Big Quiz of the Year 2022 | 22 Year-End Trivia Quizzes

Oct. 25, 2022

Welcome to the Big Quiz of the Year 2022! Check out our 22 Year-End Quizzes for 2022, each with 22 quiz questions and answers, for the ultimate 2022 Round-up. Take the quizzes online, print them out, and play with family and friends. Our Big Quiz of the Year lineup includes four main groups: General knowledge, current events, entertainment (each with 5 quizzes), and general awareness (seven quizzes).

Or, if you’re looking for a downloadable big fat quiz of 2022, with 50 questions in 10 rounds in a FREE PDF file, look no further.

Quiz of the Year 2022: General Round-Up (5 Quizzes)

Each trivia game below includes a 2022 quiz with answers plus a 10-minute video quiz.

Big News Quiz of 2022 | 2022 Strange facts quiz | World Records Quiz 2022 | Famous Firsts Quiz 2022 |
Faces of 2022 Quiz

Quiz of the Year 2022: 2022 Current Events Round-Up (5 Quizzes)

This is a special tribute for you news enthusiasts out there. Each of these 2022 quiz questions made the headlines this year.

Politics Quiz 2022 | Business Trivia Quiz 2022 | Science Trivia 2022 | Technology Quiz 2022 | Celebrity Deaths Quiz 2022

Quiz of the Year 2022: 2022 Entertainment and Celebrities (5 Quizzes)

Sum up 2022 with a fun entertainment quiz. All quiz questions and answers made the entertainment news headlines this year.

2022 Entertainment Quiz | 2022 Music Quiz | Movie Quiz 2022 | TV Quiz 2022 | Celebrity Ages Quiz 2022

Quiz of the Year 2022: 2022 General Awareness (7 Quizzes)

Were you awake in 2022, or were you woke? Challenge your knowledge of the social battles of 2022 with these up-to-date quiz questions and answers.

Woke Quiz 2022 | War in Ukraine Quiz | Battle of the Sexes Quiz 2022 | Pride Quiz 2022 | Women’s History Quiz 2022 | Black History Quiz 2022 | Earth Quiz 2022

Play the 2022 Quiz of the Year VIDEO

50 Quiz questions about the events of 2022 in 10 Trivia rounds. How many questions can you answer in under 30 minutes?

Download the Big Quiz of the Year 2022 FREE PDF

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The Big Quiz of the Year 2022 Questions and Answers

Here are our 50 multiple-choice quiz questions from 2022.

Round 1 – Warmup

What’s that?

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A BlackBerry.
A PalmPilot.
A Kindle.
A StarTAC.

Which British monarch reigned the longest?

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Queen Victoria.
King George III.
Queen Elizabeth II.
King Edward VIII.

What’s Wordle?

A dictionary app.
A viral online wordplay game.
An anonymous messaging app.
A board game.

In the US, what is the landmark Roe v. Wade decision?

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A Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide.
A Supreme Court case that legalized gun sales nationwide.
A California Supreme Court case that legalized cannabis sales statewide.
A California Supreme Court case that legalized homosexuality statewide.

Which leader had the shortest tenure of any British prime minister?

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George Canning.
Liz Truss.
Boris Johnson.
Gordon Brown.

Round 2 – World News

What was the Russian cruiser Moskva?

Image: Boris Groh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A six-passenger monoplane.
A type of tank.
A long-distance sailing yacht.
A guided-missile cruiser.

Which country elected Bongbong as its leader?

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Myanmar.
The Philippines.
Malaysia.
North Korea.

K-Pop stars BTS visited the White House to discuss what with US President Joe Biden?

Photo: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The war in Ukraine.
Hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
The global climate crisis.
Human rights in China.

Boris Johnson quoted which famous '90s movie series at the end of his final "Prime Minister's Questions" in the British parliament?

Screenshot: Reuters
Die Hard.
Terminator.
Mission: Impossible.
Rambo.

Historically, what was the euro's lowest rate against the dollar?

82 cents in 2000.
98 cents in 2022.
99 cents in 2002.
$1.18 in 1999.

Round 3 – Woke Politics

Why does Grammy-winning artist India Arie want to #DeleteSpotify?

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Because of Joe Rogan’s Covid-19 misinformation.
Because Joe Rogan rarely interviews women.
Because of Joe Rogan’s racial slurs.
Because of Joe Rogan’s salary.

Where is Stolichnaya (Stoli) vodka produced?

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Russia.
Ukraine.
Belarus.
Latvia.

Which 1990 song opens with the lyrics "Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park"?

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Wind of Change.
The Final Countdown.
I Want to Break Free.
Dust in the Wind.

The monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America are concentrated among who?

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Men who have sex with men.
People who visited Africa.
Women with long COVID.
People who work with animals.

What's spastic diplegia?

Screenshot: Beyoncé on YouTube
A chronic metabolic condition.
A chronic mental condition.
A dance move.
A chronic neuromuscular condition.

Round 4 – Big Money

Which company owns Candy Crush and Call of Duty?

Screenshot: Call of Duty on YouTube
Electronic Arts.
Microsoft.
Sony.
Tencent.

As of Feb. 16, 2022, what's ViacomCBS's new name?

Paramount.
Viacom.
CBS+.
Peacock.

Elon Musk bought Twitter. For how much?

Screenshot: TED on YouTube
$440 billion.
$44 billion.
$4 billion.
$440 million.

What does the Apple Pay Later service allow?

Photo: Apple
Four equal payments spread over six weeks.
Two equal payments spread over two weeks.
A four-week extension to fully pay for any purchase.
An eight-week extension to fully pay for apple products.

What's the world's largest toymaker?

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Mattel.
Lego.
Bandai Namco.
Hasbro.

Round 5 – Big Records

What’s the longest-running children’s animated series on American television?

Screenshot: PBS Kids
Adventure Time.
SpongeBob SquarePants.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Arthur.

Who are Silk Sonic?

Screenshot: Recording Academy / 64th GRAMMYs / CBS
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak.
Kanye West and Kid Cudi.
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.
Mark Ronson and Diplo.

What's Europe's largest street party?

Screenshot: Wanderizm on YouTube
The Venice Carnival.
Spain’s Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Germany’s Cologne Carnival.
London’s Notting Hill Carnival.

What is the world's oldest surviving book printed with movable metal type?

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The Codex Sinaiticus.
The Dead Sea scrolls.
The Gutenberg Bible.
The Jikji collection of Confucian teachings.

How many pages are there in "the longest book in existence"?

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2,145.
21,450.
214,500.
2,145,000.

Round 6 – Big Tech

What are hypersonic missiles?

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Missiles that launch from submarines.
Missiles that issue electronic commands.
Missiles that fly at about 800 kilometers per hour (500 mph).
Missiles that fly at least 5 times the speed of sound.

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.

Which government is estimated to own more than half of the world's surveillance cameras?

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The United Kingdom.
North Korea.
Russia.
China.

Google is the most popular domain in the world. What's the second most popular domain?

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Facebook.
TikTok.
Microsoft.
Apple.

What did Tesla nickname its humanoid AI robot?

Image: Tesla
Optimus.
Megatron.
Nemesis.
Galvatron.

Round 7 – Name the Celebrity

Who’s the actress portraying Pamela Anderson in this picture?

Screenshot: Pam & Tommy / HULU
Lily Collins.
Lily-Rose Depp.
Lily James.
Lily Tomlin.

Which American late-night TV show spawned Apple TV’s Carpool Karaoke?

Screenshot: The Late Late Show With James Corden / CBS
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Late Show With James Corden.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Who is currently third in line to the British throne?

Photo: Duchess of Cambridge / The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Twitter
Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
Princess Beatrice.
Princess Eugenie.
Princess Charlotte.

Which Hollywood actor is behind this heavy Leonard Bernstein makeup?

Photo: From the set of Maestro / Netflix
Robert De Niro.
Christian Bale.
Brad Pitt.
Bradley Cooper.

Who holds the record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the ATP Rankings?

Screenshot: Laver Cup 2022 - YouTube
Novak Djokovic.
Pete Sampras.
Roger Federer.
Jimmy Connors.

Round 8 – Big Music

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.

How many Grammy nominations did Kanye West receive in 2022?

Screenshot: The Game, Kanye West - Eazy
5.
3.
1.
None.

Whose image did Billie Eilish have on her T-shirt during her performance at the 2022 Grammys?

Screenshot: Recording Academy / 64th GRAMMYs / CBS
Kanye West.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
John Lennon.
Taylor Hawkins.

Which 90s house anthem was prominently sampled in Beyoncé's 2022 single "Break My Soul"?

Screenshot: Be Alive / 94th Academy Awards / Beyoncé on YouTube
Show Me Love by Robin S.
Luv 4 Luv by Robin S.
Show Me Love by Robyn.
Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap!

Taylor Swift describes what as "the story of 13 sleepless nights"?

Screenshot: MTV's Video Music Awards 2022
Her repeated award wins.
Her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Her 10th studio album, “Midnights.”
Her project “All Too Well: The Short Film.”

Round 9 – Big Movies and TV

Where does the HBO period drama “The Gilded Age” take place?

Screenshot: The Gilded Age / HBO
In 1880’s New York.
In 1780’s Boston.
In 1980’s London.
In 1920’s Berlin.

Which '80s TV soap featured Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue?

Image: Neighbours / FREMANTLE MEDIA
Neighbours.
Home and Away.
Eastenders.
The Bold and the Beautiful.

What's Minions 2's official title?

Screenshot: Illumination
Despicable Me: Minions 2.
Despicable Me: The Rise of Gru.
Minions: The Rise of Dru.
Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Why do Black Adam and Shazam wear the same lightning bolt symbol?

Screenshots: Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods / Warner Bros. Pictures
Both were struck by lightning.
They are the same person.
The wizard Shazam drafted both.
Both worked for Opel.

What was George Clooney's and Julia Roberts's first movie together?

Screenshot: Ticket to Paradise / Universal Pictures
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Money Monster.
Ticket to Paradise.
Ocean's Eleven.

Round 10 – Final Round – General Knowledge Quiz 2022

What did Whoopi Goldberg say on The View that got her suspended in Feb. 2022?

Screenshot: The View / ABC
She said the Holocaust was “not about genocide.”
She said the Holocaust was “not about man’s inhumanity to other men.”
She said the Holocaust was “not about race.”
She said the Holocaust was “not about Jews.”

Why was WNBA player Brittney Griner arrested and detained in Russia?

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Customs Service found hashish oil in her luggage.
She posted anti-war slogans on Twitter.
She is suspected of working for the CIA.
She tested positive for illegal substances while competing.

What’s Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill?

A bill that limits discussion of homosexuality and gender identity in schools.
A bill that prohibits the use of the term gay as a slur.
A bill that forbids asking a person about his gender identity in job interviews.
A bill that replaces the term gay with LGBTQ+ in official papers.

How old is the dress Kim Kardashian wore to the 2022 Met Gala?

Screenshot: Entertainment Tonight on YouTube
40.
60.
80.
100.

According to Kanye West's Oct. 2022 Instagram post, who is "controlled by shadowy, powerful Jewish people"?

Screenshot: Kanye West at Tucker Carlson / FOX News - YouTube
Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Joe Biden.
Tucker Carlson.
Kim Kardashian.

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