Test your knowledge in the Quiz of the Decade

POLITICS

1 Which British political consulting firm shut down in May 2018 amid a scandal over harvesting people’s data from Facebook without their consent?

2 Which two countries, just 103 miles apart, re-established international relations in 2015 after 54 years of hostility including a failed invasion and a nuclear missile scare?

3 What did voters reject in a referendum in 2011?

4 What was the voting split in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum?

5 Where was Theresa May enjoying a holiday when she came up with her plan for the 2017 snap election?

6 Which son of a bus driver ended up in charge of London in May 2016?

7 Which former Cabinet minister was jailed in 2013 for perverting the course of justice by convincing his then wife to take speeding points on his behalf?

8 Who did Barack Obama defeat to win a second term as US president in 2012?

9 What was unique about the 2010 Labour leadership election?

10 What did Donald Trump try to buy from Denmark in 2019?

SPORT

1 In how many consecutive games did Leicester striker Jamie Vardy score to set a Premier League record in 2015?

2 Which team beat Stoke to win the 2011 FA Cup and lift their first trophy in 35 years?

3 Which country completed the Grand Slam to claim rugby union’s 2010 RBS 6 Nations title?

4 At which two distances did British runner Mo Farah win double Olympic gold again in Rio 2016?

5 Who announced their retirement from football in May 2013 after a 39-year career as a manager?

6 Where did Team GB finish in the medal table at London 2012?

7 By what score did Germany beat hosts Brazil in their 2014 World Cup semi-final?

8 Who beat England’s Justin Rose in a playoff to win golf ’s 2017 Masters?

9 Who beat Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open final, as the American tennis player suffered an extraordinary meltdown, to secure her own first grand slam title?

10 Who inflicted a first professional defeat on Anthony Joshua in June this year to win the IBF, WBA and WBO world heavyweight titles?

SHOWBIZ

1 Which celebrity couple coined the phrase “consciously uncouple” when they announced their divorce in 2014?

2 Which film won the 2017 Oscar for best picture after an embarrassing mix-up which saw the wrong winner announced?

3 Which reality TV star filed for divorce after just 72 days of marriage in 2011?

4 Which singer made history in 2018 when she became the first African-american woman to headline American music festival Coachella?

5 Which Hollywood actor finally won an Oscar in 2016, after being nominated six times but failing to win?

6 Name the British singer who made history when she won six Grammy awards in 2012?

7 Whose 2019 Glastonbury performance was named by the BBC as the most watched ever for the broadcaster?

8 Sir Paul Mccartney, Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Tom Jones and Dame Shirley Bassey all performed at which event in 2012?

9 Who was the first South Korean pop star to top UK singles chart in 2012 and with which song?

10 Who took a star-studded selfie at the 2014 Oscars that went on to break records?

ROYAL

1 Who thought their tiara was about to come crashing down as they walked down the aisle?

2 Which anniversary did the Queen reach in February 2017?

3 What year did William propose to Kate Middleton?

4 Which country did the Queen visit for the first time in 2011?

5 What was the name of the royal barge which carried the Queen and other royals down the Thames during the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant?

6 What was it the 100th anniversary of in 2017?

7 Who said the Queen was not the country’s greatest monarch when she became the nation’s longest-reigning sovereign in 2015?

8 Which royal was reburied in 2015 and where?

9 How long was the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding veil?

10 Which royal baby weighed 8lb 7oz at birth?

WHO SAID

1 In 2010, who likened the Conservative-lib Dem coalition to a “cross between a bulldog and a Chihuahua”?

2 Which footballer said in 2011: “I’m not happy in Manchester, I don’t like the city. Everything’s OK with the coach and my team-mates, but the city is not to my taste”?

3 In June 2012, after shaking hands with the Queen, who said:

“I’m still a republican”?

4 Who said this in 2013? “Winning Wimbledon, I can’t get my head around that. I still can’t believe it’s happened.”

5 Who was David Cameron speaking about when he said in 2014: “That was something. She purred down the line”?

6 Who said in 2015: “That is not music I would listen to. Would you listen to One Direction, sitting at a party with your girl? I wouldn’t”?

7 Who said, as counts got under way in the EU referendum in 2016: “...I think Remain will edge it, yes. It is a calm and rational feeling. If I am wrong, I would be thrilled”?

8 Who said of himself in 2017: “You’re about to see the world’s most experienced plaque-unveiler”?

9 Speaking in the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack in 2018, who said: “Frankly, Russia should go away and should shut up.”

10 Who said in September this year: “You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words”?

NAME THE YEAR

1 In which year did Gareth Bale become the then most expensive footballer in the world when he left Tottenham to join Real Madrid for £85.3 million?

2 In which year did England become the last country in the UK to introduce a mandatory 5p charge for plastic carrier bags at supermarkets?

3 In which year did the Sun on Sunday newspaper publish for the first time?

4 In which year did Tony Mccoy end his long wait for Grand National glory when he rode Don’t Push It to victory at Aintree?

5 In which year did a “visit to see Europe’s largest cathedral spire” lead to the attempted murder of a Russian ex-double agent and his daughter and the murder of a 44-year-old woman?

6 In which year were the so-called London Riots, a series of protests across England which started in Tottenham following the death of Mark Duggan?

7 In which year did then prime minister Theresa May reveal running through fields of wheat was the naughtiest thing she had ever done?

8 In which year did the first gay weddings take place in England and Wales, following a change in the law allowing same-sex marriage?

9 Which year saw the deaths of David Bowie, George Michael and Alan Rickman?

10 In which year was Climate Strike named Collins Dictionary’s Word Of The Year?

ANSWERS

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