Is Britain now a vassal state? Test your knowledge with the Brexit quiz of the year

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1. 

   In January, who stirred the Tory party pot by saying they wanted only a “very modest Brexit”?

   1. Ken Clarke

   2. Philip Hammond

   3. Anna Soubry

   4. Jeremy Hunt

2. Which prominent Brexiter, in February, became the first of many to declare that the Brexit deal then emerging would reduce Britain to “vassal state status”?

   1. Boris Johnson

   2. John Redwood

   3. Jacob Rees-Mogg

   4. Andrea Leadsom

3. Beware the Ides of March. Where did Theresa May deliver her third big Brexit speech, after Lancaster House and Florence?

   1. Chequers

   2. The Institute of Directors

   3. Mansion House

   4. Berlin

4. 

   Amid April showers, who said the post-Brexit registration process for EU citizens living in the UK would be “as easy as shopping at LK Bennett”?

   1. Amber Rudd

   2. Esther McVey

   3. Caroline Nokes

   4. Priti Patel

5. It wasn’t just the weather that heated up in May. Temperatures in the cabinet rose during a bitter split over the customs plan. What were the two rival schemes called?

   1. Bespoke deal and red-white-and-blue Brexit

   2. Facilitated customs arrangement and frictionless trade

   3. Common rulebook and regulatory alignment

   4. Customs partnership and maximum facilitation

6. 

   Complete the following quote from the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier: “We need realistic proposals from the UK. It is the UK that is leaving the EU. It cannot, on leaving, ask us to” – what?

   1. Help it decide what the hell it actually wants

   2. Go away and stop being a bully

   3. Accept the fantasy it is chasing

   4. Change who we are and how we operate

7. As spring turned to summer in Brexitland and industry began to panic, June brought another crop of choice Brexiter aphorisms. Who reportedly said “fuck business” and demanded a “full English Brexit”?

   1. Liam Fox

   2. Boris Johnson

   3. David Davis

   4. Bernard Jenkin

8. 

   If it’s July, it must be Chequers. The price of cabinet agreement on a Brexit plan was the resignation of (among others) David Davis. He was replaced as Brexit secretary by Dominic Raab, whose chief claim to fame hitherto had been:

   1. A black belt in karate

   2. A pet tarantula called Cronus

   3. An Oxford blue for cricket

   4. A PhD in geography

9. 

   As the evenings lengthened in September, May suffered a more than usually humiliating EU summit where her “my way or the highway” approach was roundly rejected by the EU27. Where was it held?

   1. Vienna

   2. Brussels

   3. Salzburg

   4. Frankfurt

10. 

    The organisers predicted 100,000– but how many people turned up for that big anti-Brexit march in London in October?

    1. 500,000

    2. 700,000

    3. 900,000

    4. 1,000,000

11. 

    We made it! Finally (or so we thought), at an emergency summit in November, the EU27 and the UK signed off on “the only deal possible” (Jean-Claude Juncker). Who nearly derailed the whole thing at the last minute – and why?

    1. France, over fishing

    2. Luxembourg, over passporting

    3. Poland, over citizens’ rights

    4. Spain, over Gibraltar

12. In the run-up to Christmas and faced with a crushing defeat in the Commons, Theresa May pulled the meaningful vote. What in the withdrawal agreement did MPs most object to?

    1. The transition period

    2. The backstop

    3. The financial settlement

    4. The 585 pages

Solutions

1:B, 2:C, 3:C, 4:A, 5:D, 6:D, 7:B, 8:A, 9:C, 10:B, 11:D, 12:B

Scores

1. 12 and above.

   Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

2. 11 and above.

   Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

3. 10 and above.

   Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

4. 9 and above.

   Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

5. 8 and above.

   It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

6. 7 and above.

   It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

7. 6 and above.

   It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

8. 5 and above.

   It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

9. 4 and above.

   Terrible. You clearly have better things to do with your life or have not been reading the Guardian's Brexit weekly briefing closely enough.

10. 3 and above.

    Terrible. You clearly have better things to do with your life or have not been reading the Guardian's Brexit weekly briefing closely enough.

11. 2 and above.

    Terrible. You clearly have better things to do with your life or have not been reading the Guardian's Brexit weekly briefing closely enough.

12. 1 and above.

    Terrible. You clearly have better things to do with your life or have not been reading the Guardian's Brexit weekly briefing closely enough.

13. 0 and above.

    Terrible. You clearly have better things to do with your life or have not been reading the Guardian's Brexit weekly briefing closely enough.