Quiz of the Year 2014
1. In the Scottish independence referendum in September, what was the official campaign for a No vote called?
2. Who succeeded Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland after the referendum?
3. What was the mascot of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games?
4. Germany won the World Cup in Brazil. What was the score in their semi-final against the hosts?
5. Which Uruguayan striker was banned for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup?
6. Which country hosted the Winter Olympics, in Sochi?
7. In March, Russia annexed which peninsula from Ukraine?
8. Which airline's flight MH370 disappeared in March?
9. Which charity viral challenge involved people tipping cold water over their heads?
10. In November, which lander touched down on a comet as part of the European Rosetta mission?
11. Who won Eurovision for Austria with "Rise Like a Phoenix"?
12. To mark the centenary of the First World War, the moat of the Tower of London was filled with ceramic what?
13. Who won "Strictly Come Dancing"?
14. Which former motorcycle racer won "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"?
15. In a "Great British Bake Off" scandal, contestant Iain threw which dessert in the bin?
16. Which golfer won the Open at Hoylake and the US PGA Championship?
17. For which team did Lewis Hamilton drive when he won his second world title?
18. At which Scottish venue did Europe win the Ryder Cup?
19. Which Liverpool captain famously slipped in a defeat by Chelsea that helped Manchester City win the title?
20. Real Madrid won the Champions League, their long-awaited "Décima". What does that mean?
21. Which club ended a nine-year wait for a trophy by winning the FA Cup?
22. Which Czech player won the Wimbledon women's singles for the second time?
23. In which English county did the Tour de France begin in July?
24. Which party won the most votes in the UK's European Parliament elections in May?
25. Who became the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner, aged 17?
26. At the Oscars, which host took a selfie with stars that became the most retweeted post at the time?
27. Which Pharrell Williams song was the UK's best-selling single of the year?
28. Who became King of Spain in June when his father abdicated?
29. Who became prime minister of India in May?
30. Which addictive mobile game was taken down by its creator in February because he felt it had become too addictive?
31. Which virus caused a major outbreak in West Africa?
32. Which Disney song, from "Frozen", became a global phenomenon in 2014?
33. Which film about a slave in the American South won Best Picture at the Oscars in March?
34. Which Apple product was announced in September, as the company's first wearable device?
35. Who won "The X Factor"?
36. Which Kardashian promised to "break the internet" with a magazine cover in November?
37. Who won the Best Actor Oscar for "Dallas Buyers Club"?
38. Which singer-songwriter's album "x" was the UK's best-selling album of the year?
39. Which actor voiced Paddington in the film released in November?
40. Which British athlete won skeleton gold at the Sochi Winter Olympics?
ANSWERS
1. Better Together
2. Nicola Sturgeon
3. Clyde, a thistle
4. 7-1
5. Luis Suárez
6. Russia
7. Crimea
8. Malaysia Airlines
9. The Ice Bucket Challenge
10. Philae
11. Conchita Wurst
12. Poppies
The installation, "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", had 888,246 poppies, one for each British and Commonwealth military death in the war.
13. Caroline Flack
14. Carl Fogarty
15. A Baked Alaska
16. Rory McIlroy
17. Mercedes
18. Gleneagles
19. Steven Gerrard
20. Their tenth European Cup
21. Arsenal
22. Petra Kvitová
23. Yorkshire (starting in Leeds)
24. UKIP
25. Malala Yousafzai
26. Ellen DeGeneres
27. Happy
28. Felipe VI
29. Narendra Modi
30. Flappy Bird
31. Ebola
32. Let It Go
33. 12 Years a Slave
34. The Apple Watch
35. Ben Haenow
36. Kim Kardashian
37. Matthew McConaughey
38. Ed Sheeran
39. Ben Whishaw
40. Lizzy Yarnold
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