Quiz: the ludicrous general election campaign trivia quiz

Why yes, that is an Irish flag. Check out question one for more details. Illustration: Guardian Design

Is it the end of the beginning yet, or the beginning of the end? With just two weeks to polling day you could be forgiven for thinking that all you can ever remember is Britain in the midst of an election campaign. But how much of this week’s campaign went in one ear and out the other? Why not challenge yourself with our general election memory quiz.

It is just for fun, remember, although if you want to post your score in the comments for the bragging rights you are very, very welcome.

The Guardian’s ludicrous general election campaign trivia quiz

1. Which party tweeted out some of their plans for Northern Ireland using the emoji for the Irish tricolour of the Republic?

   1. Conservatives

   2. Labour

   3. Brexit party

   4. Ukip

2. 

   Boris Johnson posted a picture of a letter he said was handed to him on a train. Who did he say it was from?

   1. Nicola

   2. Natalie

   3. Natasha

   4. Nadia

3. Everyone got very excited about YouGov's MRP model seat-by-seat opinion poll. But what does MRP stand for?

   1. Multiple response parameters

   2. Multi-regional personalisation

   3. Multilevel regression and post-stratification

   4. Megabyte ravalox paradigm

4. 

   Labour unveiled an unredacted document about US-UK trade talks involving the NHS. Which web service had it been uploaded to?

   1. WikiLeaks

   2. TikTok

   3. MetaFilter

   4. Reddit

5. Michael Gove horrified the internet by tweeting: "I set trends dem man copy." Who was he quoting?

   1. Skepta

   2. Stormzy

   3. Tinchy Stryder

   4. Slick Rick

6. 

   What was Jo Swinson listening to?

   1. Cider being brewed

   2. Space signals at Jodrell Bank

   3. Her approval ratings plummet

   4. That Robbie Williams Christmas album

7. What did John Finucane, Sinn Féin's North Belfast general election candidate, apologise for this week?

   1. Defacing an opponent's poster

   2. Appearing drunk on television

   3. Urinating in the street

   4. Failing to turn up to a scheduled radio interview

8. 

   What did the Conservative candidate Johnny Mercer accuse Plymouth city council of doing in a tweet this week?

   1. Ripping off and damaging a sign on private land

   2. Signing people up en masse for postal votes

   3. Not emptying his bins on purpose

   4. Letting staff post rude comments about him or his wife on the Plymouth Herald website

9. Which party has proposed the creation of an NHS Protection Act?

   1. Brexit party

   2. Labour

   3. Green party

   4. SNP

10. 

    The Conservatives published a YouTube video this week of ambient music interspersed with snatches of Boris Johnson's speeches, while you watched the countryside go past on a privatised train. What was it called?

    1. Transient random-noise bursts with announcements

    2. Boriswave shapes & passive rhythms

    3. Lo fi boriswave beats to relax/get brexit done to

    4. Borisbeats/last train to brexitcentral

11. 

    And now some GCSE maths. Matt likes collecting stamps. Over the next five years he plans to buy 31,000 stamps. Over that time period he also says he will retain 19,000 stamps that he would otherwise have lost down the back of the sofa. How many NEW stamps does Matt have?

    1. 19,000

    2. 31,000

    3. 50,000

    4. None

12. Which Conservative candidate was this week caught by the journalist Michael Crick phoning ahead to a friend so that he could knock on his door and pretend he was visiting an ordinary voter?

    1. Tom Hunt

    2. Lee Anderson

    3. Robbie Moore

    4. Morton Dill

13. 

    Veteran Michael Heseltine was campaigning for which party this week?

    1. Conservatives

    2. Liberal Democrats

    3. The Independent Group for Change

    4. Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell

14. 

    Labour's Stella Creasy did something no other candidate did this week, by going into labour and giving birth. But what is her new baby called?

    1. Castor

    2. Corinna

    3. Hester

    4. Boris

Solutions

1:B - Labour illustrated a tweet promising new bank holidays on the saints' days of George, David, Andrew and Patrick, but used the Republic's flag to illustrate Northern Ireland. As one wag on social media pointed out, fortunately it isn't the kind of place where people get passionate about things such as national identity., 2:A - Johnson posted it to Twitter saying: "Thank you Nicola for the note you passed me on the train today." The letter urged him to: "Channel your inner bulldog to be the leader we need," although it isn't entirely clear how the dog's characteristics of severe breathing difficulties, skin problems, joint problems and dental issues caused by generations of inbreeding are going to help here., 3:C - YouGov claims the model successfully predicted the last hung parliament and the result of the European referendum. It surveys a lot more people than usual, then uses ONS and census data to work out the demographics of each seat, put the two together in a giant spreadsheet, and next thing you know, you've got a predicted Boris Johnson majority of 68., 4:D - The document was available on a UK whistleblower 'sub-reddit'. Immediately after this was discovered, lots of people who hadn't noticed that the document was there suddenly had VERY STRONG OPINIONS about other people who hadn't noticed that the document was there., 5:B - Gove was quoting the lyrics from Stormzy's Shut Up, after Stormzy had endorsed Labour. Gove said Stormzy was a better rapper than political pundit so then Angela Rayner said Gove was bad at both, so then Gove rapped online and yes, life was undoubtedly better before Twitter., 6:A - Swinson treated herself to a cheeky cider while visiting Dunkertons Cider Company, an organic and plastic-free brewery in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. During the course of the campaign she has seen her personal approval rating drop in polls, suggesting that perhaps the British public just eventually really dislike any politician they get exposed to on a regular basis., 7:C - Finucane confirmed that he had accepted a community resolution notice for indecent behaviour from the police after an incident in the centre of Belfast on 29 June, and apologised for his behaviour. During the campaign Finucane, the son of the murdered lawyer Pat Finucane, has been the subject of a targeted poster campaign which Sinn Féin has described as a "hate crime", 8:A - Mercer shared some photos which appeared to show a council worker removing one of his campaign posters. , 9:D - The SNP's idea is that the act would "stipulate that any goods or services that are procured by the NHS must be explicitly prevented from being subject to any future investment protection mechanisms or investor-state dispute resolution mechanisms", which would effectively put it out of bounds for any trade deal. The proposal would also give devolved institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland explicit approval over any future UK-wide trade deals., 10:C - It is the latest Conservative digital campaign wheeze to co-opt internet trends. If we are very, very lucky, by the end of the campaign we may get Liz Truss doing ASMR make-up tutorials on YouTube. , 11:B - "The numbers are crystal clear," as at least two government ministers said this week while arguing about basic arithmetic with breakfast TV presenters. If you hire 31,000 new nurses, and retain 19,000 other nurses, you have 31,000 new nurses. Please don't mention the fact that there are an estimated 40,000 current vacancies for nurses, nobody wants to be doing sums with negative numbers on a Friday. , 12:B - Anderson was caught on camera making the call. He is hoping to take the ultra-marginal constituency of Ashfield. Yes, you do remember his name because it was Anderson last week who was saying problem tenants should be moved to forced labour camps, to live in tents and be made to pick vegetables. No, he isn't having a terribly great campaign so far, is he?, 13:B - The Conservative grandee made an impassioned appeal to people to choose “the national interest” and ignore traditional party loyalties to help elect the Lib Dems through tactical voting. However, when asked, he said he was not advising people to vote Labour tactically., 14:C - Hester Corinna, known as Hettie, was born on Wednesday 27 November at Whipps Cross NHS hospital, weighing in at 7lbs and 1oz. Congratulations to all of you!

Scores

1. 7 and above.

   So so, you'll be desperately hoping you can form a minority government

2. 9 and above.

   Excellent effort, enough of a majority to keep you in power for a few years

3. 13 and above.

   Congratulations!

4. 11 and above.

   Excellent effort, enough of a majority to keep you in power for a few years

5. 8 and above.

   So so, you'll be desperately hoping you can form a minority government

6. 0 and above.

   Terrible. The polls all point to a crushing defeat.

7. 4 and above.

   Not good at all, you'll be in opposition for years at this rate