The Spectator’s Christmas Quiz

Says who?

In 2013, who said:
1. ‘To me it’s not a marriage, it is, if you like, a Ronseal deal.’
2. ‘Marriage is abolished, redefined and recreated, being different and unequal for different categories.’
3. ‘It is the Conservatives who have decided to completely reinvent the wheel and tie the country up in knots.’
4. ‘If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game.’
5. ‘You’re a nasty piece of work, aren’t you?’
6. ‘Send in the clowns.’
7. ‘People who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their entrails in public before the cameras. Are these the people you want to support?’
8. ‘There are large and uninhabited and desolate areas. Certainly in part of the north-east.’
9. ‘Britain can do better’. (17 times)
10. ‘What you gonna do when your ship is sinking, and you’re crying out for help, and just the seagulls listening?’

Creature comforts

In 2013:
1. What sort of creature did three fire crews succeed in coaxing from an island in a pond in Watford High Street?
2. Muhammad Shahid Nazir, the ‘£1 fish man’, whose market song went, ‘Very, very good, very, very cheap,/ One pound fish,/ Six for five pound, one pound each,’ took up politics in Pakistan. Which party leader did he support, Nawaz Sharif or Imran Khan?
3. What sort of marine mammal basked for the cameras on the shore of North Ronaldsay in a rare visit to Orkney?
4. Which kind of ungulate did scientists from Canada suggest had evolved in the Arctic?
5. In Uckfield, Sussex, a specimen that habitually ate Weetabix and weighed 3st 8lb was found to be the world’s biggest what?
6. A grey bird with a red head, named as a new species, Orthotomus chaktomuk, had been spotted in which Asian capital?
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