1. 

   Theresa May commissioned a national festival celebrating British creativity in 2018 that cost taxpayers £120m. Initially known as the Festival of Brexit, what was it eventually called?

   1. Unleashed

   2. Unboxed

   3. Unspooled

   4. Unhinged

2. 

   Where are our blue passports made?

   1. Italy

   2. France

   3. Spain

   4. Slovakia

3. 

   In one of the stranger bits of the campaign, Nigel Farage ended up in a 'battle' on the River Thames with which pop star?

   1. Feargal Sharkey of the Undertones

   2. Sting of the Police

   3. Bob Geldof of Boomtown Rats

   4. Ronald Mael of Sparks

4. 

   Also strange. On one Brexit referendum campaign visit, which leader of the Liberal Democrats performed the John Barnes rap from EnglandNewOrder's World In Motion?

   1. Tim Farron

   2. Jo Swinson

   3. Vince Cable

   4. Menzies Campbell

5. Which politician asked for article 50 to be invoked the day after the referendum, saying: 'The British people have made their decision. We must respect that result and srticle 50 has to be invoked now'?

   1. Arlene Foster

   2. Liz Truss

   3. Michael Gove

   4. Jeremy Corbyn

6. Which prime minister did invoke article 50?

   1. David Cameron

   2. Theresa May

   3. Boris Johnson

   4. Liz Truss

7. 

   The numbers 52-48 as the Brexit vote split for the UK as a whole are etched on everybody's memory. But what was the split in Scotland, which voted to remain?

   1. 62-38

   2. 59-41

   3. 56-44

   4. 53-47

8. 

   Bpoplive was an ill-fated attempt at a youth-orientated music festival that at various points was billing members of Buck's Fizz (some of whom are pictured), members of East 17 and members of Five Star as its main attraction. Unsurprisingly eventually cancelled, where was it to have been held?

   1. Gateshead

   2. Gosport

   3. London

   4. Birmingham

9. 

   Some musicians are easy to predict. Johnny Marr backed remain and Morrissey backed leave. But Canadian Bryan Adams also weighed in on Brexit, for some reason. Which side did he back?

   1. Was his view Everything I Do (I'd Leave The EU) … ?

   2. Or was it Run To EU, in favour of remain?

10. 

    How many pages did the draft withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU have?

    1. 285

    2. 385

    3. 485

    4. 585

11. 

    What was the name of the party a group of anti-Brexit centrist MPs including Anna Soubry tried to set up?

    1. Challenge UK

    2. Choice UK

    3. Change UK

    4. Choose UK

12. 

    How much money was raised to try to make Big Ben bong on Brexit day?

    1. £272,000

    2. Don't be so silly

13. 

    Boris Johnson is famed for introducing the 'bendy banana' story about the EU to the UK. But what claim about bananas did he make during the referendum campaign?

    1. The EU will ban shops from selling bananas that curve to the left, requiring all imported fruit to curve to the right

    2. The EU will standardise the exact shade of yellow a banana must be using a Pantone colour code, making it illegal to sell fruit that is 'excessively green or spotted'

    3. The EU will require each individual banana to carry a micro-stamped 'fruit passport' indicating its exact plantation of origin

    4. The EU will ban the sale of bananas in bunches of more than two or three

14. 

    Who irritated Theresa May by posting a picture of them together with the caption 'A piece of cake, perhaps? Sorry, no cherries' on Instagram?

    1. Jean-Claude Juncker

    2. Michel Barnie

    3. Donald Tusk

    4. Guy Verhofstadt

15. 

    Who stood up in parliament urging MPs on behalf of the government to back a short extension of article 50, then immediately went and voted against it?

    1. Jacob Rees-Mogg

    2. Steve Barclay

    3. David Davis

    4. Lee Anderson

16. 

    The famous Brexit bus went on to have a respray and was immediately used to take which pop star to their appearance at Glastonbury?

    1. Gareth Gates

    2. Will Young

    3. Girls Aloud

    4. Rachel Stevens

17. 

    Where did Boris Johnson and Michael Gove give their downbeat 'victory' press conference?

    1. The Institute of Directors

    2. The Savoy

    3. Westminster Tower

    4. Four Seasons Total Landscaping

18. 

    What did David Cameron do as he walked away from the lectern after resigning?

    1. Hummed a jaunty little tune

    2. Loudly blew his nose into a hankie

    3. Whistled to himself

    4. Muttered 'Boris Johnson is a ******* ****' under his breath

Solutions

1:B - About 2.8 million people ended up visiting free live events but none of them danced like Theresa May, 2:B - The contract was awarded to the Franco-Dutch firm Gemalto, which was then acquired by Thales Group. De La Rue, which had made British passports at its Gateshead factory, did not win the new contract, 3:C - Famously, after rival leave and remain flotillas clashed, a journalist asked Farage whether he would consider fighting Midge Ure in a Spitfire next, 4:A - It was due to some hoo-ha that leave had claimed John Barnes was backing them, but then he said he was backing remain, so inexplicably Tim Farron rapped. They were different times, 5:D - 'I may not have put that as well as I should have done,' he said in a subsequent interview. 'The view I was putting was that article 50 will be invoked at some point. I did not mean it should be invoked on Friday morning.', 6:B - May signed the documents in March 2017, formally notifying the EU of the UK's intention to leave, 7:A - Scotland voted to remain by a significant margin, 8:D - Lots of acts withdrew saying they hadn't realised the event was political, but Jay Aston, formerly of Buck's Fizz, stood as a candidate for the Brexit party – which does raise a question mark, 9:A - Bryan Adams backed Brexit. A sentence no one, not even an infinite supply of monkeys with typewriters, ever expected to type, 10:D - Coming in at around 110,000 words, the agreement, described by one Brexit supporter in advance as destined to be one of the easiest negotiations in history, came in at 585 pages, 11:C - It began as the Independent Group and then vanished into the ether, 12:A - Yes, Big Ben was out of action as it had been deemed dim to deafen the people working on restoration every 15 minutes. When it was mooted that it would cost £500,000 of taxpayers' money to get the bongs bonging on Brexit day as a special occasion and so was not worth the hassle, people tried to crowdfund it instead. The money ended up going to Help For Heroes , 13:D - It is, in fact, perfectly fine to buy bananas in bunches of more than two or three in shops, 14:C - It was Tusk's cheeky allusion to the idea that the UK could 'cherry-pick' aspects of EU membership that got on her nerves, although it was, to be honest, incredibly funny, 15:B - The then Brexit secretary did this in March 2019, because … well … because. He kept his job, 16:B - It was Will Young whose tour entourage inherited it, 17:C - They didn't exactly look thrilled, did they?, 18:A - How jolly

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