Question: Who replaced BBC Radio 1's daily morning show DJ Jo Wiley in 2009?
Answer: Fearne Cotton

Question: Carol Ann Duffy became the UK's first female what?
Answer: Poet Laureate

Question: What controversial incendiary ingredient was Israel accused of using in bombings of Gaza?
Answer: White Phospherous

Question: Which UK organisation announced the creation of a thousand new garden allotments in February 2009?
Answer: The National Trust

Question: A US Airways Airbus ditched into which river after hitting a flock of birds in January 2009?
Answer: Hudson

Question: In what sport did Miyabiyama defeat Chiyotaikai in Osaka in March 2009?
Answer: Sumo wrestling

Question: Which singer made the news for objecting to her songs being sold on a compilation CD by the British National Party?
Answer: Dame Vera Lynn

Question: What did Russian cargo ship Sinegorsk lose 1,500 tones of in the English Channel?
Answer: Timber

Question: The BBC and Sky refused controversially to broadcast an appeal for where in January 2009?
Answer: Gaza

Question: The 2009 'Bloodgate' rugby union scandal centred on which club?
Answer: Harlequins

Question: What TV show became the first cartoon series nominated for an Emmy since the Flintstones?
Answer: Family Guy

Question: Who lost 2-1 to Chelsea in the 2009 FA Cup?
Answer: Everton

Question: Which UK government minister claimed parliamentary expenses for an 88p bath plug and porn movies?
Answer: Jacqui Smith

Question: Which singer-songwriter of Baker Street was mistakenly reported missing?
Answer: Gerry Rafferty

Question: Tycoon Allen Stanford, whose business empire collapsed in 2009, was chiefly associated with which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Ngati Toa, a New Zealand tribal group won the intellectual property rights to what?
Answer: The Maori Haka

Question: What horse won the 2009 Grand National?
Answer: Mon Mome

Question: Farah Fawcett, who died in 2009, played which character in TV's Charlie's Angels?
Answer: Jill Munroe

Question: Who was the first female president of the Philipines, who died in August 2009?
Answer: Corazon 'Cory' Aquino

Question: Which club did Thierry Henri play for in the 2008-9 European Champions League?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: In December 2009 Ford agreed to sell which famous car subsidiary to China's Zhejiang Geely group?
Answer: Volvo

Question: Which past heavyweight world champion boxer visited his great grandfather's birthplace, Ennis, Ireland?
Answer: Muhammad Ali

Question: The European Union banned the manufacture of which wattage incandescent light-bulb in 2009?
Answer: 100 watt

Question: Which country reversed a ruling banning Muslims from attending a Black-Eyed Peas concert in 2009?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: In which Los Angeles memorial park was Michael Jackson buried?
Answer: Forest Lawn

Question: Ryan Tubridy took over which Irish (and world's longest running) TV chat show?
Answer: The Late Late Show

Question: A large statue of Apollo was discovered at a Unesco Heritage site in which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which African country replaced most of its senior police officers after they were blamed for post-election violence?
Answer: Kenya

Question: What Israeli war film, named after the country of conflict featured in it, won the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Ten paintings by which US artist were stolen from the private collection of Richard Wiseman in Los Angeles?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Which Belgian won the 2009 US Open Women's Tennis Singles Championship?
Answer: Kim Clijsters

Question: For her performance in what film did Kate Winslet win her 2009 best actress Oscar?
Answer: The Reader

Question: The Raptorex Kriegsteini, as smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, was discovered in which country?
Answer: China

Question: Becky Simmon of Guernsey and Lisa Cummings of Ireland were first from their islands to swim what stretch of water respectively once and both ways?
Answer: The English Channel

Question: Who in 2009 became the oldest person to have an album in the UK charts?
Answer: Dame Vera Lynn

Question: Arthur's Day celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the lease for which brewery?
Answer: Guinness

Question: A painting by which surrealist artist was stolen from a Brussels museum?
Answer: Rene Magritte

Question: Who was arrested in Zurich on a 31 year old US warrant?
Answer: Roman Polanski

Question: Whose award-winning essay, written when a ten year old, was discovered in Liverpool's Central Library after more than fifty years?
Answer: Paul McCartney

Question: What was the descriptive and related name given to a smaller prehistoric site discovered near Stonehenge?
Answer: Bluehenge

Question: The Red Book, first published in 2009, largely unseen for 70 years, was written by what notable Swiss Psychiatrist?
Answer: Carl Jung

Question: Which author's funeral took place in Baltimore US, 160 years after his death?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: The painting La Bella Principessa was attributed to which artist and inventor using fingerprint evidence?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: What country first declared internet broadband access to be a legal right?
Answer: Finland

Question: Which female pop singer made her Bollywood cinema debut in the film Blue?
Answer: Kylie Minogue

Question: Which island nation held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting to publicize global warming?
Answer: The Maldives

Question: What was Jenson Button's championship-clinching finishing place in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix?
Answer: Fifth

Question: Whose 2009 tour titled The Red Piano was partly cancelled due to ill health?
Answer: Elton John

Question: Which band performed a massive controversial concert at the Brandenberg Gate celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Answer: U2

Question: Ant-monarchy protestors clashed with riot police in Montreal during a tour by which British royal person?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: Which US actor and film director was made a Commander of the Legion d'Honneur in 2009?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: The US marijuana cafe opened in which state?
Answer: Oregon

Question: Which country qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1982 after beating Bahrain in a play-off?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What's the value per household of the UK cold weather payment to low income households, as triggered by seven days freezing weather conditions in late 2009?
Answer: £25

Question: Human rights activist Kumi Naidoo became the first African to head which organization?
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by which Russian author was published 32 years after his death?
Answer: Vladimir Nabokov

Question: Who apologised for his handball foul which helped eliminate Ireland from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals?
Answer: Thierry Henri

Question: Who announced in 2009 that they would end their long running US TV Talk Show in 2011?
Answer: Oprah Winfrey

Question: The European Court of Justice ruled airlines must compensate passengers for delays exceeding how many hours?
Answer: Three

Question: What is big particle accelerator on the French-Swiss border, restarted in 2009 after extensive repairs?
Answer: The Large Hadron Collider

Question: Oasis of the Seas became the world's largest what, when completed in 2009?
Answer: Cruise Ship

Question: Two fingers and a tooth belonging to what famous father of science were rediscovered after being missing for over 100 Years?
Answer: Galileo Galilei

Question: The Netherlands won the 2009 junior version of which international entertainment competition?
Answer: Eurovision Song Contest

Question: What North England town lost vital bridges in the November 2009 floods and subsequently gained a new railway station?
Answer: Workington