<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Which of these European commissioners did not step away from Ursula von der Leyen’s top team this year?</span></strong></p>

• Jutta Urpilainen
• Ylva Johansson
• Mariya Gabriel

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Von der Leyen joined Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni on a trip to which country to strike a deal to limit migrant departures?</span></strong></p>

• Algeria
• Turkey
• Tunisia

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>A European Parliament staffer says he suffered a near-death experience after eating soup containing which unadvertised ingredient bought at a canteen in Strasbourg?</span></strong></p>

• Peanuts
• Shrimp
• Chili

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>National capitals dashed EU plans for a new residence for its ambassador in which city because the apartment was too fancy?</span></strong></p>

• London
• Washington
• Oslo

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>A train carrying MEPs bound for Strasbourg accidentally ended up at which destination?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Disneyland Paris
• St. Pancras
• Frankfurt airport

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>France’s armed forces minister was furious at the depiction of French troops in which movie?</span></strong></p>

• Napoleon
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Oppenheimer

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Paris has a bedbug problem that has caused uproar (and itchiness). What’s the Latin name for bedbugs?</span></strong></p>

• Cimex lectularius
• Coleoptera
• Lutetia Parisiorum

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s trip to which Pacific island caused a storm in France?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Aitutaki
• Tahiti
• Vanuatu

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Bernard Arnault, one of the world’s most powerful CEOs, lobbied Emmanuel Macron to replace Elisabeth Borne as PM. But who did Arnault want in the role?</span></strong></p>

• Himself
• Gérald Darmanin
• Bruno Le Maire

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Which French politician appeared on the cover of Playboy in April?</span></strong></p>

• Emmanuel Macron
• Marlène Schiappa
• Marine Le Pen

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>It was revealed that the German government splashed out almost €55,000 on what for ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel since she left office in 2021?</span></strong></p>

• Trouser suits
• Soup
• Hair and makeup

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Chancellor Olaf Scholz suffered a sporting accident this year that led to him wearing what?</span></strong></p>

• A cast on his arm
• An eye patch
• A bandage around his head

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Finance Minister Christian Lindner came under fire for flaunting his wealth after putting on what at the end of a TV talk show?</span></strong></p>

• A Rolex watch
• A diamond ring
• An Armani jacket

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Which constitutional spending law has caused consternation for the governing coalition?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Debt accelerator
• Debt brake
• Debt clutch

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>A man high on drugs made his way into Olaf Scholz’s official convoy in May, hugged the chancellor and asked him to do what?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Save the world
• Help Ukraine
• Play some music

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>David Cameron made a shock return to front-line politics after years hiding in a shed. How many British prime ministers have there been since he left office in 2016?</span></strong></p>

• Three
• Four
• Five

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Labour leader Keir Starmer met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and gave him a football club T-shirt. But from which club?</span></strong></p>

• Tottenham
• Manchester United
• Arsenal

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Which American rock star turned up to watch Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons?</span></strong></p>

• Gene Simmons
• Dave Grohl
• Axl Rose

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>A senior Scottish government minister blamed an £11,000 data roaming charge, incurred on a parliamentary iPad, on what?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• His wife FaceTiming her friends while abroad
• His sons watching football
• His dog accidentally downloading a movie

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>In March, King Charles took his first trip since becoming monarch. Where did he go?</span></strong></p>

• New York
• Paris
• Berlin

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Geert Wilders’ party won the Dutch election in November. But who led the grouping in second place?</span></strong></p>

• Frans Timmermans
• Pieter Omtzigt
• Dilan Yeşilgöz

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>What did controversial former Romanian socialist leader Liviu Dragnea launch?</span></strong></p>

• His own social media site
• A cooking show
• A fleet of luxury yachts

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Norwegian left-wing party leader Bjørnar Moxnes resigned in July after being caught stealing which item?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• An electric scooter
• A pair of sunglasses
• A laptop

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won reelection in May with what percentage of the runoff vote?</span></strong></p>

• 52
• 62
• 72

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Sanna Marin was ousted as Finnish prime minister after a spring election. Which global organization did she join after being voted out?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• World Economic Forum
• The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Nikki Haley called which fellow Republican presidential candidate “scum”?</span></strong></p>

• Donald Trump
• Ron DeSantis
• Vivek Ramaswamy

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Who was elected as the new speaker of the House of Representatives in October?&nbsp;</span></strong></p>

• Dave Smith
• Mike Johnson
• Steve Jones

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>The Biden family’s dog, Commander, was moved out of the White House after he repeatedly did what?</span></strong></p>

• Urinated on the floor
• Interrupted Oval Office meetings
• Bit people

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Mitt Romney announced he would retire from politics in 2024. But which state is the former Republican presidential candidate a senator for?</span></strong></p>

• Massachusetts
• Utah
• Oregon

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Enrique Tarrio, the former top leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to how long in prison for his role in the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection?</span></strong></p>

• 2 years
• 12 years
• 22 years

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Whose teeth did Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin threaten to pull out?</span></strong></p>

• Emmanuel Macron
• Olaf Scholz
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Which southern Russian city did Prigozhin’s mercenaries capture with no resistance during his mutiny against the Kremlin?</span></strong></p>

• Krasnodar
• Rostov-on-Don
• Volgograd

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>What did Prigozhin say the temperature was during a video shot in Africa days before his death?</span></strong></p>

• 30 degrees Celsius
• 40 degrees Celsius
• 50 degrees Celsius

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>What did Vladimir Putin say could have caused the plane crash in which Prigozhin died?</span></strong></p>

• Passengers were high on cocaine and playing with grenades
• A missile strike
• Pilot error

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>Where was Prigozhin buried?</span></strong></p>

• St. Petersburg
• Bamako
• Voronezh

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>“Anyone who has had anything to do with Ukraine knows that this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society.”</span></strong></p>

• Viktor Orbán
• Jean-Claude Juncker
• Vladimir Putin

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>“President Xi is a brilliant man: If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn’t find him.”</span></strong></p>

• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Donald Trump
• Elon Musk

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>“This is a witch hunt by the opposition.”</span></strong></p>

• Kaja Kallas
• António Costa
• Donald Trump

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>“Perhaps the less junk, the better. There is less of a chance of bedbugs coming here from large European cities.”</span></strong></p>

• Ebrahim Raisi
• Kim Jong Un
• Vladimir Putin

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt”>“For me, Silvio [Berlusconi] was a dear person, a true friend. I have always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions even in the most difficult situations. During each of our meetings, I was literally charged with his incredible vitality, optimism and sense of humor. His death is an irreparable loss and great sorrow.”</span></strong></p>

• Giorgia Meloni
• Vladimir Putin
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan