(2PD) Search, Word, Person of 2022

The most popular Google search (US and Global) in 2022

• Wonder Bread

• Wordle

• World Cup

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Wordle is a famous word puzzle game. The creator, Josh Wardle, designed it for his wife during the Covid ___________.

• academic

• pandemic

• variant

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The New York Times reportedly paid Wardle in the range of the low seven figures for the game, which means at least _________

• $10 million

• $1 million

• $100 thousand

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The 2022 Word of the Year (according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

• Ukraine

• quiet quitting

• gaslighting

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Gaslighting means “grossly __________ someone especially for one’s own advantage." (2 are correct)

• manipulating

• misleading

• trusting

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"The term comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movie based on that play, the plot of which involves a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane. His mysterious activities in the attic cause the house’s gas lights to dim, but he insists to his wife that the lights are not dimming and that she can’t trust her own _______."

• perceptions

• prescriptions

• perspirants

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Other words that have similar meanings are: disinformation, ________, and _________.

• fake news

• deep fake

• flattery

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Time Magazine's 2022 'Person of the Year' is __________

• Vladimir Putin

• Donald Trump

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Zelenskyy was an actor who is now the president of _______

• Ukraine

• Russia

• FIFA

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Zelenskyy was chosen as "Person of the Year" for his leadership during Ukraine's war with _________

• North Korea

• Russia

• Soviet Union

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