Sports
Spain won the World Cup final, 1-0, against the defending champs. Which country did they beat?
Argentina. Ferran Torres scored the game’s only goal to win Spain its second men’s championship and deny Argentina consecutive titles. Spain’s Rodri won the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament.
On July 4, the United States celebrated its ...... birthday.
This year, America celebrated its semiquincentennial, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The country went all out with special July 4 celebrations across the United States.
What is the name of the last disney/pixar movie which was realeased in June 2026?
Toy Story 5
Who became the first trillionaire after his company SpaceX began trading on the stock market in June?
Elon Musk. He was already the world’s richest person, but in June his net worth hovered around $1,200,000,000,000.
To celebrate his 80th birthday, President Trump hosted which sport on the lawn of the White House?
MMA : Mixed Martial Art. Mr. Trump’s 80th birthday Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the South Lawn of the White House on the night of June 14 was a mass-media spectacle unlike any in the history of the presidency.
On July 20th, who became the new British Prime Minister?
Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, said "we will change politics, to make it more collaborative, more about problem solving than point scoring".
Mr Burnham is the UK's fifth prime minister in four years. He replaces Sir Keir Starmer, who won a general election in 2024.
Who stars as Peter Parker in the superhero movie that was one of the biggest hits of summer 2026?
Tom Holland.
Which of the following issues has been causing a national backlash among Americans of vastly different backgrounds and political beliefs?
The expansion of offshore wind energy projects.
The growth of AI data centers.
The passage of new federal laws mandating electric vehicles.
According to a recent Gallup survey, 71 percent of Americans said they did not want an A.I. data center to be built close to where they live. Americans are blaming data centers for rising energy bills, and many are feeling pessimistic about the broader effects artificial intelligence will have on society, another survey found. Opponents have also raised concerns about noise, water use and air pollution.
The New York Knicks won their first N.B.A. title in 53 years. Which player was named finals M.V.P.?
Jalen Brunson
OG Anunoby
Victor Wembanyama
Jalen Brunson. On June 13, the New York Knicks stunned the San Antonio Spurs with another come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals, 94-90, to clinch the series. Brunson joined Michael Jordan, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bob Pettit as the only players to ever score 45 points in a close-out game to win the finals.
Elections have been held in dozens of US states this summer, from California to South Carolina.
Voters were choosing the candidates who will represent a political party in the general election. So these elections are named p............
Primaries
Which of these songs was named as the song of the summer on “Popcast,” The Times’s music podcast?
"Apple", by Charli XCX.
"Choosin' Texas", by Ella Langley.
"Espresso", by Sabrina Carpenter.
"Choosin' Texas", by Ella Langley.
"Choosin' Texas" topped the charts in the USA, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and peaked at number three in the United Kingdom.
The Obama Presidential Center, with its imposing 225-foot granite-covered tower, opened in June in which city? Chicago - Miami - Washington ?
For Chicagoans, the opening of the $850 million, 19-acre museum campus has been a long time coming. It was two mayors ago, in 2015, when President Barack Obama announced that the museum would be built in his adopted hometown, Chicago. Since then, the museum and everything that has come with it — a playground, a public library, a sledding hill — have slowly come together in Jackson Park, near the University of Chicago campus.
What famous championship occured from June 22nd to July 12th? (Jannik Sinner and Linda Nosková were the singles champions)
The 2026 Wimbledon Championships was the 139th edition of the Wimbledon Championships, a major tennis tournament, which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England.
On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, ruling that the right is enshrined in which constitutional amendment? The First, The Fourteenth or the Fifteenth Amendment?
The ruling, which was 6 to 3 to strike down the president’s executive order, was a severe blow to a policy pursued by Mr. Trump for more than a decade to prevent babies born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents from automatically becoming Americans.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, explained that Mr. Trump’s executive order violated a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Children born in the United States to undocumented parents or to parents temporarily in the country, he wrote, are citizens at birth.
“The Odyssey,” a film adaptation of the nearly 3,000-year-old Greek epic, arrived in theaters in July. Who wrote the original poem?
Homer. “The Odyssey,” the first feature shot entirely in IMAX, has an all-star cast that includes Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Charlize Theron and Lupita Nyong’o.
July 17 - President Donald Trump blamed Canada for wildfire smoke spreading across the United States and said he would add the "incalculable cost" of dealing with the pollution to existing tariffs on Canadian goods.
Many of the wildfires were concentrated in the giant province of .....
in the province of Ontario.
Heavy smoke from hundreds of Canadian fires enveloped a swath of the U.S. from the Midwest to the Northeast on Thursday and Friday, prompting warnings to residents to stay indoors.
On July 5th, how did Donald Trump spark controversy when he phoned president of FIFA Gianni Infantino?
On July 2nd, during the FIFA World Cup match US Vs Bosnia, US star player Folarin Balogun scored twice but he received a red card. After a phone call from Donald Trump, the FIFA decided to suspend the red card. This allowed Balogun to participate in the United States' Round of 16 match against Belgium. Belgium won the match 4–1.
On August 26th, who did this newspaper healine refer to?
"They're back!"
The British headline refers to Harry and Meghan’s quiet return to England. So far there are many questions but very few answers: not just “why return now?” and “why so suddenly?”, but also questions of security: who pays if not themselves, given that they are not working royals? And where will the money come from to keep them in the style to which they are accustomed?
The Odyssey follows the heroic king Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, and his homecoming journey to his kingdom ............ after the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Ithaca. His journey from Troy to Ithaca lasts an additional ten years, during which time he encounters many perils and all of his crewmates are killed. In Odysseus's long absence, he is presumed dead, leaving his wife Penelope and son Telemachus to contend with a group of unruly suitors competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.
An unusually round raccoon in Seattle went from being a local legend to a national celebrity after several videos of the critter circulated on social media in July. What’s his name? Bartholowew, Jimothy, Fredward?
Jimothy, the stout raccoon, who has a spinal condition, is “an example to all of us that you don’t have to be perfect to be loved,” a Seattle councilwoman said.