Question: Which city hosted in 2008 the 65th anniversary of the oldest film festival in the world?
Answer: Venice

Question: Who won best actor at the 80th Academy Awards of 2008?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

Question: Who resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan on 18 August 2008?
Answer: Pervez Musharraf

Question: In what city did Barack Obama formally accept the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election?
Answer: Denver, Colorado

Question: Which driver did Louis Hamilton overtake in the final seconds of the Brazilian Grand Prix to clinch fifth place and thereby win the 2008 F1 Championship?
Answer: Timo Glock

Question: What were Bertha, Cristobel and Dolly on 20 July 2008?
Answer: Storms

Question: Which country won the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations (the African international soccer championship)?
Answer: Egypt

Question: In which country did the world's largest ferris wheel (as at 2008) open for rides in March 2008?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Who did the government appoint as executive chairman of Northern Rock after its nationalisation?
Answer: Ron Sandler

Question: Rail workers in California were banned from doing what on moving trains after a crash was found to have been caused by the activity in September 2008?
Answer: Using mobile phones

Question: From January 2008 people seeking a visa to visit the UK were required to provide what additional form of identity?
Answer: Fingerprints

Question: Which company did French president Sarkozy and his then girlfriend Carla Bruni sue in 2008 for unauthorised use of their images in an advert?
Answer: Ryanair

Question: G Kennedy Thompson was fired in June 2008 from which US bank and early victim of the credit crunch?
Answer: Wachovia

Question: Nepal re-named a remote airport near Mount Everest as what in February 2008?
Answer: Tenzing-Hillary Airport

Question: In March 2008 the Shin Bet secret service of what country launched a blog written by four of its agents?
Answer: Israel

Question: The Detroit Redwings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins to win the 2008 Stanley Cup in which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: In March 2008 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation announced a photographic competition to mark the International Year of the what?
Answer: Potato

Question: Which club won the 2008 Australian Football League Grand Final?
Answer: Hawthorn

Question: Who won the 2008 French Women's Singles (tennis) Open Championship?
Answer: Ana Ivanovic

Question: Quentin Bryce became the first woman to hold what office in September 2008?
Answer: Governor-General of Australia

Question: Which jazz musician and presenter of BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue died on 25 April 2008?
Answer: Humphrey Lyttelton

Question: Which UK member of parliament resigned in June 2008 to fight the Haltemprice and Howden election on a civil liberties platform?
Answer: David Davis

Question: Who won the 2008 American Idol TV talent show?
Answer: David Cook

Question: In what city did its kingdom's first women-only hotel and spa, called the Luthan, open in March 2008?
Answer: Riyadh

Question: Which Indian city organised 'No Honking Day' to mark World Health Day, 7 April 2008, emphasising noise pollution as a significant health issue.
Answer: Mumbai

Question: What candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2008 US election withdrew from the contest on 10 January 2008?
Answer: Bill Richardson

Question: Which country did cyclone Nargis devastate on 2 May 2008?
Answer: Burma

Question: Who did Tiger Woods beat in a play-off for the 2008 US Open Championship?
Answer: Rocco Mediate

Question: Who led Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition against Robert Mugabe in 2008?
Answer: Morgan Tsvangirai

Question: Who was the trader alleged to be responsible for the French Société Générale trading loss of nearly five billion euros in January 2008?
Answer: Jérôme Kerviel

Question: Which two companies agreed in February 2008 to pay their customers $200m compensation for price fixing?
Answer: Virgin Atlantic and British Airways

Question: The sales and reputation of what cheese were affected when toxins were believed to have contaminated buffalo milk?
Answer: Mozzarella

Question: Which famous artist and and children's book illustrator died on 28 May 2008?
Answer: Beryl Cook

Question: During Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in December 2008 Gordon Brown amusingly and accidentally claimed his government had saved what? (instead of the banking system)
Answer: The World

Question: Vodka, Galliano and orange juice are used to make which classic cocktail?
Answer: Harvey Wallbanger

Question: Which American state is nearest to the former Soviet Union?
Answer: Alaska

Question: At which battle of 1314 did Robert The Bruce defeat the English forces?
Answer: Bannockburn

Question: Consecrated in 1962, where is the Cathedral Church of St Michael?
Answer: Coventry

Question: On TV, who did the character Lurch work for?
Answer: Addams Family

Question: Which children's classic book was written by Anna Sewell?
Answer: Black Beauty

Question: How many arms/tentacles/limbs does a squid have?
Answer: Ten

Question: Characters Charlie Allnut and Rosie Sayer appeared in which classic 1951 movie?
Answer: The African Queen

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Which Briton won an ice-skating Gold at the Lake Placid Olympics?
Answer: Robin Cousins

Question: In what year was Prince Andrew born?
Answer: 1960

Question: What is the national game of the Basques?
Answer: Pelota

Question: Name the two families in Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Montague & Capulet

Question: If cats are feline, what are sheep?
Answer: Ovine

Question: In the song, Heartbreak Hotel is on which street?
Answer: Lonely Street

Question: For his part in which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra receive a Best Supporting Actor Oscar?
Answer: From Here To Eternity

Question: For which fruit is the US state of Georgia famous?
Answer: Peach

Question: Which is the financial centre and main city of Switzerland?
Answer: Zurich

Question: Who is the only man (at 2009) to have won motorbike and F1 car World Championships?
Answer: John Surtees

Question: In which county is the UK prime minister's official country residence Chequers?
Answer: Buckinghamshire

Question: What is the policeman's name in Noddy stories?
Answer: Pc Plod

Question: Which TV programme's theme tune was called Hit and Miss?
Answer: Juke Box Jury

Question: In the 1963 film The Great Escape, what names were given to the three tunnels?
Answer: Tom, Dick, Harry

Question: What liqueur bearing the letters D.O.M. on the bottle label was developed at Fecamp, France, in the 16th century?
Answer: Benedictine

Question: What is the third major Balearic Island with Majorca and Minorca?
Answer: Ibiza

Question: Who won six consecutive Wimbledon singles titles in the 1980s?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: In which country did the Mau Mau uprising (1952-60) occur?
Answer: Kenya

Question: What does a numismatist study or collect?
Answer: Coins

Question: Who captained Jules Verne's submarine Nautilus?
Answer: Captain Nemo

Question: Which guitarist is known as Slowhand?
Answer: Eric Clapton

Question: In knitting, what is meant by the initials 'psso'?
Answer: Pass Slipped Stitch Over

Question: In UK TV's 'Noel Edmund's House Party', the 'house' was situated near to which village?
Answer: Crinkley Bottom

Question: Also the title of a famous literary work, who were Mrs Page and Mrs Ford?
Answer: Merry Wives Of Windsor

Question: What is infant whale commonly called?
Answer: Calf

Question: Which DJ had a UK Top Ten hit with the song Snot Rap?
Answer: Kenny Everett

Question: What in Cornwall is the most southerly point of mainland Britain?
Answer: Lizard Point

Question: Alan Minter was undisputed World boxing champion at which weight?
Answer: Middleweight