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Twelve months in politics can seem like a lifetime, and 2022 was no different.
Bills were signed, the Supreme Court handed down historic decisions, millions of Americans headed to the polls, and President Joe Biden finished his second year in the White House.
Republicans and Democrats clashed in midterm elections as the nation grappled with record inflation and the world grappled with the fallout from Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
It looks like 2023 will be just as eventful, with eyes on the candidates who could announce their runs for president in 2024 and the GOP take over the House.
So as you prepare, DailyMail.com has a series of questions to test your knowledge of the last 12 months in the corridors of power.
1) What did President Joe Biden do this year that no president in history has done?
a) Adopt a puppy
b) Completion of 80 years in office
c) drive a car
d) Falling down the steps of an airplane
2) In September, Biden called out the late Rep. Jackie Walorski in a speech after she was killed in a car accident. What state was her constituency in?
a) Wisconsin
b) Indiana
c) Ohio
d) Illinois
Joe Biden arrives to speak at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in Washington. At one point he calls the late Rep. Jackie Walorski
3) Who got married in the White House this year?
a) Hunter Biden and Melissa Cohen
b) Naomi Biden and Peter Neal
c) Ashley Biden and Howard Kerin
d) Valerie Biden and John Owens
4) …and after this couple banned reporters from the ceremony, which magazine featured them on the cover?
a) fashion
b) Vanity Fair
c) Ella
d) Harper’s Bazaar
5) What were the results of the 2022 midterm elections?
a) The Republicans won the House and the Senate
b) Democrats retained control of Congress
c) The Democrats maintained control of the House and the Republicans won the Senate
d) The Republicans won the House and the Democrats kept the Senate
6) At the November Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cambodia, Biden thanked this nation instead of the host in a blunder.
to Canada
b) Colombia
c) Costa Rica
d) Cameroon
7) This is the name of the case of the Supreme Court that annulled the right to abortion in the United States
a) Roe vs. Wade
b) Planned Parenthood v. Casey
c) Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
d) Griswold v. Connecticut
8) After the above ruling, voters in which state rejected an August ballot measure that would remove protection of abortion rights from their constitution?
a) Kentucky
b) Kansas
c) West Virginia
d) Michigan
9) This former president returned to the White House to have his official portrait unveiled
a) Donald Trump
b) Bill Clinton
c) Barack Obama
d) George W. Bush
10) Who did House Democrats select to become the new caucus leader once House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resigns?
a) Representative Jerry Nadler
b) Representative Hakeem Jeffries
c) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
d) Representative Jim Clyburn
Nancy Pelosi makes her House valedictory address as she announces that she will step down as speaker in November.
11) Which prominent member of Congress had their election on an automatic recount because it was so unexpectedly closed?
a) Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
b) Representative Lauren Boebert
c) Deputy Ilhan Omar
d) Representative Kevin McCarthy
12) Who did Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson replace on the Supreme Court?
a) Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
b) Judge Stephen Breyer
c) Justice Anthony Kennedy
d) Judge Merrick Garland
13) Which Trump-endorsed Republican Senate candidate won their election on a night of midterms considered disappointing for the former president?
a) Herschel Walker
b) J.D. Vance
c) Dr Mehmed Oz
d) Blake’s Teachers
14) Who became the first official candidate in the 2024 presidential race with an announcement in mid-November?
a) Donald Trump
b) Ron DeSantis
c) Joe Biden
d) Bernie Sanders
15) Which country was honored with the first state dinner of the Biden administration?
a) The United Kingdom
b) Japan
c) France
d) Ukraine
16) Biden went to Arizona in early December and was asked why he didn’t visit the border. His explanation was:
a) ‘My schedule is too busy’
b) ‘It’s too far away’
c) ‘There are more important things’
d) ‘It’s too dangerous’
17) Gasoline prices rose in 2022 amid historic inflation. What was the national average spike of a price per gallon in mid-June, according to AAA?
a) $3.89
second) $4.54
c) $5.01
d) $5.32
e) $5.67
18) This prominent Republican critic of Trump lost the 2022 primary and will leave Congress in January:
a) Representative Adam Kinzinger
b) Representative Liz Cheney
c) Senator Lisa Murkowski
d) Representative Denver Riggleman
Donald Trump leaves the stage of his Mar-a-Lago ballroom after an announcement in November
19) Which of the following funerals did Biden not attend this year?
a) Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
b) Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
c) Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo
d) Former US Senator Harry Reid
20) Who is the tallest person ever elected to Congress?
a) Representative Tom McMillen
b) Senator-elect John Fetterman
c) Senator Alan Simpson
d) Senator Bill Bradley
21) Which member of Congress changed parties in 2022?
a) Senator Bernie Sanders
b) Senator Joe Manchin
c) Senator Kyrsten Sinema
d) Senator Chuck Schumer
22) Joe Biden could announce his 2024 presidential bid in the new year, how many times has he run for the White House before?
to 5
second) 4
c) 7
d) 3
23) Who did Biden call a ‘stupid son of a bitch’ during a press conference in January?
a) Jake Taper
b) Chris Wallace
c) Peter Doocy
d) Chanel Rion
24) Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said that when he was a kid, his family ate this when they struggled with rising prices.
a) macaroni and cheese
b) Hot bags
c) Chef Boyardee
d) spaghetti
25) Just before Christmas, Congress passed the collective spending bill. What was the final amount?
a) 1.5 trillion dollars
b) $1.7 billion
c) $1.9 billion
d) $2 billion
26) Where was Biden when he fell off his bike in June?
a) Wilmington, Del.
b) Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
c) Camp David, Maryland
d) The White House
President Joe Biden fell off his bike in June. He has been seen being helped by Secret Service agents while he was surrounded by reporters and onlookers.
ANSWERS
1 – b) Completion of 80 years in office
2 – b) Indiana
3 – b) Naomi Biden and Peter Neal
4 – a) Fashion
5 – d) The Republicans won the House and the Democrats kept the Senate
6-b) Colombia
7-c) Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
8-b) Kansas
9 – c) Barack Obama
10 – b) Representative Hakeem Jeffries
11 – b) Representative Lauren Boebert
12 – b) Judge Stephen Breyer
13 – b) JD Vance
14 – a) Donald Trump
15 – c) France
16 – c) ‘There are more important things’
17 – c) $5.01
18 – b) Congresswoman Liz Cheney
19 – c) Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo
20 – a) Representative Tom McMillen – he is 6’11”
21 – c) Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – became independent
22 – d) 3 – if he announces application for 2024 it will be his fourth
23 – c) Pedro Doocy
24 – c) Chef Boyardee
25 – b) $1.7 billion
26 – b) Rehoboth Beach, Delaware