ANSWERS

1. 96

2. A marmalade sandwich

3. February (24 February 2022)

4. Servant of the People

5. Sam Ryder

6. Liverpool

7. The Daily Star

The lettuce won. Truss's 49 days made her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.

8. Kwasi Kwarteng

9. Partygate

10. Rishi Sunak

11. Balmoral

The Queen was too frail to travel to London. It was her last public duty; she died two days later.

12. Prince of Wales

13. David Beckham

14. $44 billion

15. Argentina

The final finished 3-3 after extra time, and Argentina won on penalties.

16. Kylian Mbappé

17. Chloe Kelly

18. Dutch

19. Birmingham

20. Kazakhstan

21. Rafael Nadal

22. Carlos Alcaraz

23. Karim Benzema

24. Artemis (twin sister of Apollo)

25. The James Webb Space Telescope

26. An asteroid (the moonlet Dimorphos)

27. OpenAI

28. The New York Times

29. 40°C (40.3°C, at Coningsby, Lincolnshire)

30. Hamza Yassin

31. Jill Scott

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock finished third.

32. Top Gun: Maverick

33. Harry Styles

34. Stranger Things

35. Jenna Ortega

36. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula)

37. Giorgia Meloni

38. FTX

39. Eight billion

40. CODA (Apple TV+)