Question: Which American artist noted for his large graffiti-style paintings had a major exhibition at London's Tate Modern in Summer 2008?
Answer: Cy Twombly

Question: Who won the UK 2008 Apprentice TV show and the resulting job with Sir Alan Sugar?
Answer: Lee McQueen

Question: Who released the album Do You Like Rock Music?
Answer: British Sea Power

Question: What political correspondent voluntarily removed himself from the UK Strictly Come Dancing celebrity talent show for fear of undersevedly winning it?
Answer: John Sergeant

Question: What stadium nicknamed 'The House That Ruth Built' closed in November 2008?
Answer: Yankee Stadium

Question: A court in which country was reported in March 2008 to have convicted a bear for stealing honey from a beekeeper?
Answer: Macedonia

Question: Which notable CEO stepped down on 27 June 2008 to concentrate on his charity work?
Answer: Bill Gates

Question: Which reggae singing star died 11th May 1981?
Answer: Bob Marley

Question: In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968?
Answer: Memphis, Tennessee

Question: Who created the UK TV spoof 007 character Basildon Bond?
Answer: Russ Abbott

Question: What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female?
Answer: Hermaphrodite

Question: Who was Radio 1's first female DJ?
Answer: Anne Nightingale

Question: In which 1979 film was the spaceship called Nostromo?
Answer: Alien

Question: What have been cooked in syrup and glazed to make the sweetmeat Marrons Glaces?
Answer: Sweet Chestnuts

Question: The Shatt-el-Arab (River of Arabia) is the confluence of which two other rivers?
Answer: TIGRIS and EUPHRATES

Question: What was the character name of TV's 'The Saint'?
Answer: Simon Templar

Question: Which Cornish village claims to be the birthplace of King Arthur?
Answer: Tintagel

Question: What make of car was the time-machine in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: De Lorean

Question: What is the name given to a locked case in which decanters can be seen but not used?
Answer: Tantalus

Question: What type of creature is a Garibaldi?
Answer: Fish

Question: What is the female equivalent of polygyny?
Answer: Polyandry

Question: The London Promenade concerts were founded by which English composer/conductor?
Answer: Sir Henry Wood

Question: Loyola University is in which US city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: In the UK children's TV series Playschool, what was the name of the black doll which replaced Hamble in the 1980s?
Answer: Poppy

Question: What were the first names of English novelist H E Bates?
Answer: Herbert Ernest

Question: The Ashmolean Museum is in which British city?
Answer: Oxford

Question: What is the name of the platform or stand used to support a coffin?
Answer: Catafalque

Question: A nap hand is a series of how many winning points or victories in a game or sport?
Answer: Five

Question: Which city is the setting of 1950s musical Kismet?
Answer: Baghdad

Question: What was the name of the first US satellite, launched 31 Jan 1958?
Answer: Explorer 1

Question: William Rufus was the nickname of which English monarch?
Answer: William the Second

Question: Who illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
Answer: John Tenniel

Question: In children's TV what is the name of Fireman Sam's fire truck?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope in June 1859?
Answer: Charles Blondin

Question: What type of animal is a Quokka?
Answer: Wallaby

Question: Who starred as Trampas the 1960-70s TV series The Virginian?
Answer: Doug McClure

Question: Bessie Wallis Warfield became better known as whom?
Answer: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

Question: What word, meaning in Greek 'many' and 'man', refers to a woman having more than one husband at the same time?
Answer: Polyandry

Question: Linda Lovelace starred in what 1972 film, whose title inspired the nickname for the Watergate informant?
Answer: Deep Throat

Question: Which sixteenth century German astronomer was reputed to have sold his soul to the devil?
Answer: Johann Faust

Question: Which rock band released an album Beggars Banquet?
Answer: The Rolling Stones

Question: Mount Vinson Massif is the highest peak in which continent?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: Which country has the longest coastline?
Answer: Canada

Question: What nationality was the artist Edvard Munch?
Answer: Norwegian

Question: Munich is on which river?
Answer: Isar

Question: What is a sequence of letters called which reads the same backwards as forwards?
Answer: Palindrome

Question: What is a choli (pronounced 'kolee') - a midriff-baring bodice worn with a sari, a poisoned well or spring, an under-water spanner, or a mythical flying rabbit?
Answer: A midriff-baring bodice worn with a sari

Question: What are the names of the mother and father dogs in the film 101 Dalmations?
Answer: Perdita and Pongo

Question: Which American writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954?
Answer: Ernest Hemmingway

Question: The Irish city of Limerick is on which river?
Answer: Shannon

Question: What is a mazurka - a Polish folk dance; an Italian picnic table; a Chinese fighting snail; or a puppy or kitten born with only three legs?
Answer: Polish folk dance

Question: What can sufferers of prosopagnosia not recognize?
Answer: Faces

Question: Who was the first socialist President of France?
Answer: Francois Mitterrand

Question: What is the oldest surviving professional association football club in the world (as at 2009)?
Answer: Notts County FC

Question: In cricket what is a batsman's score of nought commonly called?
Answer: A duck

Question: What would a silkworm grow to become if permitted to do so?
Answer: Silkmoth

Question: The Domesday Book was made by order of which English monarch?
Answer: William the First

Question: Who wrote the novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Which retail chain changed their corporate font in 2009 from Futura to Verdana?
Answer: Ikea

Question: Which famous comedy double-act partner made the first ever UK mobile phone call, New Year's Day, 1985?
Answer: Ernie Wise

Question: Who is the narrator in the 2000 film The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: What was the cyclone named that hit Darwin, Australia, in Christmas 1974?
Answer: Tracy

Question: Pine needles are said to be a good source of which vitamin?
Answer: C

Question: What is the birth sign of people born on 25 December?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: Which author and creator of Jekyll and Hyde, gave his birthday by formal deed to Anne Ide because she disliked her own birthday of December 25th?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: What brand of raincoat was famously worn by British prime minister Harold Wilson?
Answer: Gannex

Question: With which English county cricket club did Ian Botham finish his playing career?
Answer: Durham

Question: Who was the voice of the genie in the 1992 animated Disney film Aladdin?
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: What cult movie spoof rock band reunited at Glastonbury 2009?
Answer: Spinal Tap

Question: Veronica Lario was much in the news as the angry wife of which womanising European leader?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi

Question: In two minutes, Amanda Dutta Tumuly achieved a new Guinness world record by eating fifty-one what in two minutes, each rated over one million on the Scoville Scale?
Answer: Chillies

Question: In 2009 the Tamil Tigers conceded defeat as a rebel force in which country's civil war?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which previous Governor of the Bank of England died in April 2009?
Answer: Eddie George

Question: The 2009 UK budget announced what tax rate (effective April 2010) for earners of more than £150,000 per year?
Answer: 50%

Question: Whose album Two Suns was nominated for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize?
Answer: Bat For Lashes