{"id":75745,"date":"2025-12-25T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/25\/thursday-briefing-a-short-quiz-on-a-very-long-year-how-many-questions-can-you-answer-about-2025"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:45:32","slug":"thursday-briefing-a-short-quiz-on-a-very-long-year-how-many-questions-can-you-answer-about-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75745","title":{"rendered":"Thursday briefing: A short quiz on a very long year \u2013 how many questions can you answer about 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the newsletter\u2019s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos \u2013 and check back on 26 December to see how you fared<\/p>\n<p>Good morning, and happy whatever-you\u2019re-celebrating today. There may come a moment later \u2013 perhaps shortly after someone has eaten their body weight in roast dinner \u2013 when the family begins to drift into nap mode. That is your cue. Produce this quiz from your pocket. Read the questions aloud in your best posh \u201cBBC continuity announcer\u201d voice. Watch as the room divides over how much ice has been lost in the Antarctic, exactly when Donald Trump and Elon Musk fell out, what Archie\u2019s dog got up to, and why we\u2019ve even mentioned Liz Truss at all. There are no prizes, but here is the First Edition quiz of the year. I\u2019m sorry. And you\u2019re welcome. But first, the headlines \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/25\/thursday-briefing-a-short-quiz-on-a-very-long-year-how-many-questions-can-you-answer-about-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the newsletter\u2019s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos \u2013 and check back on 26 December to see how you faredGood morning, and happy whatever-you\u2019re-celebrating today. There may come a moment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3474,415,1805,221,526,533,1737,902,1584,3303,4,3425,222,948,52,47,42,3475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angela-rayner","category-donald-trump","category-england","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-green-party","category-labour","category-nasa","category-nigel-farage","category-politics","category-pope-leo-xiv","category-south-korea","category-the-papacy","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-zack-polanski"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75745\/revisions\/75746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}