World Events
This country surpassed China to become the world's most populous country.
Who is India?
The opening night of this tour broke the record for the most attended concert by a female artist with 69,000 attendees (Nice).
What is the Era's Tour?
This team set the record for the most consecutive losses in one season losing 28 consecutive games before finding their 3rd win of the season.
Who are the Detroit Pistons?
Sports betting became legal in this state in 2023. Now the residents don't have to travel to Connecticut to gamble.
What is Massachusetts?
Barnes and Nobel's 2023 author of the year David Grann wrote this book which was later adapted to film.
What is Killers of the Flower Moon?
This country was named NATO's 31st member in April 2023.
Who is Finland?
This artist set the record for most Grammy Awards this year which brings her collective total to 32.
Who is Beyoncé?
The plot of this movie, which won 7 Oscars, in 2023 was initially described as: "It's about a 55-year-old Chinese woman trying to finish her taxes" to keep the details of the plot under wraps.
What is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once?
The FTC tried to get a ban against this type of contract clause in effect for 2023 but it was challenged in court and is currently being appealed.
What is a non-compete clause?
If you had access to a clear sky and minimal light pollution, from July 13th to September 1st you could witness this event looking up into the night sky.
What is the Perseid Meteor Shower?
Phasing out nuclear power completely, this country closed down it's last 3 nuclear power plants in 2023.
Who is Germany?
In 2023, Taylor Swift ended this artist 3 year reign as the most streamed artist on Spotify.
Who is Bad Bunny?
Which country’s soccer team claimed the Women’s World Cup, their country's first, hosted jointly this year by Australia and New Zealand?
Who is Spain?
These two M states voted to legalize Marijuana starting in January 2023.
What are Maryland and Missouri?
This CEO was fired from one of the hottest AI tech startups due to concerns about his leadership ability but was shortly brought back after almost immediate backlash.
Who is Sam Altman?
In October of 2023 this country began a military conflict to try to re-affirm control over the contested territory known as Nagorno-Karabakh.
Who is Azerbaijan?
This Swedish artist won Eurovision 2023 for the second time with their last win coming in 2013 for their song "Euphoria".
Who is Loreen?
This forward for the Las Vegas Golden Knights won the finals MVP when his team claimed the Stanley Cup in June.
Who is Jonathan Marchessault?
This federal act passed in 2023 created a law increasing the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.
What is the Veteran's COLA Act of 2023?
This baseball player signed the biggest contract in MLB history totaling at 700million over the next 9 years.
Who is Shohei Ohtani?
A runoff election in November lead to this individual to become the President of Argentina who promised to "Make Argentina Great Again" and work to deregulate the economy.
Who is Javier Milei?
This Canadian music producer won Billboards Top 100 award for Best Producer of 2023. He previously has worked with artist like Nickelback, Morgan Wallen, and Florida Georgia Line.
Who is Joey Moi?
This female athlete who previously had won 2 silvers and 1 bronze medal won her first gold medal at the 2023 CrossFit Games.
Who is Laura Horvath?
This federal act passed in 2023 enacted a law requiring each federal agency to include a link to a “100-word plain language summary” of any proposed rule.
What is the Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2023?
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to this woman for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
Who is Narges Mohammadi?