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2020 News Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

January 2020: In which country did wildfires spread across tens of millions of acres?

a)

USA

b)

Canada

c)

Australia

d)

Austria

2.

January 2020: On which social media platform did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they were stepping down as senior royals?

a)

Facebook

b)

Instagram

c)

TikTok

d)

Twitter

3.

January 2020: Which country mistakenly launched two surface-to-air missiles at a Ukrainian passenger jet?

a)

Iran

b)

Iraq

c)

Ukraine

d)

USA

4.

January 2020: Which basketball player was killed in a helicopter crash?

a)

Michael Jordan

b)

Kobe Bryant

c)

Shaquille O'Neal

d)

LeBron James

5.

Feb 2020: Which actor plays Dr Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog film?

a)

Tom Cruise

b)

Jeff Bridges

c)

Jim Carrey

d)

Ben Schwartz

6.

February 2020: The film "Emma" is based on the classic book by which British author?

a)

Emily Bronte

b)

Jane Austen

c)

George Eliot

d)

Charlotte Bronte

7.

March 2020: What is the name of the Netflix documentary following the life of Joe Exotic?

a)

Tiger Man

b)

Tiger Kind

c)

Exotic Tiger

d)

Tiger King

8.

April 2020: What was the name of the new phone released by Apple?

a)

iPhone 11

b)

iPhone 12

c)

iPhone 11S

d)

iPhone SE

9.

April 2020: What name did Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds give to their new baby boy?

a)

Archie

b)

Harry

c)

Stanley

d)

Wilfred

10.

May 2020: Celebrations marked how many years since VE day?

a)

50 years

b)

75 years

c)

70 years

d)

100 years

11.

May 2020: What is the name of this man who suddenly found himself on newspaper front pages?

a)

Dominic Cummings

b)

Vin Diesel

c)

Jeff Bezos

d)

Iain Duncan Smith

12.

May 2020: In which US city did George Floyd die following a police arrest?

a)

Washington

b)

New York

c)

Minneapolis

d)

Chicago

13.

May 2020: Which company built the rocket that sent sent two astronauts to the International Space Station?

a)

NASA

b)

SpaceX

c)

Boeing

d)

Tesla

14.

June 2020: In which city was a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston thrown into the harbour?

a)

Portsmouth

b)

London

c)

Plymouth

d)

Bristol

15.

June 2020: Which footballer convinced the government to continue providing free school meals to the poorest families this summer?

a)

Daniel James

b)

Mason Greenwood

c)

Wayne Rooney

d)

Marcus Rashford

16.

June 2020: Which city found itself in a "local lockdown" just as restrictions were being eased for the rest of England?

a)

London

b)

Leicester

c)

Manchester

d)

Portsmouth

17.

July 2020: Which musician announced on Twitter than he would be standing for president of the USA?

a)

Kanye West

b)

Jay Z

c)

Drake

d)

Justin Bieber

18.

Which city was due to host the 2020 Olympic games this summer?

a)

Paris

b)

Los Angeles

c)

Yokohama

d)

Tokyo

19.

In which month of 2020 did the World Health Organisation officially declare the coronavirus a "pandemic"?

a)

January

b)

February

c)

March

d)

April

20.

In which month of 2020 was the Disney Plus streaming service launched in the UK?

a)

January

b)

February

c)

March

d)

April