2024 Quiz Questions and Answers
As the year draws to a close, it's the perfect moment to reflect on the week's standout stories. Welcome to the Weekly News Quiz for 30/12/2024! From major scientific discoveries to captivating cultural highlights, this week's news offers a diverse mix for all curious minds.
Did you catch the headline about the UK’s largest dinosaur track site being uncovered in Oxfordshire? Or perhaps you heard about the extraordinary record set by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in its closest approach to the sun? On a lighter note, a CAPTCHA challenge that involves playing a classic computer game on Nightmare difficulty has tech enthusiasts buzzing. With such a range of intriguing updates, it’s time to see how well you’ve been following the news. Ready to delve into the stories that made waves? Let’s get started! 📰✨
2024 News Quiz Questions and Answers
Quiz Questions
1. A surgeon recently caught which disease for the first time ever documented?
2. Tech CEO Guillermo Rauch introduced a CAPTCHA where users must play which game on Nightmare difficulty?
3. How many people watched the finale of "Gavin and Stacey" on Christmas Day, making it the most-watched show on British TV?
4. The late Jimmy Carter, former US president, governed which state between 1971 and 1975?
5. Which illness has led to a surge in child hospitalizations under 14 in China?
6. While Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan had breakout years, which male artist had the top-selling song of 2024?
7. How much could UK households receive in a special Cold Weather Payment?
8. UK scientists uncovered its largest dinosaur track site in Oxfordshire. The site features tracks from Cetiosaurus and which other dinosaur?
9. Which European city's New Year events were canceled due to bad weather?
10. What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?
11. Who confirmed their Glastonbury headline spot after initially withdrawing due to misinformation?
12. Which Quentin Tarantino film begins with the line: "No, forget it, it's too risky. I'm through doin' that shit."?
13. Before becoming a politician, Jimmy Carter ran a farm growing which crop in his home state?
14. Where is the National Library of Wales’ new exhibition on Welsh art located?
15. Who was the lead actor in the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu" directed by F.W. Murnau?
16. Elon Musk commented that which British MP isn't fit to be a UK leader?
17. What type of animal had 1,300 individuals released on Deserta Grande near Morocco?
18. NASA's Parker spacecraft made its closest pass to what?
19. Why was Magnus Carlsen excluded from a round in the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York?
20. In what year did the Panama Canal officially open?
21. What has the Taliban banned in Afghan residential buildings to prevent women from being seen at home?
22. The mother of a child by which 2010s pop star is now on the new season of "Traitors"?
23. Which song won the battle to be the UK Christmas No. 1 single?
24. Which MP from Reform UK had a company that received £100,000 in furlough funds despite making nearly £8 million in profit?
25. The US Surgeon General suggests which product should carry a cancer risk warning?
26. In which part of Nigeria is Lagos situated?
27. How many pubs are there in England and Wales?
28. What was the closest distance the Parker Solar Probe got to the sun’s surface?
29. Which US state saw schools temporarily remove the Bible due to Republican book-banning laws?
30. Identify the show from this quote: "The doctor thing makes sense: you save lives during the day and you kill people by night." Is this about Harold Shipman or something?
2024 News Quiz Answers
Quiz Answers
1. Cancer
2. Doom
3. 12.3 million
4. Georgia
5. Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV)
6. Noah Kahan
7. £25
8. Giganotosaurus
9. Edinburgh
10. Anne Hathaway
11. Neil Young
12. Pulp Fiction
13. Peanuts
14. Aberystwyth
15. Max Schreck
16. Nigel Farage
17. Snails
18. The sun
19. He was wearing the wrong trousers
20. 1914
21. Windows
22. Conor Maynard
23. Wham! with Last Christmas
24. Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth
25. Alcohol
26. Lagos is in the south-west of Nigeria
27. 38,989
28. 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km)
29. Texas
30. Traitors
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