Test your memory of the big stories
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-premier 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 (below) 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 conwith stituency, 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 two weeks 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 with a fixed penalty notice in January? 9. Who was announced in June as the new leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Parliament’s third biggest party?
10. Which Scottish Government minister had to pay back a £10,935.74 roaming bill after his teenage sons used his Holyrood-issued iPad to watch football matches while on holiday in Morocco? 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 coun t ry 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 muchanticipated memoir titled The Woman In Me was published in October? 8. What was the name of the Rolling Stones’ (above) first studio album of original material since 2005, released 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? 1. Which comedian said “I take great care in the words I use and when I use swearwords, I mean to use them. I don’t like a loose use of filth. I like a precise use of filth” when asked about a foul-mouthed blunder about Jeremy Hunt on Radio 4’s Today programme the previous October?
2. Who was Grant Shapps speaking about in January when he said “I simply told the team he needs hair-brushing, not airbrushing”?
3. Who said “we can’t control the weather in Spain” when confronted with the news that supermarkets were limiting sales of fruit and vegetables?
4. Which DJ said “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make and I have loved being here with you” as they signed off from their BBC Radio 2 programme for the last time?
5. Which member of the royal family declared himself “a masala man” while on a visit to an Indian street food restaurant in Birmingham this April?
6. Name the Australian musician who defended his decision to attend the coronation by saying “I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age”. 7. Which Lioness said this about
the popularity of women’s football: “The one thing now is even my dog gets recognised. Even if I am not walking her, people know who my dog is”? 8. Which Britpop star said “tonight, the Manchester rain will taste like champagne” after Manchester City’s Champions League victory? 9. Which artist said “for the first 20 years of my career, I was the transvestite potter, that was my kind of brand. But, of course, now you can’t say that. Now I’m the transvestite ceramicist”?
10. Which politician was Sky News’s deputy political editor Sam Coates talking about when he said “for centrist dads, daddy has come home”? 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 surprise 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, (below)who died in April at the age of 91, was best known as the longserving 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? 1. On January 1 2023, which country became the first to join the eurozone since Lithuania in 2015?
2. In February, the US military shot down a balloon that the US says was used for surveillance, but which country claimed instead it was merely a civilian weather monitoring device?
3. In April, SpaceX’s Starship – the biggest and most powerful space rocket ever developed – exploded minutes