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Try the PRIDE LIFE BIG GAY QUIZ OF 2008!
Been keeping your finger on the pulse of queer culture this past year? Then try Pride Life's Big Gay Quiz.
This look back at 2008 will separate the brainiacs from the brain dead and the clued-up from clueless. Check the answers here
1. Which camp comedian released an autobiography called Look Who It Is this year?
2. Who followed up her first release Ur So Gay (opening lyric: “I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf”), with one of the biggest hits of the year, I Kissed a Girl?
3. Who went from a pantomime of a civil partnership to the first high profile celebrity divorce, all within just eighteen months?
4. Which colourful singer had to have a huge entourage of security fans to keep her lesbian super fans at bay during the MTV Music Awards.
5. George Michael was caught by the police loitering in public toilets on Hampstead Heath this year, exactly ten years after his famous arrest in LA. But what two drugs was he allegedly found in possession of?
6. How many states did Stephen Fry visit in his London taxi cab in the series Stephen Fry In America?
7. Which TV panel show has Will Young been invited to appear on after he admitted he was a big fan on the show on Radio 5 Live?
8. What’s the name of Linsay Lohan’s DJ girlfriend and younger sister to music producer Mark Ronson?
9. In which American state was same-sex marriage legalised and then overturned, all within six months this year?
10. Actor George Takei has had a busy year this year, getting married to his long-term partner Brad, appearing in Heroes and then becoming a contestant on I’m A Celebrity . But what character did he play on Star Trek?
11. Which gay musical set in a Saint Tropez drag club will Graham Norton be making his West End debut in during Spring of 2009?
12. Who has split with her film producer girlfriend, Cydney Bernard, just months after “sort of” outing herself during an acceptance speech at Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment awards.
13. Which British singer who released a track called Yes We Can in support of Barack Obama, was then refused entry to the USA over a pending trial for falsely imprisoning a male escort?
14. Which famous personality appeared in the BBC series The Making Of Me in which he tried to discover what made him gay.
15. Queen Of The Jungle star Christopher Biggins released his autobiography this year, but what was its simplistic title?
16. Daffyd Thomas went from being the only gay in the small village of Llanddewi Brefi in Wales to the only gay where in Little Britain USA?
17. Who has been causing chaos across America and at fashion shows in Paris and Milan while filming Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt?
18. Who stars as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s biopic, Milk?
19. Who performed the touching theme tune to Jonathan Harvey’s hit-and-miss TV comedy Beautiful People?
20. Who became the first boyband to feature romantic scenes of a gay couple for the video of their single Better?
21. What award did Queer as Folk and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davis pick up at the queen’s birthday honours this year?
22. Where was this year’s EuroPride held?
23. Which gay icon was reportedly paid £2million to keep guests spinning around at the opening of the Atlantis Hotel on the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah in Dubai?
24. What is the name of gay singer songwriter Sam Sparro’s debut album?
25. What is the name of Elton’s John’s colourful Las Vegas piano extravaganza, which has been touring Europe over recent months?
26. Which gay actor, writer and former rent boy caused controversy this year by describing serving soldiers as “whining wimps” in comparison to their Victorian forebears in a TV series?
27. Reverend Peter Mullen, a Church of England priest caused uproar this year by suggesting on his blog that gay men should be tattooed with slogans saying “sodomy can seriously damage your health” and “fellatio kills”. But where did he suggest the tattooes should go?
28. Gay magician and showman Derren Brown presented a Channel 4 special this year, called The System in which he shared his 100 per cent guaranteed method of winning at what?
29. Which famous gay man attempted to disrupt the Olympic torch relay through London by standing in front of a bus carrying the torch carrying a placard that called on Beijing to “Free Tibet, Free Hu Jia” (the name of a recently jailed human rights activist)?
30. What is the name of Madonna’s gay brother who this year released the book Life with My Sister Madonna in which he claims she is a control freak, narcissist and a cheapskate?
31. A gay kiss between Christian and Lee on EastEnders attracted 145 complaints, apparently because it took place before the 9pm watershed. But where did “the kiss” take place?
32. A remake of which captivating cult classic sixties TV series has Sir Ian Mckellen been shooting this year on location in Namibia?
33. Which Danish broadcaster and author has published a history book for girls called, aptly, Girls Are Best?
34. What is the character name of the gay best friend in the Sex and the City movie who gets to utter the immortal line (during Carrie’s Vogue photo shoot): “When I get married I’m going to wear something just like it – only bigger!”
35. Which party did Brian Paddick represent in this year’s Mayor of London election and in which place did he come?
36. Who treated the workers of Coronation Street’s Underworld Factory to a glamorous makeover for this year’s Children In Need?
37. Which reality TV show judge reveals in his 2008 autobiography All Balls And Glitter that he was once a drag queen called Lavish.
38. Which gay TV personality is an anagram of: Toss Mailmen?
39. How many times did Martina Navratilova win the women’s singles title at Wimbledon?
40. On which BBC TV programme were contestants sent to Nancy School?
