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50 free 2020 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
2020 was the year Parasite won Best Picture, Tiger King and Animal Crossing filled the first lockdown, the NBA played in a Disney World bubble and a 90-year-old in Coventry got the first approved vaccine. These pop culture trivia questions for 2020 cover the films, songs, shows, games, sports and news of a year nobody will forget. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which film won Best Picture in February 2020, the first non-English-language winner?
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's thriller also took Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature that night.
Q 02Joaquin Phoenix won the 2020 Best Actor Oscar for which film?
Joker
He and Heath Ledger became only the second pair of actors to win Oscars for playing the same character in different films.
Q 03Which Netflix true-crime series about Joe Exotic arrived on March 20, 2020?
Tiger King
Its first season landed a week into most US lockdowns and became the defining binge of spring 2020.
Q 04Which Switch game released on March 20, 2020 became the lockdown escape of choice?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
It went on to sell more than 50 million copies and set the record for most digital console sales in a single month.
Q 05Among Us exploded in 2020, but in which year was it first released?
2018
It drew little attention until Twitch streamers and YouTubers picked it up during the pandemic.
Q 06Which Taylor Swift album was surprise-released on July 24, 2020?
Folklore
It went on to win Album of the Year at the Grammys, making Swift the first woman to take that award three times.
Q 07Swift recorded her July 2020 album remotely with Jack Antonoff and which other producer?
Aaron Dessner
Dessner, of the National, worked from his Hudson Valley studio while Swift sang in her Los Angeles home.
Q 08Which comedy swept all seven major comedy awards at the 2020 Emmys?
Schitt's Creek
Its final season earned 15 nominations, a record for a comedy's last year, and won all four acting categories.
Q 09Who played chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Within four weeks it was Netflix's most-watched scripted miniseries and the top show in 63 countries.
Q 10Quibi launched in April 2020; roughly how many months later did it shut down?
Eight
Its library was sold to Roku for under $100 million a month later.
Q 11Chadwick Boseman died in August 2020 after a private battle with which illness?
Colon cancer
He had been diagnosed in 2016 and filmed his later Marvel appearances while undergoing treatment.
Q 12Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash near which California city?
Calabasas
The Sikorsky S-76 had departed John Wayne Airport in Orange County on the morning of January 26.
Q 13Alex Trebek died in November 2020 after 20 months with which disease?
Pancreatic cancer
He kept taping Jeopardy! almost to the end; his final episodes aired in January 2021.
Q 21Which team did the Los Angeles Lakers beat in the 2020 NBA Finals?
Miami Heat
LeBron James became the only player ever named Finals MVP with three different franchises.
Q 22The entire 2020 World Series was played at which ballpark?
Globe Life Field
It was the first World Series at a neutral site and the first since 1944 held in a single ballpark.
Q 23Who did the Kansas City Chiefs beat 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV in February 2020?
San Francisco 49ers
Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl MVP for the first time at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
Q 14The Last Dance centred on which Chicago Bulls season?
1997-98
ESPN moved the ten-part series up to April 2020 when live sport vanished, and Netflix carried it internationally.
Q 15What made BTS's chart-topping 2020 single "Dynamite" a first for the group?
Recorded entirely in English
It debuted at number one on the Hot 100, making BTS the first all-South Korean act to top the chart.
Q 16How old was Billie Eilish when she swept the four major Grammys in January 2020?
18
She was the first person born in the 21st century to win a Grammy; her brother Finneas took Producer of the Year at 22.
Q 17Who wrote and directed Tenet, the 2020 blockbuster that tried to reopen cinemas?
Christopher Nolan
Delayed repeatedly by the pandemic, it opened in the UK on August 26 and the US on September 3.
Q 18On which day did Bridgerton debut on Netflix in 2020?
Christmas Day
It was Shondaland's first scripted series for Netflix, adapted from Julia Quinn's Regency romances.
Q 19In Cyberpunk 2077, Keanu Reeves plays which character?
Johnny Silverhand
Silverhand is a rockstar-turned-terrorist whose engram lives on a biochip inside the player's head.
Q 20Where did the NBA build its 2020 bubble to finish the season?
Walt Disney World
The $190 million bubble near Orlando recouped an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue.
Q 24Which two artists co-headlined the Super Bowl LIV halftime show?
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez
Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Lopez's daughter Emme made guest appearances in a show built around Miami's Latin culture.
Q 25Eddie Van Halen died in October 2020 of what cause?
A stroke
He had been treated for tongue cancer since 2000 and died at 65 in Santa Monica.
Q 26Sean Connery died on October 31, 2020; how many James Bond films had he starred in?
Seven
He died in his sleep at 90 at his home in Nassau in the Bahamas.
Q 27Lewis Hamilton's 2020 Formula One title equalled whose record of seven championships?
Michael Schumacher
He also passed Schumacher's all-time win record at the Portuguese Grand Prix that season.
Q 28Pixar's Soul follows Joe Gardner, a teacher chasing a big break as what kind of musician?
Pianist
It was the first Pixar film with a Black lead, and Jon Batiste's playing sessions were used as animation reference.
Q 29Wonder Woman 1984 opened in cinemas and on which streaming service on the same day in 2020?
HBO Max
It became the platform's top streaming film of 2020, though the day-and-date release hurt its box office.
Q 30Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September 2020, was which woman on the Supreme Court?
Second
She was also the first Jewish woman on the Court, following Sandra Day O'Connor's 1981 appointment.