2021 Christmas quiz - the answers

Rather odd

1. Mars
2. Michael Jordan
3. Tower Bridge
4. Moscow’s
5. Lightning
6. Winston Churchill
7. Russia
8. Jenners
9. Sri Lanka
10. El Salvador

Don’t quote me

1. Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, commenting on the Conservatives
2. The Queen, in a video message to COP26
3. Piers Morgan, on Good Morning Britain
4. Boris Johnson, on lifting coronavirus restrictions
5. Dominic Cummings, of Boris Johnson
6. Alok Sharma, the president of COP26
7. Michael Gove (quoting Sir Malcolm Rifkind)
8. Greta Thunberg, in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan
9. Donald Trump, in a speech at the Ellipse, Washington DC, on 6 January
10. President Joe Biden, on 26 August, after the fall of Kabul

Beastliness

1. Black bear
2. Covid-19
3. Tasmanian devil
4. Spider crab
5. Giant panda
6. German Shepherd (Alsatian)
7. Corgi and dachshund (dorgi)
8. An elk
9. Squid (flying squid)
10. Walrus

Royal standard

1. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess...