2024 Trivia
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80 free 2024 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
How well do you remember 2024? This year-in-review quiz covers the news that mattered: a Labour landslide in Britain, Donald Trump's return to the White House, the fall of the Assad regime, martial law in Seoul, the Baltimore bridge collapse and the CrowdStrike outage that grounded flights around the world. Then it turns to the Paris Olympics, Euro 2024, Copa America, the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, World Series and the year's champions in tennis, golf, chess and cycling. There are questions on space and science too: astronauts stranded on the ISS, samples from the far side of the Moon, the first commercial spacewalk, a record hurricane season and the Nobel Prizes for AI. Music, film and the people we lost in 2024 round it out. Every answer was checked against an encyclopaedia or news record and each question shows its source, so use it for a New Year quiz, a pub round or just to see how much of the year stuck.
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Q 01Which party won the July 2024 UK general election in a landslide?
Labour
Labour under Keir Starmer took 411 seats, a 172-seat majority and its best result since 2001; the Conservatives fell to 121 seats, their worst ever.
Q 02Who was Donald Trump's running mate on the winning ticket in the November 2024 US presidential election?
JD Vance
JD Vance, the 40-year-old senator from Ohio, was Trump's running mate; the ticket defeated Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
Q 03Near which Pennsylvania town did Donald Trump survive an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024?
Butler
Trump was grazed by a bullet at a rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania; the gunman, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper, and spectator Corey Comperatore died.
Q 04On how many felony counts was Donald Trump convicted in New York on May 30, 2024?
34
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, the first criminal conviction of a former US president.
Q 05Which country elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president in 2024?
Mexico
Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum is also the first person of Jewish heritage to hold the office, taking over from her ally Andrés Manuel López Obrador in October.
Q 06Which prime minister won a third consecutive term in June 2024 but had to lead a coalition for the first time?
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi's BJP won 240 seats, short of the 272 needed, so his third term rests on allies such as the Telugu Desam Party and Janata Dal (United).
Q 07Which country's president, Bashar al-Assad, fled to Moscow as his regime fell in December 2024?
Syria
Syria's Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow on 8 December 2024 as rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entered Damascus after an offensive of under two weeks, ending 53 years of Assad family rule.
Q 08What did South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declare on TV on 3 December 2024, triggering impeachment proceedings?
Martial law
Yoon declared martial law late on 3 December 2024, accusing the opposition of anti-state activity; the National Assembly voted it down within hours, and he was impeached on 14 December.
Q 09The president of which country, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024?
Iran
Iran's Bell 212 came down in fog in East Azerbaijan province after Raisi had opened a dam with Azerbaijan's president that morning.
Q 10Which country formally became NATO's 32nd member on 7 March 2024?
Sweden
Sweden deposited its instrument of accession in Washington on 7 March 2024, becoming the 32nd ally; Hungary's parliament had been the last to ratify, on 26 February. The Swedish flag was raised at NATO headquarters on 11 March.
Q 11What celestial event swept across North America on April 8, 2024?
A total solar eclipse
The total solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 traced a path of totality from Mexico through Texas and the Midwest into Atlantic Canada, with up to 4 minutes 28 seconds of darkness.
Q 12In which US city did the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March 26, 2024, after the ship Dali struck it?
Baltimore
The Key Bridge carried Baltimore's I-695 beltway over the Patapsco River; the Singapore-flagged container ship Dali lost power and hit a pier, and six road workers were killed.
Q 13A faulty update from which cybersecurity company crashed 8.5 million Windows computers on 19 July 2024?
CrowdStrike
Q 21Hassabis and Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using AI to predict the structure of what?
Proteins
Their AlphaFold system at DeepMind solved a 50-year-old problem in biology; David Baker shared the prize for protein design.
Q 22Which Russian opposition leader died on 16 February 2024 in an Arctic penal colony?
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, 47, died at the IK-3 'Polar Wolf' colony in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets, to which he had been moved in December 2023; Boris Nemtsov had been shot dead in Moscow in 2015.
Q 23Which former US president died on December 29, 2024, having become the first to reach the age of 100?
Jimmy Carter
CrowdStrike's faulty Falcon Sensor update took down airlines, hospitals and broadcasters in what has been called the largest outage in IT history.
Q 14Which September 2024 Big Bend hurricane became the deadliest to hit the US mainland since Katrina?
Helene
Hurricane Helene came ashore near Perry, Florida on 26 September 2024 as a Category 4 with 140 mph winds, then caused catastrophic flooding in the Carolinas; its death toll passed 200.
Q 15Which October storm, 2024's strongest cyclone worldwide at 180 mph, hit Florida's west coast?
Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton intensified from tropical storm to Category 5 in about a day, peaking at 180 mph, and made landfall at Siesta Key near Sarasota on 9 October 2024 as a Category 3.
Q 16A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024. In which country?
Japan
It was the strongest quake to hit the peninsula since records began in 1885, and came at the end of a years-long swarm.
Q 17Which Paris cathedral formally reopened in December 2024, five years after a fire gutted its roof?
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame reopened on 7-8 December 2024 after a restoration costing about 700 million euros; the spire was rebuilt to Viollet-le-Duc's design, and the Crown of Thorns relic returned on 13 December.
Q 18Which organisation of atomic-bomb survivors received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize?
Nihon Hidankyo
Nihon Hidankyo, the confederation of hibakusha from Hiroshima and Nagasaki founded in 1956, was honoured for testimony showing that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
Q 19Which South Korean novelist became the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2024?
Han Kang
Han Kang was the first Asian woman and the first South Korean to win; her novel The Vegetarian had won the International Booker Prize in 2016, the first Korean-language novel to do so.
Q 20Hopfield and Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in which field?
Machine learning
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won for foundational discoveries enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks: the Hopfield network (1982) and the Boltzmann machine.
Jimmy Carter died at home in Plains, Georgia, aged 100, the first US president to reach the century; he had turned 100 on 1 October 2024 and voted in the November election.
Q 24Which former One Direction singer died after a balcony fall in Buenos Aires in October 2024?
Liam Payne
Liam Payne, 31, died on 16 October 2024 after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires; his single Teardrops was released posthumously the following month.
Q 25Which producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller died on November 3, 2024, aged 91?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones produced Off the Wall, Thriller (1982) and Bad for Michael Jackson and won 28 Grammys; he had studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in 1957.
Q 26Which creator of Dragon Ball died on March 1, 2024, aged 68?
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama, who launched Dragon Ball in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1984, died of an acute subdural hematoma; he also designed the characters for the Dragon Quest games and Chrono Trigger.
Q 27Which Dame, Downton's Dowager Countess and Hogwarts' Professor McGonagall, died on 27 September 2024?
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith died aged 89; she had won Oscars for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978) long before Downton Abbey and Harry Potter.
Q 28Which actor, the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, died on September 9, 2024?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones, 93, voiced Darth Vader from 1977 and Mufasa in The Lion King (1994); he won Tony Awards for The Great White Hope and Fences.
Q 29Which country topped the Paris 2024 Olympic medal table for a fourth straight Summer Games, with 40 golds?
United States
The United States topped the table with 40 golds and 126 medals in all; China matched the 40 golds but won 91 medals overall.
Q 30Which French swimmer won four individual golds in Paris, a first for France at a single Games?
Leon Marchand
Leon Marchand won the 400 m and 200 m individual medley, 200 m butterfly and 200 m breaststroke; his fourth gold, in the 200 m medley, came in an Olympic record 1:54.06.