The Week’s Christmas quiz: looking back on 2021
How much do you remember from the past 12 months?
1. The day before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on 6 January, which right-wing pundit warned his podcast listeners to “strap in” for “game day”?
2. The son of which former world leader was revealed in September to have made a paper fortune of £160m?
3. What is the name of the Russian-developed Covid vaccine?
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4. A giant container ship blocked the Suez Canal this summer. What was its name?
5. Who was appointed Labour’s shadow chancellor in May?
6. Which gruesome TV show became Netflix’s biggest-ever launch, with 111 million viewers worldwide?
7. Planning permission was granted this year for the first skyscraper in central Paris since 1973. What is the name of that earlier skyscraper?
8. Who became, aged 13, Britain’s youngest-ever Olympic medallist?
9. What does Cop, in Cop 26, stand for?
10. Which veteran rock star broke his decades-old rule –“no ads, no endorsements” – by appearing in an advert for Jeep, a few days before it emerged that he had been arrested on suspicion of drink driving (the charges were later dropped)?
11. Gavin Williamson was evicted from the Department for Education in September. Four years earlier, his pet tarantula had been evicted from the Ministry of Defence. What was its name?
1. Steve Bannon, 2. Tony Blair, 3. Sputnik V, 4. Ever Given, 5. Rachel Reeves, 6. Squid Game, 7. Tour Montparnasse, 8. Sky Brown, 9. Conference of the Parties, 10. Bruce Springsteen, 11. Cronus
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