2021 Current Events Quiz

In November, Kyle Rittenhouse was __________ and three white men who shot Ahmaud Arbery were ________.

Which quarterback won his seventh Super Bowl on Feb. 7, leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory?

Which song by Olivia Rodrigo was the year's first "runaway hit single" when it debuted on Jan. 19th?

The disappearance of Gabrielle Petito, a 22-year old woman who had been _________ became a national sensation in Sept.

On Feb. 1st, Myanmar's military launched a coup. Which country is Myanmar?

President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, celebrating which major milestone?

In July, two founders of major corporations launched into space. Which billionaire DID NOT go to space?

On January 6th, a mob of people stormed which building as part of a protest against the election results?

On Aug. 10, Gov. Cuomo of __________ said he would resign from office?

Facebook said on Sept. 27 that it had paused development of an instagram service tailored for ________.

The US is one of the world's four biggest emitters of methane gas, along with the European Union, India, and...

GA passed controversial election rules in March. In response, which of the following was announced in April?

Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle, the muon, seems to be....

On July 7, a group of assassins fatally shot President Jovenel Moise of Haiti. Which country is Haiti?

On Jan. 27, amateur investors banded together to send which stock's value up by more than $20 billion?

A record 1.7 million migrants were caught illegally crossing, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded in...

The US surpassed ________ deaths from the coronavirus on Oct. 1, making this pandemic the deadliest in American history

NFT is a collectible that upended the cryptocurrency and art worlds this year. What does NFT stand for?

More than 20 states had proposed laws restricting or banning classroom discussion of "divisive concepts" relating to...

The catastrophic partial collapse of a _______ in Surfside, Fl. on June 24 led to the deaths of 98 people.

On July 26, Britney Spears petitioned a court to...

Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because of their use of ____________.

By the end of 2021, more than _________ people in the US will have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony?

Biden formally recognized the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turks more than a century ago as...

Ten people were killed and dozens more were injured at a concert in Houston on Nov. 5; who was the artist?

The Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that a PA school district had violated the 1st amendment by punishing a student for..

The three known survivors of the 1921 ____________ appeared before a congressional committee on May 19

The US experienced its biggest one-year increase on record in _________ in 2020.

Facebook announced on Oct. 28 that it was changing its corporate name to

The House passed a $1 trillion ________ bill on Nov. 5

On Feb. 13, the senate voted to ______________ President trump in his second impeachment trial.

On April 20, Derek Chauvin, a former policer officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd, was....

The World Health Organization endorsed on Oct. 6 the first ______ vaccine

The University of California agreed to not take ____________ into acocunt in admissions or scholarship decisions.

The U.S. military departed Afghanistan on Aug. 30, a day ahead of schedule, ending a _______-year occupation.

The remains of 751 people, mainly Indigenous children, were discovered at the site of a former boarding school in...

Which athlete withdrew from the Olympic team final?

NASA safely landed a new robotic rover on Mars on Feb. 18, beginning its most ambitious effort in decades to __________

A gunman's rampage on March 16th that killed 8 people, including 6 women of Asian descent, happened in which city?