Returning champion Helen Lewis is back with our traditional Christmas quiz about the dumbest online events of the year. Plus: the Satanic Temple goes nuts. “A Satanic Rebellion: Social justice collides with the Satanic Temple.” “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat” “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-obsessed State Fall For An Authoritarian Governor?” https://www.theatlantic.com/author/helen-lewis/ twitter.com/HelenLewis The quiz (answers here) * In January, kickboxer Andrew Tate started an online beef with climate change elf Greta Thunberg. On what email address did she suggest that he contact her to tell her more about his 33 cars, including a Bugatti? * [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected] * [email protected] * From which Covid-cautious journalist’s book on online life is this a real quote? “Building on the Digitour experiment, Magcon had reset the equation.” * Susan Meachem wrote books including “Losing Him and Finding You,” “Chance Encounter,” and “Finding Faith.” Then what did she do for two years? * Jack Monroe’s cookbook, Thrifty Kitchen, was branded dangerous because it suggested various questionable kitchen hacks. Which of these is NOT one of her suggestions: * Glue a ring-pull to your handbag to secure your sunglasses * Using the fluff from your navel to make firelighters * using a frozen glass bottles filled with water as a rolling pin * Using a large clean square of cotton to drain rice and pasta * In 2021, Bennett Madison claimed to have written two dozen fake letters to Slate’s Dear Prudence advice column, written by Daniel Lavery. Which is NOT one of the letters Bennett claimed to have written? * Help! My Friend Thinks I Am Stealing Vaccines From African-American Grandmothers To Attend Sex Resorts * I Wonder If My Wife Likes Her Girlfriend More Than She Likes Me * My Mother Is Trying To Convince the Guests At My Gay Wedding To Come Dressed As Disney Characters * Help! My Husband Won’t Remove His Mask, Even For Sex! * WHO AM I? I graduated from Kansas State University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering and vocal music. I claim to have been subjected to conversion therapy as a child. I enjoyed brightly coloured clothing, sometimes of African origin. * How much money was conservative personality Steven Crowder offered by the Daily Wire, an amount he described as a “slave contract”? * In March, Jordan Peterson posted a clip with the caption: “Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare CCP hell.” What did it actually show? * On Dylan Mulvaney’s 75th day of girlhood, she described her journey of adventure finding out about tampons. What topical phrase did she use to refer to a vagina? * To which of your rival podcast hosts did Spotify’s Bill Simmons refer to this year as “f*****g grifters”? * Thanks to a lawsuit, who was revealed this year to have texted a colleague about a video of a protester getting beaten up, saying: “It’s not how white men fight.” * Which fox-bothering legal eagle told a journalist this year: “I identify with the great protesters in history, people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King.” * “I’m done, I’m dead, you don’t understand, I do it to blow off steam,” a Penn State professor told cops in June this year after being arrested for bestiality with his dog. What breed was the dog? * What is the name of the magazine I used to work for, which ran competing articles on “what is a woman,” which you pronounced wrong in your episode on the subject? * Everyone was welcome at the Pink Peacock, a “a queer, yiddish, anarchist café & infoshop in glasgow’s southside” except two groups of people. Who were they? * In 2009, under the pen name Richard Hoste, who wrote the following in the comments section of a blog: “What is interesting to me is whether there are a lot of high IQ people who simply CAN’T do manual labor.