Year in Review What city hosted the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest this year?
Liverpool
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Year in Review Who was awarded $1 in damages at trial in Utah in March 2023 when found "not at fault" for a ski collision in 2016?
Gwyneth Paltrow
3.
Anagram BONY FART HEALER is an anagram of what celebrity?
Harry Belafonte
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining (1967)
5.
Year in Review The largest publicly known defamation settlement in U.S. history involving a media company: Fox News paid more than $787 million to end a two-year legal battle in April with what company?
Dominion (Dominion Voting Systems)
6.
Year in Review British newspaper columnist and TV celebrity Margaret Anne Lake passed away in March 2023. By what name was she better known?
Mystic Meg
7.
Year in Review The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII in February. Who was named Most Valuable Player?
Patrick Mahomes (Kansas City Chiefs)
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Year in Review Introduced to Thailand in 2023; what car marque, owned by Great Wall Motors, is represented by this logo?
Tank (Chinese: 坦克 Tǎnkè)
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Year in Review Adolph Hitler in 1938, Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, and Vladimir Putin in 2007: Who is Time magazine's Person of the Year 2023?
Taylor Swift
10.
Year in Review Who announced his retirement in February after 23 seasons in the NFL?
Tom Brady
11.
Year in Review Who stars as Ariel in the 2023 film The Little Mermaid?
Halle Bailey
12.
Year in Review Cryptocurrency guru Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of seven counts of fraud in November. What is the name of his now bankrupt company?
Year in Review The highest ever gross for a single stand-up performance is $1,790,206.50, achieved at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, on 6th May 2023, by what British comedian?
Ricky Gervais
2.
Year in Review In April 2023, the French government signed into law highly unpopular pension reforms, raising the state pension age to what? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
64
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Year in Review He passed away in November 2023: Who was the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gordon Brown from June 2007 to May 2010?
Alistair Darling
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
The Pogues - Dirty Old Town (1985)
5.
Year in Review Who plays the title role in the 2023 epic biographical film Oppenheimer?
Cillian Murphy (as J. Robert Oppenheimer)
6.
Year in Review What country became the 31st member of NATO on 4th April 2023?
Finland
7.
Year in Review In tennis, who won the women's singles title at the US Open in September?
Coco Gauff
8.
Year in Review Who was introduced in 2023 as the latest incarnation of Doctor Who?
Ncuti Gatwa
9.
Year in Review What NFL star began dating Taylor Swift in the latter part of the year?
Travis Kelce
10.
Year in Review A strike in the United States by the WGA lasted from May to September, largely over concerns about the use of AI and streaming media. What does WGA stand for? (1pt for 3, ½pt for 2, ¼pt for 1)
Writers Guild of America
11.
Year in Review David McCallum passed away in September 2023. What is the name of the secret agent he plays in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?
Illya Kuryakin
12.
Year in Review David Beckham released a Netflix documentary in 2023 in which he showed off his Beekeeping skills. He wanted to call is honey Golden Bees, but Victoria had a better idea. What name did she come up with?
Year in Review She passed away in April 2023. Who opened her first shop, Bazaar, on Kings Road, London in 1955?
Mary Quant
2.
Year in Review During a Blink-182 concert in June, drummer Travis Barker's wife, Kourtney Kardashian, held up a sign saying what?
I'm Pregnant
3.
Year in Review He passed away in June 2023 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists: Whose novel, The Road, won the 2007 Pulitzer prize for fiction?
Cormac McCarthy
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Tina Turner - Steamy Windows (1990)
5.
Anagram A SILLY ARSE EMPIRE is an anagram of what celebrity?
Lisa Marie Presley
6.
Year in Review English comedian Paul O'Grady passed away in March 2023. What was the name of his drag persona?
Lily Savage
7.
Year in Review Who hosted the 95th Annual Academy Awards in March?
Jimmy Kimmel
8.
Year in Review The first spacecraft to soft land near the lunar South Pole: On 23rd August 2023, what country made its first ever landing on the moon?
India (Chandrayaan 3)
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Year in Review In February, what disgraced singer was sentenced in a Chicago federal courtroom to 20 years in prison on charges of child pornography and enticement of a minor?
R. Kelly
10.
Year in Review Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James became the NBA's all-time leading scorer with the 38,388th point of his career in February. Whose record did he break?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Year in Review First aired in January, name this HBO TV series, the highest rated on IMDb for 2023.
The Last of Us
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Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 4 digit figure highlighted.
Year in Review Name the U.S. Republican expelled from the House of Representatives this month after a scathing report from the Ethics Committee.
George Santos
2.
Year in Review The deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years devastated Hawaii in August. What island, popular with tourists, suffered catastrophic damage?
Maui
3.
Year in Review What 2022 film, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, won three awards at the Golden Globes in January: Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Actor - Musical or Comedy (Farrell), and Best Screenplay?
The Banshees of Inisherin
4.
Name That Tune The most streamed song worldwide in 2023. Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Miley Cyrus - Flowers (2023)
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Year in Review Name the leader of the Wagner Group killed in an airplane crash in Russia on 23rd August 2023.
Yevgeny Prigozhin (Евгений Пригожин)
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Year in Review A celebrated British actress who passed away in June 2023; who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 23 years, initially for Hampstead and Highgate from 1992 to 2010, and then Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010 to 2015?
Glenda Jackson
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Year in Review After winning four Grammys in February, who is now the most awarded artist in the prize's history with 32 awards?
Beyoncé
8.
Year in Review The highest-grossing comedy film of all time and the first film from a solo female director to gross over $1 billion worldwide, who directed Barbie?
Greta Gerwig
9.
Year in Review Tina Turner passed away in May 2023. What was her birth name?
Anna Mae Bullock
10.
Year in Review Who beat who in the Cricket World Cup final in November 2023? (½ point for each)
Australia beat India
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Year in Review In one of the year's highest-profile criminal trials, name the former South Carolina attorney convicted in March of murdering his wife and son.
Alex Murdaugh
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Year in Review During a concert in Cologne, Germany in November, what did Madonna ask her audience to collectively do after a count of 3?
