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Tuesday 25 December 2018

From Simon Cowell to jock straps: Marina Hyde’s Lost in Showbiz quiz of the year

What did Katy Perry send Taylor Swift as a peace offering? How did Stormy Daniels describe sex with Donald Trump? And what time does Mark Wahlberg get up?

According to the daily schedule he posted in September, at what time does actor Mark Wahlberg get up in the morning?

Before lunch

Before Farming Today

Before even people who are featured in the long-running Sunday Times magazine feature A Life in the Day

2.30am

As well as a cheque for $350,000, what did Paris Hilton give in November to victims of 2017’s devastating Mexican earthquake?

Presentation boxes of her new fragrance Platinum Rush

Presentation boxes of her classic fragrance Heiress

Presentation boxes of her limited-edition fragrance Anniversary

Blankets and drinking water

In a November interview, Simon Cowell revealed he had split from which pair of entities, in order to rid his business of toxic influences?

Olly Murs and Rupert Murdoch

Little Mix and Philip Green

Susan Boyle and David Geffen

Louis Walsh and Sinitta

The forthcoming ITV drama Wild Bill is set in Boston, Lincolnshire, the town that voted leave in the highest percentage in the 2016 EU referendum. Who plays the “take-no-prisoners” police chief?

Matt Dillon

Rob Lowe

Lou Diamond Phillips

Christian Slater

In October, who declared: “My eyes are now wide open and now realise I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative”?

Taylor Swift

Kanye West

Kim Kardashian

Susan Sarandon

Which of these did Steven Seagal achieve in the last year?

He was appointed special diplomatic envoy to the United States by Vladimir Putin and banned from entering Ukraine for five years for national security reasons

He starred in two films and published a novel about the deep state entitled The Way of the Shadow Wolves

He became the mascot for the cryptocurrency called Bitcoiin

All of the above

In a bid to end their six-year feud, what did Katy Perry send Taylor Swift as an olive branch in May?

An olive branch

Her new album, featuring an autosignature

An apology, on scented unicorn stationery

The three backing dancers she allegedly poached from her in 2012

In April, what development in China was described by Jessie J as a cultural boundary-smashing “beginning of something really magical”?

The Great Leap Forward

Her April victory in a Chinese TV singing competition

Xi Jinping’s constitutional amendment revoking the two-term limit on his presidency

The trial of three of Hong Kong’s highest-profile pro-democracy protests

2018 was Paul Hollywood’s turn to take custody of the great British telly chefs’ rotating midlife crisis. What is the name of his young love interest?

Spring Monteys-Chelsy

Summer Monteys-Fullam

Autumn Monteys-Ballam

Winter Monteys-Kensyngton

Which of the following was a genuine lot in Russell Crowe’s April auction, The Art of Divorce?

A used leather jock strap from Cinderella Man

A fully functioning chariot from Gladiator

A mosasaur skull he bought from Leonardo DiCaprio

All of the above

In a January kiss-and-tell billed as “5,500 words of cray”, how did porn star Stormy Daniels describe sex with Donald Trump?

Standard vanilla

Missionary blah-blah

Textbook generic

Your basic

In a January interview, of whom did Erykah Badu observe, “I saw something good”, adding that he “was a wonderful painter”?

Rolf Harris

George W Bush

Adolf Hitler

Ken Livingstone

12 and above.

Congratulations! You won the chance to be my holiday cover!

11 and above.

Congratulations! You won the chance to be my holiday cover!

10 and above.

Admit it. You’re disproportionately irritated by the easy ones you got wrong

9 and above.

Admit it. You’re disproportionately irritated by the easy ones you got wrong

8 and above.

Admit it. You’re disproportionately irritated by the easy ones you got wrong

7 and above.

You’re neither a Lost in Showbiz obsessive nor a Lost in Showbiz ignoramus. Do try to focus next year, won’t you?

6 and above.

You’re neither a Lost in Showbiz obsessive nor a Lost in Showbiz ignoramus. Do try to focus next year, won’t you?

5 and above.

You’re neither a Lost in Showbiz obsessive nor a Lost in Showbiz ignoramus. Do try to focus next year, won’t you?

4 and above.

Poor show. It’s almost as if you’ve had more important things to worry about – but what? Really, what could possibly be more important?

3 and above.

Poor show. It’s almost as if you’ve had more important things to worry about – but what? Really, what could possibly be more important?

2 and above.

Poor show. It’s almost as if you’ve had more important things to worry about – but what? Really, what could possibly be more important?

0 and above.

Poor show. It’s almost as if you’ve had more important things to worry about – but what? Really, what could possibly be more important?

1 and above.

Poor show. It’s almost as if you’ve had more important things to worry about – but what? Really, what could possibly be more important?

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