1. In a year heavy on sequels and remakes, which one stands as the UK’s top grosser of 2016?

   1. Captain America: Civil War

   2. Bridget Jones’s Baby

   3. Finding Dory

   4. The Jungle Book

2. A social media war over which film led to Twitter’s permanent suspension of alt-right poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos for racist trolling?

   1. Suicide Squad

   2. Central Intelligence

   3. Moana

   4. Ghostbusters

3. 

   Dubbed “Sad Affleck” on the internet, a reaction shot from a Ben Affleck interview went viral in 2016. What had the interviewer been asking about at the time?

   1. The reviews of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

   2. Reviews of The Accountant

   3. His future as Batman in the DC Comics “extended universe”

   4. His brother Casey’s Oscar buzz for Manchester By the Sea

4. Which film won the most awards at this year’s Oscar ceremony?

   1. Spotlight

   2. The Revenant

   3. Mad Max: Fury Road

   4. The Danish Girl

5. Over accusations of racially biased voting and transphobia, this year’s Academy Awards ceremony was vocally boycotted by a number of industry figures. Which of these names did not join the boycott?

   1. Spike Lee

   2. Will Smith

   3. Anohni

   4. Whoopi Goldberg

6. 

   Caught during the prizegiving ceremony at May’s Cannes film festival, a seemingly withering reaction shot of juror Mads Mikkelsen has become a gleeful online meme. Whose tearful acceptance speech was he watching?

   1. Ken Loach

   2. Xavier Dolan

   3. Andrea Arnold

   4. Marion Cotillard

7. What technical novelty fuelled a surfeit of rave reviews for German director Sebastian Schipper’s cross-Berlin heist thriller Victoria?

   1. It was shot entirely on drone-mounted cameras

   2. It comprised only a soundtrack over a black screen

   3. It was shot in a single take more than two hours long

   4. It featured only repurposed footage from other films

8. After a long commercial lull for foreign-language fare, what became the UK’s most lucrative non-Bollywood subtitled film since 2012’s Untouchable?

   1. Julieta

   2. Son of Saul

   3. The Mermaid

   4. Mustang

9. 

   Which unlikely thespian “voiced” an aggressively non-verbal character in The Angry Birds Movie?

   1. Clint Eastwood

   2. Meryl Streep

   3. Derek Jacobi

   4. Sean Penn

10. Which of these fashion designers doesn’t have a cameo in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie?

    1. Tom Ford

    2. Stella McCartney

    3. Ozwald Boateng

    4. Jean-Paul Gaultier

11. Months after his death in January, in which film did Alan Rickman make his final big-screen appearance — in a voice-only role?

    1. Zootropolis

    2. The Jungle Book

    3. Alice Through the Looking Glass

    4. The Secret Life of Pets

12. Who had a brother called Tomothy?

    1. Toby in Not Going Out

    2. JP in Fresh Meat

    3. Kelly in Mum

    4. Arsehole Guy in Fleabag

13. 

    Anna Maxwell Martin again proved her comedy credentials in which new angst-ridden delight from writers Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan?

    1. Woman on the Edge

    2. Motherland

    3. Mother Ted

    4. God of Small Things

14. Michael Gambon and John Lithgow both portrayed which politician in 2016?

    1. LBJ

    2. Churchill

    3. Stalin

    4. De Gaulle

15. "Do you mind if I move my seat? … Your breath’s very bad.” A live clip of which charmer saying this to Larry King turned up in a C4 programme?

    1. Mark Zuckerberg

    2. Donald Trump

    3. Meg Ryan

    4. Kanye West

16. 

    Which country emerged head-and-shoulders best from the garlanded Exodus: Our Journey to Europe, in terms of its treatment of migrants?

    1. Austria

    2. Turkey

    3. Serbia

    4. Sweden

17. Nina Mash sent the Twittersphere into nauseous meltdown with what dish on Masterchef: The Professionals?

    1. Anchovy spaghetti. The whole of it pureed, chilled in ramekins and offered with “nibbles” that turned out to be flash-fried Pringles

    2. Pan-fried salmon with strawberry risotto

    3. Chicken tartare

    4. Slow-braised chicken wattles with chilli and lemon-griddled asparagus

18. Channel 4 had a good year but aired a couple of horrors featuring bare bodies. What were the instantly forgettable titles of the two shows?

    1. Raw’r! and Birthday Suites

    2. Naked Attraction and Life Stripped Bare

    3. Emperor’s Clothes and Does My Bum Look Clean in This?

    4. Unwrapped, and The Naked and The Damned

19. The Real Marigold Hotel returns early next year and will include which new group of charmful oldsters?

    1. Lionel Blair, Dennis Taylor, Bill Oddie and Amanda Barrie

    2. Rodney Bewes, Iggy Pop, Jane Asher and Clive Lloyd

    3. Austin Mitchell, Lesley Joseph, Louis Walsh and James Bolam

    4. John Sergeant, Celia Imrie, Paul Gambaccini and Barry Cryer

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

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