2022 Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which candidate defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election?
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Fernando Haddad
Geraldo Alckmin
Michel Temer
2. A July 2022 news report showed the first full-color images from a newly operational space observatory. Which telescope produced them?
Hubble Space Telescope
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Kepler Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
3. Which country won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest with Kalush Orchestra’s “Stefania”?
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Spain
Sweden
4. Which national team defeated France in the final to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Morocco
Croatia
Argentina
Brazil
5. An athlete who competed at the February 2022 Winter Olympics would have traveled to which host city?
Sochi
Beijing
Tokyo
Pyeongchang
6. Who completed the widely reported purchase of Twitter in October 2022?
Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey
7. At the Academy Awards ceremony held in March 2022, which film won Best Picture?
Dune
The Power of the Dog
King Richard
CODA
8. Which sequence correctly orders the three people who served as UK prime minister during 2022?
Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson
9. What event caused Prince Charles to become King Charles III in 2022?
The death of Queen Elizabeth II
The Accession Council’s formal proclamation
His coronation ceremony
The resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson
10. The United Nations marked November 15, 2022 as the approximate date the global population reached what milestone?
7.5 billion people
7.8 billion people
8.5 billion people
8 billion people
11. A friend says Charles became king at his coronation in 2023. Which correction is accurate?
He became king when Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022; the coronation followed in 2023.
He became king when Parliament approved his reign in October 2022.
He became king at a private ceremony in 2022 and was proclaimed king in 2023.
He became king when Queen Elizabeth II announced her retirement earlier in 2022.
12. A supporter attending the 2022 FIFA World Cup needed to travel to which host country?
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
13. A climate delegate attending COP27 in 2022 would have met in which country?
Morocco
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
United Kingdom
14. A February 24, 2022 headline reported the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Which country launched it?
Belarus
Poland
Russia
Romania
15. Scientists reviewing NASA’s 2022 DART mission would look for evidence of which result?
A rock sample successfully returned from an asteroid
A spacecraft altering the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos
A probe entering a closer orbit around the Sun
A spacecraft making a controlled landing on Mars
16. Which description correctly identifies NASA’s Artemis I mission, launched in November 2022?
A crew-rotation flight to the International Space Station
The first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17
A rover mission that collected samples on Mars
An uncrewed test flight that sent the Orion spacecraft around the Moon