GoConqr Quiz of the Year 2016

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How much attention were you paying to the defining events of 2016? Look back on the year with us and test yourself.
Sarah Egan
Quiz by Sarah Egan, updated more than 1 year ago
Sarah Egan
Created by Sarah Egan about 8 years ago
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Question 1

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Which of the following musicians sadly passed away in 2016?
Answer
  • Prince
  • David Bowie
  • James Blunt
  • George Michael
  • Leonard Cohen

Question 2

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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) featured in the Olympics for the first time at the Rio games in 2016
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Britain left the EU in June 2016 as a result of 'BREXIT'
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 4

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J.K. Rowling extended Harry Potter's world in November with the new film [blank_start]Fantastic[blank_end] [blank_start]Beasts[blank_end] and Where to Find Them
Answer
  • Fantastic
  • Amazing
  • Wonderful
  • Wizards
  • Beasts
  • Mushrooms

Question 5

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Who was Theresa May's closest competitor in the UK Conservative Party leadership contest?
Answer
  • Boris Johnson
  • Andrea Leadsom
  • Michael Gove
  • Nigel Farage

Question 6

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What team won the Major League Baseball World Series for the first time in 108 years?

Question 7

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Who won the most popular votes in the 2016 US Presidential election?

Question 8

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Writer Harper Lee died in 2016. Her best selling novel To Kill a [blank_start]Mockingbird[blank_end] features the [blank_start]Finch[blank_end] family. The story is told through the eyes of the daughter [blank_start]Scout[blank_end]. With her brother Jem and her friend Dill she tries to understand their neighbour Boo [blank_start]Radley[blank_end]. Her father [blank_start]Atticus[blank_end], a lawyer, defends Tom Robinson an innocent black man wrongfully accused of rape.
Answer
  • Mockingbird
  • Finch
  • Scout
  • Radley
  • Atticus
  • Capote
  • Nathan
  • Calpurnia
  • Ewell

Question 9

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What does the fastest growing app of 2016 required users to find and train? [blank_start]Pokemon[blank_end]
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  • Pokemon

Question 10

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A space probe called Juno launched from Cape Caneveral in 2011 entered the orbit of what planet in July of 2016?
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