Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s great big quiz of the year

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

1. This year Teen Vogue published an article with which of the following titles?

   1. Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar

   2. Meet Hannah Arendt: Queen Who Coined 'The Banality of Evil'

   3. Here’s William Moulton Marston: Wonder Woman’s Polyamorous Dad

   4. Dario Antiseri: The Link Between Fallibilism and Hermeneutics

2. 

   What awful facial adornment did Ted Cruz debut in late 2018?

   1. A beard

   2. A nose ring

   3. Noticeably whitened teeth

   4. A spider tattoo

3. What did the pope tell Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay man, this year?

   1. 'God loves you like this'

   2. 'God hates you'

   3. 'God can cure you'

   4. 'I like your hair'

4. 

   What did Rudy Giuliani accuse Twitter of this year?

   1. Reducing the number of his followers

   2. Shadow-banning his associates

   3. Allowing his account to be hacked

   4. Deliberately holding back the edit button

5. Which of these companies did not sever ties with the National Rifle Association this year?

   1. Avis

   2. Wells Fargo

   3. Delta Airlines

   4. Best Western

6. What’s the favoured hobby of beloved Deadpool 2 character Peter?

   1. Beekeeping

   2. Birdwatching

   3. Stamp collecting

   4. Pebble-stealing

7. Complete the title of Sharon’s Channel W series: Women on the…:

   1. Edge

   2. Ledge

   3. Verge

   4. Splurge

8. 

   Which of these was the tagline for Game Night, the comedy in which Sharon starred?

   1. 'This is a game'

   2. 'This is not a game'

   3. 'This might be a game'

   4. 'The word ‘game’ has now lost all meaning'

9. Who did Rob play on Danger Mouse this year?

   1. Serial Cereal

   2. Principal Principle

   3. Not Knot

   4. Night Knight

10. 

    Which of these is not one of Sharon’s 10 favourite books?

    1. Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

    2. Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady

    3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    4. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

11. Who said: 'Sounds to me like he deserves a marvellous funeral'?

    1. Rob

    2. Sharon

    3. A character played by Rob or Sharon

    4. Someone else

12. 

    Who said: 'I like to drink coffee on drizzly days in cafes that look out on ugly buildings on canals, so I like most of London, honestly'?

    1. Rob

    2. Sharon

    3. A character played by Rob or Sharon

    4. Someone else

13. Who said: 'My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form'?

    1. Rob

    2. Sharon

    3. A character played by Rob or Sharon

    4. Someone else

14. 

    Of working on a turkey farm, who said: 'It teaches you that Christmas is shit'?

    1. Rob

    2. Sharon

    3. A character played by Rob or Sharon

    4. Someone else

15. Who said: 'I think people have realised that women are just as capable of telling stories that have a universal appeal as men are'?

    1. Rob

    2. Sharon

    3. A character played by Rob or Sharon

    4. Someone else

16. 

    What is the Makaton sign for 'elephant'?

    1. Hands perpendicular to ears, palms out

    2. Hands banging thighs four times

    3. Cupped hands moving away from the nose

    4. Arms drooped and swaying

17. Which Oscar category did the Academy announce and then drop this year?

    1. Achievement in popular film

    2. Best sequel

    3. Funkiest score

    4. Exceptional stunt performance

18. 

    Who won the World Series this year?

    1. Los Angeles Dodgers

    2. Boston Red Sox

    3. New York Highlanders

    4. Seattle Mariners

19. What might happen to the Earth if gravitational waves collide?

    1. It might break in half like a watermelon

    2. It might shrink to a third of its size

    3. It might get sucked into a black hole

    4. It might reverse its orbit

20. What did an eight-year-old Swedish girl find in a lake this year?

    1. A stone age axe

    2. An iron age sword

    3. A 17th-century carriage

    4. A bag full of blood

Solutions

1:A, 2:A, 3:A, 4:C, 5:B, 6:A, 7:C, 8:B, 9:D, 10:D, 11:C, 12:A, 13:A, 14:B, 15:A, 16:C, 17:A, 18:B, 19:C, 20:B

Scores

1. 16 and above.

   Well done! You are us and we are you, connected for ever in the nebulous material of existence. Merry Christmas!

2. 11 and above.

   This is a wonderful score. You clearly know us both, and our work, very well. Is it a bit creepy? Who is to say?

3. 0 and above.

   You don’t know us at all! So why not catch up by watching every series of our acclaimed comedy Catastrophe on All 4?

4. 6 and above.

   This is probably the best result you could have got. Anything less would have been an enormous personal insult to us

• Catastrophe returns for a fourth series on 8 January at 10pm on Channel 4.