1."If I was near you, I'd smack the f***ing face off you."

2."Look what I've done. Thank goodness it was me."

3."I just think she's [Madonna] a vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities."

4."I was sat closer to him than you are now and I looked at the great President Bush and said to him 'I wanted to be sure to be sure' and he assured me."

5."I could set myself on fire in a gay bar, and people would just light their cigarettes from me."

Music:

1.Dublin alternative radio station Phantom 105.2 FM won a license following a lengthy court battle, but what was the first song (and artist) the station played when they went on air on Hallowe'en this year?

2.How many tracks are on Damien Rice's album 9, released in November?

3.Why did the cover of Arctic Monkey's number-one debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not offend doctors when it was released in January?

4.What is the name of the promotion company that came under fire following allegations of violence at the Oxegen music festival campsite in July?

5.Who was the only unsigned band to play both the Oxegen and Electric Picnic festivals this year?

Pop:

1. U2 won a court case over a number of items allegedly stolen by their former stylist Lola Cashman. Name two of the items.

2.On what site do 800,000 Irish people have personal pages?

3.During a hoax broadcast for a shamrock-shaped artificial island planned for Dublin Bay, what was to be the only animal that would occupy the island's zoo?

4.What was the name of the man who stormed the set of The Late Late Show, and the following week drove his car into the RTE building?

5.Ex-footballer John Aldridge won Celebrity You're A Star last summer. Name the two songs he performed in the final.

Celebrity:

1.What was Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty's excuse when he was photographed allegedly injecting a comatose fan in the arm?

2.What nickname did the US tabloids have ready for Kevin Federline when his wife Britney Spears filed for divorce?

3.What Greek man do Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and MaryKate Olsen have in common?

4.How many months did this year's marriage between Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock last?

5.Matt Willis, formerly of the band Busted and now a solo artist, won I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. What are the names of the groups his former bandmates Charlie Simpson and James Bourne are now in?

Television:

1.Which legendary Hollywood actress, a star of the silver screen, made a memorable cameo appearance in series six of The Sopranos, which ended up with her being assaulted and mugged by Christopher Moltisanti?

2.What does the letter 'H' in Lost's DHARMA Initiative stand for?

3.What was Big Brother 7's Irish housemate Spiral's real name?

4."Be happy, I say be happy" - which soap character's dying words?

5.What was Pat Kenny's calm response to being called an "insufferable a***hole" by a leather-jacketed gatecrasher on the Late Late Show last month?

Sport:

1.Which Mayo man kicked the point that knocked Dublin out of the 2006 football championship?

2.Name the Italian on the receiving end of a headbutt from France's Zinedine Zidane in the World Cup final?

3.Who did Munster beat in the Heineken Cup final?

4.What course was the Irish Open played on this year?

5.Which Irish sprinter won silver in the 100m hurdles at the European Championships this year?

Crime:

1.What top garda retired as head of the criminal assets bureau?

2.What leading Irish-based Islamic cleric this year claimed that fundamentalism was 'rife' among young Irish muslims?

3.Two Dublin sisters were convicted this year respectively for the murder and manslaughter of Kenyan man Farah Swaleh Noor, whose dismembered body was found in the Royal Canal in 2004. What were the killers' names?

4.What was the name of the young male prisoner beaten to death in a packed cell in Mountjoy prison in July of this year, sparking a political crisis over overcrowding at the jail?

5.Two young mothers were brutally shot dead in Dublin in 2006. What were their names?

Politics 1.Sean Haughey was made a junior minister in December. To which department was he appointed?

2.Who got into trouble for likening Fine Gael's Richard Bruton to Goebbels?

3.Who apologised in the D�?il after telling Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins to "stick with the kebabs"?

4.Name the former Dublin AllIreland winning captain selected to stand for Fianna F�?il in Dublin North?

5.Only one of the four Independent TDs who supported the government between 1997 and 2002 will be contesting the next general election - who is it?