Communications Major

As the keeper of one the leading curation sites about online news and trends, "What People Are Talking About Online", we were all set to write our "Best of 2012" story today. But then we saw this set of questions and it made us rethink our hook. At first glance of the questions, we knew we already had a lot of the answers. So, with advance apology to the New York Times and quiz creator Ben Schott, we present 2012: The Year in Answers.

LOS ANGELES — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and...

It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.

If you call old friends only once in a blue moon, start dialing: Today - August 31, 2012, is the last such event until 2015.