In 2025:

1. Name the singer of ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It for You’ whose concert in Perth, Australia, was cancelled because a fatberg had blocked a main sewer.

2. What hub of intelligence did Blaise Metreweli take over?

3. In which capital city did state media warn people weighing less than 8st to stay at home during a spell of windy weather?

4. A swarm of what shut down a nuclear power station at Gravelines in France?

5. At the end of a summit in Alaska, who said in English: ‘Next time in Moscow’?

6. Why did Aalborg Zoo in Denmark appeal for guinea pigs and horses?

7. In which country did the ruling regime ban chess?

8. In which lake did a man from Billericay catch a world-record 105lb carp?

9. The cost of a ‘mitigation structure’ on the HS2 railway line was estimated to have risen to £125 million in order to help which mammal?

10. Who said: ‘We risk becoming an island of strangers’?

1. What is the capital of Kansas state?

2. What is the seat of government of Narnia?

3. Albany is the capital of New York state, but of other cities, which is bigger: Albany, California, or Albany, Georgia?

4. What is the county town where Felpersham is the cathedral city?

5. Name one of the cities in Morocco bigger than its capital.

6. ‘The first request I made after I had obtained my liberty, was that I might have licence to see Mildendo, the metropolis,’ recounted which visitor to a fictional island?

7. What is the capital of the German Land of Schleswig-Holstein?

8. What is the capital of the Land of Oz?

9. What is the county town of Mayo?

10. Name the capital of Ruritania.

1. Having lost his titles, who gained a hyphen in November?

2. In October, at Neasden Temple, the King and Queen witnessed an abhishek, the pouring of water over the image of a god. What religion is practised at the temple?

3. Who announced ‘As Ever’ to be the new name for her lifestyle brand of jam and things?

4. When Athena Mapelli Mozzi was born on 22 January 2025, she became 11th in line to the throne. Who was her grandfather?

5. Who recorded a special podcast with Cate Blanchett and Elinor Breman to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Gardens?

6. Which uncle and niece became patrons of Outward Bound?

7. Who witnessed a canine therapy session for veterans when she visited Ukraine at the end of September?

8. In October, at which........

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