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🚢NAME SOMETHING FROM THE NEWS IN 2020 BEGINNING WITH S!🚢

The Adorbz A-Z game of 2020!

Every day until 2021 I will post a question like this:
NAME SOMETHING FROM THE NEWS IN 2020 BEGINNING WITH S!


I will post 3-4 per day to get all the letters in by the end of the year.


The answer to this question can be almost anything, such as...
● something from the news (like Covid-19 for C)
● a new feature/something memorable from SW (like Green Blob for G)
● a well known person who was influential this year (like Donald Trump for T)
● a well known person who died this year (like Diego Maradona for M)
● a new word in our conversations this year (think Lockdowns for L, Wuhan for W)
● memes, viral things from 2020
● anything else that is 2020-specific!

Feel free to answer as many times as you like and be as obscure or as obvious as you like, I want funny answers, political answers, sad answers, everything! The important thing is this...
Anyone who gives a unique answer for all 26 letters will get a prize at the end! (see FAQ)

Your answer will be considered unique if it is either:
○ the only time that answer has been given
○ the first time that answer is given if theres duplicates...so get your obvious answers in early before someone else takes it! Only one person will be counted per word.

But I'm looking for obscure answers too! You're much more likely to have a unique answer if you give something obscure or from early in the year, just as long as we will have heard of it or can easily search it up!

If your answer is a person...they should be categorised by their surname! So Joe Biden counts as a B and not a J.

I reserve the right to ask you to justify why your word is specific to 2020 😌 and adorbz decision on any answer is final 🏁
This is all just a bit of fun and the rules are quite arbitrary! Please don’t be offended if I don’t accept your answer, just make sure it is 2020-specific and fits into the categories above. Things that happen every year don’t count!

❓ FAQ and clarifications! ❓ https://similarworlds.com/3633959-I-Like-Putting-Things-In-Alphabetical-Order/3703167-FAQ-FOR-THE-A-Z-OF-2020-If-youre-unsure-what-the-A

➡️List of all A-Z posts⬅️: https://similarworlds.com/6071329-I-Am-Adorable/3660115-yumyaaaaaaan-hammerpaw-I-started-watching-Kipo
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KiwiBird · 36-40, F
S
Side hustles. A partial silver lining to the record unemployment and redundancy experienced across Australian society this year is that we saw all kinds of innovative side projects, especially food-related ones. Stood-down chefs were delivering ramen, hand-making pasta and selling curry out of their apartments. And a lot of people, bored at home, finally started that novelty Instagram account nobody – and I do mean absolutely nobody – asked for. My favourites include this man ranking items he found around the house and this muesli review account. Necessity (or boredom) is the mother of invention.
adorbz · 26-30, F
@KiwiBird I wanna see the muesli review account 🤣
Stop the vote count... one of the funniest news stories of the year, if you ask me... 🤣
Sheep...I’m Welsh
August.. (CNN)A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas -- or around $490,000 in American money -- at an auction in Scotland this week.

The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society. Bidding started at 10000 guineas (about but $13,000).
A bidding war drove up the price until an agreement was reached for the sheep to be shared between three farms.
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Scotch eggs are a substantial meal.

Sausage makers of the UK facing a post Brexit export ban.
adorbz · 26-30, F
@TheSirfurryanimalWales yeeee I wanted scotch eggs on the list 😆😆
Swansea-Outbreak of Mumps
Senegal-
140 migrants drown off Senegal in deadliest shipwreck in 2020: UN
Oct 29, 2020
Some 60 people were rescued by the Senegalese and Spanish navies, and fisherman, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Swamp King
New York Daily News | Dec 22, 2020 at 4:16 PM Researchers have identified prehistoric fossils found in Australia in the 1980s as those of a massive "swamp king" crocodile .

Star Trek Picard starts and Star Trek strange new worlds commissioned
deadgerbil · 26-30, M
Shark

(CNN)Researchers working in the waters off Nova Scotia, Canada, have found a huge great white shark that weighs 3,541 pounds and measures 17 feet 2 inches in length.

Scientists from OCEARCH, an NGO that is tagging and sampling white sharks, described the female shark as "Queen of the Ocean" and say they have called her Nukumi.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/americas/nukumi-great-white-shark-scli-intl-scn/index.html
adorbz · 26-30, F
@deadgerbil an omegashark to go with the omegasquid 😱
Sinterklaas infects care home with Covid19.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9050579/Santa-gives-Belgian-care-home-Covid-19-75-infected-superspreader-visited-residents.html
adorbz · 26-30, F
@HootyTheNightOwl oh no 😱
@adorbz I felt soooo bad when I first heard about this here on SW, too... ☹️
Stay home, Save lives, Protect the NHS - there, now I said the whole slogan!!! 😡
adorbz · 26-30, F
@HootyTheNightOwl well done 🤪
sarabee1995 · 31-35, F
Carol Sutton, actress who has starred on HBO’s “Lovecraft County” and OWN’s “Queen Sugar" and appeared in such films as "Monster's Ball," "Ray" and "The Help," died of complications of COVID-19

Popular Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, whose career spanned decades, died March 29 due to complications from the coronavirus.

Summer Olympics, which were supposed to take place in Tokyo, are postponed until 2021
Viper · M
Super Bowl

Reports sight it was good than Kansas City won the Super Bowl because Covid-19 was not yet in Kansas, but it was in San Francisco already by game day, so if San Francisco would have won the Super Bowl, there probably would of been extremely early mass spread there overwhelming the local hospitals.
Statues - people tore down statues as part of the black lives matter protests... and people protected the statue of Winston Churchill to prevent it from being torn down or removed.
Sports played without spectators
thursdaygirl · 22-25, F
Stockpiling supplies!
maturedragon · 26-30, M
Rishi Sunak become Chancellor
maturedragon · 26-30, M
@adorbz don't think I have enough time to finish it lol oh well
adorbz · 26-30, F
@maturedragon I’ll make you a participation award anyway you did really well to get so close with so little time! Everyone else had a week to do this 😅
maturedragon · 26-30, M
@adorbz aww awesome, thanks!
Mo Salah gets Covid-19 and recovers from it. 😉
adorbz · 26-30, F
Viper · M
Ships

Cruise ships were cancelled...
Viper · M
@HootyTheNightOwl Suck-up

Lots of people sucked up to the President for a pardon

And Becksta sucked up to the rule book lol 😋
adorbz · 26-30, F
@Viper 🤣🤣
@Viper Better a suck up than a stuck up... 🤣
Viper · M
States Rights

As described in T for Texas
Texas prosecutor who's looking for a pardon from Trump, filed a lawsuit to the supreme court for Trump, so that Texas could sue other states over their elections, when they knew damn well that was unconstitutional because a little concept called states rights which Texas is normally among the states that hammer and promote States Rights over others.
Viper · M
Supreme Court

As described in T for Texas
Texas prosecutor who's looking for a pardon from Trump, filed a lawsuit to the supreme court for Trump, so that Texas could sue other states over their elections, when they knew damn well that was unconstitutional because a little concept called states rights which Texas is normally among the states that hammer and promote States Rights over others.
Science! Oh wait, no... That wasn't as prevalent as it should be in a health crisis.
adorbz · 26-30, F
@NerdyPotato 😆 I’ll put on science not being prevalent enough then 🤪🤪
Sex - Government bans sex between couples who don't live together.
MarineBob · 61-69, M
@HootyTheNightOwl when they say goats people will start screaming, won't say which ones
Son of Sasquatch - banned out of SW...
adorbz · 26-30, F
@HootyTheNightOwl I never saw any of the things he did but I heard they were pretty bad :( I think, after he’d been warned so many times and was still being so aggressive he needed to go tbh but just hopefully not forever 👀
@adorbz I didn't know him too well, but I heard talk that he was going through something in his personal life - so I like to think that this is why he was being the way that he was.

He seemed so different towards the end than he was when I was trying to get to know him a bit better.
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Pfuzylogic · M
South Carolina Democratic primary makes Joe Biden the #1 Presidential contender.
Viper · M
Borat Sagdiyev

He had a movie, didn't he?
adorbz · 26-30, F
@Viper he did!
Viper · M
@adorbz Yeah, don't think many were gonna pull that last name out lol
Scottish Independence - They haven't been happy since the Brexit referendum.
Survivors
from the pandemic
from the Diamond Princess cruise ship
from riots
from refugee camps
Ships denied permission to dock because of Covid19.
Screens placed inside the house of commons.
Sewing machines became high demand to make masks and distribute them in the community and turn old duvet covers into scrubs.
Stay home, control the virus, save lives
Seaborne 1 Covid19 outbreak.
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
Sports still being played
SW-User
HannibalAteMeOut · 26-30, F
Social distancing
TheConstantGardener · 61-69, M
Super-spreaders.
Viper · M
Santa Claus! 🎅
Shortage of toilet paper.
MarineBob · 61-69, M
Self quarantine
SW-User
Dan193 · 31-35, M
Bernie Sanders loses again
FutureIdol · 31-35, M
SW-User
Viper · M
Suffering succotash

That describes 2020 lol
Gangstress · 41-45, F
adorbz · 26-30, F
BabyLonia · F
Statues

Self-Isolation

Shortage of pasta, flour and toilet paper

Saturn and jupiter conjunction
MrVintage71 · 51-55, MVIP
Sprouts😁
adorbz · 26-30, F
@MrVintage71 I need you to send a news article for something this vague 😆
@MrVintage71 Good luck finding something from 2020 to back up your claim!!! 🤣
Viper · M
@MrVintage71 bean sprouts are pretty good
GermanAf · 26-30, M
Sucks. Everybody. Sucks.

 
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