The Big Scottish Field

Gather round a roaring fire and put your family’s knowledge to the test with Grazza and Rosie’s famous Quiz of the Year

SPORT

1. Where were the 2020 Olympics supposed to be held?

2. Which tennis player topped the 2020 Forbes Magazine list of highest-paid athletes?

3. F1 driver Lewis Hamilton beat Michael Schumacher’s record by winning how many races?

4. Which sports personality kept the nation going during lockdown with his PE Lessons?

5. Before their win against Serbia in November, how many years had it been since Scotland reached a major men’s international tournament?

6. Who won the Six Nations Championship in November?

7. The US Masters 2020 was won by who?

8. What event, scheduled for 14 March, was cancelled on 13 March to the dismay of thousands of travelling Scottish supporters?

9. How many Grand Slam titles has Andy Murray won?

10. Where are the 2028 Olympics going to be held?

FILM & TV

11. Which 2020 film starring Robert Downey Jr. tells the story of a physician who can talk to animals?

12. What Netflix show was everyone talking about that followed the life of Joe Exotic?

13. ITV’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! was filmed in which part of the UK this year?

14. What is the name of the new James Bond film, the release of which has been postponed until April 2021?

15. Which film won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2020?

16. What is the name of the Scottish baker who won The Great British Bake Off this year?

17. Where is he from?

18. Which Scottish comedian launched the TV series Secret Scotland?

19. What is the name of the Scottish veteran who took part in 2020’s Strictly Come Dancing?

20. Which TV drama series centres around a young girl learning to play chess?

21. Which ‘Joker’ star won Best Actor at the Oscars in 2020?

22. Who won Best Actress at the Oscars 2020 for their role in ‘Judy’?

23. Which Scottish actor won a Golden Globe for playing Logan Roy in TV series ‘Succession’?

POLITICS

24. Who became leader of the Scottish Conservatives in February but stepped down in July?

25. Who became Scotland’s first female Finance Secretary in February?

26. Who did Rishi Sunak replace as Chancellor of the Exchequer?

27. Who was re-elected as Prime Minister of New Zealand?

28. Who was suspended from the SNP after a return train journey to London?

29. Which US presidential candidate received just over 60,000 votes in the whole election?

30. Poland invaded which country ‘by mistake’ in May?

31. Who will become the first black female Vice President of the US?

BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES

32. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symon welcomed a baby boy in April. What is his first name?

33. Rupert Grint and his partner Georgia Groome named their baby after which day of the week?

34. Whose baby, born in May, is called ‘X Æ A-12’?

35. Who had a baby in May, with his girlfriend Kasi Bennett, whose first names are ‘Olympia Lightning’?

36. Which Scottish actor and comedian, who appeared in Scotch and Wry, Rab C Nesbitt and River City, died in July?

37. Which former Scotland manager and ex-Rangers and Queens Park footballer died in January?

38. Which actress, whose most remembered role was Pussy Galore, died in April?

39. Which Forces sweetheart died in June?

40. Which former Edinburgh milkman died in the Bahamas in November?

41. Why did Keiran White’s marriage to Tilly reach headlines?

CORONAVIRUS

42. Which Chinese city went into an unprecedented lockdown first in January?

43. What date did the UK go into lockdown?

44. Maria Branyas beat Coronavirus in May. What made her survival particularly impressive?

45. Where did Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, self-isolate in the spring?

46. Who is the UK’s Chief Medical Officer?

LITERATURE

47. 47. Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for which novel?

48. Who wrote hit novel Normal People, which has recently been adapted into a series for BBC Three?

49. What is the name of JK Rowling’s final book in the Harry Potter series?

50. Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire inspired which Bram Stoker novel?

51. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, how old is Juliet supposed to be?

52. What is the name of Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale?

53. What is the name of the headteacher in Roald Dahl’s Matilda?

54. Who is the current poet laureate?

55. Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. What are the two cities?

SHOWBIZ

56. Which artist sings the 2020/2021 Bond theme?

57. What year did David and Victoria Beckham get married?

58. What is Lady Gaga’s real name?

59. Who was named the youngest selfmade billionaire in 2019?

60. Amanda Holden had a feud with which TV presenter in 2020 on a radio show?

61. Who won Dancing on Ice 2020?

62. Tom Cruise is a member of which religion?

WHO SAID THAT?

63. ‘We drove for roughly half and hour and ended up on the outskirts of Barnard Castle.’

64. ‘Right, where’s ma clicky pen?’

65. ‘We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America.’

66. ‘I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth.’

67. ‘I’m a perfect physical specimen.’

68. ‘We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return.’

TRUE OR FALSE?

69. You only use 10% of your brain.

70. The Royal Family are not allowed to play Monopoly.

71. In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

72. A child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

73. It’s possible to hear a lion’s roar from five miles away.

74. Lightning never strikes the same place more than once.

75. The youngest person to climb Everest was 10-years-old.

76. Buzz Aldrin was the first person to ever urinate on the Moon.

77. It’s illegal to kill a fly in the Houses of Parliament.

78. It would take about an hour to drive to space.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

79. This former rector of the University of St Andrews directed the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What is their name?

80. A Bronze Age hoard, including a sword and scabbard, was found near which Borders town?

81. A train derailment near which Scottish town caused three deaths in August?

82. In April this year the contactless payment limit was raised to how much?

83. The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their work on what?

84. It was announced a former British Army officer was to be knighted after raising millions for charity. What is his name?

85. On which digital platform did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they were stepping down as senior royals?

86. Princess Beatrice married who on 17 July 2020?

87. Which continent recorded its highest ever temperature at 18.2°C in February?

88. Which TV baker was made a Dame in the Queen’s most recent Honours list?

89. An area the size of Greece was burned in which Commonwealth country?