RT's Great News Quiz of 2018

Test your news nous with RT’s definitive news quiz of the year.

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On Dec 30, 2018

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1. What unexpected event in St. Paul, Minnesota in early June gripped people around the world?

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2. Which of these Russian cities did NOT host a World Cup game in 2018?

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3. Which Fortnite celebratory move took off as a viral dance craze in 2018?

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4. What was unexpected about the discovery of three mummies in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus in July?

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5. Who stepped down as US President Donald Trump’s chief of staff at the end of 2018?

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6. How many Tory MPs backed Theresa May in the party leadership challenge in early December?

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7. Why did ‘Knickers’ hit the headlines in 2018?

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8. When Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space with a human-shaped dummy on board, who did netizens joke Elon had really sent on board?

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9. In June, France’s Emmanuel Macron publicly reprimanded a teenage boy for what?

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10. For how long were a Thai junior soccer team and their coach trapped in a cave this summer?

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11. What did late physicist Stephen Hawking have to say about gene-editing?

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12. Which Hawaiian volcano suffered an extensive, and destructive, eruption for four months in 2018?

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13. In which round did Conor McGregor submit to Khabib Nurmagomedov in their October bout?

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14. Which former senior administration member did Trump refer to as ‘dumb as a rock’?

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15. In December, NASA announced that something from Earth had moved from our solar system into interstellar space. What was it?

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16. Two Catholic school nuns in California admitted embezzling around $500,000 from school fees and donations, but what did they use the money for?

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17. Which Leave politician said in 2018: “Britain must not cower in the corner during [Brexit] negotiations”?

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18. The largest known diamond ever found in North America was revealed by a Canadian firm late in 2018. What color was it?

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19. Citizens in which EU country voted in June to remove a ban on abortion?

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20. What superhero moniker was bestowed on the Malian man who carried out the daring balcony rescue of a small child in Paris in May?

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