Birth Year Quiz

The 2025 quiz

2 questions in the archive mention 2025. Here are 16 of them; New mix gives another lot.

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2024 2026

2 questions are about 2025 itself; the other 14 are about the years just before and after it.

1. Which band announced in August that they were reuniting for a world tour in 2025?

2. Which singer was, according to Forbes, the highest earning dead celebrity of 2025?

3. Kelvin Kiptum broke the world record time for the marathon at the 2023 Chicago marathon. Plus or minus 35 sec, what was his record time over the 42.195 km (26.2 mile) distance?

4. In 2016, rugby sevens gold gave which nation its first Olympic medal in any sport, and which country beat them in the men's sevens final at Paris 2024?

5. Senators are divided into three "classes", so that roughly a third of the Senate is elected every two years. Which class was up for election in the 2026 midterms?

6. LadBaby recently (2022) became the music act with the most Christmas No 1's in the UK charts. Which band did he surpass to gain this record?

7. Who is Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2023?

8. England's Lionesses won Euro 2022. Who scored the winning goal against Germany in the final?

9. To within ten, how many known moons are there revolving the other planets?

10. Plus or minus 4, how many points in total was the longest tennis tie-break in a Grand Slam singles event?

11. Which British city was chosen to host Eurovision 2023 on Ukraine's behalf?

12. Which NHL team is the all time points leader? (as of 2026)

13. The Paris 2024 mascots were based on what kind of hat?

14. Which country became the 20th member of the eurozone in 2023?

15. After the 2022 midterms, how many ballots did it take to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House, and in which year had a Speaker election last needed more than one ballot?

16. Which type of charging port did the EU make standard for new phones from the end of 2024?

ANSWERS

1. Oasis

2. Michael Jackson

3. 2:00:35

4. Fiji. France beat them in the 2024 final.

5. Class II

6. The Beatles

7. Taylor Swift

8. Chloe Kelly

9. Current tally is 290 (as of 2024)

10. 42 (Blinkova vs Rybakina, Australian Open 2024)

11. Liverpool

12. Montreal Canadiens

13. The Phrygian cap (the mascots were called the Phryges)

14. Croatia

15. 15 ballots. The last time before that was 1923.

16. USB-C

Where these questions come from
  1. Quiz of the Year 2024
  2. Pauls Quiz 487
  3. Quiz of the Year 2023
  4. Rugby Quiz 5
  5. United States Midterm Elections Quiz 1
  6. Pauls Christmas Quiz 7
  7. Quiz of the Year 2022
  8. Solar System Quiz 3
  9. Pauls Quiz 493
  10. Pub Quiz 140
  11. European Union Quiz 4
  12. European Union Quiz 3

Questions are chosen because they mention the year. Now and then one is only loosely about it: press New mix for another lot.