'Celebrity' Culture
Movies and Video games
World News
Science and Technology
Canada's News
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From Ned Fulmer to Kanye West There were a lot of break up’s and dating scandals this year but which celebrity had these texts leaked to the public by The 23-year-old OnlyFans model Summer Stroh?
Who is Adam Levine?
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Undoubtedly the most memorable moment of this year’s Oscars was Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, but what movie won the Best Picture at the Oscars this year?
What is C.O.D.A
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This year we saw creative protests from the group Just Stop Oil, these protests where mostly centered at art meusums. Just this year a painting was defaced when two woman threw a can of tomato soup at a particularly famous work of art
Name the painting and the artist
What is 'Sunflowers' by Vincent Van Gogh
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For A bonus point! The device that took this photo
What is the highest-resolution image of the early universe ever taken?
And
What is James Webb Space Telescope?
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Since 1978 Canada and Denmark continued two competing claims for Hans Island. This year the dispute ended by dividing the island roughly in half but what was this dispute called?
What is the whiskey war?
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After talking about her recent marriage and trip to Burning Man, this Celebirty offered in oprah like fashion, every audience memeber their very own NFT on the Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show
Who is Paris Hilton?
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“It’s a beautiful day to unionize,” says Jessica Gonzalez, The Organizer for GWA, The Game Workers Alliance. On May 23rd of this year, history was made when the quality assurance testers from the company Raven Software voted to unionize and won 13-9, What major Video Game Company is Raven Software hired by, and what were they assurance testing at the time of the unionization?
What is Blizzard Entertainment, and what is Call of Duty,
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British Politics has been known to break barriers before, infact just this year Liz Truss was honoured with the title 'the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom' but how many days did she actually hold office?
From September 6th to October 25th Liz Truss held office for 49 days
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This breakthrough, not only being the first of it's kind since 1997, produced 59 megajoules in over five seconds nearly doubling the previous record
But what area of research did it occur in?
What is Research of Fusion Energy
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Did you know the pope showed up?
Pope Francis visited Canada from July 24th to the 29th of this year, on an apology tour or as he put it "penitential pilgrimage" what three places in Canada did he visit?
Where are Edmonton, Nunavut, and Quebec
He visited Maskwacis, a community south of Edmonton that was once the site of Ermineskin Residential School, the Citadelle of Qubec, and Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut.
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Designs and re-boots happen all the time, but not everyone is happy about it, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was particularly upset about one re-design saying
“ BLANK will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous.(...)"
what corporate-made character is Tucker is so upset about?
Who is the Green M&M
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While not entirely unfamiliar, an intresting pattern has started to rise in films, what do the five highest-grossing films of 2022 all have in common?
The five highest-grossing films worldwide — “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Jurassic World Dominion,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” and “Minions: The Rise of Gru” — are all sequels.
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WHO DIED?
A bunch of people actually, death is inevitable
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This Animals Organ was the first of it's kind to be successfully transplanted into a human patient, on July 10th of 2022.
What Animal Organ am I reffering too?
What is Pig's Heart
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Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, broke records on Jeopardy!
As of May 2022, she was the most successful Canadian to play on the show and ranks 5th in all-time regular season wins. But just how long was her winning streak on Jeporady?
What is 23 games of jeopardy?
She eventually lost to Danielle Maurer. But walked away with a total of $560,983 in winnings.
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This tweet may not have only lead to a human traffiker being detained, but also lept to number 4 on the list of most liked tweets ever with 3.8 million likes despite it only existing for 4 days
What is the tweet in question? and Who posted it?
"yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com"
by Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg
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Not every movie this year was well received, but that didn't stop people from enjoying it. Morbius despite its lackluster box office performance and dour critical reception recieved praise and fandom online. "It's Morbin time" was trending on twitter and Users on the film's official Discord server call themselves "Morbheads", and often engaged in "Morbin'"
What is Morbin?
What is Distributing a pirated copy of Morbius
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The name Volodymyr Zelenskyy should sound familiar! Named person of the year by people magazine, and being the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019, he totes a degree in law,opinion polls call him the greatest president of Ukraine to date, but what was he doing before all of that?
What is Actor/Comedian
At age 17, he joined his local team competing in the KVN comedy competition team. He gave his voice to Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian dubbing of the movie, and did play Ukraine's president in the TV Show Servant of the People
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Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have excavated for the first time the 5,000-year-old Neolithic chamber tomb, he excavation was carried out around the chamber of nine upright stones weighing more than 25 tons in present-day Herefordshire, England.
But what's so special about this place?
The site is called Arthurs Stone, it's dating back to 3700 BC and According to legend, it was here that Arthur slew a giant who left the impression of his elbows on one of the stones as he fell.
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Maybe the future won't be so bad!
I mean we can only hope, at least Canada is making a good first step by banning the manufacturing and importing of what product?
What is Single-Use Plastics