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100

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 was first identified in this country.

What is South Africa?

100

This show about a dystopian and murderous televised competition surpassed Bridgerton to be the most streamed show on Netflix ever. 

What is Squid Game?

100

The Covid-19 vaccine produced by this company was approved but then temporarily halted and then brought  back again to save more lives.

What is Johnson & Johnson?

100

This mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland.

What is unicorn?

100

This was India's most downloaded IOS app in 2021.

What is WhatsApp?

200

Whitney Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire this year due to the creation of this dating app in 2014.

What is Bumble?

200

This 20-season reality television series that first premiered in 2007 and followed the lives of one family came to an end this year. 

What is Keeping Up With the Kardashians?

200

This woman made history as the first Black, Indian and woman vice-president of the United States.

Who is Kamala Harris?

200

Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie teamed up to form this famous candy which has the trademarked slogan "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand".

What is M&M?

200

This was the highest grossing Bollywood film of 2021.

What is Sooryavanshi?

300

Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by this billionaire, sent its first crewed mission into space for approximately 10 minutes, with the billionaire himself being a part of the flight.

Who is Jeff Bezos?

300

This was the most streamed song globally on Spotify with more than 1.1 billion streams. 

What is Driver's License?

300

The 2020 Olympic Games were postponed and held this year from July to August. This famous athlete withdrew from the women's team gymnastics final citing mental health concerns.

Who is Simone Biles?

300

Joe Biden formally declared this day a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves.

What is Juneteenth?

300

R. S. Praveen Kumar who joined Bahujan Samaj Party this year is the founder of a payback movement called SWAEROES which stands for this.

What is Social Welfare Aeroes (sky)?

400

The southern Spanish city of Seville has begun a pilot scheme to use the methane produced as this fruit ferments to generate clean electricity.

What is an orange?

400

In November 2021, this Youtube channel became the first to reach 200 million subscribers. 

What is T-Series?

400

In March 2021, a huge container ship named Ever Given blocked this waterway.

What is the Suez Canal?

400

Fear of this is called triskaidekaphobia.

What is the number 13?

400

This 6th most searched athlete in the world scripted history by becoming the first-ever track and field athlete to win a gold medal for India at the Olympics. He competes in the javelin throw.

Who is Neeraj Chopra?

500

On June 25, 2021, a fossilized skull of a new species of human nicknamed this was found in Northeast China.

What is Dragon Man?

500

CBS backtracked on this show after backlash, for which Priyanka Chopra was to be one of the hosts, because it involved pitting people who are doing good things against each other.

What is The Activist?

500

The United Nations has declared 2021 as the Year of ______ & _________.

What is Peace & Trust?

500

Based on lookup data, notable spikes, and year-over-year increases in searches, Merriam-Webster declared this as its word of the year. 

What is vaccine?

500

An Indian Documentary named Writing With Fire released in 2021 centers around this newspaper founded in 2002 which is written, edited, produced, distributed and marketed entirely by women from Bahujan communities and minorities.

What is Khabar Lahariya?