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Hello, welcome to the news quiz,

greatest year of this decade so far award.

And the nominations are...

2020 and 2021.

Yes, bit of a disappointing shortlist.

And before we announce the winner,

which we'll do at the end of December,

let's find out more about 2021

by talking about it over the next eight weeks

in this new series of The News Quiz.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you, Happy New News Quiz series.

Everyone, I'm Andy Zoltz, and we are back from our summer break.

And if you told me when we finished the last series

at the start of June that COVID would still be circulating

at alarming levels, Afghanistan would not have worked out

absolutely brilliantly.

Much of the world would be literally on fire,

and England's batting would still be overly dependent on Joe Root.

Well, I would never have. Obviously, I would have definitely

have believed you.

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