Quiz of the year 2016: Round 1

Take our quiz and test your knowledge of the events of the past year

Catherine Tate made a guest appearance in which long-running show this year? (Getty)

How on the ball are you? Try our Quiz of the Year 2016 – 30 questions about 2016 and 30 questions about other stuff. Have fun!

Round 1

1. Who ended a six-month trip in the company of an American called Tim Kopra and a Russian called Yuri Malenchenko?

2. Andy Murray's first two Grand Slam wins came over Novak Djokovic. Who did he beat to win his third?

3.Which Hollywood star made a video that ended with the words, “Declare everything when you enter Australia”?

4. Who was Jeremy Corbyn’s challenger in the Labour leadership election?

5. Where did Andrea Bocelli perform Nessun Dorma in front of 32,140 people on the 7 May?

6. Which TV legend turned 90 – some 60 yeas after he was told his teeth were too big to appear on screen?

7. Eileen Atkins, Nigel Havers and Catherine Tate all made one-off appearances as members of which cast?

8. Who asked a Select Committee member “Do you mind not looking at me like that all the time, it's really disturbing”?

9. Who took two weeks to say, “I was left speechless”?

10. Who was revealed to be Anita Raja (supposedly)?

11. Which artist was behind the “ghost” soldiers who appeared around the country on the centenary of the Battle of the Somme?

12. Sam Allardyce's only match in charge of England was a 1-0 win over who?

13. How did Kumbuka make news (for a couple of hours anyway)?

14. An inquiry found that whose death was “probably” approved by Vladimir Putin?

15. The High Court gave permission for a death certificate to be issued 42 years after whose disappearance?

16. Paul Beatty became the first American to win what?

17. Which Oscar-winner made a climate change plea in his acceptance speech after the film he starred in had to relocate in search of snow?

18. Foregone Conclusion – stars of a 2016 movie – is whose band?

19. Who got in trouble for claiming that he had been held up at gunpoint in Rio?

20. What set an Apple record as the app with the most downloads in the first week?

Next round

Answers:

Round 1:

1 Astronaut Tim Peake; 2 Milos Raonic; 3 Johnny Depp; 4 Owen Smith; 5 At the King Power Stadium Leicester as part of Leicester City’s Premier League title-winning celebrations; 6 David Attenborough; 7 The Archers during the trial of Helen Titchener; 8 Philip Green; 9 Bob Dylan, on being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; 10 Author Elena Ferrante; 11 Jeremy Deller; 12 Slovakia; 13 He is the gorilla who escaped from his enclosure at London Zoo; 14 Alexander Litvinenko; 15 Lord Lucan; 16 The Booker Prize; 17 Leonardo DiCaprio (the film was The Revenant); 18 David Brent; 19 US swimmer Ryan Lochte; 20 Pokemon Go.