Question: What was Tony McCoy's winning mount in the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: Don't Push It

Question: Who won golf's 2010 Masters Championship?
Answer: Phil Mickelson

Question: What iconic London institution was sold to the Qatar Investment Authority (Qatar's sovereign wealth fund) in May 2010?
Answer: Harrods

Question: After losing his seat in the 2010 general election, Nick Palmer became the first former MP to do what?
Answer: Claim unemployment benefits

Question: Name the controversial leader of the Dutch right-wing Freedom Party which won 24 seats in the Dutch elections, who was refused entry into the UK for his 'racist views'?
Answer: Geert Wilders

Question: Sacked whistleblower Cheryl Eckard was awarded $96m compensation against what pharmaceuticals corporation following malpractice at the Cidra plant in Puerto Rico?
Answer: GlaxoSmithKline

Question: What capital city was devastated by the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
Answer: Port au Prince

Question: Freedom of expression blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced in September 2010 to nineteen years prison for 'anti-state activities' in which country?
Answer: Iran

Question: A plane crash close to Smolensk airport in western Russia killed almost half the leadership of which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Who bought Channel 5 TV in the UK, resisting objections that his pornography interests made him unsuitable?
Answer: Richard Desmond

Question: What grand and iconic event was British National Party leader Nick Griffin banned from attending, two hours before, apparently because he "publicized his invitation"?
Answer: The Queen's Garden Party

Question: Charles Taylor, in court (along with witnesses Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow) at the Hague in 2010, the first African president to face trial for war crimes, led which nation?
Answer: Liberia

Question: Name the Sri Lanka cricketing spin bowler who retired after taking 800 test wickets?
Answer: Muttiah Muralitheran

Question: What secret service organization was accused of forging British passports for its agents allegedly responsible for an assassination in Dubai?
Answer: Mossad

Question: What online grocery company was floated on the UK stock exchange in July 2010?
Answer: Ocado

Question: Food writer and critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010, was born in what country, which offers a food related pun?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Name the gymnastic group which won the 2010 Britain's Got Talent TV show?
Answer: Spellbound

Question: Singer Jimmy Dean, who died in 2010 age 81, sang (in a very deep voice) what hit song about about a heroic 6'6" coal miner?
Answer: Big Bad John

Question: Giant George, at 7'3" from nose to tail, and 43" shoulder high, was announced the world's tallest what in 2010 by Guinness World Records?
Answer: Dog

Question: The 1600cc Thunderbird, voted 2010 Bike of the Year in the USA, is made by which iconic motorbike manufacturer?
Answer: Triumph

Question: American Shaun White performed his unique Double McTwist 1260 move in winning Olympic gold for the second time in what event?
Answer: Halfpipe Snowboard

Question: Peter O'Donnell, who died in 2010, created what globally syndicated newspaper comic strip heroine, later featuring in books and movies, whose name equates to 'understated fire'?
Answer: Modesty Blaise

Question: Which far-eastern city saw fatal riots in May 2010 involving red-shirted protestors opposed to the national government?
Answer: Bangkok

Question: British Airways announced a merger with which other airline in 2010?
Answer: Iberia

Question: Name the US general and commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan sacked by Barack Obama in 2010?
Answer: Stanley McChrystal

Question: Over-zealous council officials in Bristol UK, patrolling local countryside, instructed a picnicking family against the use of what, because it was in breach of local byelaws?
Answer: Windbreak

Question: Commenting on a major UK historical project of 2010, to what did experts refer as 'gangland bling'?
Answer: The Staffordfshire Anglo-Saxon gold hoard

Question: Which England football player was sent off on his 2010/11 season debut for Liverpool?
Answer: Joe Cole

Question: A war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, coinvicted chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav (also called Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev) of what regime, responsible for the 1.7m deaths in the 1970s 'Killing Fields' genocide?
Answer: Khmer Rouge

Question: UN Food and Agriculture policy was publicized during 2010 advocating the replacement of meat in global food supply with what?
Answer: Insects and worms

Question: Name the journalist and writer and leader of the influential Work Foundation research organization, bought by Lancaster University in 2010?
Answer: Will Hutton

Question: Born Hermine Santruschitz in Vienna, adopted as Miep Gies in Amsterdam, who died age 100 in 2010, helped protect which famous writer?
Answer: Anne Frank

Question: An adaptation of which classic 1905 story by E Nesbit received rave reviews when it was performed with dramatic real effects at London's Waterloo Station in Summer 2010?
Answer: The Railway Children

Question: Ex-world champion boxer Alan Rudkin, who died in September 2010, fought at what weight?
Answer: Bantamweight

Question: Which notable doctor and ex-politician dueted on piano with Aretha Franklin at a Philadelphia fund-raising concert?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice

Question: In 2010 India announced the reintroduction of which animal, sixty years after being hunted to extinction in the wild?
Answer: Cheetah

Question: Name the sixteen year old Australian who completed her (claimed youngest ever) round-the-world sailing in May 2010?
Answer: Jessica Watson

Question: Patricia Neal, winner of best actress Oscar for her role in the film Hud with Paul Newman, and who died in 2010 age 84, was married to which famous author?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: The captive animal Tilikum which killed a person for the third time in 2010 at Orlando USA was what species?
Answer: Killer Whale

Question: Welsh rugby union flanker Andy Powell was banned from driving after celebrating his team's Six nations win over Scotland by driving what vehicle on the M4 motorway while drunk?
Answer: Golf buggy

Question: Andy Serkis starred in the film Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll as what singer?
Answer: Ian Dury

Question: Name the UK Tory Party donor and deputy chairman pressurised about his 'non-dom' tax status during 2010?
Answer: Lord Ashcroft

Question: Sir Robert Mark, who died in 2010 age 93, held what notable UK post from 1967-77?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Question: Internet hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army interrupted service of which Chinese search engine in January 2010?
Answer: Baidu

Question: What is Burj Khalifa notable for becoming in 2010?
Answer: The world's tallest building

Question: What Big European bank's name replaced those of Abbey, and Bradford & Bingley, in an extensive 2010 rebranding of its acquired branches?
Answer: Santander

Question: An inquiry in which European country became the first to judge that the Iraq war had no lawful justification within international law?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: A para-sailing publicity stunt off a beach at Golubitskaya on the Sea of Azoz in Russia attracted a police investigation because the passenger was a what?
Answer: Donkey

Question: Name the Yorkshireman who refereed the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final?
Answer: Howard Webb

Question: Hospitalised in Saudi Arabia towards the end of his life, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was president of where, from 2007 until his death in 2010?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: English and French scientists argued publicly in 2010 over the existence of what, originally identified and named after German gynaecologist Ernst Grafenberg?
Answer: The G-Spot

Question: Who was appointed official wedding photographer to Prince William and Kate Middleton?
Answer: Mario Testino