The Radio Times big TV and movie quiz of 2016

The news quiz – compiled by Today programme presenter Justin Webb

1. In the American presidential election Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but not the White House. Who was the last candidate to fail in a similar way?
2. During the referendum campaign, who called Britain “a cake-filled, misery-laden, grey old island”?
3. Leonard Cohen and his muse and former lover both died this year: what was her name?
4. Which game launch resulted in more than 100,00 road accidents in the US in its first ten days?
5. Who welcomed his appointment as a Labour shadow minister by saying it made up for “a total absence of octogenerians” in the previous team?
6. Which nation did President Obama visit in March, becoming the first president to go there since Calvin Coolidge?
7. Mankind visited Jupiter this year — what was the name of the spacecraft?
8. Which public officials were branded “enemies of the people” by the Daily Mail?
9. The Scottish Parliamentary Elections of 2016 were won by the SNP. Who came second?
10. Which nation put its clocks forward by half an hour in order to save electricity?

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