Which country did Russia invade on 24 February 2022?
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Ukraine
Millions of Ukrainians fled; Kyiv withstood the advance.
💡 Did you know? Zelensky's "I need ammunition, not a ride" became legendary.
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With which German term did Chancellor Scholz frame his historic speech on the Ukraine war?
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Zeitenwende
The word promptly became Germany's word of the year.
💡 Did you know? Germany delivered weapons into an active war zone for the first time.
Which Baltic Sea pipelines were destroyed by explosions in September 2022?
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Nord Stream
The rising gas bubbles were visible for kilometres.
💡 Did you know? The question of who did it occupied investigators for years.
Foto: Joel Rouse/ Ministry of Defence · OGL 3 · Wikimedia Commons
Which British monarch died in September 2022 after 70 years on the throne?
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Elizabeth II
Her son became King Charles III.
💡 Did you know? The queue to her lying-in-state stretched up to 16 kilometres.
Who won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?
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Argentina
The 3 to 3 thriller is widely called the greatest World Cup final ever.
💡 Did you know? Mbappé scored a hat-trick in the final and still lost.
Which AI program did OpenAI release on 30 November 2022?
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ChatGPT
It hit a million users in five days.
💡 Did you know? After two months: 100 million: faster than any service before.
Which striker won the Ballon d'Or in October 2022 after leading Real Madrid to the Champions League title?
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Karim Benzema
He was the first Frenchman to win the award since Zinedine Zidane in 1998.
💡 Did you know? The ceremony took place at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 17 October 2022.
The death of which young Iranian woman in police custody ignited nationwide protests in September 2022?
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Mahsa Amini
"Woman, Life, Freedom" became the movement's cry.
💡 Did you know? The slogan originally comes from the Kurdish women's movement.
Which social network did Elon Musk buy for 44 billion dollars in October 2022?
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Musk walked in carrying a sink: "Let that sink in."
💡 Did you know? In 2023 he renamed the service X.
Which British prime minister announced her resignation in October 2022, after the shortest tenure in British history?
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Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak followed as the year's third prime minister.
💡 Did you know? A tabloid livestreamed a lettuce "racing" her tenure: the lettuce won.
Which space telescope delivered its spectacular first images in July 2022?
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James Webb
Joe Biden personally unveiled the first deep field.
💡 Did you know? Some galaxies in the images are over 13 billion years old.
Which NASA probe deliberately crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022?
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DART
The asteroid's orbit was measurably altered.
💡 Did you know? The impact shortened its orbit by 32 minutes: far more than hoped.
Foto: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / NASA/Jared Lyons · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Which NASA mission circled the Moon in late 2022 (uncrewed, for the first time in 50 years)?
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Artemis I
The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific after 25 days.
💡 Did you know? Artemis II followed in 2026: the first crewed lunar flight since Apollo.
Which last president of the Soviet Union died in August 2022?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Germany reveres him as an enabler of reunification.
💡 Did you know? Putin stayed away from the funeral.
Which Brazilian football legend and three-time world champion died on 29 December 2022?
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Pelé
He remains the only player with three World Cup titles.
💡 Did you know? His real name: Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
Who won Brazil's October 2022 presidential runoff against incumbent Bolsonaro?
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Lula
Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in January 2023.
💡 Did you know? Lula had spent time in prison in between: the verdicts were annulled.
Which crypto exchange collapsed spectacularly in November 2022, taking founder Sam Bankman-Fried down with it?
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FTX
Bankman-Fried was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.
💡 Did you know? Months earlier, FTX ads had starred celebrities like Tom Brady.
At which tournament did Germany exit in the World Cup group stage for the second time running in 2022?
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World Cup in Qatar
The "One Love" armband row overshadowed Germany's tournament.
💡 Did you know? Japan beat both Germany and Spain.
Which Swedish researcher won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding the Neanderthal genome?
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Svante Pääbo
He founded the field of palaeogenetics.
💡 Did you know? Every non-African carries one to two percent Neanderthal DNA.
Which economic indicator hit 40-year highs across the US and Europe in 2022?
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inflation
Central banks ended the zero-rate era with rapid hikes.
💡 Did you know? Germany first reported 10.4 percent for October 2022; a 2023 recalculation lowered it to 8.8 percent.
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