2023: New Years in Review
THIS NEW YEAR, CELEBRATED ON JANUARY 22ND THIS PAST YEAR, IS BASED ON THE ORBIT OF A CELESTIAL OBJECT.
What is the Lunar/Chinese New Year?
MAGNUS CARLSEN CHOSE NOT TO DEFEND HIS TITLE IN THIS SPORT(?)'S CHAMPIONSHIP, HELD THIS YEAR.
What is Chess?
THIS NON-BINARY SINGER WON A GRAMMY FOR A SONG DETAILING SOME UNHOLY HAPPENINGS
Who is Sam Smith?
THIS DYSTOPIAN NOVEL BY GEORGE ORWELL WAS HIS FINAL BOOK COMPLETED IN HIS LIFETIME
What is 1984?
THIS ROOMMATE WAS THE MOST CHRONICALLY INJURED IN 2023
Who is Jameel?
NEW YEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN CELEBRATED ON MARCH 12TH BY THIS MESOAMERICAN EMPIRE, IF IT WERE STILL AROUND.
What are the Aztecs?
THIS NATION'S TEAM WON THEIR FIRST WOMEN'S SOCCER WORLD CUP THIS YEAR, MATCHING A SIMILAR ACCOMPLISHMENT BY IT'S MEN'S TEAM IN 2010
What is Spain?
THIS EXCLUSIVE RETAIL STORE FEATURES THE NAME OF THE FOUNDER OF ITS PARENT COMPANY
What is Sam's Club?
SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT WAS SWORN IN DURING THIS YEAR
What is 1994?
THIS ROOMMATE USED A GUEST PASS A FEW TOO MANY TIMES FOR THE LIKING OF SOMERVILLE PARKING ENFORCEMENT.
Who is Jameel?
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE FOLKS CELEBRATE NEW YEARS BY CONSUMING 12 OF THIS FRUIT.
What are grapes?
THIS NATION'S TEAM, KNOWN COLLOQUIALLY AS THE 'SPRINGBOKS', WON THE 2023 RUGBY WORLD CUP
What is South Africa?
THIS CEO, WHO WAS ALSO HIS COMPANY’S FORMER CEO, LEADS THE FOREMOST LLM-BASED CHATBOT APPLICATION
Who is Sam Altman?
A DEVASTATING SERIES OF TSUNAMIS ROCKED THE INDIAN OCEAN IN THIS CALAMITOUS YEAR
What is 2004?
THIS ROOMMATE SPENT THE LEAST NUMBER OF DAYS IN THE APARTMENT IN 2023
Who is Meha?
THE APPEARANCE OF THE MATARIKI CONSTELLATION MARKS THE NEW YEAR FOR THIS GROUP, WHICH CATEGORIZES THE INDIGENOUS POLYNESIAN PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND. HAKA!
Who are the Maori people?
THE INAUGURAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THIS SPORT WAS HOSTED IN GLASGOW THIS YEAR - A WHEELY GOOD WATCH!
What is Cycling?
THIS CRYPTO-BRO’S MERCURIAL ASCENSION WAS MET WITH AN EVEN STEEPER DESCENSION
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF:
THIS YEAR FEATURED AMERICANS FEELING THE EFFECTS OF AN OIL CRISIS AND A PRESIDENT WHO FELL DOWN AIRPLANE STEPS
What is 1974?
THIS ROOMMATE LIKELY BOASTS THE FASTEST MILE TIME OF ALL THE ROOMMATES, IN PART OWING TO HIS TRAINING FOR A HALF-MARATHON HE COMPLETED THIS YEAR.
Who is Arun?
ORTHODOX NEW YEAR, ALSO KNOWN BY THIS OTHER, JUXTAPOSED NAME, MARKS JANUARY 1ST OF THE JULIAN CALENDAR
What is the Old New Year?
THE 2023 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC ENDED IN A MATCHUP BETWEEN THESE TWO BASEBALL SUPERSTARS, WHO WERE TEAMMATES (AT THE TIME).
Who are Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani?
HE WON THE 2023 SCREEN ACTOR'S GUILD FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TV SERIES FOR HIS ROLE IN 1883. HE WOULD (IN A DEEP, SOOTHING VOICE) SAY THAT IT WAS "THE MOST MEANINGFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS 55-YEAR CAREER"
Who is Sam Elliot?
THE OPENING OF INAUGURAL BRANCHES OF THE HYATT HOTEL AND BURGER KING HEADLINED DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR
What is 1954?
THESE TWO ROOMMATES SPEND THE MOST TIME AT HOME, EVEN THOUGH THEIR NAMES AREN’T ON THE LEASE
Who are Achu and Mielynn?