Quiz of the Noughties Decade - Monday 16 November

ROUND 1
FIRST FOOTING FOR THE DECADE - 2010

1. Which US Company bought Cadburys in 2010?                                   
   
2. Which Brit won the 2010 US Open, a feat not achieved since Tony Jacklin won in 1970, also at Pebble Beach?                                                                                              
   
3. Wills and Kate announced their engagement this year along with which of his first cousins?                                                                                                                      
4. Which Harry Potter film debuted in 2010?                               
5. Who became the youngest ever F1 World Champion in 2010?                            
   
6. Which city hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics?                                                                      
7. Which film maker won the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker in May 2010, the first, and so far the only time a woman has won that Oscar?                                                
   
8. Which British Soul Singer was appointed by the World Health Organisation in 2010 to be their Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis, but then I wonder if he was Born To Do It?                                                                                                                              
9. Which actor first appeared, in Earth time anyway, in April 2010 as The Doctor?   
   
10. Which Boyband came third behind winner Matt Cardle and Runner-up Rebecca Ferguson in 2010’s X Factor?                                                                                                                         

 
ROUND 2
THE WOMAN OF THE YEAR

1. Which former solicitor served as Gordon Brown’s Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality until May 2010?                      
   
2. Which former Lawyer was appointed head of the IMF in 2011?                           
3. Name either of the British female athletes who won two gold medals at London 2012?                                                                                                                                   
4. Which former lawyer ended her term as US Secretary of State in 2013?             
   
5. Succeeding Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, who was appointed as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the US in 2014, the first woman to be so appointed?                        
6. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, to whom Stephen Kinnock MP is married, was the PM of which European country until 2015?                                                                                         
   
7. Which lawyer was given a Life Peerage in 2016 and very shortly afterwards was appointed Shadow Attorney General, a position she still holds?                                                
8. Who was appointed President of the UK Supreme Court in 2017?                         
   
9. Which Irish Boxer first became the WBA and IBF Lightweight World Champion in 2018, before adding the WBC and WBO World titles in 2019?                                                    
10. Who was appointed as President of the European Commission in July 2019, the first woman to hold the post?