With questions covering every month of 2024 on politics, sport, entertainment and more, it makes a perfect quickfire family quiz to see which of your loved ones has been paying most attention to the headlines. Answers at the end.
A former mayor of Mexico City and trained climate scientist, 61-year-old left-winger Sheinbaum scooped 61% of the vote to secure a comfortable victory over her conservative rival. She was inaugurated in October.
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34. Podcast
22. The prime minister of which country fled by helicopter as protesters surrounded their official residence?
13. Slovakia
6. Tracy Chapman
Journalists from The Guardian and its sister publication, The Observer, walked out twice to protest the sale of the latter to digital news start-up Tortoise Media. Strikers said staff were not adequately consulted, and that the sale could jeopardise both jobs and brand integrity.
18. Airbnb
27. “Intermezzo”
Every year hardy daredevils gather at the top of Cooper’s Hill to chase a 7lb wheel of Double Gloucester down the steep bank – sometimes incurring hair-raising injuries in the melee. This year, the winners of the quintessentially English novelty event were German Tom Kopke and American Abby Lampe.
26. Daniel Dubois
33. Which fruit duct-taped to a gallery wall sold for $6.2 million?
23. Skies across the Northern Hemisphere lit up with shooting stars as a result of what meteor shower?
The British carmaker’s shift to electric-only vehicles was overshadowed by an electric pink makeover and the decision to bring “visual harmony” to its name by referring to itself as “JaGUar”.
9. 88%
28. Which major tennis tournament announced it will switch from human line judges to an all-electronic system?
18. The mayor of Barcelona announced plans to ban what from the city centre by 2028?
35. Journalists at which UK newspaper went on strike?
Calin Georgescu, 62, came from nowhere to leap-frog more well-known figures from the left and right to win 22% of the vote. The country’s Supreme Court overturned the result in December, setting the stage for a rerun of the first round in the new year.
4. Which country became the first Orthodox Christian nation to legalise same-sex marriage?
4. Greece
28. Wimbledon
Robert Fico was shot five times as he chatted with locals in the town of Handlova. The shooter, a 71-year-old man, was supposedly motivated by the Slovakian government’s lack of support for Ukraine.
7. Haiti
21. Which British equestrian star was dropped from the Olympic squad after footage emerged of them whipping a horse?
12. Coventry City
11. Los Angeles and Las Vegas
Keir Starmer was among the football fans in disbelief after the video refereeing technology ruled Victor Torp’s last-minute goal offside over what the Labour leader called “a toenail of difference”.
Joshua lost his IBF world heavyweight title to underdog and fellow Briton Dubois in a bout at Wembley Stadium. Joshua shrugged off retirement speculation, insisting he will continue to fight and believes he can regain the title.
17. The Boston Celtics beat which team in the NBA Finals, securing their 18th championship triumph?
34. Spotify Wrapped offered each user a personalised what, based on their listening habits?
9. Vladimir Putin was declared victor of the Russian presidential election with what official percentage of the vote?
19. Dog
21. Charlotte Dujardin
1. Jürgen Klopp
31. Romania
The electric-powered trains will travel at more than 185mph and shuttle passengers through the Mojave Desert in two hours and 10 minutes, cutting the driving time by half. Brightline, the company building the railway, aims to have the trains running by the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Ottawa announced it was expelling six Indian diplomats after the fatal shooting of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia last year was linked to Indian intelligence services. India, which denies the allegations, responded by expelling Canadian officials.
Kennedy railed against a Vanity Fair profile, which, among other allegations, included the claim he had been photographed posing with a barbecued dog. He said the image showed him with a roasted goat during a trip to Patagonia.
In an election considered a formality by many pundits across the globe, Putin was re-elected for a fifth term. In 2020, Russia amended its constitution to remove a prohibition on a president serving more than two consecutive terms, paving the way for Putin’s third back-to-back incumbency.
35. The Guardian
27. “Normal People” author Sally Rooney released a new novel with what chess-inspired title?
5. Netflix
The Perseid meteor shower is a celestial event caused by debris from the comet Swift–Tuttle, and can be seen for around a month every year, peaking in mid-August when dozens of shooting stars can be seen racing across the night sky.
5. Which streaming service signed a 10-year deal with WWE to broadcast its wrestling shows?
29. Canada expelled which country’s ambassador as part of a diplomatic feud between the two nations?
11. Plans were announced for a $12 billion high-speed rail line linking which US cities?
Reviews were positive for the novel, which centres on the lives and relationships of brothers Peter and Ivan, the latter of whom is a chess prodigy.
The four-time Grammy winner’s song “Fast Car” topped the charts after she performed the hit as a duet with country singer Luke Combs at the Grammys ceremony in Los Angeles.
Two of the world’s most active volcanoes erupted within a day of each other. Italy is home to 12 volcanoes in total, with nine still considered active.
2. Gabriel Attal
36. Google unveiled an ultra-powerful new quantum computer chip with what name?
3. Which company’s nine-month, around-the-world cruise went viral, quickly becoming social media’s favourite “reality show”?
Nasa’s largest extraplanetary spacecraft launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on a 1.8 billion miles, five-year-long voyage to Jupiter. It will study an ocean believed to lie 10 to 15 miles beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
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