In case you were still under the impression that the Brits are way, way more staid than are we, check out The Guardian’s end of the year quiz. Mind you, The Guardian ain’t The Sun, you know what I’m saying? They’re not the kind of paper that sets everything in 36-point type and has a Page Three Girl. But boy — you sure can get racier things into a serious British paper than you can into any paper over here (right on down to The Enquirer).
Check out, say, Question 9. It’s about Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears and an aspect of their relationship I didn’t need to know about. Learning the term “bumjob” was interesting though.
Or Question 10. You can say that in the papers? (Over here you can say “fuck” in Vanity Fair, but not in the “family” newspapers.
The Guardian quiz is difficult but a great deal more fun than the King William’s General Knowledge Paper, which is also an end of the year tradition. The KWGKP is just difficult.
Another quiz you might enjoy is Jon Carroll’s Christmas quiz. The answers can be found in the next day’s column, so you won’t go crazy looking for them.