Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June 8th 2007?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Whose secret donations of over half a million pounds caused a big problem for the Labour Party when they were exposed in November 2007?
Answer: David Abrahams

Question: Who was charged with fraud when he reappeared five years after going missing in a canoe off the Cleveland coast?
Answer: John Darwin

Question: Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007 Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor?
Answer: McLaren

Question: Blake Fielder-Civil achieved notoriety as whose errant husband?
Answer: Amy Winehouse

Question: Which former newspaper owner and business mogul was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for fraud in December 2007?
Answer: Conrad Black

Question: What was the village and laboratory site name connected with the August 2007 foot-and-mouth desease outbreak near Guildford in Surrey?
Answer: Pirbright

Question: Garments of which famous clothes label were found being made by child labour in India in October 2007?
Answer: Gap

Question: Which organization announced euphemistically it would 'transition' its modestly performing '360' social networking website?
Answer: Yahoo

Question: What Richard Dawkins' book attracted huge popularity and controversy throughout 2007?
Answer: The God Delusion

Question: The live album Beauty and the Beat featured pianist George Shearring and which singer?
Answer: Peggy Lee

Question: Whose band was the Tijuana Brass?
Answer: Herb Alpert

Question: Who were Cliff Richard's backing group through the 60s?
Answer: The Shadows

Question: Who were the famous backing singers on most of Elvis Presley's early hits?
Answer: The Jordanaires

Question: The Stratocaster is a model of which guitar maker?
Answer: Fender

Question: Which American rock'n'roll star caused controversy when he married a young teenager?
Answer: Jerry Lee Lewis

Question: Who made the highly rated 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue?
Answer: Miles Davis

Question: Whose band was the All Stars?
Answer: Junior Walker (Jr Walker)

Question: Larry Adler played what instrument?
Answer: Harmonica

Question: The founding brother members of the Kinks were Ray and Dave what?
Answer: Davies

Question: What was Smokey Robinson's most famous band called?
Answer: The Miracles

Question: Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen's 1962 hit was called March of the ... what?
Answer: Siamese Children

Question: Who sang the hit theme song Rawhide?
Answer: Frankie Laine

Question: John Mayall's band which helped launch Eric Clapton's career was called what?
Answer: Bluesbreakers

Question: Which comedy actor had a novelty hit with My Boomerang Won't Come Back?
Answer: Charlie Drake

Question: Colin Blunstone fronted which 1960s group?
Answer: The Zombies

Question: What Eastenders star sang on the novelty hit Come Outside?
Answer: Wendy Richard

Question: Which later-to-be-famous solo singer and guitarist toured as a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s?
Answer: Glen Campbell

Question: Who had sang the hit song Little Old Wine Drinker Me?
Answer: Dean Martin

Question: What famous 'two-fingered' jazz guitarist died in 1953?
Answer: Django Reinhardt (Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt)

Question: What song, released to promote the film The Millionairess, featured its stars Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren?
Answer: Goodness Gracious Me

Question: Who managed the Beatles' prior to his early death in 1967?
Answer: Brian Epstein

Question: Whose nickname was a derived from the term satchel-mouth?
Answer: Louis Armstrong (Satchmo)

Question: What's the name of the motorbiker who dies in the Shangri-Las' hit The Leader of the Pack?
Answer: Jimmy

Question: Which singing-songwriting founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers died age 26, after which his body was 'stolen' by a friend and burnt in the Joshua Tree National Park?
Answer: Gram Parsons

Question: Which American singer and entertainer was nicknamed Schnozzola, because of his large nose?
Answer: Jimmy Durante

Question: Who wrote Patsy Cline's hit Crazy?
Answer: Willie Nelson

Question: What city hosted the Beatles as the resident band at the Kaiserkeller and Top Ten Club?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: The Isley Brothers' hit was called Behind a ... what?
Answer: Painted Smile

Question: What ridiculously titled song was a hit in 1954 for Max Bygraves in the UK and the Four Lads in the USA?
Answer: Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea

Question: What was Emile Ford and the Checkmates' 1959 hit, supposedly the longest ever question in a UK No1 song title?
Answer: What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?

Question: Who singer-guitarist's backing band was The Bruvvers?
Answer: Joe Brown

Question: Which Rolling Stones guitarist died in a swimming pool in 1969?
Answer: Brian Jones

Question: Who founded the Tamla Motown record label?
Answer: Berry Gordy

Question: What folksy British singer-songwriting guitarist was famous also for his whistling?
Answer: Roger Whittaker

Question: Tom Parker managed which huge star?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: Who won (barefoot) the British Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with Puppet on String?
Answer: Sandie Shaw

Question: The 1956 inaugural Eurovision Song Contest featured Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy and which other country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which singer played Alfie's girlfriend Siddie in the 1966 film?
Answer: Millicent Martin

Question: What name was given to the 1950-60s mainstream country music style of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, and Charlie Rich?
Answer: Nashville Sound

Question: Which harmonica-paying frontman of Manfred Man sang on their early hits and later became a successful radio presenter?
Answer: Paul Jones

Question: Which motor city was the original the base of Tamla Motown?
Answer: Detroit

Question: What group became famous in the 1960s for their parody impressions of other hit songs?
Answer: The Barron Knights

Question: Peter Potter in the USA and David Jacobs in the UK presented which pop music TV show?
Answer: Juke Box Jury

Question: What was the 1962 space-age instrumental hit by the Tornados?
Answer: Telstar

Question: Who wrote and sang the novelty hit Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, about Camp Granada?
Answer: Allan Sherman

Question: Who was the famous rock guitarist in the group Love Sculpture, notably featuring on their breakneck hit version of Khachaturian's classical piece Sabre Dance?
Answer: Dave Edmunds

Question: Rolf Harris endorsed what new musical instrument, which supposedly features on David Bowie's hit Space Oddity?
Answer: Stylophone

Question: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Junior were among several entertainers given what collective nickname?
Answer: The Rat Pack

Question: The Rolling Stones first record label was what?
Answer: Decca

Question: Simon and Garfunkel's song Mrs Robinson featured in what 1967 film?
Answer: The Graduate

Question: What American DJ was nicknamed Moondog?
Answer: Alan Freed

Question: Which gravel-voiced English singer was previously a gas-fitter from Sheffield?
Answer: Joe Cocker

Question: Who made the 1962 hit Monster Mash?
Answer: Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (and the Cryptkickers)

Question: Lulu sang the theme song to which 1967 film about an inner-city school, starring Sidney Poitier?
Answer: To Sir, With Love

Question: What Eddie Cochran song, covered by the Who, told of frustrations with his boss and his congressman?
Answer: Summertime Blues

Question: Who was the main singing star in the musical Half a Sixpence?
Answer: Tommy Steele

Question: Which comedian's recordings featured hilarious telephone routines about King Kong and the introduction of Tobacco?
Answer: Bob Newhart

Question: What long-running BBC Radio chart show began on the Light Programme in 1955, and later becoming hugely popular when presented by Alan Freeman?
Answer: Pick of the Pops