What a strange year 2023 has been. Here’s an extract from the Have I Got News For You: The Quiz Of 2023 book to test how much you have been paying attention.
The premise of this round is quite complicated, so pay attention. Below are twenty statements linked to 2023, but are they true or false?
1. For Valentine’s Day 2023, Build- A- Bear Workshop launched a range of adult- only bears, complete with wine bottles, stilettos and sexy lingerie.
2. In May, a teacher in Kentucky, USA was suspended after allowing a student to dress up as a KKK grand wizard as part of a history project.
3. At a Q&A session ahead of the final season of Succession, producers revealed that Brian Cox had originally been their third choice for the role of Logan Roy, landing it only after Robert Redford and Michael Douglas had turned them down.
4. After being cleared of fault over a 2016 ski crash on 30 March, actress Gwyneth Paltrow was awarded just $1.
5. In a blog post on 6 April, street artist Banksy revealed that he had appeared on a UK game show under his real name but would never reveal which one or when it was.
6. In August, Edinburgh Zoo admitted that a koala bear escaped in 2015 and was on the loose for seven months before being captured on a farm sixteen miles away.
7. In January, an original Mr Blobby costume listed on eBay for ￡39 received a winning bid of ￡62,000 following a fierce bidding war.
8. In May, Plymouth City Council cut down a large number of trees to stop…
