TIME TO TEST YOUR 2023 KNOWLEDGE
1. Which actor withdrew from Strictly Come Dancing after sustaining an injury to his ribs?
2. Who became the first woman from an Asian background to win the Oscar for leading actress in March? 3. Who won the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Liverpool in May, and which country did she represent?
4. Which pop superstar was forced to postpone tour dates in June after spending several days in intensive care with a bacterial infection?
5. Which two blockbuster films were released on the same day in July, with many cinemagoers purchasing back-to-back tickets?
6. Sam Thompson was crowned king of the jungle on ITV1 reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! but who was the runner-up? 7. Whose much-anticipated memoir titled The Woman In Me was published in October?
8. What was the name of the Rolling Stones’ first studio album of original material since 2005, out in October? 9. The Beatles topped the UK singles chart in November with their song Now and Then. In which year was the group’s most recent previous number one?
10. Which popular TV series celebrated its 60th anniversary with three special episodes in November and December?
POLITICS
1. Lord Cameron became the 15th former prime minister to serve in a later government led by someone else when Rishi Sunak appointed him as Foreign Secretary in November. Who was the most recent previous ex-PM to return to the Cabinet? 2. What is the name of the agreement announced in February to replace the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol?
3. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced in September that he would ban which breed of dog by the end of the year?
4. Labour made history in October by winning which constituency, with the result representing the largest numerical Conservative majority (24,664) to be overturned by the party at a by-election since 1945?
5. Who in October became the Alba Party’s first MSP?
6. In May, who became the first MP for the Reclaim Party after he was expelled from the Conservative Party? 7. Home Secretary James Cleverly was at the centre of a controversy in November over which Commons constituency when he was accused of using derogatory language about it? 8. Why did Lancashire Police issue Rishi Sunak (right) with a fixed penalty notice in January? 9. Who was announced in June as the new leader of Plaid Cymru? 10. Which Scottish Government minister had to pay back a £10,935.74 roaming bill after his teenage sons used his Holyroodissued iPad to watch football matches while on holiday in Morocco?
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
1. World Cup winner Sir Bobby Charlton, who died in October at the age of 86, played most of his club career for which side?
2. The Prince and Princess of Wales made a trip to Jordan in June to attend the wedding of which member of the country’s royal family?
3. Adepeju Opayemi, 30, from Hackney, made headlines after she gave birth to her son on which unusual location in May?
4. A Just Stop Oil protester attempted to disrupt the wedding of which former chancellor in July?
5. Battersea Dogs and Cats home named its veterinary hospital after which comedian and long-term ambassador for the rescue centre following his death in March?
6. Love Island couple MollyMae Hague and Tommy Fury welcomed their first child in January but what did they name their daughter?
7. Football commentator John Motson, who died in February, was most associated with what item of clothing?
8. Media personality Paris Hilton named her daughter, born in November, after which UK city?
9. Nigel Lawson, who died in April at the age of 91, was best known as the long-serving chancellor of which prime minister? 10. Which actress, who founded Our Dementia Choir, had the group sing at her wedding to film director Jonny Owen in
August?
ROYAL
1. Where was the award ceremony of Prince of Wales’s Earthshot Prize held this year?
2. Which country did the King and Queen visit at the end of October and beginning of November?
3. How much did the funeral and lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 cost the UK Government, according to Treasury figures published in May?
4. Why was Charles and Camilla’s state visit to France postponed in March?
5. The Queen said she had fulfilled her late father’s long-held ambition when she became colonel-in-chief of his former regiment. Which regiment is it?
6. Who prompted a wave of praise and social media memes for her handling of the Sword of State at the coronation?
7. According to Nielsen BookData, how many copies of Prince Harry’s autobiography Spare were sold in its first week to become the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998?
8. What did the King (left) present to K-pop band Blackpink at Buckingham Palace during the state visit of South Korea’s president and first lady in November?
9. By what other name is the Stone of Destiny, a 152kg slab of pinkish sandstone on which Scottish kings were crowned for centuries, known? 10. Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank welcomed their second son at the end of May. What is his name?