Is Britain now a vassal state? Test your knowledge with the Brexit quiz of the year

It has been a bumpy year in Brexitland. How closely have you been paying attention?

In January, who stirred the Tory party pot by saying they wanted only a “very modest Brexit”?

Ken Clarke

Philip Hammond

Anna Soubry

Jeremy Hunt

Which prominent Brexiter, in February, became the first of many to declare that the Brexit deal then emerging would reduce Britain to “vassal state status”?

Boris Johnson

John Redwood

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Andrea Leadsom

Beware the Ides of March. Where did Theresa May deliver her third big Brexit speech, after Lancaster House and Florence?

Chequers

The Institute of Directors

Mansion House

Berlin

Amid April showers, who said the post-Brexit registration process for EU citizens living in the UK would be “as easy as shopping at LK Bennett”?

Amber Rudd

Esther McVey

Caroline Nokes

Priti Patel

It wasn’t just the weather that heated up in May. Temperatures in the cabinet rose during a bitter split over the customs plan. What were the two rival schemes called?

Bespoke deal and red-white-and-blue Brexit

Facilitated customs arrangement and frictionless trade

Common rulebook and regulatory alignment

Customs partnership and maximum facilitation

Complete the following quote from the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier: “We need realistic proposals from the UK. It is the UK that is leaving the EU. It cannot, on leaving, ask us to” – what?

Help it decide what the hell it actually wants

Go away and stop being a bully

Accept the fantasy it is chasing

Change who we are and how we operate

As spring turned to summer in Brexitland and industry began to panic, June brought another crop of choice Brexiter aphorisms. Who reportedly said “fuck business” and demanded a “full English Brexit”?

Liam Fox

Boris Johnson

David Davis

Bernard Jenkin

If it’s July, it must be Chequers. The price of cabinet agreement on a Brexit plan was the resignation of (among others) David Davis. He was replaced as Brexit secretary by Dominic Raab, whose chief claim to fame hitherto had been:

A black belt in karate

A pet tarantula called Cronus

An Oxford blue for cricket

A PhD in geography

As the evenings lengthened in September, May suffered a more than usually humiliating EU summit where her “my way or the highway” approach was roundly rejected by the EU27. Where was it held?

Vienna

Brussels

Salzburg

Frankfurt

The organisers predicted 100,000– but how many people turned up for that big anti-Brexit march in London in October?

500,000

700,000

900,000

1,000,000

We made it! Finally (or so we thought), at an emergency summit in November, the EU27 and the UK signed off on “the only deal possible” (Jean-Claude Juncker). Who nearly derailed the whole thing at the last minute – and why?

France, over fishing

Luxembourg, over passporting

Poland, over citizens’ rights

Spain, over Gibraltar

In the run-up to Christmas and faced with a crushing defeat in the Commons, Theresa May pulled the meaningful vote. What in the withdrawal agreement did MPs most object to?

The transition period

The backstop

The financial settlement

The 585 pages

12 and above.

Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

11 and above.

Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

10 and above.

Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

9 and above.

Brexitologists supreme, we salute you. And we hope it hasn't taken too great a toll on your blood pressure.

8 and above.

It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

7 and above.

It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

6 and above.

It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

5 and above.

It is good to know that, despite Brexit's undeniably disappointing ratio of crushing boredom to insane excitement (roughly 95% to 5%), some of you are maintaining an interest.

4 and above.