Question: Which actress won the 2011 Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film ‘Black Swan’?
Answer: Natalie Portman

Question: Which English football team won the 2011 FA Cup?
Answer: Manchester City

Question: What is the name of the Space Shuttle launched into orbit for the last time from the Kennedy Space Station in July 2011?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Which British singer’s wife gave birth to their son Aiden on 16th February 2011?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: Which member of Take That replaced Simon Cowell as a judge on the British ‘X Factor’?
Answer: Gary Barlow

Question: On 11th March 2011 a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which British model married Jamie Hince in July 2011?
Answer: Kate Moss

Question: The day following Thanksgiving in the US, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, is called ‘What’ Friday?
Answer: Black

Question: Which team won the 2011 US Super Bowl?
Answer: Green Bay Packers

Question: During which month in 2011 was the 100th annual International Women’s Day?
Answer: March

Question: Which Glasgow-based sculptor, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, won the 2011 Turner Prize?
Answer: Martin Boyce

Question: Which US boxer died on 7th November 2011?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: Which tennis player won the 2011 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship?
Answer: Novak Djokovic

Question: On January 1st 2011, which country became the 17th Eurozone country, when it adopted the Euro as its currency?
Answer: Estonia

Question: On 7th July 2011, the world’s first artificial organ transplant was achieved, using which artificial part of the body coated with stem cells?
Answer: Windpipe

Question: Which country was named ‘The World’s Happiest Country’ in 2011?
Answer: Norway

Question: Which US singer topped Forbes magazine’s annual Celebrity 100 List in May 2011?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: Which Kent golf club played host to the British open Golf Tournament in July 2011?
Answer: Royal St. George’s at Sandwich

Question: Which English rock band released and album in March 2011 entitled ‘Build a Rocket Boys’?
Answer: Elbow

Question: A contestant from which South American country won the 2011 ‘Miss World Contest’?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: Which dictator returned to Haiti in January 2011, after an absence of two decades of self-imposed exile in France?
Answer: Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier

Question: Which horse won the 2011 Grand National at Aintree?
Answer: Ballabriggs

Question: British actress Susannah York, who died in January 2011, was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Alice LeBlanc in which 1969 film?
Answer: They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

Question: Who won the 2011 Formula One Grand Prix Championship?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: World Science Day for Peace and Development was held during which month in 2011?
Answer: November – 10th

Question: A third wedding anniversary is traditionally represented by which material?
Answer: Leather

Question: Kurt Waldheim, U Thant, Trygvie Lie and Boutros Boutros Ghali have all held which post?
Answer: Secretary General of the United Nations

Question: What type of animal is a Lhasa Apso?
Answer: Dog

Question: Which British pier features in the title of a novel by George Orwell?
Answer: Wigan Pier (The Road to Wigan Pier)

Question: In which year was Alaska admitted as the 49th US state?
Answer: 1959

Question: In humans, the atlas and axis bones are found in which part of the body?
Answer: Neck

Question: In cookery, what are ‘albondigas’?
Answer: Meatballs

Question: School Master Thomas Gradgrind is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Hard Times

Question: Which playing card is known as ‘Hector’?
Answer: Jack of Diamonds

Question: Campolina, Gidran and Monchino are breeds of which animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: What is the name of the US writer and lecturer who wrote ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’?
Answer: Dale Carnegie

Question: In the Bible, what sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again?
Answer: A rainbow

Question: In which US state is the port of Galveston?
Answer: Texas

Question: Which 1945 film was adapted from Noel Coward’s play ‘Still Life’?
Answer: Brief Encounter

Question: Grace Anna Goodhue was the wife of which US President?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Question: BG is the international car registration for which country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: According to French tradition, what is Santa Claus brother called?
Answer: Bells Nichols

Question: What was the name of Australian tv’s ‘Crocodile Hunter”?
Answer: Steve Irwin

Question: Roman numerals LXXXVII is what number?
Answer: 87

Question: In medicine, ‘singultus’ is more commonly known as what type of involuntary action in humans?
Answer: Hiccup

Question: The fictional character John Clayton is better known by what name?
Answer: Tarzan

Question: What is the nickname of Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, the first Ghanian to compete in a Winter Olympic Games, in 2010?
Answer: The Snow Leopard

Question: What is the Hebrew name for the small round cap worn by Jewish men?
Answer: Kippah

Question: In which European city are the headquarters of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)?
Answer: Vienna

Question: ‘Fidelio’ is the only opera written by which composer?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: Actor Charles Buchinsky was better known by what name?
Answer: Charles Bronson

Question: Which English rugby union team play their home games at Vicarage Road?
Answer: Saracens

Question: In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the king of which Island?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: Dr John Arbuthnot created which well-known cartoon character, which was used on World War I recruitment posters?
Answer: John Bull

Question: What is the US state capital of South Dakota?
Answer: Pierre

Question: Theo and Karl Albrecht were the original owners of which supermarket chain?
Answer: Aldi

Question: George Cowling presented the first what on British television in 1954?
Answer: Weather forecast

Question: Jerzy Buzek was elected Prime Minister of which European country in October 1997?
Answer: Poland

Question: The regions of Bago, Magway and Yangon are in which Asian country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: In which year did food rationing begin in Britain?
Answer: 1940

Question: The Ptolemies were ancient rulers of which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Which US state is known as the ‘Hawkeye State’?
Answer: Iowa

Question: Which opera did Guiseppe Verdi supposedly compose for the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Aida

Question: In the UK, who was the first female speaker of The House of Commons?
Answer: Betty Boothroyd

Question: Cilantro is the leaf of which herb?
Answer: Coriander

Question: In Arthurian legend, who was the faithful wife of Geraint?
Answer: Enid

Question: Who performed the first successful human to human heart transplant in 1967?
Answer: Dr Christiaan Barnard

Question: Uxoricide is the killing of who?
Answer: One’s wife

Question: Eamon de Valera founded which political party in 1926?
Answer: Fianna Fail

Question: What is the length of a chukka in a game of polo?
Answer: Seven minutes

Question: In UK politics, who defeated Ted Heath in the Tory leadership campaign of 1975?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: In humans, what is the medical condition hypermetropia (or hyperopia) more commonly known as?
Answer: Long-sightedness

Question: Which English singer commissioned a painting of the cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants for his house in 2008?
Answer: Liam Gallagher

Question: The Bridalveil Waterfall is in which US national park?
Answer: Yosemite

Question: What is a three-dimensional shape with 12 plane faces called?
Answer: Dodecahedron

Question: What is the name of the bus company in the British tv series ‘On The Buses’?
Answer: Luxton and District (Traction Company)