The Christmas quiz 2025

How closely have you followed the news in 2025? And how’s your general knowledge?

Test yourself now – answers at the bottom.

Looking back on 2025

1. Which sitting Tory MP became the first to defect to Reform UK?

2. Who won this year’s Booker Prize?

3. Since May, Robert Prevost has been better known by what name?

4. Which French politician was appointed his country’s PM twice in two weeks this summer?

5. In which country was the world’s highest bridge inaugurated?