Print PDF version of this Round 2020 General Knowledge Quiz of the Year

Published: Monday, 9th November 2020

 

As we come towards one of the most extraordinary years in decades, where so much has had to be postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic, how much can you recall about events that have actually happened?

 

This quiz contains questions about music and film awards as well as other big newsworthy items with a few quirkier questions thrown in to test how much you remember. Good luck!

 

We have a lot more 2020 Quiz of the Year rounds available in our archives. Keep checking back as more are published right up until New Years' Eve.

 

Questions:

1) In the 2020 Brits awards Lewis Capaldi won the Best Single award for which song?

 

2) Which Exeter based regional airline went into administration in March 2020?

 

3) Which artist became the first to win all four major Grammy awards in 2020, collecting Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist?

 

4) Which British war film, starring George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman collected ten Oscar nominations following its' January 2020 release?

 

5) In February of this year, which country became the first to make all public transport free of charge?

 

6) Who won the ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture’ award at the Golden Globes for his role in the film ‘Joker’?

 

7) According to Forbes magazine, which CEO is the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding $200 billion?

 

8) A team of British and Kenyan scientists have discovered Microsporidia MB, a potential means of stopping mosquitos from carrying which disease?

 

9) In July, NASA launched a mission which will reach its destination on which planet in February 2021?

 

10) In October, New Caledonia had a referendum and decided not to become independent from which country?

 

 

Answers:

1) In the 2020 Brits awards Lewis Capaldi won the Best Single award for which song?

Someone You Loved

 

2) Which Exeter based regional airline went into administration in March 2020?

Flybe

 

3) Which artist became the first to win all four major Grammy awards in 2020, collecting Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist?

Billie Eilish

 

4) Which British war film, starring George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman collected ten Oscar nominations following its' January 2020 release?

1917

 

5) In February of this year, which country became the first to make all public transport free of charge?

Luxembourg

 

6) Who won the ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture’ award at the Golden Globes for his role in the film ‘Joker’?

Joaquin Phoenix

 

7) According to Forbes magazine, which CEO is the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding $200 billion?

Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

 

8) A team of British and Kenyan scientists have discovered Microsporidia MB, a potential means of stopping mosquitos from carrying which disease?

Malaria

 

9) In July, NASA launched a mission which will reach its destination on which planet in February 2021?

Mars

 

10) In October New Caledonia had a referendum and decided not to become independent from which country?

France