The Week’s Christmas quiz: looking back on 2022

History and politics

1. Who was the only wife of Henry VIII to receive an official Queen’s funeral?

2. In which country would you find the original Granny Smith apple tree?

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3. What job have George Osborne, Michael Foot and Charles Wintour (father of Anna Wintour) all held?

4. What are Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich and K2?

5. Until Liz Truss stole his crown, who was the shortest-serving PM in British history (excluding caretakers)?

6. How many United States presidents have been born outside the territory of what is now the US?

7. What was the name of George Washington’s estate in Virginia?

8. Stalin died in 1953, and was succeeded by a short-lived troika led by Georgy Malenkov. Who were the next – and the last – five leaders of the Soviet Union?

9. Mount Kent, Mount Harriet and Mount Tumbledown were battles in which 20th century war?

10. The Field of the Cloth of Gold refers to a meeting between which two kings?

11. To whom was the actress Jane Wyman married for nine years in the 1940s?

12. With which countries are the following intelligence agencies associated? a) the Mossad b) the GRU c) the BND d) the ISI.

Answers

1. Jane Seymour

2. Australia

3. Editor of the London Evening Standard

4. Tax avoidance schemes

5. George Canning

6. None

7. Mount Vernon

8. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev

9. Falklands War

10. Henry VIII and Francis I of France

11. Ronald Reagan

12. a) Israel b) Russia c) Germany d) Pakistan