The Whitaker's Almanack quiz of 2009: The answers

Art & Literature

1) Anthony Gormley

2) Damien Hirst

3) Diana and Callista

4) Barack and Michelle Obama

5) Michael Vaughan

6) Enid Blyton

7) They have all written an authorised sequel to a series of books after the original author's death.

8) Poet Laureate

9) Philip Roth

10) Where the Wild Things Are

11) Robert Langdon

12) c – James Patterson

Film & TV

1) c – In The Loop

2) The Class

3) The outcome of a roulette wheel spin

4) Keats

5) Red Dwarf

6) John Dillinger

7) David Cameron and Boris Johnson

8) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

9) Stephen Poliakoff

10) Christian Bale – Terminator Salvation

11) a – Andy Garcia

Business & the Economy

1) Orange and T-Mobile

2) Nicolas Sarkozy

3) c – Tiber

4) GDP

5) c – 150 years

6) March

7) British Airways

8) a – East Coast Main Line

9) Wind turbine blades

10) In-flight meals

International Affairs

1) Madagascar

2) Honduras

3) The United Kingdom

4) Nicolas Sarkozy

5) Russia

6) Sri Lanka

7) China – the foundation of the People's Republic, and the Tiananmen Square protests

8) Mir Hossein Mousavi

9) a – Bring Me My Machine Gun

10) Zimbabwe

11) Herman van Rompuy

Celebrity

1) Barbara Windsor.

2) c – Yves Saint Laurent

3) Chris Evans

4) Jude Law and David Tennant

5) They all chose to leave I'm a Celebrity ... early

6) Alesha Dixon

7) Will Ferrell

8) b – Elaine Paige

9) Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue

10) a – Gordon Ramsay

Science & Environment

1) b – An extra moon

2) b – Anglo-Saxon

3) Ida

4) a – 12 per cent

5) Beavers

6) b – 48 per cent

7) Algae

8) South Downs

9) a – Brazil (Amazon Rainforest)

Music

1) a – Great White Records

2) U2

3) Noel Gallagher

4) a – Man in the Mirror

5) John and Edward Grimes (Jedward)

6) Pavement

7) c – Taylor Swift

8) Thom Yorke

9) Lady Gaga

Sport

1) A new design of swimsuit coated in polyurethane

2) William Gallas

3) Serena Williams

4) Colin Montgomerie

5) c – 25 seconds

6) First test match ever to be played in Wales

7) Mon Mome

8) Ten

9) a – Floor exercise

10) Kenny Logan

11) New Zealand

America, America

1) Going Rogue (An American Life)

2) Healthcare reform

3) A fly, during filming for a television interview with CNBC in June

4) Jimmy Carter

5) That Barack Obama is not a US citizen and therefore is not eligible to be President

6) b – ex-WWF wrestler Jesse Ventura served as Governor of Minnesota from 1999-2003

7) California

8) Kim Jong-il of North Korea

9) Bermuda

10) Professor Stephen Hawking

Prize Winners

1) Speech Debelle

2) Leviathan or The Whale

3) They have all received the Nobel

Peace Prize

4) Tudor (Henry VIII)

5) Iran

6) The cello

7) Because one of the contestants was no longer a student

8) Sea the Stars

9) c – Rio de Janeiro

10) c – £45.5m

Go Figure

$787,000,000,000: President Obama's economic stimulus package, signed into law in February.

£12,415.10: The amount of parliamentary expenses Gordon Brown was ordered to repay by an auditor in October.

$60,000,000,000: Dubai World's estimated debt.

77: The number of games played in the 2009 Wimbledon men's singles final.

2.46 million: Number of people unemployed in the UK according to quarterly ONS statistics.

4,587,430: Number of people on the national DNA database in April 2009.

9.58 seconds: Usain Bolt's 100m world record in the World Athletics Championship.

142: The number of editions of Whitaker's Almanack.

I Beg Your Pardon... Who said the following?

1i; 2j; 3d; 4h; 5f; 6c; 7a; 8b; 9e; 10g

Whose Expenses?

1d; 2h; 3e; 4i; 5b; 6a; 7j; 8g; 9f; 10c

Seasonal Albums

1d; 2c; 3e; 4a; 5b

Banned!

1) White phosphorus

2) HIV/Aids sufferers will be allowed to enter the country

3) Cuba

4) Philip Pullman

5) Minarets

6) They ruled that, at 14, she was too young

7) Chelsea

8) Men wearing Speedo trunks

Cheats and Swindlers

1) Andre Agassi

2) Hamid Karzai

3) Ehud Olmert

4) a – Moving the goalposts

5) Bloodgate, Crashgate, Beachballgate

6) President Obama's first White House State Dinner in November, for the Indian Prime Minister

Births, Marriages & Deaths

1) HRH The Duke of Kent

2) Claude Lévi-Strauss

3) Keith Floyd

4) Malawi

5) c – 59 years

6) She is his daughter-in-law

7) Les Paul

8) Wayne and Coleen Rooney

9) David Letterman

10) This Is It