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The answer to question 60 was corrected from eight to nine due to my
daft omission of Sunderland among the list of foreign-owned Premiership Soccer
clubs (thanks R Moran) - 3 Mar 2008.
quizballs 50 - free general knowledge 2007 quiz -
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Which past leader of Russia died in April 2007? Boris
Yeltsin
Which 2007 convicted celebrity drunkard is nicknamed Lilo?
Lindsay Lohan
What month in 2007 was the smoking ban in England introduced?
July (1st)
Who was the heroic baggage handler at the attempted Glasgow
airport car-bombing? John Smeaton
Who suggested that Gordon Brown had transformed from Stalin to
Mr Bean? Vince Cable (temporary leader of the Liberal Democrats after
Menzies Campbell's departure)
In Chinese astrology, 2007 was the year of the what animal?
Pig (or boar)
Representatives of which army drew huge crowds at the British
Museum when first appearing in September 2007? The Terracotta Army (a
dozen figures were loaned from the thousand which make up the full Chinese
collection)
Who suspended the constitution in Pakistan in November 2007?
President Musharraf (President Pervez Musharraf)
Which country won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest?
Serbia (with the song Moltiva - meaning 'prayer' - sung by Marija
Serifovic)
Which psychiatrist and host of BBC Radio 4's In the
Psychiatrist's Chair died in October 2007? Anthony Clare
Who became the 2007 Formula One World Driver's Champion in
October? Kimi Raikkonen (properly Kimi-Matias Räikkönen, of
Finland)
Who was the BBC reporter kidnapped in the Gaza Strip and later
released in July 2007? Alan Johnson
Donald Tusk replaced a twin to become prime minister of which
country? Poland (Jaroslaw Kaczynski was the previous PM - his identical
twin Lech Kaczynski remained president as at the end of 2007)
Which zoot-suited jazz musician died in July 2007? George
Melly
Cristina Kirchner became the first elected woman president of
which country? Argentina (she is properly called Cristina Elisabet
Fernández de Kirchner)
Who became respectively First and Second Ministers of the 2007
power-sharing Northern Irish Assembly? Ian Paisley and Martin
McGuinness
What was Paris Hilton's offence for which she was sentenced to
45 days in prison? Driving while banned
In what Sudan city was Gillian Gibbons imprisoned for the
blasphemous naming of a teddy bear incident? Khartoum
What was the Blue Peter cat name voted by viewers but
substituted by the production staff because it was not considered
'suitable'?Cookie(Cookie was felt unsuitable because of
possible slang interpretations
and maybe mischievous voting arising from this.)
The iPhone was launched by which company? Apple
What month in 2007 did Tony Blair depart as UK prime minister?
June (27th)
The fifth Harry Potter film released in July 2007 is called
what? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Name the England soccer manager sacked by the FA in November
2007? Steve McLaren (or fully Stephen McLaren)
Which severely injured soldier defied his negligible survival
chances and featured strongly in the 2007 campaign to improve compensation for
seriously wounded armed forces personnel? Ben Parkinson
Which England rugby player was controversially denied a try in
the 2007 World Cup final against South Africa because his foot was deemed to
have been in touch before grounding the ball? Mark Cueto
What was increased to 18 on 1st October 2007 in England and
Wales? Legal age for purchasing tobacco
Adam Applegarth presided over what controversial corporation?
Northern Rock
What video game was banned in 2007 for its "...unremitting
bleakness and callousness..." ? Manhunt 2
What two countries joined the European Union on 1st January
2007? Romania and Bulgaria
Who was appointed new England soccer manager in December 2007?
Fabio Capello
Who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work
including the controversial film An Inconvenient Truth? Al Gore (fully
Albert Arnold 'Al' Gore, Jr.)
What city hosted the 2007 World Athletics Championships?
Osaka (Japan - the US came top of the medal table, followed by Kenya,
Russia and Ethiopia)
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, previous founders of Kazaa
and Skype, launched their new video and TV show distribution website in October
2007 called what? Joost.com
Which country's victory at Wembley in November 2007 put the
home nation out of the European Cup? Croatia (they won 3-2)
Faye Turney became famous as a member of which of the services?
Royal Navy (She was the only woman sailor among the patrol group from
HMS Cornwall which was captured by Iran in the Gulf.)
Who made the highly critical documentry film Sicko, about the
US healthcare system? Michael Moore
Which former politician and convicted perjurer was appointed in
November 2007 to lead a prison reform task force for the Conservative Party?
Jonathan Aitken
Whose video called 'Falling Down' was banned on TV? Duran
Duran
Which company was found officially responsible for the Suffolk
Bird Flu outbreak in February 2007? Bernard Matthews
On which Indonesian island was the United Nations Climate
Change Conference held in December 2007? Bali
What Cumbrian town was used as a 2007 pilot for the digital TV
switch-over? Whitehaven
It was announced in April 2007 that Lord Justice Scott Baker
would replace Baroness Butler-Sloss in what position? Coroner at the
inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed
What remarkable sale price did Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted
skull achieve? £50m
Which world champion 400m runner successfully overturned her
Olympic Games ban for missing drug tests? Christine Ohuruogu
Monks featured strongly in the September protests in which
country? Burma
Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on
on 25 June 2007? Hull (fully Kingston upon Hull)
In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential
candidacy in February 2007? Springfield (Illinois state capital)
Which Bollywood actor was at the centre of the 2007 Big Brother
TV Show racism uproar? Shilpa Shetty
Shinzo Abe resigned in September 2007 as prime minister of
which country? Japan (he was succeeded by Yasuo Fukuda)
Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m?
Microsoft
The Kate Moss Collection was launched by what store chain?
Top Shop
The two CDs lost by the UK department HMRC (Her Majesty's
Revenue and Customs) contained personal details of 20m people relating to
claims of what? Child Benefit
Who resigned as England cricket coach after the 2007 Ashes
series 5-0 defeat? Duncan Fletcher
What nickname was used by the media for the senior policeman in
charge of the Cash for Honours investigation? Yates of the Yard
(correctly, Assistant Commissioner John Yates)
In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the
biggest what in history to date? Charitable donation ($10bn for Middle
East education)
Intensive British forces operations in Afghanistan through 2007
were centred in which province? Helmand
In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate
Change Camp sited? Heathrow Airport
Which movie star left the much publicized 'rude pig' phone
message for his twelve year old daughter? Alec Baldwin
In a bizarre 2007 confessional frenzy, Ruth Kelly, Jacqui
Smith, Harriet Harman, Hazel Blears and Alistair Darling where among several
British government ministers to make what admission? Using cannabis
At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football
(soccer) clubs were foreign owned? Nine (Manchester Utd, Man City,
Liverpool, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Fulham, Portsmouth, West Ham and
Sunderland.)
In June 2007 the Millennium Dome re-opened under what name?
O2 (or to be precise, O2)
Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing over the
Nevada Desert in September 2007? Steve Fosset (fully James Stephen
Fossett)
The perfume brand 'Mwah' was launched in 2007 by which
'celebrity'? Channelle Hayes (UK 2007 Big Brother contestant)
What country celebrated on August 15th 2007 its 60th
anniversary of independence from British rule? India
Who resigned as World Bank President after failing to disprove
allegations of his nepotism? Paul Wolfowitz (arranged a big pay rise and
promotion for his partner and World Bank employee Shaha Riza)
Which country won the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Germany (becoming the first nation to retain the title, with a 2-0 final
victory over Brazil)
Following an Ofcom investigation which TV company was judged in
September 2007 to be the worst offending in the premium line phone-in scandals?
GMTV (Good Morning Television Ltd - 75% owned by ITV, and 25% owned by
Walt Disney Co., as at 2007.)
What film won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture? The
Departed (directed by Martin Scorsese)
Speculation towards the end of 2007 suggested that Rupert
Murdoch's News International Group was in discussion to buy what significant
business networking website? Linkedin.com
Which rapper cancelled his UK tour when refused entry to the
country? Snoop Dog
What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June
8th 2007? Atlantis (its five sister Space Shuttle craft are/were
Enterprise, used for testing only, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery and
Endeavour - interestingly not the US spelling 'endeavor' because the craft was
named after the English explorer James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour. Challenger
was lost shortly after launch in 1986; Columbia was lost on re-entry in 2003.)
Who made this amusing statement: "I have expressed a degree of
regret that may be equated with an apology..." ? Des Browne (UK Defence
Minister, after conveniently allowing the distracting purchase and publication
by the press of stories from British sailors captured and held by Iran)
Whose secret donations of over half a million pounds caused a
big problem for the Labour Party when they were exposed in November 2007?
David Abrahams
Who became the new French president in 2007? Nicolas
Sarkozy
Who was charged with fraud when he reappeared five years after
going missing in a canoe off the Cleveland coast? John Darwin
Clarence Mitchell was appointed media spokesman for whom in
September 2007? Gerry and Kate McCann (parents of missing Madeleine
McCann)
Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007
Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor? McLaren
Blake Fielder-Civil achieved notoriety as whose errant husband?
Amy Winehouse
Which former newspaper owner and business mogul was sentenced
to 78 months imprisonment for fraud in December 2007? Conrad Black
Which major city switched off its lights for an hour on the
evening of 31 March 2007 as a political statement about climate change?
Sydney (not the capital of Australia as many think, which is
Canberra)
What was the village and laboratory site name connected with
the August 2007 foot-and-mouth desease outbreak near Guildford in Surrey?
Pirbright
Garments of which famous clothes label were found being made by
child labour in India in October 2007? Gap (Gap Kids, more
precisely)
Which organization announced euphemistically it would
'transition' its modestly performing '360' social networking website?
Yahoo
What Richard Dawkins' book attracted huge popularity and
controversy throughout 2007? The God Delusion
In 2007 according to World Health Organization statistics what
are the only two non-African countries with an under-five infant mortality rate
of more than 10%? Iraq and Afghanistan
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