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
Keir Starmer's party took 411 seats for a 172-seat majority, its best result since 2001.
Q 02Who was Donald Trump's running mate on the winning ticket in the November 2024 US presidential election?
JD Vance
The Ohio senator was 40 on election day; 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
A local Emergency Service Unit officer fired at the gunman four seconds after the first shot and hit his rifle.
Q 04On how many felony counts was Donald Trump convicted in New York on May 30, 2024?
34
The counts were for falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Q 05Which country elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president in 2024?
Mexico
She is also the first person of Jewish heritage to hold the office, and took over from her ally Andres Manuel Lopez 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
His BJP fell short of a majority, leaving him reliant on 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
He left from Latakia airport in the early hours after an opposition offensive that took Damascus in less than two weeks.
Q 08What did South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declare on TV on 3 December 2024, triggering impeachment proceedings?
Martial law
Lawmakers voted to overturn it within hours; the episode has been described as an attempted self-coup.
Q 09The president of which country, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024?
Iran
The 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
Hungary was the last ally to ratify the accession, doing so on the same day; the flag went up at NATO headquarters four days later.
Q 11What celestial event swept across North America on April 8, 2024?
A total solar eclipse
The path of totality ran through Texas, the Midwest and up into Atlantic Canada, drawing millions of visitors.
Q 12In which US city did the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March 26, 2024, after the ship Dali struck it?
Baltimore
The 1.6-mile bridge carried the city's beltway over the Patapsco River; the Singapore-registered ship had lost power.
Q 13A faulty update from which cybersecurity company crashed 8.5 million Windows computers on 19 July 2024?
CrowdStrike
Airlines, hospitals and broadcasters went down in what has been called the largest outage in IT history.
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
He had been moved two months earlier to the Polar Wolf colony in Kharp, in Russia's Far North.
Q 23Which former US president died on December 29, 2024, having become the first to reach the age of 100?
Jimmy Carter
His last public appearance was a military flyover for his 100th birthday on October 1.
Q 14Which September 2024 Big Bend hurricane became the deadliest to hit the US mainland since Katrina?
Helene
It made landfall near Perry at Category 4 with 140 mph winds, then caused catastrophic flooding inland in the Carolinas.
Q 15Which October storm, 2024's strongest cyclone worldwide at 180 mph, hit Florida's west coast?
Hurricane Milton
It exploded from tropical storm to Category 5 in about a day and came ashore at Siesta Key.
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
The restoration cost an estimated $739 million; the Crown of Thorns relic returned on 13 December.
Q 18Which organisation of atomic-bomb survivors received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize?
Nihon Hidankyo
The confederation of hibakusha, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was honoured for showing through testimony 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
Her novel The Vegetarian had already 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
Hopfield said afterwards that, as a physicist, he was very unnerved by an AI technology which has no control.
Q 24Which former One Direction singer died after a balcony fall in Buenos Aires in October 2024?
Liam Payne
He was 31; his single Teardrops, which had not charted on release, entered the UK chart after his death.
Q 25Which producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller died on November 3, 2024, aged 91?
Quincy Jones
He had studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen back in 1957.
Q 26Which creator of Dragon Ball died on March 1, 2024, aged 68?
Akira Toriyama
He also designed the characters for the Dragon Quest video games and Chrono Trigger.
Q 27Which Dame, Downton's Dowager Countess and Hogwarts' Professor McGonagall, died on 27 September 2024?
Maggie Smith
She had won two Oscars decades earlier, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite.
Q 28Which actor, the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, died on September 9, 2024?
James Earl Jones
He once worked as a janitor in New York to support himself while studying at the American Theatre Wing.
Q 29Which country topped the Paris 2024 Olympic medal table for a fourth straight Summer Games, with 40 golds?
United States
The runners-up matched the 40 golds but took 91 medals overall; it was the 19th time the Americans had finished top.
Q 30Which French swimmer won four individual golds in Paris, a first for France at a single Games?
Leon Marchand
His fourth came in the 200 m individual medley in an Olympic record 1:54.06.