Q 01/05

Which Netflix true-crime docuseries about zookeeper Joe Exotic became a lockdown obsession in March 2020?

A) Making a Murderer

B) Tiger King

C) Wild Wild Country

D) The Staircase

Answer · why

B) Tiger King

Tiger King was watched by 34.3 million people in its first ten days, helped by arriving just as the pandemic kept viewers at home.

Q 02/05

Which South Korean thriller became the first non-English-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar, in February 2020?

A) Parasite

B) Burning

C) The Wailing

D) The Handmaiden

Answer · why

A) Parasite

Parasite had already won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and it was the first film to take both top prizes since Marty more than 60 years earlier.

Q 03/05

Which Nintendo game, released in March 2020, let locked-down players hold weddings and graduations on a virtual island?

A) Stardew Valley

B) Super Mario Odyssey

C) Pokémon Sword

D) Animal Crossing

Answer · why

D) Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 11.77 million copies in its first 12 days, and Joe Biden's presidential campaign even released yard signs for playe...

Q 04/05

A TikTok of a man skateboarding and sipping juice sent which 1977 Fleetwood Mac hit back up the charts in 2020?

A) Rhiannon

B) Landslide

C) Dreams

D) Everywhere

Answer · why

C) Dreams

Dreams soundtracked Nathan Apodaca's ride to work in Idaho after his truck broke down, and it remains Fleetwood Mac's only US number one.

Q 05/05

In which US state did a helicopter crew counting bighorn sheep find a mysterious metal monolith in November 2020?

A) Nevada

B) Arizona

C) Colorado

D) Utah

Answer · why

D) Utah

Utah lost the pillar nine days later, when four residents of Moab took it away, saying they had heard others planned to destroy it.