The 'Quiz of the Year' page for 2018. What happened in 2018? With questions on news, politics, sport, culture and entertainment.
Quiz: January to March, 2018.
- What is Rob Cross's occupation?
- Which construction services company went into compulsory liquidation on 15 January 2018?
- Which British comedy actress sadly passed away on January 12 at the age of 80?
- Politician Anna Soubry continues her anti-Brexit campaign, but in which TV program did she present 'Soap Suds', with updates on the week's soap operas?
- Which American state gave out a false alarm warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack, causing widespread panic?
- Actor Peter Wyngarde died in January 2018 at the age of 90, he was best known for playing the role of which sleuth?
- On January 25th, Google showed a doodle celebrating which English writer's 136th birthday?
- In February, the 2018 Winter Olympics were held in which district of South Korea?
- On February 6, 2018, which space services company successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, the fourth-highest capacity rocket ever built?
- Jacob Zuma resigns as President of which country, after nine years in power?
- Which company had to close down 600 branches due to supply problems?
- Comedy actress Emma Chambers sadly passed away, can you give the first name of the lovable character she played in The Vicar Of Dibley?
- In early March, which storm met the 'Beast from the East', causing the UK's worst weather in years?
- Who stepped down from two charities set up in memory of his wife, due to allegations of sexual misconduct?
- Which 1952 Olympian, sadly passed away on March the 3rd?
- Sadly Ken Dodd passed away, in which suburb of Liverpool did he live all his life?
- A former Russian spy and his daughter were found unconscious on a shopping center bench in which English city?
- Which former footballer was filmed spitting in the direction of a 14-year-old girl?
- On March 15, 2018, which company announced it is officially going out of business and selling all its worldwide stores?
- Which data firm company got into trouble by using personal information acquired from Facebook?
- Which TV household name died on the same day as professor Stephen Hawking?
- Which car brand manufacture was Ant McPartlin driving when he crashed on the wrong side of the road in London?
- Which ‘Mighty O’ was decommissioned in a special ceremony by the Queen?
Answers:
- Professional darts player (became PDC World Darts Champion, following win over Phil Taylor)
- Carillion
- Bella Emberg
- This Morning
- Hawaii
- Jason King
- Virginia Woolf's
- Pyeongchang
- SpaceX
- South Africa
- KFC
- Alice
- Storm Emma
- Brendan Cox
- Roger Bannister
- Knotty Ash
- Salisbury
- Jamie Caragher
- Toys "R" Us
- Cambridge Analytica
- Jim Bowen
- Mini
- HMS Ocean
Quiz: April to June, 2018.
- In April, which 1970s actress was honoured with a Hollywood star in a ceremony attended by movie director Patty Jenkins?
- Eric Bristow passed away whilst visiting Liverpool; what was his nickname?
- The Commonwealth Games were held in which Australian city?
- Sadly, Dale Winton passed away aged just 62, in which 1996 film did he portray himself as an irritating gameshow presenter?
- King Mswati III announced he was changing the name of which African country?
- Prince Louis was born in late April, how many great-grandchildren does the Queen now have?
- In early May, which 2018 Nobel Prize was postponed in the wake of a sexual and financial scandal that has engulfed the Swedish Academy?
- Which film became the fastest film to make one billion dollars worldwide, in just eleven days?
- The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 was held in which European capital city?
- Who is Doria Ragland?
- Which European country held an important constitutional referendum on May 25th? And what was it about?
- Chris Anderson won a rather large round cheese racing down which hill near Gloucestershire on the Spring Bank Holiday?
- In the news, by what name do we better know Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon?
- In June, comedian Lee Ridley wins series 12 of Britain's Got Talent, by what name is he better known?
- Actress Phyllida Law's daughter becomes a Dame in The Queen's Birthday Honours, who is she?
- Where did President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un meet for that important summit?
- FIFA awards hosting rights for the 2026 Football World Cup to a joint bid from which three countries?
- Which team did England beat in their openning match of the football World Cup and what was the score?
- Which country's Prime Minsiter became only the world's second elected head of government to give birth while in office?
- Which Hollywood superstar broke royal protocol by introducing herself to the Queen at an event at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor?
- Which country allows women to drive for the first time?
- Which part of the United Kingdom issued a hosepipe ban on June 29 amid the ongoing heatwave?
Answers:
- Lynda Carter (TV's Wonder Woman - Patty Jenkins is the director of the new Wonder Woman film)
- The Crafty Cockney
- Gold Coast
- Trainspotting
- Swaziland (renaming it "the Kingdom of eSwatini")
- Six
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Lisbon, Portugal
- She's Megham Markle's mother and hit the news with the Royal Wedding
- Ireland. Ending a ban on abortion.
- Cooper's Hill
- Tommy Robinson
- Lost Voice Guy
- Emma Thompson
- Singapore
- Canada, Mexico and the United States
- Tunisia (England won 2-1)
- New Zealand's (Jacinda Ardern)
- Susan Sarandon
- Saudi Arabia
- Northern Ireland
Quiz: July to September, 2018.
- In July, twelve boys and their football coach became trapped in a cave system in which country?
- A giant balloon of Donald Trump in London made the news headlines, what was this inflatable holding in its hand? And what word, which often describes a barrage balloon, was used to describe the inflatable?
- Name the politician that quit his role as Brexit Secretary?
- In the Scottish League Cup, Forfar beat East Fife 5-4 on penalities, but which comedian is associated with the tongue-twister "East Fife 4 Forfar 5"?
- Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon for the fourth time by beating which South African player in the men's final?
- The 2018 British Open was held at which golf venue?
- On July 27, which planet made its closest approach to Earth since 2003?
- Sadly, Barry Chuckle died on the 5th of August, what was Barry's real last name? Also, the Chuckle Brothers were both honorary presidents of which football club?
- Which company becomes the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of one trillion dollars?
- Who was mocked for her awkward curtsy to Prince William after she greeted him at a centenary ceremony in France? And which battle was this event remembering?
- Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who sadly passed away, played a diner waitress dressed in a pink apron singing "Think" in which 1980 film?
- Which sportsman got arrested in a Jersey nightclub? And which other sportsman was found not guilty of affray at Bristol Crown Court?
- In which city did part of the Morandi Bridge collapse after a violent storm, causing 43 deaths?
- Who did Scott Morrison replace as Prime Minister of Australia?
- In early September, former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama attend a memorial service for which U.S. politician at the Washington National Cathedral?
- Which of the British armed services makes news headlines by becoming the first to accept all genders in all roles: the army, navy or RAF?
- Sadly, Burt Reynolds passed away, but what was the first name of the character he played in the 1972 film Deliverance?
- Which 52-year-old nicknamed his newborn twins Ping and Pong?
- A new £10 polymer banknote is released in mid-September featuring Jane Austen; can you name her last fully completed novel, published six months after her death at the end of 1817?
- A blast on a tube train is treated as a terrorist attack at which above-ground London Underground tube station?
- In which European city did Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge set a new world record for the fastest ever marathon time?
- The band Wolf Alice wins which annual music prize, awarded for the best album released in the UK?
- Which disease was declared eradicated in the UK for the first time?
- Which country held a referendum on whether to change its name in order to join NATO and the EU?
- Team Europe defeated Team USA in the 2018 Ryder Cup, but just outside which European city was the event hosted?
Answers:
- Thailand
- Mobile phone. Blimp.
- David Davis
- Eric Morcambe
- Kevin Anderson
- Carnoustie, Scotland (it was won by Italian Francesco Molinari)
- Mars
- Elliot. Rotherham United.
- Apple
- Theresa May. Battle of Amiens.
- The Blues Brothers
- Danny Cipriani. And Ben Stokes was acquitted.
- Genoa
- Malcolm Turnbull
- John McCain
- RAF
- Lewis (Lewis Medlock)
- Chris Evans (TV presenter and radio DJ)
- Persuasion
- Parsons Green tube station
- Berlin
- The Mercury Prize
- Measles
- Republic of Macedonia
- Paris
Quiz: October, November and December, 2018.
- On 2 October, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in which country?
- Why was Jack Brooksbank in the news on October the 12th?
- Who did Facebook hire as head of its global affairs and communications team?
- Who did Rebecca Humphries publicly dump on Twitter because of that kiss?
- A car towing a caravan drove the wrong way for several miles up which motorway in South Oxfordshire?
- Which hyphenated environmentally friendly word did Collins Dictionary lexicographers name as word of the year?
- Which African country's parliament approved Sahle-Work Zewde as its first female president?
- What did a man attempt to steal from Salisbury Cathedral by damaging a glass case?
- At a cost £330 million to build, in which country was the world's tallest statue unveiled?
- Name the chancellor that said the era of austerity "was finally coming to an end" as he delivers his third budget?
- Who announced his engagement to reality-television star Kate Wright, three years after the death of his first wife?
- In November, swimmer Ross Edgley became the first person to achieve what?
- It was announced that what will begin on 1 June 2019 in Manchester and end on 15 June 2019 in London?
- Which competition is being played in London, at The College in Holborn, between 9 and 28 November 2018?
- Name the iconic comic book writer who died aged 95?
- Name the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions who resigned in protest of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan?
- A 27-year-old American Christian missionary is killed by the indigenous people of which island in the Bay of Bengal in India?
- Which marketing term, first coined by Ellen Davis and Scott Silverman in 2005, has become the online equivalent to Black Friday?
- British stuident Matthew Hedges was pardoned and released by which country's authorities?
- What was the most famous creation of animator Stephen Hillenburg who sadly died aged just 57?
- Which leading figure of the Roman Catholic revival in Victorian England is set to become the first modern British saint?
- Who became the first celebrity to be voted out of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!?
- In December, Ada Hegerberg, the inaugural winner of the Ballon d’Or for the world’s best female footballer, was controversially asked if she could do what?
- What colour vests were protestors in France wearing?
- In an historic moment, NASA announced that which probe had become the second man-made object to enter interstellar space?
- Jeremy Corbyn was accused of calling Theresa May a "stupid woman" during Prime Minister's Questions but what did he actually insist he had said instead?
Answers:
- Turkey
- He married Princess Eugenie at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel.
- Nick Clegg
- Seann Walsh
- M40
- Single-use (After a four-fold rise in its use over five years. "Gaslight" (to manipulate others) and "Gammon" (an insult to describe white middle-aged, pro-Brexit supporters) were among the words shortlisted.)
- Eithiopia
- Magna Carter
- India
- Philip Hammond
- Rio Ferdinand
- Swim around the entire coast of Great Britain (his journey of 1,780 miles took 157 days)
- The Spice Girls new tour (Spice World – 2019 UK Tour)
- The World Chess Championship (between reigning world champion, Magnus Carlsen, and challenger Fabiano Caruana)
- Stan Lee
- Esther McVey
- North Sentinel Island (Note: North Sentinel Island is part of the Andaman Islands, so also accept this answer)
- Cyber Monday
- United Arab Emirates
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Cardinal John Henry Newman
- Noel Edmonds
- Twerk
- Yellow
- Voyager 2
- Stupid people