It’s time for the immemorial Christmas custom in which the family gathers round the iPad, cracks another walnut, and sharpens its competitive claws on the Spectator’s traditional challenge to suppressed memories of unlikely events, political gaffes, terrible films, old books and the Olympic opening ceremony.
Weird world
In 2012:
1 On whose painting, ‘Black on Maroon’, in the Tate, did a man scrawl ‘A potential piece of Yellowism’?
2 A three-year-old chicken nugget from McDonald’s, Dakota City, Nebraska, said to resemble which US president, sold for $8,100?
3 Name the MP who consented to 3,000 cockroaches and 5,000 crickets being poured on to her in an underground crate.
4 Which member of the royal family was given a cardigan of the same pattern worn by the heroine of The Killing when she visited the set during a visit to Denmark?
5 Helicopters rescued 675 anglers carried away on an ice-floe, through which they had been fishing, off which island in the far east of Russia?
6 Which race did Trenton Oldfield stop?
7 Who was robbed outside the Atletico Madrid stadium when two men on their knees tugged at his trousers?
8 The president of which country resigned after being stripped of his doctorate when parts of his thesis were found to be copied?
9 Who told Glamour magazine that he had ‘never worn a watch or a ring’?
10 What was the name of the clothing store in Ahmedabad in India that changed its name after complaints?
Tip of the tongue
1 Which backbencher called David Cameron and George Osborne ‘Two posh boys who don’t know the price of milk’?
2 Who called ‘George Osborne the dustpan, Michael Gove the J-cloth, William Hague the sponge’?
3 Who said that Ed Balls’s presence was ‘Like having someone with Tourette’s permanently...
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