Big 2022 Entertainment Quiz: 22 Showbiz Questions

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.

HBO’s The Gilded Age is set in New York in 1882. The series, created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, premiered on Jan. 24, 2022.

We Don’t Talk About Bruno is Encanto’s most popular song. With songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Encanto soundtrack was released on Nov. 19, 2021. On Jan. 18, 2022, the song became the highest-charting from a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, ranking higher than even “Let It Go.” It’s behind only Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World” from Aladdin, which gained the No. 1 spot for one week in March 1993. The Encanto album is the sixth animated film soundtrack to hit No. 1 since the Billboard 200 began regularly publishing weekly in 1956.

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.

On Jan. 31, 2022, Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of “The View,” commented during a discussion about a Tennessee school board’s banning of the Pulitzer winning Holocaust graphic novel “Maus” that the Holocaust was “not about race … it’s about man’s inhumanity to other men.” As a result, she was suspended for two weeks starting Feb.2, 2022. Goldberg expressed remorse over her remarks, saying she realized that they were misinformed and that she had misspoken.

Was the Holocaust about race?

The Nazi ideology was based mainly on a misconception of racism as a science, and specifically Eugenics, as a means to improve the genetic quality of what they called “The Aryan race.” This misconception led to the systematic extermination of what the Nazis saw as “degenerate” sub-humans, such as Roma and Jews (and homosexuals and others). Today both the Roma people and the Jewish nation are not considered a biological race. In fact, in recent years, human geneticists have mostly abandoned the term “race” in favor of  “ethnicity,” “ancestry,” and location-based terms.

Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish?

Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson to a Manhattan Baptist clergyman and attended a local Catholic school. She adopted the name Whoopi Goldberg as her stage name, stating that “Goldberg is my name—it’s part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black,” and that “I know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.” On her Jan. 31 “The Late Show” appearance, Goldberg explained that, as a Black person, she thinks of racism as being based on skin color but that she realized not everyone sees it that way. On Feb. 1’s The View, she said she had learned from the experience. “It is indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race,” she said. “I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people, as they know, and y’all know because I’ve always done that.“

Ye was nominated for five Grammys this year: Album of the year and best rap album for Donda, best rap song for “Jail,” best melodic rap performance for “Hurricane,” and another Album of the Year nomination as producer and songwriter on Lil Nas X’s Montero.

Why didn’t Kanye West participate in the 2022 Grammys?

On March 18, 2022, about two weeks before the 64th annual Grammy Awards ceremony,  producers told West’s team that he would not be allowed to perform. According to a representative of the rapper, the organizers cited West’s troubling public behavior in recent weeks. That includes releasing an animated music video that portrayed the kidnapping and burial of a figure who looked a lot like Pete Davidson — the comedian who has been dating Kim Kardashian, West’s former wife.

“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.

Alopecia, AKA spot baldness, is an autoimmune disease in which hair is lost from some or all body areas, often resulting in bald spots about the size of a coin. People with the condition are generally otherwise healthy, with no obvious trigger for the disease.

Does Jada Pinkett Smith suffer from alopecia?

Screenshot: 94th Academy Awards / ABC

Jada Pinkett Smith revealed in 2018 that she was diagnosed with alopecia. She has often discussed hair loss challenges on Instagram and other social media platforms. Pinkett came to the 2022 Oscars alongside her husband, Will Smith, the Best Leading Actor award winner for “King Richard.” When Chris Rock took verbal aim at Pinkett Smith’s shaved head from the stage, referencing the 1997 film G.I. Jane in which Demi Moore shaved her head, Will Smith took a swing at him. Smith later apologized.

Chinese streaming platforms have taken down films starring Keanu Reeves after participating in a March 3 concert organized by Tibet House US – a New York nonprofit founded by the Dalai Lama. Searches for Reeves’s English name and its Chinese translation now yield no results on Chinese-controlled apps.

Apple TV’s Carpool Karaoke is based on the recurring segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden. In Aug. 2021, Apple renewed the series for a fifth season.

Is Corden leaving The Late Late Show?

James Corden, who has hosted The Late Late Show on CBS since 2015, is set to end his tenure as host in 2023 after eight years. Corden announced the decision during a taping of his Apr. 28, 2022, episode in Los Angeles.

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.

It has been 17 years since Ewan McGregor (as young Obi-Wan) and Hayden Christensen (as his pupil, Anakin Skywalker, who turns into Darth Vader) appeared in “Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith,” the last of the prequel trilogy. McGregor and Christensen return to their roles in “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a six-part television series streaming on Disney+ beginning on May 27, 2022.

“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.

The 90s crossover house anthem “Show Me Love” by Robin S. was prominently sampled in Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” the first single from her upcoming album “Renaissance,” out July 29, 2022.

What’s Beyoncé’s highest-debuting single?

Beyoncé’s “formation” holds the title of the singer’s highest-debuting single of her career, opening at No. 10 in May 2016. “Break My Soul” “debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of June 27, after just three days of tracking. It marks Beyoncé’s seventh-highest debut on this chart.

Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, making him 60 in 2022.

Where did Tom Cruise celebrate his 60th?

Cruise spent his birthday in the UK, making an appearance at the British F1 Grand Prix on July 4, 2022. On July 1, he attended Adele’s concert at British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival in London.

Any other reasons for celebration?

A few days earlier, on June 26, Variety reported that after only 31 days in theaters, “Top Gun: Maverick” had become Tom Cruise’s first movie to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide.

Matt and Ross Duffer are the twins who created Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” On July 6, 2022, Netflix announced it’s developing a spin-off of “Stranger Things.” The new series will be based on an original idea from the Duffer twins and will be part of a deal to develop additional projects, such as a live-action TV adaptation of the Japanese anime series “Death Note.”

On July 16, 2022, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were married at Little White Chapel, a drive-through wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Their marriage was announced on July 17 in Lopez’s newsletter to fans under the headline “We did it.” Lopez and Affleck famously dated in the early 2000s, earning the nickname “Bennifer.“

Weren’t they married before?

Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005. They divorced in 2018. It’s Lopez’s fourth marriage. She was briefly married to Ojani Noa and Cris Judd before marrying singer Marc Anthony in 2004. The couple split a decade later and share 14-year-old twins.

“House of the Dragon,” set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” follows the story of House Targaryen and the Targaryen civil war between siblings Aegon II and Rhaenyra, who fought for the throne after their father’s death. HBO released the first official trailer for “House of the Dragon” on July 20, 2022. The “Game of Thrones” prequel series debuted on Aug. 21. Watch the trailer.

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.

A TikTok video posted on Oct. 9, 2022, featured Madonna playing basketball with pink pants and a trash can. The pop star captioned the video, “If I miss, I’m Gay.” When missing the shot, Madonna waved a peace sign.