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50 free 2025 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 2025 trivia quiz is a year-in-review test of the stories that made the headlines. It runs month by month: the Los Angeles wildfires and the DeepSeek stock shock in January, the Potomac mid-air collision, Firefly's Blue Ghost landing on the Moon, the death of Pope Francis and the election of Leo XIV, Eurovision in Basel, the Air India 787 crash, the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, the Kamchatka earthquake, Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Louvre crown-jewel heist, Hurricane Melissa, Japan's first female prime minister, and the Nobel Prizes. The easy questions are the ones everyone remembers: who became pope, which rocket company finally landed its booster, which country won Eurovision. The harder ones ask which pharaoh's tomb was found, how many cardinals voted in the conclave, which city the UN said had overtaken Tokyo, and who won the Chopin Competition. If you want the previous year, our 2024 trivia quiz is the companion page. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia's year-in-review entries before publishing, and the sentence that supports it is stored with each question.
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Q 01Which country became the tenth member of BRICS on January 6, 2025?
Indonesia
It was the first Southeast Asian nation to join the bloc.
Q 02Which metropolitan area suffered the most destructive wildfires in its history in January 2025?
Greater Los Angeles
Over 13,000 structures were destroyed and 180,000 people evacuated.
Q 03Which Chinese chatbot's release wiped almost $600 billion off Nvidia's value on January 27?
DeepSeek
It was the biggest single-day drop for one company in US stock market history.
Q 04Which comic-strip sailor's first version entered the public domain on January 1, 2025?
Popeye
The first Tintin stories entered the public domain the same day.
Q 05Which country became the first in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in January?
Thailand
It was the 38th country worldwide; Liechtenstein had become the 37th weeks earlier.
Q 06A US Army Black Hawk collided with a PSA Airlines jet near which airport on January 29?
Washington National
There were no survivors among the 67 people aboard the two aircraft.
Q 07Who was appointed president of Syria on January 29 after the fall of the Assad regime?
Ahmed al-Sharaa
The post had been vacant for a month.
Q 08Which team beat the Kansas City Chiefs 40–22 in Super Bowl LIX?
Philadelphia Eagles
The game was played in New Orleans on February 9.
Q 09Which pharaoh's tomb, announced in February, was the first royal tomb found since Tutankhamun's?
Thutmose II
It was the 15th and final pharaoh's tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty to be located.
Q 10Which country became a diarchy with spouses Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as co-presidents?
Nicaragua
The change followed a constitutional reform in February.
Q 11Which company's Blue Ghost became the first commercial lander to reach the Moon without issues?
Firefly Aerospace
The landing on March 2 was the first fully successful lunar touchdown by a private company.
Q 12Which former Philippine president was arrested in March on an ICC warrant?
Rodrigo Duterte
The warrant cited crimes against humanity linked to his drug war.
Q 13Who became the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee?
Kirsty Coventry
The Zimbabwean swimmer won in the first round of voting at the 144th IOC Session.
Q 21Who became Chancellor of Germany on May 6 after losing the first round of parliamentary voting?
Friedrich Merz
Winning only on the second ballot was a first in post-war German history.
Q 22What papal name did Robert Francis Prevost take after the May conclave?
Leo XIV
He is the first pope from North America and the first from the Order of Saint Augustine.
Q 23How many cardinal electors took part in the 2025 conclave?
133
They chose the new pope on the fourth ballot.
Q 24Which Swiss city hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2025?
Q 14A 7.7-magnitude earthquake on March 28 killed more than 5,000 people in which country?
Myanmar
The official toll reached 5,413 dead and 11,402 injured.
Q 15Which SpaceX mission became the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit?
Fram2
It launched on a Falcon 9 on April 1.
Q 16Which biotech firm showcased grey wolves edited to resemble dire wolves in April?
Colossal Biosciences
The same company created 'woolly mice' in March as part of its mammoth project.
Q 17Which exoplanet's atmosphere was reported in April to contain dimethyl sulfide?
K2-18b
On Earth the compound is only known to be produced by life; the world lies 124 light-years away.
Q 18How old was Pope Francis when he died on April 21, 2025?
88
He had led the Catholic Church since 2013; delegations from 164 countries attended his funeral.
Q 19Who became Prime Minister of Canada in 2025 after Justin Trudeau's resignation?
Mark Carney
The former Bank of Canada governor led the Liberals to a fourth consecutive win on April 28.
Q 20A widespread power outage on April 28 hit which two countries for hours?
Spain and Portugal
Andorra lost power for a few seconds and southern France was lightly affected.
Basel
Austria's JJ won with 'Wasted Love'.
Q 25Which country's contestant JJ won Eurovision 2025?
Austria
The contest was staged in Basel from May 13 to 17.
Q 26What was the name of Ukraine's June 1 drone attack on Russian air bases?
Operation Spiderweb
More than 40 Russian Air Force aircraft were attacked.
Q 27Who won South Korea's June 3 presidential election held after Yoon Suk Yeol's removal?
Lee Jae Myung
The Constitutional Court had upheld Yoon's impeachment 8–0 in April.
Q 28Air India Flight 171, which crashed on June 12, was which type of aircraft?
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
It was the first fatal crash of the type; one passenger survived.
Q 29Which club won the first expanded FIFA Club World Cup, held in the United States?
Chelsea
The tournament ran from June 14 to July 13.
Q 30US B-2 bombers struck Iranian nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan and which third location on June 22?
Fordow
Iran fired missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq the following day.