Our 2016 quiz: how much do you remember about that year?

Some years go by quietly, while others stay in everyone’s memory. 2016 was one of the latter: the Olympic Games were held in South America for the first time, a video game sent millions of people out onto the streets, and there were surprises in politics, music and sports. How much do you remember? Answer these eight questions and check the answers at the end.

The questions

1. Which city hosted the 2016 Olympic Games?
a) London · b) Tokyo · c) Rio de Janeiro · d) Buenos Aires

2. Which mobile game filled streets and parks with people hunting virtual creatures in the summer of 2016?
a) Candy Crush · b) Pokemon Go · c) Angry Birds · d) Fortnite

3. Which country voted in June 2016 to leave the European Union?
a) Greece · b) The United Kingdom · c) Italy · d) Sweden

4. Who received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, to the surprise of half the world?
a) Bob Dylan · b) Leonard Cohen · c) Paul McCartney · d) Joaquin Sabina

5. Which soccer team won the 2015-2016 Premier League against all odds?
a) Manchester United · b) Chelsea · c) Leicester City · d) Arsenal

6. Which baseball team won the 2016 World Series, ending a drought of more than a century?
a) Chicago Cubs · b) New York Yankees · c) Los Angeles Dodgers · d) Boston Red Sox

7. Which Mexican music idol passed away in August 2016?
a) Jose Jose · b) Juan Gabriel · c) Vicente Fernandez · d) Joan Sebastian

8. Which jazz festival held a new edition at Oasis in 2016?
a) Oasis Jazz U · b) Jazz on the Beach · c) Caribe Jazz Fest · d) Cancun Blues

The answers

1. c) Rio de Janeiro. They were the first Olympic Games in South America. We followed them with excitement in our Olympic Games article.
2. b) Pokemon Go. It was released in July 2016 and became a worldwide phenomenon within days.
3. b) The United Kingdom. The Brexit referendum was held on June 23, 2016.
4. a) Bob Dylan. It was the first time the Nobel Prize in Literature went to a singer-songwriter, “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
5. c) Leicester City. A team that had fought to avoid relegation the year before became champion of England.
6. a) Chicago Cubs. They had gone 108 years without winning the World Series.
7. b) Juan Gabriel. The “Divo de Juarez” died on August 28, 2016, and his songs are still heard all over Mexico.
8. a) Oasis Jazz U. We tell you all about it in Oasis Jazz U 2016.

How’s your memory?

• 7 to 8 correct: memory like an elephant. You surely remember where you spent your vacation that year, too.
• 4 to 6 correct: you remember what matters, and that is what counts.
• 0 to 3 correct: maybe 2016 was a year to disconnect… and there is nothing better for that than a vacation in the Caribbean!