The Editor’s Christmas Quiz 2014
How will you fare with our collection of festive brain-teasers? Try our Christmas Quiz to test your seasonal general knowledge.


How much do you really know about the countryside, and more importantly, how avidly do you read Country Life? Test yourself with our Christmas Quiz. This year, we’ve graded the questions in order of difficulty, from easy-peasy (trifles) to fiendishly difficult (humbugs).
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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