Quiz: the Guardian general election memory test

Can there really still be 20 days to go? It feels like the country has been gripped (or not) by election fever for months. Politicians have been putting a lot of effort into campaigning this week, but how much attention have you been paying? Find out with the Guardian general election memory test.

There’s no prize – it is just for fun – but let us know in the comments how you got on.

The Guardian general election memory test

1. We'll start with an easy one. In an unexpected development, Jo Swinson denied a viral fake news story that she used to fire pebbles from a slingshot at which of these adorable little furry creatures?

   1. Kittens

   2. Squirrels

   3. Badgers

   4. Ferrets

2. Talking of fake news, the Conservatives were widely condemned for turning their press office account into a fake factchecking outlet on Tuesday night. What did they call it?

   1. UK Fact Check

   2. factcheckUK

   3. Check Yr Facts

   4. Fat Cheques R Us

3. Which Royle Family actor was then bizarrely suspended from Twitter for changing his account to appear to be "Conservative Party Press Orifice"?

   1. Ralf Little

   2. Andrew Whyment

   3. Craig Cash

   4. Ricky Tomlinson

4. Before the leaders' debate on Tuesday, Jeremy Corbyn posted a video of himself getting his beard trimmed. But what did he tell ITV he'd eaten to prepare?

   1. King prawn stir-fry

   2. Cavolo nero

   3. Caesar salad

   4. Eton mess

5. Who presented the ITV leaders' debate?

   1. Julie Etchingham

   2. Emily Maitlis

   3. Sophy Ridge

   4. Mary Nightingale

6. Which Scottish politician was this week filmed running down a lane carrying a toy parrot?

   1. Richard Leonard

   2. Jackson Carlaw

   3. Ian Blackford

   4. Willie Rennie

7. The Green party of England & Wales have joint leaders. Siân Berry and...

   1. Jeremy Bartley

   2. Jonathan Bartley

   3. James Bentham

   4. Julian Barratt

8. "The design experts here at Birmingham City University tell me they feel the colours are a bit washed out, the rose is not enough to the fore and in general the look and feel is a bit dated." Who tweeted this inexplicable analysis of Labour's manifesto launch?

   1. Laura Kuenssberg

   2. Kay Burley

   3. Pippa Crerar

   4. Robert Peston

9. During his manifesto launch speech Jeremy Corbyn used this quote: “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming”. Who is it from?

   1. Pablo Neruda

   2. Gabriela Mistral

   3. Alfonsina Storni

   4. Julia de Burgos

10. Who did the Tories ban from their battlebus this week?

    1. The Guardian

    2. Financial Times

    3. Daily Mirror

    4. British Railways Illustrated Magazine

11. When asked on Politics Live how many of the Conservatives' planned 200,000 new starter homes had been built, Liz Truss said she didn't know the number. Do you remember it?

    1. 10,000

    2. 1,000

    3. 100

    4. 0

12. Conservative candidate Lee Anderson made the news when he posted a video where, against party policy, he advocated for...

    1. Legalised marijuana

    2. Banning same-sex dancing on Strictly

    3. Doctor Who to be a man again

    4. Forced labour camps

13. How much did the Liberal Democrats say the "remain bonus" for cancelling Brexit would be?

    1. £1.2 trillion

    2. £50 billion

    3. £20 billion

    4. £350m per week

14. Which comics legend announced that he was abandoning anarchism and was going to vote for the first time in 40 years?

    1. Neil Gaiman

    2. Grant Morrison

    3. Alan Moore

    4. Warren Ellis

Solutions

1:B - Swinson was making a serious point about fake news during the election, but ended up drawing a wider audience to the untrue story., 2:B - The Conservatives re-branded @CCHQpress into a fake news organisation, which seemed a bold move in a campaign where honesty and integrity have been key issues., 3:A - While Twitter issued the Conservatives with a warning for pretending to be a factchecking service, they suspended Little for pretending to be the Conservatives pretending to be a factchecking service. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, 4:C - Corbyn revealed he had eaten the salad before going on TV. Johnson had prepared by doing a photo op at a boxing club, where presumably he was hoping to get the pics so that people could say he had landed a "knock-out" blow during the debate., 5:A - Yes. It was Julie Etchingham who got to calmly say "Thank you" a lot when her inner monologue was probably screaming "Shut up"., 6:D - Yes, it was the Liberal Democrats' Scottish leader, and no, we have no idea either., 7:B - Jonathan Bartley heads up the party with Siân ., 8:D - He later pointed out that he was just trying to relay what someone had said to him, and asking if people agreed, but had missed off the question mark., 9:A - Corbyn used the words of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, who, as well as being a poet, was a Senator for the Chilean Communist party. He died suspiciously shortly after the Pinochet coup in the country in 1973. For some reason Sky's Adam Boulton then spent three hours on Twitter saying he couldn't understand what it meant., 10:C - It was the Mirror who were given the heave ho, in a move reminiscent of Trump's media management techniques. And yes, British Railways Illustrated Magazine is a real thing. Stop smirking at the back., 11:D - Truss had to be reminded by host Andrew Neil that of the 200,000 homes announced by the Tories in 2015, they had delivered precisely zero. , 12:D - Stressing that it was his own personal opinion, Anderson said: "My plan would be, let's have them in a tent, in the middle of a field. Six o'clock every morning, let's have them up, let's have them in the field, picking potatoes or any other seasonal vegetables, back in the tent, cold shower, lights out, six o'clock, same again the next day. That would be my solution.", 13:B - It is £50bn, apparently. £1.2tn was the figure Tories claimed the Labour manifesto would cost before it was published, and £350m was on a bus or something. , 14:C - Yes, the man behind Watchmen, The Killing Joke and V For Vendetta has decided it is finally time to put an 'X' in the box again.

Scores

1. 13 and above.

   Amazing. You are Emily Maitlis forensically destroying James Cleverly on Newsnight

2. 6 and above.

   Reasonable. You are James O'Brien schooling a caller on LBC with some cold hard facts

3. 3 and above.

   Poor. You are a lovely Rylan doing his best to anchor some Channel 4 alternative election coverage

4. 0 and above.

   Terrible. You are Adam Boulton pretending he doesn't understand a poem

5. 9 and above.

   Good effort. You are Julie Etchingham trying to control the Boris Johnson bluster on live TV