2024 Trivia
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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
Labour, led by Keir Starmer, won more than 400 seats on about 34% of the vote, less than five years after sinking to its fewest seats since 1935.
Q 02Who was Donald Trump's running mate on the winning ticket in the November 2024 US presidential election?
JD Vance
JD Vance had been an outspoken critic who called himself a 'never Trump guy' in 2016, then apologised for those remarks when he ran for the Senate in Ohio.
Q 03Near which Pennsylvania town did Donald Trump survive an assassination attempt on July 13, 2024?
Butler
Trump was grazed by a bullet at a rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania; the gunman, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper, and spectator Corey Comperatore died.
Q 04On how many felony counts was Donald Trump convicted in New York on May 30, 2024?
34
34: a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on every count of falsifying business records over a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, but his sentence was an unconditional discharge, with no jail term or fine.
Q 05Which country elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president in 2024?
Mexico
Mexico: her main rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, was also a woman, so the two front-runners made a first female president all but certain before a vote was cast.
Q 06Which prime minister won a third consecutive term in June 2024 but had to lead a coalition for the first time?
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi campaigned on a slogan promising more than 400 seats, but his BJP won only 240, short of the 272 needed to govern alone.
Q 07Which country's president, Bashar al-Assad, fled to Moscow as his regime fell in December 2024?
Syria
Syria: rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept from Idlib to Damascus in under two weeks, ending more than five decades of rule by the Assad family.
Q 08What did South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declare on TV on 3 December 2024, triggering impeachment proceedings?
Martial law
Yoon declared martial law late on 3 December 2024, accusing the opposition of anti-state activity; the National Assembly voted it down within hours, and he was impeached on 14 December.
Q 09The president of which country, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024?
Iran
Iran: Raisi's helicopter came down in fog in the mountains of East Azerbaijan province, hours after he had opened a dam on the border with Azerbaijan's president.
Q 10Which country formally became NATO's 32nd member on 7 March 2024?
Sweden
Sweden joined once Hungary, the last holdout, ratified its bid, ending more than 200 years of military non-alignment dating back to the Napoleonic Wars.
Q 11What celestial event swept across North America on April 8, 2024?
A total solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse: because the Moon was closer to Earth than during the 2017 eclipse, the path of totality was far wider and darkness lasted up to 4 minutes 28 seconds.
Q 12In which US city did the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March 26, 2024, after the ship Dali struck it?
Baltimore
The Key Bridge carried Baltimore's I-695 beltway over the Patapsco River; the Singapore-flagged container ship Dali lost power and hit a pier, and six road workers were killed.
Q 13A faulty update from which cybersecurity company crashed 8.5 million Windows computers on 19 July 2024?
CrowdStrike
Q 21Hassabis and Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using AI to predict the structure of what?
Proteins
Proteins: their AlphaFold2 model solved a 50-year-old problem, predicting the shapes of nearly all 200 million known proteins, and more than two million people have since used it.
Q 22Which Russian opposition leader died on 16 February 2024 in an Arctic penal colony?
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny had survived a nerve-agent poisoning in 2020, then flew home from Germany to Moscow the next year knowing he faced arrest, and was detained on arrival.
Q 23Which former US president died on December 29, 2024, having become the first to reach the age of 100?
Jimmy Carter
CrowdStrike's faulty Falcon Sensor update took down airlines, hospitals and broadcasters in what has been called the largest outage in IT history.
Q 14Which September 2024 Big Bend hurricane became the deadliest to hit the US mainland since Katrina?
Helene
Hurricane Helene came ashore near Perry, Florida on 26 September 2024 as a Category 4 with 140 mph winds, then caused catastrophic flooding in the Carolinas; its death toll passed 200.
Q 15Which October storm, 2024's strongest cyclone worldwide at 180 mph, hit Florida's west coast?
Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton exploded into a 180 mph Category 5 over the Gulf, then weakened to a Category 3 before coming ashore near Siesta Key on 9 October.
Q 16In which country did a magnitude 7.5 earthquake strike the Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024?
Japan
Japan: the next day a coast guard plane setting off with aid for the quake zone collided with a landing airliner at Tokyo's Haneda airport, yet all 379 people on the jet escaped.
Q 17Which part of Notre-Dame was destroyed in the 2019 fire and rebuilt before the cathedral reopened in December 2024?
The spire
The spire: the 19th-century wooden flèche collapsed through the burning roof, while the bell towers, the rose windows and the great organ all survived; a faithful copy now stands in its place.
Q 18The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize went to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of survivors of what?
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings: its members, known as hibakusha, were honoured for witness testimony showing 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
Han Kang was born in Gwangju and moved away at nine, months before the army's 1980 massacre of protesters there, which she later confronted in her novel Human Acts.
Q 20Hopfield and Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in which field?
Machine learning
Machine learning: Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI, had quit his job at a tech giant in 2023 so that he could speak freely about the dangers of the technology he helped create.
Jimmy Carter died at home in Plains, Georgia, aged 100, the first US president to reach the century; he had turned 100 on 1 October 2024 and voted in the November election.
Q 24Which former One Direction singer died after a balcony fall in Buenos Aires in October 2024?
Liam Payne
Liam Payne, 31, died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony; his four former One Direction bandmates came together for his funeral in England the following month.
Q 25Which producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller died on November 3, 2024, aged 91?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones also produced the 1985 charity single We Are the World, taping a sign to the studio door that told its dozens of stars to check their egos at the door.
Q 26Which creator of Dragon Ball died on March 1, 2024, aged 68?
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama based Dragon Ball loosely on the Chinese classic Journey to the West, turning its Monkey King, Sun Wukong, into his hero Son Goku.
Q 27Which Dame, Downton's Dowager Countess and Hogwarts' Professor McGonagall, died on 27 September 2024?
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith credited her long career to never having been 'a dish': as a character actor, she said, she simply aged into playing mothers and then grandmothers.
Q 28Which actor, the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, died on September 9, 2024?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones stuttered so badly as a boy that he barely spoke for years, until a high-school teacher had him recite his own poem aloud to the class.
Q 29Which country topped the Paris 2024 Olympic medal table for a fourth straight Summer Games, with 40 golds?
United States
United States: for the first time at a Summer Games two nations tied on golds, 40 each, so the table was settled on silver medals, 44 to 27.
Q 30Which French swimmer won four individual golds at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Leon Marchand
Leon Marchand won two of them, the 200 m butterfly and 200 m breaststroke, on the same evening, after organisers reshuffled the schedule to give him a chance at the double.