The Christmas quiz: answers
Looking back on 2020
- The vaccine they developed, with Pfizer, was found to be 95% effective
- Santa Barbara, in California
- Jack Dorsey (pictured)
- Luxembourg
- Shuggie Bain; fashion designer
- North Macedonia
- Challenger Deep
- Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
- 23 March
- Princess Nut Nut
- Rita Ora
- Sputnik V
History and politics
- Rudolf Hess
- The Curies
- The Boxer Rebellion
- A film processing firm
- Quarantine
- Oliver Cromwell
- Tilbury
- Justin Trudeau
- Keir Hardie
- 1066; 1483; 1936
- Portugal
- Battle of the River Plate
Film and TV
- Louise Fletcher
- Fritz Lang
- R2-D2 and C-3PO
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Get Out
- Darling; Lawrence of Arabia
- Bob Marley
- The zither; Anton Karas
- John McClane and Hans Gruber; the Nakatomi Plaza
- Judith Anderson
- a) Freddy Mercury b) Lauren Bacall c) Kirk Douglas d) Michael Keaton e) Stevie Wonder f) Snoop Dogg
- Rex Harrison; Eddie Murphy
- Wacky Races
Places
- Washington DC
- Hawaii and Tennessee; Iowa
- Algeria; Nigeria
- Ted Heath
- a) Laos b) Cuba c) Egypt
- Vilnius, Vienna, Vaduz, Valletta, Vatican City; Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan
- Madagascar
- The Karakoram Highway
- Highway 61
- Darwin
Literature and the arts
- The Browns; Mrs Bird
- Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell and their cat (Blanche, though they did also have one called Percy)
- The Artful Dodger
- Hamnet
- a) That there’s some corner of a foreign field, that is for ever England b) And not waving but drowning c) Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
- Benjamin Britten
- Grendel
- Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
- The theft of the Mona Lisa
- Architecture
- Mary, Colin and Dickon; Pevensie
- The Secret History
- W.B. Yeats
- Catch-22; Lolita
- Abraham
- Ulysses
Obituaries
- Lucille
- Les Misérables
- Max von Sydow
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Prozac Nation
- Albert Uderzo, of Asterix the Gaul
- Leonard “Nipper” Read
- Honor Blackman
Science and nature
- Saffron
- Copper and zinc
- Sulphur
- CO stands for corona, VI for virus, and D for disease, first seen in 2019
- Giraffe
- He suggested tennis balls should be yellow
- Grinding teeth
- Edward Jenner; supposedly because it was for cowpox, and the Latin word for cow is vacca
- Euclid
- China
- Mistletoe
Famous Olympians
- Daley Thompson
- Eric Liddell
- Simone Biles
- Jesse Owens
- Cathy Freeman