Year in Review: 2013 by RoseM2

In 2013, Anthony Weiner – or rather, ♫Carlos d-d-d-d-Danger!♫ – got busted sexting with a woman who had what totally stripper-sounding, but totally real and legal name?

Sharknado was a thing that happened in 2013. It was also arguably the high point for what lead actress’s career? Personally, I’d argue it fell somewhere between her roles in “The Big Lebowski” and “American Pie 2.”

After Nelson Mandela’s death on December 5, 2013, mourners sang and celebrated outside Mandela’s longtime home in what outer district of Johannesburg?

We all watched the drama unfold as star football player Manti Te’o found out he'd been catfished by internet prankster Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Since I can’t in good conscience ask you to spell either of those names, I’d like to know: what school did Mani Te’o play for?

What former pop star wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus following her controversial performance at the 2013 VMAs, with a warning that music executives “will prostitute you for all you are worth ... and when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, ‘they’ will be sunning themselves on their yachts in Antigua, which they bought by selling your body and you will find yourself very alone.”?

Human cringe-machine Justin Bieber nearly caused an international incident in June when Germany demanded $10,000 and threatened to bar him from re-entering the country after he left WHAT in a Munich hotel room?

What rail station celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013? It opened as the world’s largest rail terminal in 1913, and is the sixth most-visited tourist attraction in the world.

Dedicated as always to truthiness, by what name did Fox News refer to the 2013 government shutdown?

What world power withdrew from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in May 2013, making it the only UN member state not participating in the agreement?

What work of art sold for a cool $142.4 million at auction in March of 2013, breaking the world record for most expensive painting sold at auction--a record set the year before by Edward Munch’s “The Scream”? (It was just ousted from the #1 slot this past May, by the $179 million sale of Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O").) Painting and artist both, please.

What philosopher, who held the distinction of being the second most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century, passed away in February 2013 at the age of 81?

A peace deal between the government and Tuareg rebels was signed on 18 June 2013 in what country?