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Hello and welcome to the official news quiz decommissioning of the year 2021. In this,

the news quiz review of the year. I am Andy Zoltzmann and that is one of the few things

of which I'm still relatively sure in this confusing world.

2021 has been a year that has seen this much criticised decade recover from its difficult

first year, with a marginally less abominable difficult second year. But there have been

definite signs of improvement, like there are definite signs of improvement on your second

attempt at riding a horse. If the first one ended up with the horse flicking you over

its head and volleying you into a sewage tank full of porcupines, and the second one

million involves the horse unseating you into a wheelie bin full of hedgehogs, then you're

going to think, I'm learning. So very slightly onwards and imperceptibly upwards we have

gone. Ever since the early episodes of the news quiz year were dominated by news from

the United States of America, where someone was not very happy about the employment boot

being on the other fist from what he was used to and being sacked from his job by 80 million

voters. It's fair to say that Donald Trump and his many fans were somewhat triggered by

the potent combination of democracy, mathematics, the US constitution, due process and the

cold wet had a good reality that they faced. But they did not take democracy lying down.

They took it lying to themselves and wearing a furry hat and horns because, well, search

not for logic in 2021, my friends, logic checked out of hotel earth some time ago.

So moving on now to question one and this goes to both teams, who really, really, really

does not want to move house. Well, most men after years of marriage. That does fit. He

wouldn't be Donald, would it? It would correct. Yes, that's the first point of the year.

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