2022 Events
Oopsies
Dumb Trivia
Important People
Mystery Countries
100
A 3 day Russian "special military operation" began on February 24th in this country led by Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine
100
The cargo vessel Ever Given blocked this key waterway, holding up over $9.6 billion in goods for 6 days
Suez Canal
100
This type of vegetable was recently livestreamed for multiple days to see if it would go bad before Liz Truss was forced to resign.
Lettuce
100
This man recently became the first person of color to be Prime Minister of his nation, as well as the third PM this year.
Rishi Sunak
100
Xi Jinping was recently selected to lead this country for another 5 year term
China
200
Nancy Pelosi met with President Tsai Ing-wen during her widely publicized trip to this island nation.
Taiwan
200
The release of this document by Prime Minister Liz Truss cratered the British economy
minibudget
200
This man is known for being repeatedly hospitalized, including for COVID, being stabbed, an intestinal blockage and chronic hiccups. He is also the president of Brazil.
Bolsonaro
200
This former Chinese leader was forcibly removed from his seat at the closing of the recent 20th Party Congress in China, prompting various explanations.
Hu Jintao
200
This country recently changed its name to better reflect "express the culture, civilization, and values of the nation" as well as to avoid confusion with a certain species of bird.
Turkey/Türkiye
300
Unrest in this central Asian nation led to Russian soldiers being deployed in its capital city.
Kazakhstan
300
In March 2022, Indian armed forces accidently fired a cruise missile into the territory of this nuclear armed nation, sparking concern over potential escalation.
Pakistan
300
This country operates a chain of restaurants as a way to gain access to hard currency from behind sanctions. These venues specialize in Pyongyang cold noodles.
North Korea
300
A number of South American nations have elected left-wing leaders since 2020. Name any two of those leaders.
Lula, Gabriel Boric, Luis Arce, Gustavo Petro, Pedro Castillo
300
The state of California recently passed this nation to become the 4th largest economy in the world
Germany
400
This event prompted the Japanese government to reshuffle its cabinet to put distance between them and the controversial Unification Church.
Assassination of Shinzo Abe
400
This US president vomited on then Prime Minister of Japan Kiichi Miyazawa during a 1992 state dinner.
HW Bush
400
This Scandinavian nation recently assassinated a walrus after she became a tourist attraction for sunbathing and sinking small boats
Norway
400
Conservative social policy and the transformation of the Blue House presidential residence were two campaign promises of this man who was elected President of South Korean in March of this year.
Yoon Suk-yeol
400
This country held an election today, its 5th since April 2019
Israel
500
Protests in this country toppled its government after a ban on industrial fertilizers exacerbated an economic crisis.
Sri Lanka
500
This South American dictator was caught eating an empanada during a televised cabinet meeting addressing the hunger crisis gripping his nation in 2017.
Maduro
500
The US military was set to DEFCON 3 for just the second time in history and several thousand troops were mobilized to cut down a single tree on this controversial border in Asia
The DMZ/ North and South Korean border
500
This former doctor, theoretician and leader of al-Qaeda was killed in Afghanistan by a US drone strike this July.
Ayman al-Zawahiri
500
This nation has worked with its former rival Eritrea to suppress rebels in its Tigray region, sparking concerns of human rights abuses and war crimes.
Ethiopia