CRAIG BROWN: The 2023 Quiz Of The Year Part Two - Is that Spice Girl Mel B, Mel C... or Mel Stride?

1. In March, which one of these people was banned from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election?

a) Jeremy Corbyn

b) Jeremy Clarkson

c) Jeremy Paxman

d) Jeremy Kyle

e) Jeremy Hunt

a) Nadine Dorries

b) Edwina Currie

c) Matt Hancock

d) Robert Kilroy-Silk

e) Jacob Rees-Mogg

a) ‘A pop in a million’

b) ‘Not just my dad but my best friend’

c) ‘The one guy in the world I love the most’

d) ‘Awesome’

e) ‘A f***ing awful human being’

a) Ade Edmondson

b) Adam Kay

c) Jeremy Bowen

d) Katherine Ryan

e) Stanley Tucci

i) The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson

ii) The Complete Novels of George Orwell

iii) York Notes for the Complete Works of Shakespeare

iv) Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

v) Westward Ha! by S.J. Perelman

a) Back And Forward

b) Now And Then

c) Up And Down

d) This And That

e) Home And Away

a) Once said: ‘I suppose one grows up with a desire to murder one’s parents, but you can’t really go and do that. So I suppose I tried to murder them symbolically on stage.’

b) Once served as a junior transport minister?

c) Received a knighthood the day before their death?

d) Appeared in all three Austin Powers movies?

e) Had been the mother-in-law to the daughter of Fred Trueman?

i) Raquel Welch

ii) Glenda Jackson

iii) Barry Humphries

iv) Martin Amis

v) Burt Bacharach

a) The Brecon Beacons

b) Billy Bragg

c) The baccalaureate

d) Kemi Badenoch

e) The Braemar Games

a) Queen Camilla

b) Duke of Edinburgh

c) Princess of Wales

d) Earl of Wessex

e) Duke of Cornwall

i) Earl of Wessex

ii) Duchess of Cornwall

iii) Viscount Severn

iv) Duchess of Cambridge

v) Duke of Cambridge

a) A former Spice Girl

b) A former presenter of The Great British Bake-Off

c) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

d) A late-night Radio 1 DJ

e) A veteran U.S. talk-show host

a) ‘I was going through a skinny phase, and I thought, if I’m having a photograph taken with him and it’s going to be hanging on my fridge, I’ve got to look good.’

b) ‘I knew he’d had lots of hits and I thought, if I’m having my photograph taken with him and it’s going to be hanging on my fridge, I’d better crack America first.’

c) ‘I was acutely embarrassed on his behalf that he’d never come second in the Eurovision’

d) ‘He’d put on a lot of weight . . . I thought, if I’m having a photograph taken with him and it’s going to be hanging on my fridge he’s got to look good.’

e) ‘No one gave me his address.’

Answers: 1 a. 2 e. 3 e. 4. aiv; biii; cii; di; ev. 5 b. 6 aiii; bii; civ; dv; ei. 7 a. 8 aii; bi; civ; diii; ev. 9 c. 10 d.