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a link to the past

Quiz: Can you link the picture to the 2016 news story?

How well can you remember your 2016 news-by-picture?
9.30pm, 27 Dec 2016
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2016 HAS BEEN a big year of news. But how closely were you paying attention?

What's going on in this photo?
The National Lottery celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising
Dublin Bus drivers scooped a massive syndicate lottery win

National Balloon Day, 29 June
National Lottery announcement of a new corporate logo
What's going on here?
PA
Olympic homecoming for the O'Donovan brothers
Olympic homecoming for Annalise Murphy

Olympic homecoming for Thomas Barr
Olympic homecoming for Pat Hickey
Whose funeral procession?
Prince
David Bowie

Alan Rickman
Muhammad Ali
Whose workers on strike?
Dublin Bus
ASTI

Luas
Gardaí
What controversial statement is President-Elect Donald Trump making?
Youtube
He's claiming that he will repeal Obamacare on his first day in office
He's suggesting that "second amendment people" may have a say if Hillary Clinton tries to take their guns

He's proposing Billy Bush as a Supreme Court judge
He's saying that he plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's emails
The Proclamation of the Irish Republic being read aloud - but where?
rollingnews.ie
Garden of Remembrance
Stonebreaker's Yard

The GPO
Collins Barracks
What's Boris Johnson on about here?
PA
He's celebrating the victory for his Leave side in the Brexit referendum
He's announcing that he won't be contesting the Conservative leadership

He's apologising to David Cameron for campaigning for Brexit
He's announcing Michael Gove as his new business partner
What is Martin Shkreli so happy about?
AP
He's announcing a massive mark-up in price on a new cancer drug
He's livestreaming original albums by famous artists that have never been heard by the public before

He's announcing his engagement
He's testifying in front of the US Congress
Who are exchanging a hurl and sliotar?
Gerry Adams and Peter Robinson
Frances Fitzgerald and Barack Obama

Michelle Mulherin and Jim Gavin
Enda Kenny and Joe Biden
What's going on here?
PA
Forest fires in California in June
Anti-Zika virus mosquito fogging in Malaysia in September

Tear gas being used at a political protest in Milan in April
Filming a Simply Red video in central London in July
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You're Hillary Clinton!
It's been a bad old year
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It's been a bad old year
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You're David Cameron!
That didn't go as planned
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That didn't go as planned
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You're Enda Kenny!
A hard year, but you're hanging on in there
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A hard year, but you're hanging on in there
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You're Donald Trump!
Love you or loathe you, you've just one bigly
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