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# The ultimate 2022 news quiz answers

> See where you were right and what you got wrong.

By Daily Maverick · Published 23 December 2022, 13:57 SAST

## Content

**Which government building and National Key Point was set alight on 2 January 2022?**

National Assembly

**What is the name of Markus Jooste’s family trust?**

Silver Oak Trust

**True or False? Polish national Janusz Waluś, who infamously murdered the General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party Chris Hani in 1995, was granted parole in November 2022.**

True

**How did Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation allegedly launder money?**

Through cash-in-transit companies

**The cash found in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s couch at his Phala Phala lodge was from a transaction for ......... he claims to have done with a Sudanese businessman.**

Buffaloes

**Former National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole claims ............. that was a key player in the alleged R45-million ANC ‘Nasrec Grabber’ vote-buying procurement scandal.**

Fikile Mbalula

**Who was elected as the deputy president of the ANC at the party's national conference in December?**

Paul Mashatile

**Which soccer team DID NOT make it into the 2022 World Cup quarter finals?**

Spain

**Who is the Springbok rugby wing who was absent without leave for three weeks?**

Sbu Nkosi

**Which controversial billionaire businessman bought the social media giant Twitter for $44-billion?**

Elon Musk

**Which South African vocal artist did Daily Maverick’s Our Burning Planet team up with to record Eve of Destruction, our climate change awareness song?**

Anneli Kamfer

**Which popular American rapper was widely condemned for praising Adolf Hitler, denying the Holocaust, and identifying as a Nazi?**

Ye

**Which bird was named South Africa’s 2022 bird of the year by BirdLife South Africa?**

The Cape Gannett

**Which island state halted entry to all aircraft from South Africa in June due to a dispute over 73.5 kilograms of smuggled gold?**

Madagascar

**Where in South Africa will a Formula E race take place for the first time in 2023?**

Cape Town Atlantic Seaboard

**Johnson & Johnson will stop selling this product in 2023 following accusations that it causes cancer.**

Baby powder

**What is the name of the tavern in Scenery Park, East London where 21 young people died under mysterious conditions in June?**

Enyobeni Tavern

**What is the name of the Ukrainian president, who has led the country’s war efforts against Russia?**

Volodymyr Zelensky

**Which controversial advocate has been representing Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane in her Section 194 impeachment inquiry?**

Dali Mpofu

**True or False? President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Raymond Zondo as Chief Justice of South Africa in March 2022.**

True