Quiz of the Year 2016 Easy
- 40 questions
- about 50 minutes to run
- published 11 Aug 2022
- updated
1. During the EU referendum campaign, the Leave side's bus claimed the UK sent the EU how much money a week?
2. After David Cameron resigned, Theresa May became prime minister when her last rival withdrew. Who was that rival?
3. Which job did Theresa May give Boris Johnson in her first Cabinet?
4. Theresa May famously said that "Brexit means..." what?
5. Whom did Donald Trump defeat in the US presidential election?
6. Who was elected Mayor of London in May?
7. Leicester City won the Premier League at odds of 5,000 to 1. Who was their manager?
8. Which Leicester striker set a record by scoring in 11 consecutive Premier League matches?
9. Which manager won the FA Cup with Manchester United and was sacked two days later?
10. Which small nation knocked England out of Euro 2016?
11. Which British team reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016?
12. Where did Team GB finish in the medal table at the Rio Olympics?
13. Which British athlete won the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at a second consecutive Olympics?
14. Which British cycling couple, who married later that year, both won gold medals in Rio?
15. Andy Murray won Wimbledon and Olympic gold. What else did he achieve in November?
16. Which golfer from Sheffield won the Masters?
17. Which German won the Formula One world title and then retired five days later?
18. Which baseball team won the World Series, ending a 108-year wait?
19. Which Ukrainian singer won Eurovision with "1944"?
20. David Bowie died in January, two days after releasing which album?
21. Prince died in April. Which 1984 album and film made him a superstar?
22. Which mobile game had people chasing virtual creatures through streets and parks in July?
23. Who won "The Great British Bake Off" in its last series on the BBC?
24. Which former Shadow Chancellor became a "Strictly" favourite with his "Gangnam Style" routine?
25. Who won "Strictly Come Dancing"?
26. Which "Gogglebox" star won "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"?
27. Which Netflix drama about the Queen launched in November, with Claire Foy in the lead role?
28. Which Netflix series, set in 1980s Indiana, first aired in July?
29. How old was the Queen on her birthday in April?
30. Which Panamanian law firm was at the centre of the "Panama Papers" leak in April?
31. Which Samsung smartphone was recalled because its batteries could catch fire?
32. Which Cuban revolutionary leader died in November?
33. Which singer-songwriter became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
34. Which Colombian president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace deal with the FARC rebels?
35. In February, scientists announced the first direct detection of what, predicted by Einstein a century earlier?
36. Which NASA spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter on 4 July?
37. Usain Bolt won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at a third Olympics. What was this feat called?
38. Which "Harry Potter" actor... which actor, famous as Severus Snape, died in January?
39. Which comedian and writer, creator of "Dinnerladies", died in April?
40. What was the Oxford Word of the Year?
ANSWERS
1. £350 million
The UK Statistics Authority called the figure misleading, because it ignored the UK's rebate and the money that came back from the EU.
2. Andrea Leadsom
3. Foreign Secretary
4. "...Brexit"
5. Hillary Clinton
6. Sadiq Khan
7. Claudio Ranieri
8. Jamie Vardy
The streak ran from August to November 2015, during Leicester's title-winning season.
9. Louis van Gaal
10. Iceland
11. Wales
12. Second (above China)
13. Mo Farah
14. Laura Trott and Jason Kenny
15. He became world number one
16. Danny Willett
17. Nico Rosberg
18. The Chicago Cubs
19. Jamala
20. Blackstar
21. Purple Rain
22. Pokémon Go
23. Candice Brown
The show moved to Channel 4 in 2017.
24. Ed Balls
25. Ore Oduba
26. Scarlett Moffatt
27. The Crown
28. Stranger Things
29. 90
30. Mossack Fonseca
31. The Galaxy Note 7
32. Fidel Castro
33. Bob Dylan
34. Juan Manuel Santos
35. Gravitational waves
36. Juno
37. The "triple triple"
In 2017, Bolt lost his 2008 relay gold after a team-mate, Nesta Carter, was disqualified for doping, so officially he has eight Olympic golds, not nine.
38. Alan Rickman
39. Victoria Wood
40. Post-truth
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