The 2024 Country Life Editor's Christmas Quiz: The Answers

So that was 2024

1) Mr Bates vs The Post Office

2) XL bully

3) Cadbury

4) Sir Andy Murray

5) Sadiq Khan

6) Liquids

7) Thorpe Park Resort, Surrey

8) A milkshake

9) Asian hornet

10) Oasis

Nature

1) 24

2) Canary

3) 97%

4) Red-necked wallaby

5) Female

Sport

1) High jump

2) Wayne Rooney

3) Surrey County Cricket Club

4) Heptathlon

5) Darts

Art

1) Edvard Munch

2) My Bed

3) Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives

4) Kate Moss

5) Campbell’s

Stage and screen

1) The Taming of the Shrew

2) Dory

3) Ballet

4) Dylan Thomas

5) Duckface

Rockin’ around the Christmas tree

1) All I Want for Christmas is You

2) Fairytale of New York

3) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

4) White Christmas

5) Last Christmas

Literature

1) Simon Armitage

2) Go Set a Watchman

3) 13¾

4) Boggis, Bunce and Bean

5) Reading

Science

1) Six

2) Diamond

3) Water

4) The Hippocratic Oath

5) Zero

Music

1) David Bowie

2) Ludwig van Beethoven

3) Dolly Parton

4) Amy Winehouse

5) Bohemian Rhapsody

Food and drink

1) A cake

2) Two

3) Almonds

4) Saffron

5) Advocaat

Dearly departed

1) Dame Maggie Smith

2) Dave Myers

3) Annie Nightingale

4) Ian Lavender

5) Rob Burrow

6) James Earl Jones

History

1) Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves

2) Battle of Balaklava

3) Ear

4) Boudicca

5) 1928

We wish you a merry Christmas

1) Boxing Day

2) Orange

3) January 5

4) Norway

5) Christmas pudding

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