Christmas Quiz | 10 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. Anthony Ujah, when still playing for Cologne, apologised to the club’s mascot, Hennes, after grabbing it while celebrating a goal. What kind of animal was it?
3. Scientists in Norway blamed what mammals, in place of black rats, for spreading bubonic plague to medieval Europe?
4. In which county for several weeks did more than 300,000 households have to boil water lest it convey the parasitic protozoan cryptosporidium?
5. Dennis, a dog from Ohio, after being put on a diet by a new owner, managed to lose 44lb of his weight of 56lb, built up by eating hamburgers. What breed was he?
6. Asger Juhl, a radio presenter in Denmark, was criticised for killing a creature named Alan live on air by hitting it with a bicycle pump. What sort of animal was Alan?
7. A dog that won Britain’s Got Talent was found to have been substituted by another dog during a tightrope-walking display in the finals.