The big 2024 election quiz

1) Which song threatened to drown out Rishi Sunak’s speech announcing the election date?

a) Umbrella by Rhianna
b) Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream
c) Why Does It Always Rain On Me by Travis

2) Who said: “I’ve done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain”?

a) Jeremy Corbyn
b) Diane Abbott
c) Nigel Farage

3) Why did a 2019 clip of Ed Davey criticising Nicola Sturgeon briefly go viral during this campaign?

a) He said she should chill out on a paddleboard
b) He said she should go bungee-jumping
c) He said politicians should show more dignity during election campaigns

4) During a rural campaign photo op, which animals refused to be fed by Rishi Sunak and David Cameron?

a) Sheep
b) Yaks
c) The local Conservative Party association

5) How did Alison McGarry, Labour’s party chair in Islington North, react when was “caught red-handed” campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn?

a) She tried to hide behind a hedge
b) She said she’d found the Corbyn leaflets in a hedge
c) She became a hedge fund manager

6) What fetched £750 as the opening lot in an auction at the Conservatives’ summer ball?

a) Two tickets to see Michael Fabricant live
b) Two tickets to see Michael Gove live
c) Two tickets to male stripper show Magic Mike Live

7) What did Keir Starmer name as his favourite Taylor Swift song after watching her Eras concert?

a) Blank Space
b) Change
c) Poppa Was A Toolmaker

8) What flavour milkshake was thrown at Nigel Farage outside Wetherspoons in Clacton?

a) Banana
b) Freddo The Frog chocolate
c) Irrelevant; milkshakes were better in the 1950s

9) Which Sky News presenter revealed that they get up at 3.17am every morning because “3.15 is too early and 3.19 is too late to do everything I need to do”?

a) Beth Rigby
b) Kay Burley
c) Sophy Ridge

10) After appearing in a white suit and white hat at a Reform party event, to which fictional movie character was Nigel Farage compared?

a) Tony Manero from Saturday Night Fever
b) The Nazi relic hunter from Raiders of the Lost Ark
c) Sidney Stratton from The Man In The White Suit

11) Whose election letter to constituents included the phrases “I know that voting for Reform might seem like the right thing to do in this election” and “Nigel Farage has said that he admires me and considers me a friend”?

a) Lee Anderson
b) Richard Tice
c) Suella Braverman

12) The Mail and the Telegraph endorsed the Tories. The Financial Times and Independent endorsed Labour. Who did the Daily Star (together with a 1980s celebrity) endorse?

a) The Lib Dems (on the advice of Duncan Goodhew)
b) Count Binface (on the advice of Kim Wilde)
c) Reform (on the advice of Jim Davidson)

13) In an ITV interview, what did Rishi Sunak name as something he went without as a child?

a) Shame
b) Meeting working class people
c) Sky TV

14) How did Reform’s Paul Thomas launch his campaign in Maidstone & Malling?

a) With a rap to the Stone Roses’ Made Of Stone
b) With the rap from World In Motion
c) With the rap from Wannabe by the Spice Girls

15) Esther McVey’s husband, Tory MP Philip Davies, allegedly bet £8,000 on himself losing his seat. What £500-an-hour part-time job does he have that will cushion the blow?

a) Strategic adviser at a slot machine company
b) Professional poker player
c) Dog fluffer at a greyhound track

16) Which of these did Nigel Farage NOT say was biased against him?

a) Channel 4 News
b) BBC News
c) GB News

17) How did Rish Sunak embarrass himself in Barry, Wales?

a) By asking “So are you looking forward to all the football?” when Wales did not qualify for the Euros
b) By asking “which one of you is Barry?”
c) By singing The Green, Green Grass Of Home

18) How did Rishi Sunak embarrass himself on an LBC phone-in, when told the next caller was from the Rhondda?

a) By saying, “Hello Rhonda!”
b) By singing, “Help me, Rhonda?”
c) By asking, “So are you looking forward to all the football in the Rhondda?”

19) With what excuse for leaving commemorations in Normandy did Rishi Sunak embarrass himself on D-Day?

a) “Yeah, it all just ran over”
b) “We had to refuel the helicopter”
c) “I needed to get back before the bookies closed”

20) What prediction made by the Daily Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey will be remembered for many a year to come?

a) “Whisper it, but deely-boppers are making an extraordinary comeback”
b) “Whisper it, but scurvy is making an extraordinary comeback”
c) “Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak is making an extraordinary comeback”

Answers
1) b 2) c 3) c 4) a 5) a 6) c 7) b 8) a 9) b 10) b 11) c 12) b 13) c 14) c 15) a 16) c 17) a 18) a 19) a 20) c