English Trivia
What is the formatting term for the space at the beginning of a paragraph?
What is an indent?
What Taylor Swift Album was released in 2022
What is Midnights?
Women of this country were named TIME magazine's person (people) of the year after major protests broke out over women's rights to wear/not wear Hijabs?
What is Iran?
In late winter of 2022, which wearable item became optional in USD497 schools?
What are masks?
A comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
Purchaser of Twitter on October 27th, 2022
Who is Elon Musk?
What major soccer legend died at the end of 2022?
Who is Pelé?
A Twitter debacle between Greta Thurnberg and which "celebrity" led to him being arrested?
Who is Andrew Tate?
Romeo Montague's first love interest in the play Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Rosaline?
The iconic original owner of Kim Kardashian's Met Gala dress
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
On September 8th, 2022, which prominent European monarch died?
Who is Queen Elizabeth II of England (United Kingdon and Common Wealth Realms)
Winner of 2022 World Cup
What is Argentina?
The literary term for when the speaker says the opposite of what they mean
What is verbal irony?
Name at least one of the two movies that Harry Styles starred in last year. Double points for both.
What are Don't Worry Darling and The Policeman?
The world population reached what billion in 2022?
What is 8 billion?
What was the largest armed conflict since World War II that occurred on February 24th, 2022?
What is the Russian Invasion of Ukraine?
Wife of William Shakespeare
Who is Anne Hathaway?
Disney movie franchise rumored to be rebooted for a third movie that last had movies premiere in 2001 and 2004 that features Julie Andrews in a supporting role
What is The Princess Diaries?
In 2022 people were experiencing mass shortages of what caregiving/childrearing essential?
What is baby formula?
What celebrity trial shook the nation, coining phrases like "mega-pint-of-wine"?
What is the Depp vs. Heard Trial?
The literary term for a seemingly self-contradictory statement, that, with further inspection proves true.
What is a paradox?
The year’s biggest film was Top Gun: Maverick, which took in $1.5bn worldwide, further cementing which actor's spot as king of the blockbuster?
Who is Tom Cruise?
What WNBA athlete was, on Dec. 8, finally released from a Russian prison, traded in a one-to-one prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer, and returned home to the United States.
Who is Brittney Griner?
For the first time in its history, this year’s Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year was decided by a public vote. Which of the following was the word of the year for 2022? a) goblinmode b) metaverse
What is goblinmode (a)?
When a character in a play is speaking out loud to themself
What is a soliloquy?
After years of conspiracy videos poking fun at her, Lea Michelle, former star of Glee, has taken to TikTok to profit off of the theories. What is she accused of not being able to do?
What is read?
What "first" was there for women at the Qatar Fifa World Cup?
What is a female referee?
- Stephanie Frappart officiated for the Germany v Costa Rica match
Queen Elizabeth was thought to be reincarnated as whose kid?
Who is Trisha Paytas?
What word is missing?
"What's in a name? That which we call a _______ by any other word would smell as sweet" (Shakespeare 2.2).
What is a rose?
James Cameron, director of both Avatar and Avatar 2, made the controversial choice to not change the specific font for the movie's title screen and subtitles. Name the font.
What is Papyrus?
What was "frozen" or put on hold for the 4th consecutive time in the U.S., raising political debates over whether they should be forgiven or not.
What are Federal Student Loan Payments?
The bestselling video game was the devilishly tricky open-world monster-slasher Elden Ring. Which venerable author helped write its lore, but has subsequently confirmed they’ve never played the game itself?
Who is George RR Martin?