2020 Trivia
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97 free 2020 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
2020 was the year Parasite won Best Picture, Tiger King and Animal Crossing filled the first lockdown, the NBA played in a Disney World bubble and a 90-year-old in Coventry got the first approved vaccine. These pop culture trivia questions for 2020 cover the films, songs, shows, games, sports and news of a year nobody will forget. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which film won Best Picture at the Oscars in February 2020?
Parasite
Parasite was the first non-English-language Best Picture winner, and when Bong Joon-ho quoted Martin Scorsese in a speech, the crowd gave Scorsese an ovation.
Q 02Joaquin Phoenix won the 2020 Best Actor Oscar for which film?
Joker
Joker won Phoenix the Oscar, and the day after his speech about dairy cows he helped rescue a cow and her newborn calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse.
Q 03Which Netflix true-crime series about Joe Exotic arrived on March 20, 2020?
Tiger King
Tiger King drew 34.3 million US viewers in its first ten days, and Trump was even asked about pardoning Joe Exotic, though he left him off his January 2021 pardons.
Q 04Which Nintendo Switch game was released in March 2020?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons went political too: Joe Biden's 2020 campaign released official yard signs for players to decorate their islands.
Q 05Which 2018 game became a hit in 2020 after Twitch streamers picked it up?
Among Us
Among Us got so popular that in September 2020 its developer, Innersloth, cancelled a planned sequel to put all its focus into the original.
Q 06Which Taylor Swift album was surprise-released on July 24, 2020?
Folklore
It went on to win Album of the Year at the Grammys, making Swift the first woman to take that award three times.
Q 07Swift recorded her July 2020 album remotely with Jack Antonoff and which other producer?
Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner, of the National, sent Swift instrumental tracks, and within hours she sent back a voice memo of a fully written song.
Q 08Which show swept the top comedy prizes at the 2020 Emmys?
Schitt's Creek
Schitt's Creek drew modest ratings early on, but streaming on Netflix from 2017 built the audience behind its record final-season sweep.
Q 09Who played chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy's show set off a chess boom: Goliath Games said its chess-set sales rose more than 1,000% after the series came out.
Q 10Which short-video streaming app launched in April 2020 and shut down that December?
Quibi
Quibi raised about $1.75 billion from investors, yet after it shut down, Roku bought its whole library of shows for under $100 million.
Q 11Chadwick Boseman died in August 2020 after a private battle with which illness?
Colon cancer
Colon cancer was diagnosed in 2016, and Boseman filmed Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom between surgeries and chemotherapy.
Q 12Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash near which California city?
Calabasas
Calabasas: the NTSB found the pilot kept flying into low cloud, became spatially disoriented and lost control before hitting a hillside.
Q 13Alex Trebek died in November 2020 after 20 months with which disease?
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer did not stop Trebek hosting: he taped his final Jeopardy! episodes in October 2020, days before he died.
Q 21The entire 2020 World Series was played at which ballpark?
Globe Life Field
Globe Life Field saw the Dodgers win, but Justin Turner, pulled from the clincher after a positive COVID-19 test, came back out to celebrate on the field.
Q 22Who did the Kansas City Chiefs beat 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV in February 2020?
San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers led by 10 in the fourth quarter, but Patrick Mahomes led three late touchdown drives to give the Chiefs their first title in 50 years.
Q 23Which two artists co-headlined the Super Bowl LIV halftime show?
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez
Q 14Which ESPN docuseries followed Jordan's final Bulls season?
The Last Dance
The Last Dance was moved up to April 2020 because live sports had stopped, and it drew on footage from an NBA film crew that followed the 1997–98 Bulls.
Q 15Which BTS single, their first sung entirely in English, gave the group their first US number one in 2020?
Dynamite
Dynamite was released to bring energy to fans during the pandemic, and it made BTS the first all-South Korean act to top the Hot 100.
Q 16Who wrote and directed Tenet, the 2020 blockbuster that tried to reopen cinemas?
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan held out for a cinema release, and Tenet grossed more than $300 million worldwide, yet it still lost money.
Q 17Which Netflix series, based on Julia Quinn's novels, debuted on Christmas Day 2020?
Bridgerton
Bridgerton was the first series from Shonda Rhimes's big Netflix deal, and less than a month after its debut Netflix renewed it for a second season.
Q 18In Cyberpunk 2077, Keanu Reeves plays which character?
Johnny Silverhand
Johnny Silverhand's reveal at E3 2019 made Reeves a meme after he told everyone in the crowd that they were breathtaking.
Q 19Where did the NBA build its 2020 COVID-19 bubble to restart play?
Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World housed the teams, and once play resumed, no player inside the bubble tested positive for COVID-19.
Q 20Which team did the Los Angeles Lakers beat in the 2020 NBA Finals?
Miami Heat
Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler ran a coffee business from his bubble hotel room, charging $20 a cup, on the way to the Finals.
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez were joined by Lopez's 11-year-old daughter, Emme, who sang "Let's Get Loud" with her mother.
Q 24Eddie Van Halen died in October 2020 of what cause?
A stroke
A stroke was the immediate cause on his death certificate; years earlier he had blamed his tongue cancer on holding metal guitar picks in his mouth.
Q 25Which unofficial 1983 Bond film starred Sean Connery, who died in 2020?
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again got its title from Connery's wife, Micheline, a nod to his vow never to play Bond again.
Q 26Lewis Hamilton's 2020 Formula One title equalled whose record of seven championships?
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher's seven titles were matched, but a positive COVID-19 test soon kept Hamilton out of the Sakhir Grand Prix, where George Russell took his seat.
Q 27Pixar's Soul follows Joe Gardner, a teacher chasing a big break as what kind of musician?
Pianist
Pianist Joe Gardner's hands were animated from videos of Jon Batiste playing, and Batiste also wrote the film's jazz.
Q 28Wonder Woman 1984 opened in cinemas and on which streaming service on the same day in 2020?
HBO Max
HBO Max streamed it at no extra cost, and to keep cinemas on board, Warner Bros. agreed to pull it from HBO Max after a month.
Q 29Who filled Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat in October 2020?
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed about a week before the 2020 election by the Senate Republicans who had refused Merrick Garland a hearing in the 2016 election year.
Q 30Cardi B's August 2020 hit "WAP" featured which rapper?
Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B later performed WAP together on stage at the 2021 Grammys.