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Despite being released in 1985, this Kate Bush song topped the charts in 2022 after it was featured on season 4 of Stranger Things

What is Running Up That Hill?

100

Late in 2022, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made important steps towards achieving this source of emission-free energy generation

What is nuclear fusion?

100

After buying Twitter, Elon Musk dropped the enforcement of COVID-19 misinformation rules and called for criminal charges against this infectious disease expert

Who is Dr. Anthony Fauci?

100

In 2022 this city became the first to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics

What is Beijing?

100

8/8: The four-time Grammy award winner and Grease star whose lifetime record sales total over 100 million

Who is Olivia Newton-John?

200

The Dropout told the story of Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced CEO of Theranos, a health technology company which made these

What are blood tests?

200

In 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration took pictures of Sagittarius A*, a supermassive one of these at the center of the Milky Way

What is a black hole?

200

The number of Prime Ministers the UK has had in 2022

What is 3?

200

Argentina emerged victorious in the Qatar World Cup despite losing to this country's team in their first match of the tournament

What is Saudi Arabia?

200

8/30: He won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Cold War by removing the Iron Curtain between Russia and the West 

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

300

The title of a 1996 horror movie and its 2022 sequel, the fifth installment of the franchise overall.

What is Scream?

300
The first images captured by this far-seeing astronomical device were unveiled in July

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

300

Harry Styles had to deny doing this to Chris Pine during a Don't Worry Darling press event

What is spitting on him?

300

Novak Djokovic was deported from this country at the beginning of 2022 because he was unvaccinated against COVID-19

What is Australia?
300

4/12: The distinctive voice to the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin movies

Who is Gilbert Gottfried?

400

In September, a fantasy show debuted on Prime Video, loosely based on the concluding section (about 20 pages) of this book

What is The Silmarillion?

400

This rocket, named for a Greek deity, orbited the moon in 2022, 50 years after the last manned mission to the moon

What is Artemis I?

400

Just Stop Oil protestors threw a can of soup on a classic painting by this Impressionist in October

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

400

In the 2022 US Open, following her announcement that she would be "evolving" away from the sport, this tennis great became the oldest woman ever to defeat a top-three ranked player

Who is Serena Williams?

400

9/28: His single "Gangsta's Paradise" won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Solo Rap Performance

Who is Coolio?

500

This actor starred in both of Joseph Kosinski's 2022 films (Top Gun: Maverick and Spiderhead)

Who is Miles Teller?

500

In February, researchers discovered the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship the Endurance, which sank in 1915 on a mission across this continent

What is Antarctica?

500

The Oscar category that Chris Rock was presenting when he was slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards 

What is Best Documentary?

500

In 37.04 seconds, Erin Jackson became the first Black American woman to win a medal in this super-fast Winter Olympic sport

What is speed skating?

500

8/5: A renowned fashion designer whose black turtlenecks were part of Steve Jobs' iconic uniform

Who is Issey Miyake?