Start the year with a quiz from Dennis Leeds-George.
- What six-letter term beginning with S is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate?
- Not to be confused with a similarly-named Brat Pack actor, who is the current MP for Great Yarmouth, and one of five Reform UK MPs elected in this year's general election?
- The Wimbledon tennis tournament has announced that this year it is replacing what with robots?
- Who ran away together in the rhyme The Cat and The Fiddle?
- The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be held in which country, following their victory in 2024?
- Who has served as the chief medical officer for England since 2019, and has had rather more prominence than most of his predecessors in the post?
- The last Tudor monarch was Elizabeth I, but who was the last Tudor king?
- The 2025 Ryder Cup will be played in which country?
- The Oasis Live ’25 Tour will begin on 4 July 2025 at which venue?
- In which English city in 2020 was a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston torn down as part of anti-racism riots?
- Who has been one of the main hosts of Strictly Come Dancing since the show began in 2004?
- Lewis Hamilton will compete for which team in 2025?
- Which medical procedure involves inserting a thin tube with a camera to examine the body internally derived from a root word meaning within?
- What name is usually given to the performer in a circus, typically dressed in a red tailcoat and top hat, who serves as an MC?
- The World Conker Championships has been plunged into scandal after what was discovered in the pocket of the men's champion?
- The literary character Moby Dick was what type of animal?
- What word, of Anglo-Indian origin, refers to an amateur equestrian sports meeting, and is particularly associated with Pony Club events?
- Four-letter word precedes 'market' to refer to an economic system where the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand?
- Haydn's Symphony No. 101 in D major is known by what nickname, a reference to the very regular rhythm of plucked strings and bassoons in the second movement?
- An American ice-cream company, named for its two founders and known for their inventive flavour names, also produce dog-friendly treats. What are the treats called?
- What name given to a type of bedside machine for making hot drinks, whose use has declined since their 1970s peak, was actually a genericised trademark belonging to the company Goblin?
- What is the name of the situation in which the economic growth is stagnant, but prices are rising?
- For which novel did Kingsley Amis win his only Booker Prize?
- Who met his double act partner Hugh Laurie while the two were students and members of Cambridge Footlights in 1980?
- May 2020, craft beer giant Brew Dog released the beer Barnard Castle Eye Test – inspired by whose journey?
- Sluice
- Rupert Lowe
- Line judges
- The dish and the spoon
- Switzerland
- Chris Whitty
- Edward VII
- USA
- Principality Stadium in Cardiff
- Bristol
- Tess Daly
- Ferrari
- Endoscopy
- Ringmaster (Ringmistress or Ringleader)
- A metal replica conker
- Whale (White Whale or Sperm)
- Gymkhana
- Free
- The Clock Symphony
- Ben & Jerry Doggie Desserts
- Teasmade
- Stagflation
- The Old Devils
- Stephen Fry
- Dominic Cummings
