The Spectator’s 2022 Christmas quiz

Verbals

In 2022, who said:

1. Them’s the breaks.

2. I know that we will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver. 

3. Dear, oh dear.

4. Excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate in a professional workplace.

5. For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.

6. I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood.

7. The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast.

8. Dio, Patria e Famiglia non è uno slogan politico ma il più bel manifesto d’amore.

9. The jury’s still out.

10. Nous aussi on t’emmerde.

Royal prerogatives

In 2022:

1. For her Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth was filmed taking a sandwich out of her handbag. Who was her guest for tea at the time?

2. In July to whom did Queen Elizabeth award the George Cross in a ceremony at Windsor Castle?

3. Gaston Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, declared: ‘I should say we aspire at some point to become a republic.’ Which royal couple was visiting at the time?

4. In June, the Duchess of Cornwall and Sir Tony Blair were installed at Windsor as what?

5. Which royal duchess said in a magazine interview that she had been told by a South African actor: ‘When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison’?

6. At the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth, the coffin was guarded by members of the Gentlemen at Arms, the Yeoman of the Guard and which other ceremonial unit of the Sovereign’s Bodyguard, with eagle feathers in the caps?

7. At the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey, Psalm 23, ‘The Lord Is My Shepherd’, was sung, as it had been at her wedding, to the tune known as what?

8. At the committal service for Queen Elizabeth in St George’s Chapel, Windsor, the orb and sceptre were delivered into the hands of the Dean of Windsor by the Serjeant at Arms.