The Spectator

2020 Christmas quiz – the answers

issue 19 December 2020

Out of the ordinary
1. Canada
2. Leighton Buzzard
3. Death Valley, California
4. Krakatoa
5. Malta
6. Angola
7. Bernie Sanders (with Joe Biden in fifth place)
8. Carlos Ghosn
9. Fifty pence
10. China.









The horse’s mouth
1. The Queen, in a televised message on 5 April
2. Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary
3. John Lewis
4. A 50p
5. Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales
6. President Donald Trump of the United States
7. Joe Biden, of Donald Trump during the televised debate on 22 October
8. Boris Johnson
9. Rebecca Long-Bailey
10. Sir John Bell, the regius professor of medicine at Oxford.









Royal appointments
1. The 75th anniversary of VE Day
2. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
3. Jerusalem
4. The Duchess of Cornwall
5. A shark
6. The Queen
7. Bradford
8. The Princess Royal, Princess Anne
9. Birkhall, Aberdeenshire
10. June, with Thursday 2 and Friday 3 being holidays, one transferred from May.









Dumb
1. German shepherds
2. Cob
3. Dorgis, dachshund-corgi crosses
4. A black Labrador
5. A cocker spaniel
6. A racing pigeon
7. Marmot
8. Gorilla
9. Dilyn
10.









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