Christopher Howse

Christmas Quiz | 10 December 2015

Set by Christopher Howse. Illustrated by Castro

issue 12 December 2015

On the record

In 2015, who said:

1. We must get the cow off the ice.
2. It’s decision time — that’s what pumps me up.
3. Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry.
4. Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society together.
5. Only a mad person or someone in a dream could think that Russia could one day attack Nato.
6. I find it hard to apologise for removing Saddam.
7. We must not pretend to know what we do not know.
8. Am I tough enough? Hell, yes.
9. If these exit polls are right, I’ll publicly eat my hat.
10. One can have a mental brain fade.








Animal magic

In 2015:
1. Reg Foggerdy, aged 62, lost for six days in the Australian outback while pursuing a camel, survived without water by eating which little creatures?
2.

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