2016 Year in Review

"I don't follow celebrities," haha... What does that even mean?

"Quizmaster - I'm not a stalker, how do you expect me to answer this question?"

Don't criticize someone's English until you really learn how to speak it.

English must not be your first language.

Perhaps "out of the spotlight" means he's never appeared on a quiz on this site before. :) I've never heard of him either. Not listening to current music doesn't make one ignorant or uninformed, it only means one has different tastes or interests. Not better, not worse, just different.

I don't see how knowing about popular music can be harmful...even though I have no affinity for it, this really might help!

Wow you decided for a rapper named Drake, who is not even interesting outside North-America. No question about the war in Syria, no David Bowie, who died this year and so many other more important questions than Drake or Pitt or an Iphone. Really sad,and shallow choice of questions, sorry.

Well, there is a 2016 obituary quiz that covers Bowie. As for Syria, probably could have been included.

Well, let me ask about it...I think it must have been Aleppo, too!

What's Aleppo? :)

I heard from a prominent Libertarian that it is an acronym.

Another difficulty is that things which seem unimportant at the time turn out to be major events in hindsight and vice versa. Just for fun I looked back at events in 1969. The Stonewall Riot in NYC was something I never heard of at the time, but is now listed as an important event because it was the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement in the US. Mario Puzo's book, The Godfather, has greater importance in hindsight, but only because it was later made into three major movies. Who knew that Nixon's inauguration would eventually cause such an uproar in American politics? I thought this quiz was a good mix of pop, political, historical, and sporting events for the year. The future will determine whether any of these are important.

From Wikipedia:

Drake holds several Billboard chart records. He has the most charted songs (154) among solo artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week (24), the most time on the Hot 100 (431 weeks) and the most Hot 100 debuts in a week (21).[22] Drake also has the most number one singles on the Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Rhythmic Charts.[23][24] Alongside his Grammy Award wins, Drake has won three Juno Awards and six American Music Awards, as well as a record thirteen Billboard Music Awards.

How can you think that Drake is not interesting outside of North America? He is probably the most succesful recording artist throughout the last 3 or 4 years.

I couldn't name a single song by him (her?), and I couldn't recognise him (her?) in a picture, but I am aware of him (her?) and enough to get the name in this quiz. You don't have to stalk celebrities to be aware of the world around you. (I'm 95% sure it's a he by the way)

I answered one question. Got two of them right. "Pokemon Go". Oops.

I think AlphaGo is too hard an answer to come up with, but I do agree that some change should probably be made. I always feel guilty when I answer a question accidentally, even if I am sure I would have gotten the answer anyway.

The Cubs was the sports story of the year. So . . . sorry Warriors fan, but THANK YOU CLEVELAND.

Let's get things right here, it was the sports story of the year... In America only.

Did anything else as important as that happen in Europe? If so, I never heard it

Leicester winning the Premier League is a much bigger story. Nobody cares about MLB outside of North America, the whole world watches the Premier League.

Leicester City winning the Premier League was the sports story of the PLANET. Only here in the U.S. was that feat not given the coverage it deserved. It was bigger than Chaminade defeating #1 Virginia and probably also bigger than the Miracle on Ice in 1980, primarily because it wasn't simply a 1-game/match achievement. LCFC did it over the course of an entire season. It would be the equivalent of San Jose State's football team entering the NFL this year, finishing with the best overall record and winning the Super Bowl. It's beyond impossible. Yet Leicester City did it.

nobody cared that the cubs won. the Cavs made one of the biggest comebacks in sports history. it solidified Lebron as one of the greats. the cubs beat an Indians team lacking some of their best pitchers.

Was expecting a question on Duterte or the war on drugs/extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

I live in a smaller city, so fortunately the Pokemon Go plague didn't affect me much. However, visited the city of Calgary, (closest large city of 1mil+), the same month of the Canadian release. Almost everyone was staring down at their phones. Never saw anything like it.

The zombie apocalypse ended quite quickly and peacefully. No seriously, it completely died out in just a few weeks.

At least they were actually outside.

Too GO/Pokemon GO-centric

Only got Go from typing Pokemon Go. Also, please accept earbud for headphone.

So many things happened in 2016 that I think we could almost use two quizzes instead of one.

Possibly, but maybe not now as most of the most famous ones have been used.

Answered 2 questions, got 4 right ;)

I've always known it as "Universal Jack" because it's about so much more than just headphones.

I saw "_____ Jack" and immediately tried "Springheeled".

I typed "pokemon go" and actually got two answers, one of them I never would have gotten otherwise.

I tried earphones, earbuds, speaker. I knew the answer but didn't get credit.

7.5mm

Climate change was supposed to be in the title in the ratification process that took place throughout democratic nations, as well...Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, weren't in there, but the Holy See and Palestine were actually members? They were called the Paris Accords, the stars were minor news, Leicester was a lot earlier, and 49 people died in the Pulse Nightclub shootings, so it wasn't false or inaccurate.

I got 5. woo.

everyone here getting annoyed cos they're 'shallow events' don't be salty just cos u got it wrong xxxxx only focusing on main events might make for an easy quiz but an easy quiz isn't necessarily a good one

I think this quiz needs to be fixed. "Stupid" wasn't accepted for the nickname for UK's decision to leave EU.

Neither was FREEEEEDOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I demand it be a typein (as long as it's all in caps and with at least 8 exclamation marks).

I tried CNN first.

Ah, but you're on the internet. Everything is liberal here.

ha me too

Fox and Friends?

FOX insnt fake news

You forgot Hurricane Matthew in that quiz

Kudos for recognizing Leicester City's winning the Premier League as one of the noteworthy events of the year!

I've often considered checking out Spotify. Not any more.

I always boycott stores and services when I find out that other people who use them and I will never interact with buy stuff from them that I would not myself buy. Smart.

Someone had to be the 1st to do it, in 10 years no new phones will have 'em. Sad but true. Probably.