans.

Schindler’s List.

Saving Private Ryan.

Lincoln.

Steven Spielberg’s autobiopic The Fabelmans premiered on Sept. 10, 2022, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s Spielberg’s first film at TIFF, and as he said at the premiere, it was his first time in a film festival’s official lineup. The film is set to release on Thanksgiving 2022. Watch the trailer.

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20. The Beijing Winter Olympics were the first Games to feature what?

Screenshot: IOC Media on YouTube

An Olympic Park for hosting winter games.

Almost 100% artificial snow.

An indoor Opening Ceremony.

A secret ballot to determine the host city.

The Feb. 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics were the first to use almost 100% artificial snow, deploying more than 100 snow generators and 300 snow cannons to cover the ski slopes.

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21. Who is the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics?

Screenshot: Eurosport

Kamila Valieva.

Alexandra Trusova.

Alysa Liu.

Sofia Akateva.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, became on Feb. 7, 2022, the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics – and did so twice during the free skate event. She is also the second woman ever to land the quadruple toe loop after Alexandra Trusova, the fourth to land a quadruple jump of any kind, and the third woman to land a triple Axel and quadruple jump in the same program after Alysa Liu and Sofia Akateva.

Did Kamila Valieva get an Olympic medal?

On Feb. 9, 2022, Russian newspaper RBC reported that Valieva tested positive for Trimetazidine, a drug used to treat angina and help endurance. The International Olympic Committee then delayed the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event due to an unspecified, last-minute “legal consultation.” At a news conference on Feb. 11 in Beijing, a spokesman for the International Olympic Committee said he did not know when the IOC would resolve the matter or when the medals for the event would be awarded.

 

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22. Who was the first British monarch to have his funeral televised?

Screenshot: Sky News via YouTube

Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

King George VI.

King George V.

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II was the first televised funeral of a British monarch. The last funeral service for a British monarch, King George VI, in 1952 was not. Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, Elizabeth The Queen Mother, died in 2002, and her funeral was broadcast worldwide, but the Queen Mother wasn’t the reigning monarch.

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The 2022 Famous Firsts VIDEO QUIZ

22 questions, 30 seconds per answer. How many famous firsts questions from 2022 can you answer in under 11 minutes?

The 2022 Famous Firsts Trivia Quiz Questions

Here’s a complete list of questions from the 2022 famous firsts quiz.

• The Beijing Winter Olympics were the first Games to feature what?

  Screenshot: IOC Media on YouTube

  An Olympic Park for hosting winter games.

  Almost 100% artificial snow.

  An indoor Opening Ceremony.

  A secret ballot to determine the host city.

  Who is the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics?

  Screenshot: Eurosport

  Kamila Valieva.

  Alexandra Trusova.

  Alysa Liu.

  Sofia Akateva.

  In the Brits' first-ever genderless awards, who won more prizes?

  Screenshot: Brits on YouTube

  Nonbinary artists won two-thirds of the awards.

  The awards were split 50:50 between male and female artists.

  Female artists won two-thirds of the awards.

  Male artists won two-thirds of the awards.

  Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first what?

  Photo: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  Supreme Court justice without Juris Doctor from Harvard or Yale.

  Black female justice in the US Supreme Court.

  Supreme Court justice without an Ivy League degree.

  Supreme Court justice confirmed without a single vote from the Senate minority party.

  What is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman?

  Screenshot: Turning Red / Pixar

  Luca.

  Inside Out.

  Turning Red.

  Brave.

  Who is the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar?

  Screenshot: 94th Academy Awards / ABC

  John Gielgud.

  Kevin Spacey.

  Ariana DeBose.

  Tilda Swinton.

  Which movie made history for being the first film from a streamer to win a best picture Academy Award?

  Screenshot: CODA / Apple TV+

  Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.

  Netflix’s The Irishman.

  Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7.

  Apple TV+'s CODA.

  Who is the first woman to win both directing and writing Academy Awards?

  Screenshot: 94th Academy Awards / ABC

  Jane Campion.

  Kathryn Bigelow.

  Chloé Zhao.

  Sofia Coppola.

  The 2022 Grammy Awards were the first to be what?

  Screenshot: Recording Academy / 64th GRAMMYs / CBS

  In New York City.

  In Las Vegas.

  Split into a pre-show and a prime-time telecast.

  Hosted by Trevor Noah.

  Facebook owner Meta Platforms has its first physical store. What does it sell?

  Screenshot: Reuters on YouTube

  Virtual reality equipment.

  Webcasting equipment.

  Quantum computing equipment.

  3D printers.

  Karine Jean-Pierre is the first White House Press Secretary to be what?

  Photo: Erin Scott, The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  Black.

  Openly Gay.

  Black and openly gay.

  Black and under 40.

  The 14th Dr. Who is for the first time what?

  Photo: BBC ONE via doctorwho.tv

  Played by a Jewish actor.

  Played by a Black actor.

  Played by a transgender actor.

  Played by a non-white person.

  Which country's representatives performed the first rap song to win the Eurovision Song Contest?

  Screenshot: 2022 Eurovision Song Contest

  The UK.

  Finland.

  Ukraine.

  France.

  Anthony Albanese is Australia's first Prime minister with what?

  Screenshot: ABC News (Australia)

  A non-Anglo surname.

  Eyeglasses.

  A New Zealand-born grandfather.

  A career as a child actor.

  Which movie features Disney/Pixar's first same-sex kiss?

  Screenshot: Disney / Pixar

  Luca.

  Toy Story.

  Turning Red.

  Lightyear.

  Where is the first US national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history?

  Photo: Marko Kudjerski from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  San Francisco.

  New York City.

  Las Vegas.

  Boston.

  Air New Zealand is the first airline to offer what?

  Photo: Air New Zealand on Twitter

  Economy seats that recline into beds.

  Economy bunk beds.

  Kiwi's eggs omelette.

  Parachutes.

  Who is the first non-English-language performer to win the artist of the year award at MTV's VMAs?

  Screenshot: MTV's Video Music Awards 2022

  Bad Bunny.

  Daddy Yankee.

  Shakira.

  Enrique Iglesias.

  What was Steven Spielberg's first movie in a film festival's official lineup?

  Screenshot: TIFF Originals on YouTube

  The Fabelmans.

  Schindler's List.

  Saving Private Ryan.

  Lincoln.

  Who is the first actor to win an Emmy award for a non-English performance?

  Screenshot: Television Academy - YouTube

  Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game).

  Álvaro Morte (Money Heist).

  Sofia Helin (The Bridge).

  Marco D'Amore (Gomorrah).

  Who is Emmy's first Black woman to win the lead actress in a drama series award TWICE?

  Screenshot: Television Academy - YouTube

  Cicely Tyson.

  Debbie Allen.

  Viola Davis.

  Zendaya.

  Who was the first British monarch to have his funeral televised?

  Screenshot: Sky News via YouTube

  Queen Elizabeth II.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

  King George VI.

  King George V.

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