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Current events trivia questions
18 questions, 2020 at one end and 2026 at the other: that is the Current events branch of Rewind. It is filed under Now in the picker with the note “The last few years”.
Current events: how the questions fall by date
The dates fall in 1 decade. Here is how many questions sit in each:
- 2020s: 18 questions
What a Current events card looks like
Four choices, one answer. The first words of the questions break down as follows: 9 start with “Which”, 3 start with “The”, 2 start with “What”. Each answer is followed by a fact of up to 19 words.
Each answer and its fact were verified against a source page before the question was added.
Current events samples and their answers
Two samples from Current events, chosen from the older questions. Neither is one of the ten the daily quiz is using around now.
Question (2021): Which NASA spacecraft flew through the Sun's outer atmosphere in 2021, a first for any craft?
Answer: The Parker Solar Probe. A carbon shield takes the heat while the instruments behind it sit near room temperature.
The wrong choices on the card were Voyager 1, New Horizons, and The Solar Orbiter.
Checked against Parker Solar Probe (Wikipedia).
Question (2022): Who became king of the United Kingdom when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022?
Answer: Charles III. She had reigned 70 years and 214 days, longer than any British monarch before her.
The wrong choices on the card were William V, Andrew I, and Philip I.
Checked against Elizabeth II (Wikipedia).
How to choose Current events in the game
Open Rewind, tap Branches on the title screen, and find Current events under Now. Its row shows 18 questions. Tap it, press Play these, and your ten for the day come from this branch alone.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
If you like Current events
- Politics and elections trivia: Campaigns, votes and the White House (18 questions)
- Football trivia: The NFL and the college game (16 questions)
- Hoops and the diamond trivia: Basketball and baseball (16 questions)
- The Olympics trivia: Summer, winter and the records (16 questions)
Every branch is on the Rewind topics page, and the other daily games are on the topics hub.