The Week’s Christmas quiz: looking back on 2021
How much do you remember from the past 12 months?
1. Which British politician is associated with the phrase “Crisis? What Crisis?”? For a bonus point, which British band had an album of that name?
2. The Anti-Federalist League was the forerunner to which political party?
3. In 2014, Emily Thornberry was forced to apologise for tweeting a photograph of a house in Rochester. What vehicle was parked outside it?
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4. a) What territory did the United States purchase from France in 1803? b) In 1867, the US bought another large chunk of land. What was it?
5. In 2019, Donald Trump cancelled a visit to which country, after its PM rebuffed his offer to buy Greenland?
6. To which politician is the quote “A week is a long time in politics” usually attributed?
7. Which former US president won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002? And who is the youngest ever recipient of the prize?
8. Who shot the American statesman Alexander Hamilton?
9. Which two countries fought the shortest recorded war in human history, on 27 August 1896 – lasting between 38 and 45 minutes?
10. In what structure, in a forest clearing in France, was the Armistice signed, on 11 November 1918?
11. Members of which band threw a bucket of water over Labour’s John Prescott at the Brit Awards in 1998?
12. Which emperor died in Chislehurst, in Kent?
1. Jim Callaghan, bonus Supertramp, 2. UKIP, 3. A white transit van, 4. a) Louisiana b) Alaska, 5. Denmark, 6. Harold Wilson, 7. a) Jimmy Carter b) Malala Yousafzai, 8. Aaron Burr, 9. The UK and Zanzibar, 10. A railway carriage, 11. Chumbawamba, 12. Napoleon III
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