Christopher Howse

The Spectator’s 2023 Christmas quiz

issue 16 December 2023

Fairly odd

1. What had for 50 years been the name for Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit before it was changed this year?

2. Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, have to pay £510 in fines and costs?

3. Which country overtook France as the biggest buyer of Scotch whisky, despite imposing an 150 per cent import tariff?

4. For whose visit did Papua New Guinea declare a public holiday, only to find he decided instead to fly straight home from the G7 summit in Japan?

5. Which parents named their new son Frank Alfred Odysseus?

6. In which country were six children and two adults rescued by helicopter and zipwire after hours stuck in a cable car dangling 900ft in the air?

7. Opposition leader Patrick Herminie was charged with witchcraft in which country?

8. Name the founder of the Inkatha Freedom party, who died this year aged 95 and had played the role of his great-grandfather Cetshwayo in the film Zulu.

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