‘What is Brexit? and ‘Where is Brussels?’ were among the year’s most pertinent questions on Google’s search engine this year. From breaking news, to breaking Olympic records, and the UK’s break-up with Europe – the events of this year affected all of us in different ways.

Brexit, Toblerones and Bowie: Google’s Year in Search in 2016

Google search is the world’s most commonly used search engine, with the site said to deal with around trillions of search requests each year, and on Wednesday the Mountain View, Calif.-based company revealed which terms dominated its search engine in 2016.

Many of the phrases, unsurprisingly, reflect respective national events, news topics and other phenomena that rose to prominence throughout the year.

FYI, The term “trending” means that these words and phrases held the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period of time in 2016 as compared to 2015. Check the link above to see the full list of search queries that made it into Google’s top 10 trending list.