QUIZ OF THE YEAR
Have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge of the year’s events with our quiz of the year!
NEWS
1 What is the name of the container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 23rd, and blocked traffic from passing through the channel for six days?
2 After a delay of almost a year, the 2020 World Expo opened on October 1st in which Middle Eastern city?
3 On March 25th, Avon and Somerset Police retracted a statement claiming that police officers had suffered broken bones and a collapsed lung as a result of a protest against which bill?
4 On June 17th, Edwin Poots resigned as the leader of which UK political party, after only 21 days in the role?
5 Which UK city was stripped of its UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021, with modern developments to the city’s waterfront being cited as a factor in the decision?
6 In September, which MP replaced Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary, becoming only the second woman to hold that office?
7 On July 21st, the International Olympic Committee awarded the right to host the 2032 Summer Olympics to which Australian city?
8 Which event, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, was officially made a federal holiday by President Joe Biden in June?
9 In October, a team of sleuths calling themselves the Case Breakers announced that they had determined the identity of which serial killer, who committed a number of murders in California in the 1960s?
10 In August, workers replacing a water main discovered a previously unknown stretch of Hadrian’s Wall in the centre of which UK city?
SPORT
1 Which rugby union team won the 2021 Six Nations tournament?
2 At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim shared the gold medal in which event?
3 Which Belgian midfielder scored the winning goal for Leicester City in the FA Cup final on May 15th?
4 On April 10th, Rachael Blackmore became the first woman to win which sporting event?
5 Which cricketer became England’s most capped Test player, surpassing the record previously set by Alastair Cook, when he was selected to play against New Zealand in June?
6 Which Jamaican sprinter won gold in both the 100m and the 200m women’s races at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?
7 At the UEFA Euro 2020 final on July 11th, which footballer scored the fastest goal ever scored in a European Championship final?
8 Which American golfer captained the United States to a record 19-9 victory in the 2021 Ryder Cup?
9 Which British sprinter shared the bronze medal with Johannes Floors in the T64 100m race at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, after they crossed the finish line at exactly the same time?
10 Which Russian tennis player prevented Novak Djokovic from completing a calendar Grand Slam by defeating him in the final of the US Open in September?
TELEVISION
1 In which Disney miniseries did Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen play an unconventional couple living in a mysterious town called Westview?
2 Which singer and actor starred as Ritchie Tozer in the drama series
It’s A Sin?
3 Who became the new host of the quiz show Mastermind after John Humphrys stepped down from the role?
4 Which Oscar-winning actress played the title role in the American crime drama series Mare of Easttown?
5 In May, Lily James and Dominic West starred as members of the Radlett family in a BBC adaptation of which novel by Nancy Mitford?
6 Which Scottish actress played DCI Joanne Davidson in the sixth series of Line of Duty?
7 On June 2nd, it was announced that which medical drama series would end in March
2022 after 23 years on air?
8 Which comedian is the host of the quick-fire quiz show
Lightning, first broadcast in January?
9 In August, which couple won the seventh series of the dating game show
Love Island?
10 Which actress and comedian was the first celebrity to be eliminated from this year’s series of
Strictly Come Dancing?
RIP
1 Captain Sir Tom Moore, who died on February 2nd, requested that his epitaph should consist of what six words, a reference to the epitaph of comedian Spike Milligan?
2 Which German racing driver and TV personality, nicknamed the ‘Queen of the Nürburgring’, died on March 16th, aged 51?
3 Jessica Walter, who died on March 24th, played the indomitable matriarch Lucille Bluth in which American sitcom?
4 Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April
9th, was born almost 100 years earlier on which Greek island?
5 Walter Mondale, who died on April 19th, aged 93, served as vice president of the United States under which president?
6 Una Stubbs, who died on August
12th, memorably portrayed which character in the BBC drama series Sherlock?
7 What is the title of the comedy series written by and starring Sean Lock, who died on August 16th, in which he plays a cynical swimming pool attendant named Vince?
8 Sarah Harding, who died on September 5th, was a member of which chart-topping pop group?
9 Which star of the classic sitcom Only Fools and Horses died on September 19th at the age of 79?
10 Jimmy Greaves, who died on September 19th, holds the record for most goals scored for which English football club?
CULTURE
1 What is the title of the poem by American poet Amanda Gorman which she read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January?
2 Beginning on September 18th, which Parisian landmark was wrapped in silvery blue fabric and red rope for 16 days in accordance with the wishes of the late artist Christo?
3 Which former Chancellor of the Exchequer became the Chair of the British Museum in October?
4 Which member of the royal family published her first novel, a historical romance entitled Her Heart for a Compass, in August?
5 In 2021, Sue Perkins became the permanent host of which BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game series, first broadcast in 1967?
6 Published in September, Beautiful World, Where Are You? is the third novel by which Irish author?
7 Having sent Danish artist Jens
Haaning the equivalent of roughly £63,000 to recreate an earlier work which artistically featured banknotes, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art unexpectedly received new artwork consisting of two empty picture frames given what title?
8 Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on which African island?
9 The winner of this year’s Turner Prize was announced on December 1st in which English city, which is also the 2021 UK City of Culture?
10 Which TV presenter’s second novel, The Man Who Died Twice, sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week on sale?
LUCKY DIP
1 In February, who became an unlikely internet star when a video of a meeting of Handforth Parish Council, which she was overseeing, went viral?
2 First issued on June 23rd, the new Bank of England £50 note features a portrait of which scientist?
3 Known as Brood X, billions of what type of insect emerged from the soil in the north-eastern United States this spring as part of their 17-year life cycle?
4 In June, Italian farmers Alberto and Giuseppe Rosso set a new world record by growing the largest recorded specimen of what type of fruit?
5 In October, which 90-year-old actor travelled into space on the second launch of Jeff Bezos’s space travel company Blue Origin?
6 Which cabinet minister was filmed dancing in an Aberdeen nightclub at 2am on August 29th?
7 In September, Pope Francis sent 15,000 portions of what type of food to inmates of Rome’s two prisons?
8 On August 11th, a piece of cake from whose wedding was sold at auction for £1,850?
9 In a poll conducted by the National Trust, the public voted to name a beaver kit who was born on Exmoor in July after which footballer?
10 In October, what item belonging to Andy Murray briefly went missing, along with his tennis shoes, when he left it underneath his car overnight?