Hello Badgers. As you all know, I'm a big fan of all these quizzes. I have read every thread five times and the only reason I didn't take part is because I wanted to give others a chance at winning. But it's time. It's time for a real quiz. A real man's quiz. It's tricksy and devious. It has been years in the making, mulling over, and like the One Ring, it has absorbed its creators utter cuntishness. For this reason: 7 hidden bonus points are available, taking the total to at least 20.

1. In what year was a British Prime Minister last assassinated.(closest answer gets point if no one gets it). Extra point for his full name.

2.Riddle me this. I am African. I got world-famous in the last decade. I am absolute aids. Gman hates me.

3. What word links the Persian savant Al Khawarizmi and begging for YouTube likes?

4. It's 1998 and the future world chanpions win their first game. Complete the starting forward line:
Thierry Henry, Zinedine Zidane, Youri Djorkaeff,...?

5. Name the team that Zidane scored a world cup equalising goal against.

6. What is the highest five figure palindromic number, which is a multiple of 45?

7. In what year did Edge magazine abandon the square brackets in review scores?

8. "Let’s split up, look for any survivors and get out of here!" - name the entertainment media this quote occurs in.

9. Which European power's leader said, "If the English army should land, then I shall have them arrested".

10. Fill in the blank: "____ is to Addington what London is to Paddington".

11.

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."

What do the people who said these things have in common? Show your working.

12. What is the modern name of the city to which the capital of the Roman empire moved, and where Constantine the great issued an edict calling for racial tolerance, paving the way for Christianity to become the religion of the Roman empire.

13. What links Super Mario Bros' and the recent General election results?