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How much of this week’s campaign can you remember?
How much of this week’s campaign can you remember? Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty / EPA/Guardian Design
How much of this week’s campaign can you remember? Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty / EPA/Guardian Design

Quiz: the Guardian general election memory test

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How much of the quirkier side of this week’s election campaign have you taken in?

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. 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?
  2. 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?
  3. 3.Which Royle Family actor was then bizarrely suspended from Twitter for changing his account to appear to be "Conservative Party Press Orifice"?
  4. 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?
  5. 5.Who presented the ITV leaders' debate?
  6. 6.Which Scottish politician was this week filmed running down a lane carrying a toy parrot?
  7. 7.The Green party of England & Wales have joint leaders. Siân Berry and...
  8. 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?
  9. 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?
  10. 10.Who did the Tories ban from their battlebus this week?
  11. 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?
  12. 12.Conservative candidate Lee Anderson made the news when he posted a video where, against party policy, he advocated for...
  13. 13.How much did the Liberal Democrats say the "remain bonus" for cancelling Brexit would be?
  14. 14.Which comics legend announced that he was abandoning anarchism and was going to vote for the first time in 40 years?
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