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Published: 13th November 2020

 

Our second installment in the Quiz of the Year category to test how much attention you have been paying this year.

We have questions about stories that were headlines around the world and some that may be a little more under the radar, to test you and your family and friends. 

 

Questions:

1) Which presenter reprised his role as Dr Who’s companion Graham O’Brien in the series which returned in January?

 

2) Which film directed by Sam Mendes was the winner of the Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes in January?

 

3) Areas of which country declared a state of emergency and state of disaster as upto 500 million animals died in large scale fires?

 

4) Which song by Joel Corry featuring MNEK spent the most weeks (6) at No1 in the UK singles charts?

 

5) Skeletons of 200 mammoths were unearthed (the largest ever found) while construction work was being undertaken at Santa Lucia Airport in which city?

 

6) Renee Zellweger won the Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for which film?

 

7) In August 220 people were killed and 300,000 made homeless by an explosion of ammonium nitrate being stored where?

 

8) The UK and Gibraltar formally withdrew from the European Union and started a transition period on what date?

 

9) In the National Television Awards, which winner of a Special Recognition Award dedicated his award to his friend and fellow Python Terry Jones?

 

10) Which aging rocker’s journey to the BRITs went viral when he tweeted a picture of himself travelling there on the tube having used his discount pass?

 

 

Answers:

1) Which presenter reprised his role as Dr Who’s companion Graham O’Brien in the series which returned in January?

Bradley Walsh

 

2) Which film directed by Sam Mendes was the winner of the Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes in January?

1917

 

3) Areas of which country declared a state of emergency and state of disaster as upto 500 million animals died in large scale fires?

Australia

 

4) Which song by Joel Corry featuring MNEK spent the most weeks (6) at No1 in the UK singles charts?

‘Head & Heart’

 

5) Skeletons of 200 mammoths were unearthed (the largest ever found) while construction work was being undertaken at Santa Lucia Airport in which city?

Mexico City

 

6) Renee Zellweger won the Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for which film?

Judy

 

7) In August 220 people were killed and 300,000 made homeless by an explosion of ammonium nitrate being stored where?

Beirut, Lebanon

 

8) The UK and Gibraltar formally withdrew from the European Union and started a transition period on what date?

31st January

 

9) In the National Television Awards, which winner of a Special Recognition Award dedicated his award to his friend and fellow Python Terry Jones?

Michael Palin

 

10) Which aging rocker’s journey to the BRITs went viral when he tweeted a picture of himself travelling there on the tube having used his discount pass?

Ronnie Wood