FORMER ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY

1. Edmund Grindal (c.1519-83)
   
   
2. Geoffrey Fisher (1945-61)
   
   
3. Randall Davidson (1903-28)
   
   
4. William Laud (1633-45)
   
   
5. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56)
   
   
6. Edward White Benson (1883-96)

CHURCH NEWS

1. Paula Vennells agreed to return her CBE in the wake of the Horizon scandal.
   
   
2. A glass panel of the Angel Door of Guildford Cathedral — engraved by the 20th-century artist John Hutton — was smashed by vandals earlier this year.
   
   
3. The Archbishop of Canterbury and some of his staff (along with the CT reporter Francis Martin).
   
   
4. Stephen Dodding, a retired dentist who is a guide at Peterborough Cathedral, chose “Medieval Cathedrals of England” as his specialist subject. Two of the 12 questions — all of which he answered correctly — were about his own cathedral.
   
   
5. During the TV programme Joe Lycett vs Sewage, broadcast on Channel 4, he invited the Pensions Board to disinvest from Severn Trent Water. They refused.
   
   
6. The AI-generated avatar was laicised after complaints from users that he was heretical.
   
   
7. St Michael Paternoster in the City of London, under which Dick Whittington is believed to be buried, has been put up for sale on a 125-year lease
   
   
8. The Bishop of Norwich, when he was dedicating new solar panels on the roof of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. The Bishop commended the caller for their vigilance.

SEASONAL

1. 1947
   
   
2. 1885
   
   
3. 1950
   
   
4. Edinburgh, 1742
   
   
5. 1958
   
   
6. John Williams
   
   
7. Four
   
   
8. Turkey
   
   

CAROLS

1. 1928, though it first took place in 1918
   
   
2. Henry John Gauntlett
   
   
3. “In the Bleak Midwinter”
   
   
4. (c) 364
   
   
5. “Silent Night”
   
   
6. The inventor and radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden played a violin solo of “O Holy Night” on Christmas Eve 1906.
   
   
7. “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby (an estimated 50 million copies)
   
   
8. “Carol of the Bells”
   
   

THE BIBLE

1. (b) three: Job 10.10; 1 Samuel 17.18; 2 Samuel 17.29
   
   
2. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
   
   
3. The Good News Bible (or Good News for Modern Man)
   
   
4. Lydia
   
   
5. Athens
   
   
6. Esther
   
   
7. Matthias
   
   
8. James
   
   

WHO SAID WHAT

1. Pope Francis, TV interview, 14 January
   
   
2. Frank Skinner, comedian, interview, The Times, 14 February
   
   
3. Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s, Piccadilly, The Oldie, 12 March
   
   
4. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, The Sunday Times, 12 May
   
   
5. Rachel Reeves, interview, The Times, 21 June
   
   
6. Donald Trump, after surviving an assassination attempt, 15 July
   
   
7. Richard Coles, The Sunday Times, 8 September
   
   
8. Hugh Grant, actor, The Graham Norton Show, BBC1, 4 October
   
   

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Denmark
   
   
2. Taylor Swift
   
   
3. Alexei Navalny
   
   
4. XL Bully
   
   
5. Cervical cancer
   
   
6. Simone Biles
   
   
7. Jimmy Carter
   
   
8. Ratcliffe-on-Soar