Nov. 2022 Entertainment News Super Quiz

Taylor Swift dominated all the top 10 spots on the Hot 100 chart, for the first time in Billboard’s history, on the Oct. 21-27, 2022, tracking week. Moreover, Swift’s Midnights album charted 20 songs in its debut week. Previously, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy held nine top 10 spots on Sept. 18, 2021. No one can beat Swift’s 2022 records – only tie them.

Beyoncé has nine Grammy nominations this year, tying Jay-Z with 88 nominations throughout their careers – making them both the most-nominated artists in Grammy history.

Which Grammy nominations did Beyoncé receive in 2023?

Beyoncé’s hit song Break My Soul is nominated for both song and record of the year. Renaissance is up for album of the year. Additionally, Beyoncé was nominated in the dance/electronica and R&B categories.

Who holds the record for most Grammy wins?

As of Feb. 5, 2023, Beyoncé holds 32 Grammy awards. That’s one more than the previous record holder, conductor Georg Solti’s 31 awards.

Apple Music crowned Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar, as its Artist of the Year on Nov. 10, 2022. His latest album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” is Apple Music’s most streamed album of 2022 and its all-time biggest Latin album.

“The Way of Water,” the 2022 sequel to “Avatar,” stars Kate Winslet as Pandora resident Ronal. It’s set over a decade later than the original movie. Watch the “Avatar: The Way of Water” trailer.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” will run approximately three hours and ten minutes, nearly 30 minutes longer than the original “Avatar” from 2009. It opened in theaters on Dec. 16, 2022.

Streaming on Apple TV+ beginning Nov. 18, 2022, after a week in theaters, “Spirited” is a musical spin on “A Christmas Carol” starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. In Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. It was first published in London in 1843. Watch the trailer.

Jerry Lee Lewis, whose “Great Balls of Fire” helped define the sound of rock ‘n’ roll, died on Oct. 28, 2022, at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi. He was 87.

On Nov. 7, 2022, Rebel Wilson, 42, announced her new baby, Royce Lillian, via Instagram. Wilson’s baby girl was born by surrogacy. “This has been years in the making… but I particularly wanted to thank my gorgeous surrogate, who carried her and birthed her with such grace and care. Thank you for helping me start my own family,” she wrote.

What’s Royce?

The gender-neutral German name Royce means “fame.” It derives from the name Rose or the Norman “Roy” – as in Roy’s son, meaning the king’s child.

According to Allure’s Dec. 2022 cover interview, Jennifer Aniston, 53, tried to conceive in her late 30s and 40s. “I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today,” she said. “The ship has sailed.”

During a taped piece that aired on Oct. 17, 2022, Selma Blair revealed she was leaving “Dancing with the Stars” because of health concerns related to multiple sclerosis. The actress first revealed in 2018 that she had MS.

When all seven of BTS’s members complete their mandatory military service, “around 2025,” their label and management company Big Hit, plans to reunite them as a group. BTS’s oldest performer, Jin, plans to enlist as soon as his late-Oct. 2022 solo project releases. Jin will be the first BTS member to enlist.

Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Sofia Wylie star in Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil, directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids). Based on the best-selling series by Soman Chainani, the movie follows best friends Sophie and Agatha as they put their bond to the test at a magical school for future heroes and villains. The movie, also starring Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Yeoh, is available on Netflix from Oct. 19, 2022. Watch the trailer.