RT's Great News Quiz of 2018
RT's Great News Quiz of 2018
Test your news nous with RT’s definitive news quiz of the year.
Test your news nous with RT’s definitive news quiz of the year.
1. What unexpected event in St. Paul, Minnesota in early June gripped people around the world?
2. Which of these Russian cities did NOT host a World Cup game in 2018?
3. Which Fortnite celebratory move took off as a viral dance craze in 2018?
4. What was unexpected about the discovery of three mummies in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus in July?
5. Who stepped down as US President Donald Trump’s chief of staff at the end of 2018?
6. How many Tory MPs backed Theresa May in the party leadership challenge in early December?
7. Why did ‘Knickers’ hit the headlines in 2018?
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?
9. In June, France’s Emmanuel Macron publicly reprimanded a teenage boy for what?
10. For how long were a Thai junior soccer team and their coach trapped in a cave this summer?
11. What did late physicist Stephen Hawking have to say about gene-editing?
12. Which Hawaiian volcano suffered an extensive, and destructive, eruption for four months in 2018?
13. In which round did Conor McGregor submit to Khabib Nurmagomedov in their October bout?
14. Which former senior administration member did Trump refer to as ‘dumb as a rock’?
15. In December, NASA announced that something from Earth had moved from our solar system into interstellar space. What was it?
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?
17. Which Leave politician said in 2018: “Britain must not cower in the corner during [Brexit] negotiations”?
18. The largest known diamond ever found in North America was revealed by a Canadian firm late in 2018. What color was it?
19. Citizens in which EU country voted in June to remove a ban on abortion?
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?