1 Name the American R&B singer who's Vesta Williams

bigest hit in the UK was 'Once Bitten,

Twice Shy' who was found dead on
September 19, 2011

2 Who set a world record in the 2011 Berlin Patrick Makau

Marathon of 2h 3m 38 s (Musyoki)

3 At the 2011 UCI Road World Mark Cavendish

Championships who became the first
British rider to win the Rainbow jersey
since Tom Simpson in 1965

4 Who became London's Metropolitan Police Bernard Hogan-

chief in September 2011 Howe

5 What numerical designation is given to the 787

Boing Dreamliner

6 Perhaps the largest haul of precious metal SS Gairsoppa

ever discovered at sea, containing 200
tonnes of silver worth about Ј150m has
been found in which shipwreck some 300
miles from the Irish coast

7 Name the British exchange student Meredith Kercher

murdered in Perugia in 2007

8 What form of investment employs fast Quant

computers to find predictable patterns (Quantitative)
within financial data

9 Basildon Council has been involved in a Dale Farm

10-year battle to clear 51 illegal plots from
which site

10 Which player apparently refused to play Carlos Tevez

for Manchester City in their 27/9/11
fixture against Bayern Munich

11 Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It David Croft

 Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo
'Allo! Were all created by which writer,
born David Sharland who died on 27th
September 2011

12 Name a famous person who died on 5th Bert Jansch Steve

October 2011 Jobs Charles Napier
Graham Dilley

13 Oscar nominated for Tom Jones and star Diane Cilente

in The Wicker Man, name Sean Connery's
second wife

14 Who won the 2011 Super League grand Leeds 32 St Helens

final 16

15 Name the Pakistan Cricket captain Salman Butt

covicted in 2011 of conspiracy to cheat at
gambling and conspiracy to accept corrupt
payments

16 Who, in 2011, became Paul McCartney's Nancy Chevel

3rd wife

17 Who went on trial in October 2011 for the Vincent Tabak

murder of Jo Yeats

18 Who was made Minister of Defence after Phil Hammond

Liam Fox's 2011 resignation

19 Dying in October 2011, who created the Dennis Ritchie

general-purpose computer programming
language between 1969 and 1973, C

20 Name the British Indy Car driver who Dan Wheldon

suffered a fatal crash inthe last race of the
2011 season

21 Why did Jockey's threaten strike action in Whipping Rules

October 2011
22 Who won the 2011 X Factor Little Mix

23 Fauja Singh, born Ўn 1911, Became the Run a Marathon

oldest man in the world to do what in
2011

24 Which children’s YouTube channel was Sesame Street’s

taken offline in October 2011 after hackers
uploaded several pqrnographic videos

25 Which 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon is The Flinstones

Seth McFarland slated to re-vamp in 2012

26 Name couple that won Ј101 m in the Euro Dave & Angela
millions lottery in October 2011 Dawes

27 What was the 4S released in October 2012 iPhone

28 Which town officially became “Royal” last Wootton Bassett

week

29 What film, made in 1973 and 2011, is set Don't be Afraid of

in an old Rhode Island mansion, where the Dark
malevolent tooth fairies emerge.

30 Who was airbrushed from The X Factor on Frankie Cocozza

November 8th 2011 On 8 November, due
to breaking a "golden rule".

31 From a book by Hunter S Thompson, in The Rum Diary

which film does Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp)
play a journalist who travels to Puerto Rico
and get drunk

32 Which football stadium is to be renamed St James's Park,

the Sports Direct Arena Newcastle

33 What was airbrushed from near Tower HMS Belfast

Bridge in a poster for the 2012 Olympics
by "a simple mistake in the advertising
 production process"

34 Who became Minister of Transport after Justine Greening

Phillip Hammond

35 Name that Yugoslavian born business Milan Mandaric

tycoon who has owned football clubs
including Portsmouth, Leicester City and
as of 2011, Sheffield Wednesday

36 What nationality is Miss World 2011, Ivian Venezuelan

Sarcos

37 Name the former X Factor contestant who Faye Bray

was sacked from her job in prisons partly
because of provocative pictures on her
web site

38 Prior to beating Spain 1-0 in 2011, when 1980 against

was the last time England had beaten the Argentina at
Football World Champions Wembley

39 Who was the first person to present the Billy Crystal

Oscars eight times

40 Who, in 2011, won his eighth consecutive Sebastien Loeb

world rally championship

41 Who became the 11th President of Italy in Giorgio Napolitano

2006

42 Who succeded Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Mario Monti

Minister of Italy in 2011

43 What model name is given to the Super Puma

Eurocopter AS332 helicopter, one of which
crashed in the North Sea in 2009 killing 16
passengers and crew

44 In November 2011 which international American Samoa

 football team beat Tonga 2-1 for their first
ever win

45 To which Russian republic has Samuel Dagestan

Eto'o tranferred from Inter Milan to play
for Anzhi

46 Who is to compose the BBC's 2012 Elbow

Olympic theme

47 Name the judge appointed by David Levison

Cameron to head the inquiry is into the
culture, practice and ethics of the press.

48 Under what name does Paul Staines write Guido Fawkes

his political blog

49 Name the Scottish sculptor who won the Martin Boyce

2011 Turner Prize for his installation Do
Words Have Voices

50 Name the former President of Cфte Laurent Gbagbo

d'Ivoire, extradited in 2011 to the
International Criminal Court to face trial
over his role in the Second Ivorian Civil
War.

51 Name the British F1 driver who set the Peter Gethin

fastest average speed in Formula One
history with his only podium finish in Italy
in 1971

52 Who captained Brazil during the 1982 Sуcrates Brasileiro

World Cup, a qualified doctor he died in Sampaio de Souza
December 2011 Vieira de Oliveira

53 In what year was Ken Russell born 1927

54 How many premier league appearences 535

did Gary Speed make
55 Ross MacManus, who died aged 84 in Elvis Costello
November 2011 was which musician's
father

56 Dying in November 2011, who became Joe Frazier

boxing's undisputed heavyweight
champion in 1970

57 Which Hungarian, named European Flуriбn Albert

Footballer of the Year in 1967 was
nicknamed "The Emperor"

58 In what year was Jimmy Saville born 1926

59 Name either of the Pandas flown to Tian Tian, Yang

Edinburgh in 2011 Guang

60 Who is the 2011 I'm a Celebrity winner Dougie Poynton

61 Named after the surnames of Brian and Cosgrove Hall

Mark, name the production company
responsible for Dangermouse and Count
Duckula

62 How did Texas model Lauren Scruggs Propellor

suffer horrific injuries in December 2011

63 What club was joined by Lee Hughes and Notts County

Sven Goran Erikson on the same day in
2009

64 What is Kepler 22-b 'Earth Like' Planet

65 Which magazine is now the subject of a FHM

law suit by Pakistani actress Veena Malik

66 What song did the X Factor Finalists 2011 Wishing on a Star

take to the top of the UK charts
67 Name Olly Murs UK Number One album of In Case You Didn't
December 2011 Know

68 What is the first Rhianna single to pass Only Girl (In The
one million sales World)

69 About whom did Edith Bowman tweet in Lily Allen

December 2011 "Massive congrats to
@MrsLRCooper and family on the arrival of
their little girl"

70 Who took to Twitter saying how an Alec Baldwin

attendant "reamed me out" for playing
Wordplay prior to an American Airlines
flight in December 2011

71 Who did HMV state would sing the X Amelia Lily

Factor 2011 Winner's Single 5 days before
the final

72 Name the information technology services Atos

company headed by Thierry Breton who
plans to ban internal email within the
company

73 Who became The Lord High Chancellor of Ken Clarke

Great Britain in May 2010

74 Who's memorial did Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes

unveil at Westminster Abbey on 6th
December 2011

75 What subtitle did Kansas Congregational What Would Jesus

minister Charles Sheldon give to his 1896 Do?
novel called In His Steps: The phrase has
enjoyed growing popularity and is often
abreviated WWJD?

76 Which team effectively ended Manchester FC Basel

United's 2011 Champions league by
scoring five of the eight goals against
 them

77 Near which Lancashire hill has a cottage Pendle

been unearthed with a mummified cat in
late 2011

78 Comissioned in 1963, what did the graphic Transport and

designers Jock Kinneir and Margaret Motorway signs
Calvert standardise with two new
typefaces that became law in 1965

79 Which former Leeds player and coach will Stuart Lancaster

be England's RU coach on an interim basis
for the 2012 Six Nations

80 Which city provides the alliterative Lille

loophole that allows foriegn nationals
travelling on Eurostar through to England
without a passport

81 In December 2011 which Washington Lamont Peterson

fighter took Amir Khan to a shock points
defeat and the WBA and IBF light-
welterweight titles

82 Which original Coronation Street cast Dennis Tanner

member was played by Philip Lowrie

83 Which 2011 Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel

gives the lowest average scores Horwood

84 Which band's rhythm section had the most McFly

UK TV Airtime during late November 2011

85 After 541 days of negotiations, of which Belgium

country was Elio Di Rupo sworn in as
prime minister on December 6th 2011

86 Christened Lawrence Darrow Brown, Dobie Gray

whose hits included The "In" Crowd, Drift
Away and Out on the Floor
87 Which Texan Governor replaced Rebecca Rick Perry
Black as the most disliked YouTube Video

88 Which gemstone has two forms, a variety Jade

of pyroxene and a neophrite

89 What name is given to pear cider Perry

90 Who won the F1 World Driver's Nelson Piquet

Championship in 1981, 1983 and 1987

91 Who sang the first song ever to have LeAnne Rimes

reached a higher position in the year-end
chart than in the effective weekly chart (6
and 7 respectively), 1998's How Do I Live

92 Name any member of Little Mix Jade Thirlwall

Perrie Edwards
Jesy Nelson
Leigh-Anne Pinnock

93 Which major sports association locked out NBA

all preseason games and the first six
weeks of the 2011–12 season

94 In which Belgian City did Nordine Amrani Liege

kill 3 and injure 75 people in a gun and
grenade attack in december 2011

95 Name that hypothetical massive Higgs Boson

elementary particle that is predicted to
exist by the Standard Model of particle
physics sometimes called "The God
Particle"

96 Of which country was Moncef Marzouki Tunisia

made president in late 2011

97 In which city was the United Nations Durban

Climate Change Conference in 2011
98 Which two words were given as the reason No Ticket
why a 'big man' threw a youth onto the
platform at Linlithgow railway station in
December 2011

99 Name the sequel to Robert Downey A Game Of Shadows

Junior's Sherlock Holmes

100 Who is the main subject of the Anthony Sherlock Holmes

Horowitz novel The House Of Silk

101 A biplane on a car park wall discovered in Banksy artworks

2011 and a giant rat on the side of a pub
are thought to be Liverpool's only
examples of what

102 With 16,921,616 followers who has been Lady Gaga

declared top tweeter of 2011

103 Who was appointed Professor of Drawing Tracy Emin

at the Royal Academy in december 2011

104 Winner of the 2011 Best New comedy Fresh Meat

award, which programme revolves around
the lives of six students at the fictional
Manchester Medlock University

105 What e4 production follows the life of The Inbetweeners

suburban teenager Will McKenzie, and
three of his friends at the fictional Rudge
Park Comprehensive

106 Who is the star of 'Life's Too Short' Warwick Davis

107 Which UK city laid claim to be the shortest Norwich

double yellow lines ever painted (17in,
41cm)

108 In 2011 how did James Ellington Ebay Auction

significantly garner sposorship for the
Olympic games
109 Name the Obstetrician awarded Ј4.5 Eva Michalak
million compensation from Mid Yorkshire
Health trust

110 Name the North Korean Leader who died Kim Jong-il
in December 2011

111 Who was was the tenth and last president Vбclav Havel
of Czechoslovakia and the first President
of the Czech Republic

112 Name the late-season tropical cyclone that Washi

caused catastrophic damage in the
Philippines in 2011

113 Who won FIFA Club World Cup in 2011 Barcelona

114 Which band's Facebook page carried a Bon Jovi

picture of the 49 year old singer holding
up a note stating "Heaven looks a lot like
New Jersey," to quell rumours of his death

115 Name the 2012 Pixar production set in Brave

Scotland

116 With over 180 million views worldwide, Rebecca Black –

which song and artist YouTube video Friday
gained over twice as many hits as the
second placed

117 The most popular UK YouTube and second Maple

world wide featured a dog being teased
about what flavour bacon