The Spectator’s 2023 Christmas quiz

Fairly odd

1. What had for 50 years been the name for Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit before it was changed this year?

2. Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, have to pay £510 in fines and costs?

3. Which country overtook France as the biggest buyer of Scotch whisky, despite imposing an 150 per cent import tariff?

4. For whose visit did Papua New Guinea declare a public holiday, only to find he decided instead to fly straight home from the G7 summit in Japan?

5. Which parents named their new son Frank Alfred Odysseus?

6. In which country were six children and two adults rescued by helicopter and zipwire after hours stuck in a cable car dangling 900ft in the air?

7. Opposition leader Patrick Herminie was charged with witchcraft in which country?

8. Name the founder of the Inkatha Freedom party, who died this year aged 95 and had played the role of his great-grandfather Cetshwayo in the film Zulu.

9. A factory in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, was fined $14,500 after two workers had to be rescued from a vat of what?

10. President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay changed his mind about recasting as a dove of peace the seven hundredweight bronze eagle figurehead from which ship?

You don’t say

In 2023 who said:

1. ‘I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.’

2. ‘The documents, the whole thing is a witch hunt. It’s a disgrace.’

3. ‘Rachel Reeves is a serious economist.’

4. On the death of Silvio Berlusconi: ‘I have always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions.’

5. ‘I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the start of the 1990s. He was a man with a difficult fate, and he made serious mistakes in life.