IF you are fed up of the festive fare of television Christmas specials and granny monopolising the Monopoly board and cheating at charades, why not take a few minutes to show off about just how well you know Abergavenny and what’s happened in the town over the past year by trying your hand at our unseasonably tricky Christmas quiz.

Each day over the holiday we’ll be putting a new set of questions online along with the answers of the previous day’s puzzlers.

We kick off today with a set of questions about our own local personalities and some of the celebrities who visited the town and made the headlines in Abergavenny last year - good luck!

1. Who told the Chronicle he may be facing his last performance in his home town?

2. How much money has Abergavenny’s very own Elvis and his Memphis Mafia raised for charity?

3. How many medals did Becky James win at the Rio Olympics?

4. Which Great British Bake Off winner dropped in to the Abergavenny Food Festival?

5. Who presents the BBC daytime show Street Auction which filmed an episode in Abergavenny?

6. What landmark birthday for Abergavenny’s amateur theatrical favourite Brenda Harris was celebrated at the Borough Theatre?

7. What landmark birthday did the Chronicle’s owner Sir Ray Tindle celebrate in October?

8. Which singing star was spotted at Abergavenny’s Bailey’s Garage…and what was he in search of?

9. Which Gavin and Stacey favourite was spotted filming a Christmas special at Usk?10. What did Prince Charles visit Abergavenny to see?

Check tomorrow’s quiz for the answers to today’s questions.