Question: What pub paraphernalia does a tegestologist collect?
Answer: Beermats

Question: Musician Dizzy Gillespie most famously played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: Deoxyribonucleic acid is commonly known as what?
Answer: Dna

Question: A Dagwood is what type of snack, named after cartoon character Dagwood Bumstead?
Answer: Sandwich

Question: What country had the Roman name Lusitania?
Answer: Portugal

Question: The Book of Kells is in which city?
Answer: Dublin

Question: The Prorsum collection is made by which fashion label?
Answer: Burberry

Question: The 'Mach' speed measurement (for example Mach 1, or Mach 2, etc) is based essentially on multiples of the speed of what?
Answer: Sound

Question: What is the name of the village near Birmingham, UK, established by George and Richard Cadbury?
Answer: Bournville

Question: What search engine did Microsoft launch in 2009?
Answer: Bing.com

Question: Cartoonist and screenwriter Millard Kaufman, who died in March 2009, created which short-sighted character?
Answer: Mr Magoo

Question: Which budget store chain reported record sales of £400m and claimed to be the UK biggest seller of batteries?
Answer: Poundland

Question: Which computer game invented by Alexi Pajitnov celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: Tetris

Question: Whose tour kicked off at Rustenburg on 30 May 2009?
Answer: British Lions

Question: According to a ruling in 2009 by the UK Advertising Standards Authority what could women be shown to do in TV adverts before 11pm?
Answer: Orgasm

Question: Who won the 2009 BBC Sports Personality Award?
Answer: Ryan Giggs

Question: Which monarch's 500th anniversary of accession was featured on a 2009 commemorative £5 coin?
Answer: Henry the Eighth

Question: Corcoram State Prison California released a new photo of which 74 year old cult-leading mass murderer?
Answer: Charles Manson

Question: Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 became the first Latino or Hispanic person to be selected for which US institution?
Answer: The Supreme Court

Question: What newspaper first exposed the UK parliamentary expenses scandal?
Answer: Daily Telegraph

Question: What successful Broadway musical written by Mel Brooks opened controversially in Berlin?
Answer: The Producers

Question: Who in 2009 became Britain's first individual diving world champion?
Answer: Tom Daley

Question: Mir Hossein Mousavi was the beaten opponent in which country's presidential election?
Answer: Iran

Question: American doctor George Tiller was shot dead in Kansas in June 2009 by an activist protesting against what?
Answer: Abortion

Question: Who beat seven foot tall boxer Nikolay Valuev to become the new WBA heavyweight champion?
Answer: David Haye

Question: in 2009 campaigners in Barcelona heightened demands to clean up what famous avenue?
Answer: Las Ramblas

Question: What famous sportsman starred in the 2009 film Looking for Eric?
Answer: Eric Cantona

Question: Which former US Secretary of State returned to academia in 2009 to teach political science at Stanford University?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice

Question: What UK government minister claimed, received and subsequently paid back parliamentary expenses of £500 for painting a summer house?
Answer: Gordon Brown

Question: What iconic American mode of transport was introduced to the UK in August 2009?
Answer: Greyhound Bus

Question: Caster Semenya was subjected to a badly handled inquiry into what?
Answer: Her gender

Question: What TV newsman, often voted the most trusted man in America, died in July 2009?
Answer: Walter Cronkite

Question: What product launched in India called Sakshat ('before your eyes') with the incredible selling price of 500 rupees (about £7)?
Answer: Laptop computer

Question: Who beat Tom Watson in the 2009 British Open Golf Championship play-off?
Answer: Stuart Cink

Question: Who fought extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers while investigating UFOs?
Answer: Gary McKinnon

Question: What band won best international album and group awards at the 2009 Brits?
Answer: Kings of Leon

Question: Who topped the Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women in 2009?
Answer: Angela Merkel

Question: Real name Alecia Moore, which colourful US diva sold out three London O2 dates in May 2009?
Answer: Pink

Question: In which island nation were president Marc Ravalomanama's offices stormed by his own country's army in March 2009?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Name the UK prime minister's aide who quit after his ideas for a smear campaign against Conservative ministers were revealed in spring 2009?
Answer: Damian McBride

Question: Tidjane Thiam became the first black FTSE 100 CEO when appointed to head what UK financial services company?
Answer: Prudential

Question: The statue of which Royal person was unveiled in London's The Mall in February 2009?
Answer: The Queen Mother

Question: What Dutch satnav maker announced heavy losses in early 2009 due to market pressures?
Answer: TomTom

Question: What date in 2009 saw the heaviest UK snowfall since 1991?
Answer: 2nd Feb

Question: Which government minister agreed to pay £13,332 in capital gains tax owed from the sale of a second home, whose avoidance was revealed during the parliamentary expenses scandal?
Answer: Hazel Blears

Question: Which US car maker sold its fleet of novelty collectible vehicles including John Paul II's 'Popemobile'?
Answer: General Motors

Question: John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards, and Peter Beale (the Phoenix Four) were criticised in a 2009 UK Government report for making vast personal gain while presiding over the collapse of which company?
Answer: MG Rover

Question: What street dance group won the UK 2009 Britain's Got Talent TV competition?
Answer: Diversity

Question: What London attraction features on the 2009 commemorative British 50p coin?
Answer: Kew Gardens

Question: After new archaeological survey in 2009 what Asian construction was found to be 5% bigger than previously believed?
Answer: The Great Wall of China

Question: Which UK TV presenter called Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' ?
Answer: Jeremy Clarkson

Question: What sports TV company formed in 1990 got into financial difficulty and ceased its British broadcasting activities in 2009?
Answer: Setanta

Question: Sir Edward and Lady Joan Downes made the headlines in July 2009 for their joint what?
Answer: Suicide

Question: Which prolific Australian bastman retired in early 2009?
Answer: Matthew Hayden

Question: Which team lost the 2009 Superbowl to the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Answer: Arizona Cardinals

Question: Rachel Riley succeeded which long-standing UK TV gameshow celebrity in January 2009?
Answer: Carol Vorderman

Question: Which medieval city was the centre of the Italian earthquake of April 2009?
Answer: L'Aquila

Question: Which boxer won a £1.8m claim against promotor Frank Warren in March 2009?
Answer: Joe Calzaghe

Question: Which celebrity fronted the successful campaign to grant UK residency rights to Gurkha soldiers?
Answer: Joanna Lumley

Question: In what country was the Black Thursday of Action in January 2009?
Answer: France

Question: What England footballer successfully defended a charge of affray in July 2009?
Answer: Steven Gerrard

Question: Who became Britain's 'best paid public servant' as the new head of Royal Bank of Scotland?
Answer: Stephen Hestor

Question: The tragic videoed killing of Neda Agha-Soltan became iconic following what city's demonstrations?
Answer: Tehran

Question: Jan Kaplicky the architect who died in 2009 designed the space-age-like building at what sports ground?
Answer: Lords cricket ground

Question: Ferenc Gyurcsany resigned as prime minister of which country in March 2009?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which country won the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Norway

Question: Daniel Patrick Carroll, who died in May 2009 was an entertainer better known as whom?
Answer: Danny La Rue