Current Affairs
Which bone did Mrs Thatcher break in June?
Describe the art installation that will be appearing on the 4th plinth at Trafalgar square
Which cause was Greta Scaachi promoting by posing naked with a fish?
Which cause were artists promoting by painting their faces blue at Glastonbury?
What is the official name for Swine Flu?
What is unusual about Banksy’s new art exhibition?
Who is the new speaker of the House of Commons?
Which Michael Jackson album topped the charts at the weekend?
How many Grand Slam tennis titles has Roger Federer won?
How many deputy mayors has Boris Johnson now lost?

Picture Round
The picture round featured country outlines – teams had to identify the ten countries shown.

Music Round
The theme of the music round was siblings, featuring bands with more than one member of the same country, and proving that just as close relations shouldn’t make babies with each other, in many cases they shouldn’t make music together either.

Weather
What food-related name was given to old-style London smogs?
What name was given to the extreme UK winter of 1963?
Who, perhaps unfairly, took most criticism for the forecasting of the great storm of 1987?
The Met Office recently published its most detailed projections of what in the UK?
What number of categories are there on the scale which rates hurricane strength?

Beer
In which town in Germany is Becks beer brewed?
Which country produces Singha beer?
Which state in Australia produces Swan and Emu beer?
Which African country has it’s own Guinness brewery?
In which English county is the Black Sheep Brewery?

General Knowledge
The nickname ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’ is given to what?
With which successful business would you associate Ingvar Kamprad?
What amount of money is represented by the rhyming slang term a ‘lady’?
General William Westmoreland commanded US forces in which war?
What was the terrorist Ted Kaczinsky better know as?
Who wrote the nursery rhyme The Owl and the Pussycat
Who’s tallest out of Nicholas Lindhurst, Nicholas Cage, and Nikolas Anelka?
In degrees C, what is the normal temperature of the human body?
What is the name for the mythical process of turning other metals into Gold?
How many prime numbers are there between ten and twenty?