Who said what in 2024? Take the Daily Mail’s quotes of the year quiz

1) Who preferred computer games to success: ‘I can’t wait to go back on my Xbox. I didn’t bring it because I didn’t think I’d get to the final’?

a) Coleen Rooney

b) Luke Littler

c) Bukayo Saka

d) Keely Hodgkinson

2) Which woman of a certain age was not impressed by Tory London Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey: ‘Shaun thinks that women who wear Lycra in the gym shouldn’t be allowed a political opinion… or, I assume, a vote’?

a) Fiona Bruce

b) Kirsty Wark

c) Vanessa Feltz

d) Carol Vorderman

3) Which politician ruled out a return to frontline politics: ‘I’m too old to be a British politician and too young to be an American politician’?

a) Gordon Brown

b) Michael Heseltine

c) Tony Blair

d) Peter Mandelson

4) Which entertainer was not impressed by Botox: ‘I went in, saw this bloke and came out looking like a Klingon’?

a) Anton Du Beke

b) Michael Ball

c) John Barrowman

d) Bobby Davro

5) Who perhaps was not best cut out to be a parent: ‘I love them and they complete me but in terms of pop stardom, they totally ruined it’?

a) Marvin Humes

b) Frankie Bridge

c) Olly Murrs

d) Lily Allen

6) Which unlikely sex symbol found himself censored by North Korean state television: ‘It’s taken me to reach 74 to be regarded in the same sort of breath as Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart. You know, wearing trousers that are considered by those of us of a sensitive disposition to be rather too tight’?

a) Graham Norton

b) Richard Madeley

c) Alan Titchmarsh

d) Eamonn Holmes

7) Who set out their iron will power credentials over their midday meal: ‘What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps. I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time … Sometimes I will get a steak… I’m not a sandwich person, I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast.’

a) Kemi Badenoch

b) Rishi Sunak

c) Donald Trump

d) Nigel Farage

8) Which celebrated actress has very definite ideas of downtime when she gets home: ‘I just want to take my dress off and put my jammies on’?

a) Kate Winslet

b) Michelle Keegan

c) Vicky McClure

d) Nicole Kidman

9) Who were the 80s pop group who ‘became sex symbols in donkey jackets’?

a) Bananarama

b) Eurythmics

c) Belle Stars

d) Jo Boxers

10) Who became an Aston Villa fan because he thought it was a getaway destination: ‘I thought it sounded like a place you’d go on holiday in the summer. Up the Villa’?

a) Prince William

b) Tom Hanks

c) Nigel Kennedy

d) David Cameron

11) Who ruled out ending their life at Swiss euthanasia clinic Dignitas for sartorial reasons: ‘I couldn’t help noticing how scruffy some of the staff were in dirty T-shirts. I’m afraid the lack of personal hygiene rather put me off’?

a) Dame Esther Rantzen

b) Ozzy Osbourne

c) David Attenborough

d) Jeremy Paxman

12) Who is not a fan of working from home: ‘I think it is bad for morale, bad for learning. You don’t learn sitting at home in your pyjamas in front of a Mac’?

a) Lord Sugar

b) Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

c) Jim Ratcliffe

d) Peter Jones

13) Which actress won a role as a Bond girl by not looking sexy: ‘They were looking for someone who could play a virgin. They were pretty thin on the ground at the time. I almost qualified’?

a) Rosamund Pike

b) Halle Berry

c) Monica Belluci

d) Jane Seymour

14) Which TV star took pleasure in the downfall of Phillip Schofield: ‘I am one of the people who threw him under the bus. I am very proud to have done it’?

a) Ruth Langsford

b) Holly Willoughby

c) Eamonn Holmes

d) Andi Peters

15) Which ageing TV presenter gained popularity because of a sexy outfit at London Fashion Week: ‘My Instagram count jumped by 1,000. All sorts of ageing weirdos and heavy-breathers were excited by my skin-tight black latex dress’?

a) Prue Leith

b) Mary Berry

c) Ulrika Jonsson

d) Lorraine Kelly

16) Which TV actor gave up being a vegetarian after 38 years: ‘A bit of mustard on a pork pie – oh man. It’s the food of the gods?’

a) Shane Ritchie

b) Martin Freeman

c) Martin Kemp

d) Martin Compston

17) Who revealed their secret of looking young: ‘Good genes, leading a life that is fulfilling and I do believe in the love of a good man’?

a) Julia Roberts

b) Sharon Stone

c) Fiona Bruce

d) Michelle Keegan

18) Which US citizen was puzzled at how to greet royalty: ‘I wasn’t sure if I had to bow, curtsey or just be an American idiot and shake their hand’?

a) Meghan Markle

b) Travis Kelce

c) Jill Biden

d) Taylor Swift

19) Who was the actor who kept a stiff upper lip at a nomination snub: ‘There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed’?

a) Adrian Dunbar

b) Keeley Hawes

c) Margot Robbie

d) Cait Fitton

20) Which fashionista is brutal when it comes to her social life: ‘If people drain my energy, they have to go. Friends should bring each other energy’?

a) Trinny Woodall

b) Susannah Constanine

c) Donatella Versace

d) Kimberley Garner

21) Which ‘face of Covid’ is backtracking on government advice from the time; ‘Arguably, some people would say we, if anything, overdid it’?

a) Dominic Cummings

b) Professor Sir Chris Whitty

c) Boris Johnson

d) Sir Patrick Vallance

22) Who is the reality star who discovered her voice sounds different on the telly: ‘To me it sounds neutral – neither egregiously posh nor particularly regional. Then, shock horror, when I hear it on camera ‘You braying toff! Shut up!’?

a) Georgia Toffolo

b) Helena Rees-Mogg

c) Rosie Fortescue

d) Lucy Watson

23) Who found a downside to celebrity: ‘It’s very expensive to be famous. You go out for dinner, there are 15 people at the table, and who gets the bill? You do’?

a) Piers Morgan

b) Ant McPartlin

c) Nigel Farage

d) Sharon Stone

24) Which singer is strict about talking and not talking when on tour: ‘I don’t speak before 12 noon. I can understand why you think I’m lying. But no. I’m very disciplined. I try not to come out of my room until 12. It makes it easier. I take care of my instrument. It allows me to sing’?

a) Adele

b) Robbie Williams

c) Lulu

d) Madonna

25) Who is fed up with some modern terminology: ‘Don’t get me started on ‘gifting’ and since when did the term horticulturalist replace gardener’?

a) David Mitchell

b) Monty Don

c) Steve Coogan

d) Boris Johnson

26) To whom did Prince William say: ‘Thank you for showing humility, compassion, and true leadership under the most intense pressure and scrutiny. And thank you for being an all-round class act’?

a) Rishi Sunak

b) Justin Welby

c) Erik Ten Hag

d) Gareth Southgate

27) Which politician commented on the defection of Conservative Right-winger Natalie Elphicke to Labour: ‘I’m a great believer in the powers of conversion but I think this one would have strained the generosity of spirit of John the Baptist’?

a) Diane Abbott

b) John McDonnell

c) George Galloway

d) Jeremy Corbyn

28) Of whom did Hollywood producer Carol Baum comment: ‘She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot’?

a) Zendaya

b) Margot Robbie

c) Ariella Grande

d) Sydney Sweeney

29) Which Strictly star’s other half is unhappy with her fitness: ‘I just can’t eat enough to keep the weight on. [My fella] is very upset about my top half disappearing – it has completely disappeared. I’m flat-chested but I feel great’?

a) Toyah Willcox

b) Sarah Hadland

c) Sam Quek

d) Punam Krishan

30) Which politician revealed a new background: ‘My first job was on the farm. I grew up in the countryside. All of my family live in the countryside, and we’re a rural family. I’m the only one that lives in a city’?

a) Nigel Farage

b) David Lammy

c) Sir Keir Starmer

d) Lee Anderson

31) Which pop star believes in a greater version of himself for protection: ‘My higher power has been looking after me all my life; he’s got me through drugs, he’s got me through depression, he’s got me through loneliness, and he got me sober’?

a) Sir Ray Davies

b) Sir Rod Stewart

c) Sir Tom Jones

d) Sir Elton John

32) Which literary figure opposes assisted suicide: ‘I don’t see how helping people die improves life as we know it’?

a) Jeffrey Archer

b) John Cooper Clarke

c) JK Rowling

d) Sally Rooney

33) Who defended having a hair transplant: ‘It’s all mine, I just had it shifted about’?

a) Wayne Rooney

b) Calum Best

c) Anton Du Beke

d) Jack P Shepherd

34) Who is the MP with a novel way of tackling fly-tipping: ‘If offenders were garrotted with their own intestines, there’d be fewer of them’?

a) Sir Desmond Swayne

b) Richard Tice

c) Dame Priti Patel

d) Mark Francois

35) Which actress remembered her kissing scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in less than favourable terms: ‘I’d look as though I’d been sucking on a caramel chocolate bar after each take because Leo’s make-up would come off on me’?

a) Jennifer Lawrence

b) Margot Robbie

c) Kate Winslet

d) Lily Gladstone

36) Which TV presenter is unhappy after surgery: ‘I am not allowed to have fun any more. I must live in a Liberal Democrat, holier-than-thou fog of weeds, seeds and yoga. This is terrifying’?

a) Freddie Flintoff

b) Jeremy Clarkson

c) Piers Morgan

d) Simon Cowell

37) Which ageless beauty is proud to show off her body: ‘I should probably be in an ankle-length kaftan with snood now’?

a) Elizabeth Hurley

b) Jennifer Lopez

c) Demi Moore

d) Salma Hayek

38) Which veteran rocker has been told to lay off the woodwork by his insurance company: ‘I’ve always loved carpentry. The insurance chaps are not overly keen on me doing it in case I chop off my fingers’?

a) Cliff Richard

b) Eric Clapton

c) David Gilmour

d) Roger Daltrey

39) Who stripped on screen for a very specific reason: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how f—— hot I looked’?

a) Nicola Coughlan

b) Megan Fox

c) Maisie Williams

d) Sofia Vergara

40) Which beauty ignored the advice of 32 doctors and refused chemotherapy: ‘I realised I was going to need my own truth, my belief system to support me through it’?

a) Olivia Munn

b) Elle Macpherson

c) Julia Louis-Dreyfus

d) Sharon Stone

41) Who is the DJ with words of advice for the BBC: ‘Whenever Radio 2 started to think of itself as cool, I always said, ‘Stop, stop. That’s the worst thing we can do’?

a) David Hamilton

b) Steve Wright

c) Simon Bates

d) Ken Bruce

42) Which actress found a new way to use her pregnancy: ‘It’s very easy to act when you’re pregnant because you’ve got hormones raging’?

a) Jenna Coleman

b) Sarah Snook

c) Vanessa Hudgens

d) Jennifer Lawrence

43) Who is critical of the unforgiving nature of social media: ‘You post something stupid when you’re 19 and you pay for it when you’re 35, and you pay for it forever’?

a) Piers Morgan

b) Gregg Wallace

c) Justin Welby

d) Rita Ora

44) About which Labour MP was JK Rowling talking when she said this: ‘Rosie [Duffield] was one of the few Labour politicians with the guts to stand up for vulnerable women and girls, while self-satisfied numbskulls like you fought to give away their rights’?

a) Rupa Huq

b) Rebecca Long-Bailey

c) Lisa Nandy

d) Nadia Whittome

45) Which Cabinet minister performed a total volte-face on the new US President: ‘Donald Trump is a winner not a loser, and I’m sure he wants to ensure that the West is on the winning side’?

a) David Lammy

b) Angela Rayner

c) Sir Keir Starmer

d) Wes Streeting

46) Which chef took umbrage at a party sharing food: ‘In the case that a plate of radishes is enough for you and your three friends for lunch, then perhaps an allotment would be a better investment than a table at a restaurant’?

a) Angela Hartnett

b) Tom Kerridge

c) Hugh Corcoran

d) Gordon Ramsay

47) Which former boybander was horrified to find a life-size cut-out of himself in a bedroom when he went to look at Jamie Oliver’s house with a view to buying the property: ‘He looked at it, turned around and said, ‘Argh!’ and then left very quickly’?

a) Harry Styles

b) Tom Fletcher

c) Ronan Keating

d) Matt Willis

48) Which 2024 I’m A Celebrity candidate defended her decision to leave her baby and go into the Australian jungle: ‘Mum has goals as well’?

a) Colleen Rooney

b) Jane Moore

c) Tulisa Contostavlos

d) Oti Mabuse

49) Of whom was reality show judge Louis Walsh speaking when he said: ‘They were vile but they were great for the show. I got five million quid for them?’

a) Same Difference

b) 4Tune

c) Jedward

d) Project A

50) Which husband received the understanding of the nation’s husbands doing overtime: ‘I need to figure out a way to pay for my wife’s glam’?

a) Robbie Williams

b) Michael McIntyre

c) Rod Stewart

d) Mark Wright

Answers: 1B; 2D; 3A; 4B; 5D; 6C; 7A; 8D; 9A; 10B; 11D; 12A; 13D; 14C; 15A; 16B; 17A; 18B; 19C; 20A; 21B; 22B; 23D; 24C; 25B; 26D; 27B; 28D; 29A; 30C; 31D; 32B; 33C; 34A; 35C; 36B; 37A; 38C; 39A; 40B; 41D; 42B; 43C; 44D; 45A; 46C; 47A; 48D; 49C; 50A