2022 Quiz

What in the World? A lot happened in 2022. Test yourself on all of it here. By Alexandra Sharp, a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy.

In November and December, soccer fanatics from around the world delighted in the FIFA World Cup. How many countries had launched a formal plea in July for FIFA to change the World Cup’s location? Chinese President Xi Jinping cemented a third term in office during October’s 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. In September, tensions skyrocketed in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh when almost 100 Armenian and Azerbaijani service members died in a large-scale clash. Oil production cuts are just the tip of the iceberg. As winter sets in, the continent is expecting a shortfall of how many cubic meters of gas next year? Which of the following did not occur as a result? Federally guaranteed reproductive rights in the United States are now on par with those of which countries? Which country had brokered a 2020 cease-fire agreement between the two countries? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embarked on the first trip by a U.S. As cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 surged around the world, China placed Shanghai under a strict lockdown. Europeans weren’t the only ones who suffered the catastrophic consequences of climate change this year.