Current Affairs
Which celebrity chef was recently found to have been using some ready-made meals at his gastropubs?
Which two teams will contest the 2009 FA Cup final?
How much can MPs currently claim as their second home allowance per year (to the nearest £3,000)
What new architectural feature will spectators see at Wimbledon this year?
Which newspaper got into controversy for a tasteless cartoon of Stephen Hawking?
What is the title of the next Dan Brown thriller, due out later this year?
Who has just been elected President of South Africa?
…and which major country’s election is still taking place, with results announced on 16th May?
The new 50% rate of income tax will apply to annual earnings over what amount?
Who has made controversial public criticisms of the planned new Chelsea Barracks development?

Picture Round

Music Round
This month’s theme was Animals, and featured tracks by Atomic Kitten, the Boomtown Rats, and the Seahorses

Inventors
Which inventor is most associated with the first electric light bulbs and sound recordings?
What technology was Guglielmo Marconi most famous for inventing?
Trevor Baylis invented what kind of radio?
Which inventor is most associated with the cyclone vacuum cleaner?
Charles Babbage’s ‘difference engines’ of the 19th century were early mechanical versions of what?

Citizenship Test
In which part of the country are Geordie dialects most commonly spoken?
In what year were women given to right to vote, to the nearest 5 years?
In what year will the next national census be carried out?
What item is traditionally carried into neighbour’s houses in Scotland on New Year’s Day as part of first footing?
In which year was the voting age in Great Britain lowered to 18, to the nearest five years?

General Knowledge
The RPI and CPI are government measures of what?
The film ‘The Damned United’ and Channel 4’s recent ‘Red Riding’ trilogy are based on the work of which writer?
It’s possible for your eye to pop out when you sneeze: true or false?
What French name is given to the device which switches gears on a bicycle?
John Steinbeck won the 1940 Pulitzer prize for which novel?
Which festival opened on the South Bank on 3rd May 1951?
Which British institution was given independence from political control on 6th May 1997?
What is the German equivalent of the Footsie Index of share prices?
Who was the US president at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour?
What is the morse code symbol for the letter T?