Test you knowledge of 2024’s best showbiz stories including chart comebacks, love splits and big box-office moments

WHAT a year it has been on Bizarre.

I have broken the biggest exclusives in showbiz, including tales of chart comebacks, record-breaking feats, love splits and massive box-office moments.

But how closely have you been reading these pages?

Did you have a Brat summer and a Wicked winter?

Do you know about everyone from Bey to Raye?

While you dig into those turkey sandwiches and scrabble about for the last few Celebrations, gather friends and family to test your knowledge.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

1. In September, which group sold out a record ten nights at Wembley Stadium next year?

2. Which British band shocked the world in August when they announced a reunion tour for 2025?

3. McFly announced in Bizarre that they will do a joint tour in 2025 with which band?

4. Which electronic duo scored their first No1 with their Stormzy collaboration Backbone in August?

5. NSync reunited for Better Place, their first single in 20 years, for which film?

SOLO STAR SUCCESS

1 Taylor Swift performed a series of stadium shows across the UK this summer but what was her tour called?

2. Jade Thirlwall was the last Little Mix member to go solo – with a single called Angel Of My . . . what?

3. Which British singer sparked the phrase “Brat summer” with the release her album Brat?

4. Who is the first act confirmed for Glastonbury 2025, following in Shania Twain’s footsteps in the Legends’ slot this year?

5. Which rapper secured his 11th No1 single in June, with Houdini?

AND THE AWARD GOES TO...

1 Who won the Best Actress Bafta for her role as Bella Baxter in the film Poor Things?

2. Miley Cyrus won Best International Song at the Brit Awards for which single?

3. Which three-hour blockbuster cleared up at the Oscars when it won seven gongs?

4. Pop star Nemo won Eurovision for which country?

5. Which British group has been nominated for the Record of the Year Grammy for their song Now And Then?

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY

MATCH these famous faces to the quotes – Sir Tom Jones, Gregg Wallace, Chris Martin, Justin Timberlake and Dame Helen Mirren:

1. “I’ve always loved Liam [Gallagher]. He blows hot and cold, but he’s always free to come round my house for tea and we’ll have lasagne.”

2. “There is nothing friendly about me and Engelbert (Humperdinck) because he is a p***k.”

3. “This is going to ruin the tour.” What tour? “The world tour.”

4. “I always say it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw GPS – as it’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street.”

5. “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age.”

SMALL SCREEN

1. Ben Shephard and which female presenter became the regular hosts of ITV’s This Morning?

2. In this year’s series of The Traitors, with host Claudia Winkleman, below, was it the Faithfuls or Traitors who won?

3. Who won I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! this month?

4. What was the name of the comedy-drama starring Richard Gaad that became a global hit on Netflix in April?

5. Who signed up to fill in for Bruno Tonioli as a guest judge on Britain’s Got Talent?

...TO SILVER SCREEN

1. October’s Joker: Folie A Deux saw which singer-turned-actress play Harley Quinn?

2. In autumn, which sequel did Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton star in, 36 years after the original?

3. Ariana Grande played which character in blockbuster movie Wicked?

5. Timothee Chalamet will portray which iconic US singer in biopic A Complete Unknown?

6. What animated sequel topped the box office when it came out at the end of last month?

NUMBER WON

1. Between her hits Espresso, Taste and Please Please Please, how many weeks did Sabrina Carpenter spend at No1 this year?

a) 10, b) 14, c) 21.

2. Gladiator II was released in November, but what year did the original film come out?

a) 2000, b) 2002, c) 2004.

3. Zoe Ball quit her job as host of the Radio 2 breakfast show after how many years?

a) 6, b) 7, c) 8.

4. Raye set a record at the Brit Awards by winning how many prizes in a single evening?

a) 4, b) 6, c) 8.

5. Adele completed her Las Vegas residency after performing how many shows? a) 30, b) 100, c) 119.

CALENDAR CONUNDRUM

MATCH up these moments to the months when they happened. You have January, March, April, May and September to go for.

1. Ant & Dec ppresented the final episode of ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway.

2. Beyonce released album Cowboy Carter.

3. Phillip Schofield announced his return to TV in Channel 5 show Castaway.

4. Girls Aloud hit the road for a reunion tour.

5. Influential drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, based on the true story of the Horizon scandal and starring Toby Jones, was on ITV.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

1. Which Aussie actress gave birth to her first child with husband Tom Ackerley this year?

2. Bizarre revealed in August that Stranger Things actor Joesph Quinn was dating which rapper?

3. Which pop star became a dad to a son called Jack Blues, with his model wife, in August?

4. Usher got married hours after headlining which major US event in February?

5. Who tied the knot with alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene in Louisiana?

BAD BLOOD

1. Ruth Langsford announced in June that she was divorcing who?

2. Wags Annie Kilner and Lauryn Goodman fought over which England footballer?

3. Which major US rock star shocked fans when he admitted he’d fathered a child outside his 21-year marriage?

4. Ben Affleck got divorced from which pop singer after exactly two years of marriage?

5. Maya Jama ended her on/off relationship with which British rapper this summer?