Are you a 2017 Mastermind? Take the quiz

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Are you smart enough to go on Mastermind? Take this quiz, set by the Daily Mail. (We've removed some of the very local British questions – we're not that mean!). Good luck!

1. What TV programme was said to have 'too many dragons . . . not enough sex'?

2. Why did scientists get excited when they spotted an object that looked like a cigar hurtling through our solar system?

3. And what was it, really?

4. Which actress decided she'd had enough of being 'Nurse Who?' and took up a different medical title?

5. Of whom did Ricky Gervais write: 'He was tear-jerkingly generous, gushing money and time like an enchanted spring?'

6. Why did a worm terrify half the nation on prime-time telly?

7. And where is its name from?

8. Which brothers fell out over a tribute concert for the Manchester bombing victims?

9. What took Francois Gabart 42 days, 16 hours and 40 minutes?

10. Why might a punch-up on a pavement in Bristol have helped Australia win back the Ashes?

11. Who is Doria Radlan?

12. And why is her daughter so famous?

And now some multiple-choice questions:

1.Who said the way to win is more about saving those you love than killing those you hate?

A: Donald Trump
B: Vladimir Putin
C: A character in the new film Star Wars: The Last Jedi
D: The Pope

2. Why did environmental scientists tell us to stop putting fleeces and polyester clothing in the washing machine?

A: The soap gets in the sewers and clogs them up
B: The power used contributes to global warming
C: Buying natural wool is better
D: One single wash creates millions of plastic fibres which threaten our oceans

3. When George Clooney had 14 friends around for dinner he gave each of them a gift. What was it?

A: A voucher for free meals at McDonald's for life
B: A box set of his movies
C: A signed autobiography
D: A suitcase containing a million dollars in cash

4. The New York Times asked 60 of Donald Trump's friends and aides how much TV he watches each day. What did they say?

A: Between four and six hours
B: Never more than eight hours
C: Not long enough, if he doesn't tweet while he's watching
D: All the time: he even keeps a monitor on during meetings

5. Why will this year's Oscars ceremony go down in history?

A: None of the actresses cried in their acceptance speech
B: No one thanked their mother
C: A special award for services to the film industry went to Harvey Weinstein
D: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out the wrong card for best film: La La Land instead of Moonlight

6. What links the words antifa, broflake, gorpcore and youthquake?

A: You've never heard of them
B: You'll probably never hear of them again
C: You don't want to know
D: They were on the shortlist for 'word of the year' in the 2017 Oxford English Dictionary

How much TV does President Trump watch a day, according to friends and aides? Photo / AP

ANSWERS

1.The seventh series of Game Of Thrones

2. It was the first body identified as coming from another solar system. Some said it might be an alien spaceship

3. Experts concluded it was a lump of ice protected by a carbon-rich crust. One scientist put it: 'More like a galactic choc ice than an alien invader'

4. Jodie Whittaker, the first female Doctor

5. George Michael, whose funeral was in March

6. The Bobbitt worm, on Blue Planet 2, shot out of the ocean bed and devoured a fish with its razor-sharp teeth

7. It's a tribute (if you can call it that) to Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's manhood in the United States

8. Liam Gallagher said Noel's performance had been 'fake' and nothing more than a PR stunt when he teared up on stage.

9. Sailing around the world single-handed. He broke the world record by six days

10. As a result Ben Stokes was barred from the England team

11. Meghan Markle's mother

12. If you don't know . . . deduct 10 points from your score!

Multiple Choice Answers: 1C; 2D; 3D; 4A; 5D; 6 - all of them