The Week’s big New Year’s Day quiz 2024

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published 31 December 2023

A week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson may have once said – but a week of news is far longer.

After 52 weeks of endlessly enormous news, this year has felt like an epoch. Global temperatures reached record highs, causing more extreme weather events and posing the gravest threat to humanity. Deadly war has broken out in the Middle East, with allies drawn in but divided and rogue states threatening to take advantage. The meteoric growth of artificial intelligence has already led to scientific and technological breakthroughs, but raises fears of a dangerously uncertain future.

In the UK, we marked 100 days under leader Rishi Sunak. His tenure will likely be remembered for a struggling economy, stubbornly high inflation, two dramatic reshuffles and the loss of four key by-elections. Over in the US, former president Donald Trump has continued his race towards the Republican nomination, seemingly undeterred by four criminal indictments and a civil fraud trial. The world was buffeted by multiple shock election results, with knife-edge victories across the political spectrum. And every Friday, we have tested your memory for headlines and details with our Quiz of the Week.

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Harriet Marsden is a writer for The Week, mostly covering UK and global news and politics. Before joining the site, she was a freelance journalist for seven years, specialising in social affairs, gender equality and culture. She worked for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent, and regularly contributed articles to The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, Tortoise Media and Metro, as well as appearing on BBC Radio London, Times Radio and “Woman’s Hour”. She has a master’s in international journalism from City University, London, and was awarded the "journalist-at-large" fellowship by the Local Trust charity in 2021.

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