E: 06/08 win an iPad (tiebreaker effort)

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Comp Link: Here

T&Cs: http://www.selftrade.co.uk/advert/ten.php

There are 10 questions. The FIRST LETTERS of each answer make up a relevant phrase.
If you don't know the answer you can move on to the next question by clicking on the forward arrow.

Edit - thanks to twotimes for answering them so fast :beer: puts me to shame

And edit2 just in case you miss it in the post below:
Tie-breaker: The last decade gave rise to a number of new words that have now become part of the language: from "muggle" to "smirting", from "slumdog" to "threequel". So here's your chance to write a new word that, in your view, should be part of the language by the end of the next decade.
The prize will be awarded to the person who answers all 10 questions correctly and, if more than one, the person whose tie breaker answer is judged by the quizmaster to be the most apt and original

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1. The Rolling Stones appeared in the first in 1964 and the last in 2006. Which British music institution?
2. Since 2002, what have featured fictional windows or gateways on the front and fictional bridges on the back?
3. In 2008, what did Blackpool-born Jodie Prenger win the right to play?
4. Which technology start-up, founded by three former PayPal employees in 2005, was bought by Google a year later for a reported $1.65 billion?
5. Which Houston-based energy company saw its stock plummet from $90 per share in 2000 to less than $1 per share in November 2001?
6. In November 2006, who left the Piccadilly branch of sushi restaurant Itsu with lethal amounts of polonium-210 in his body?
7. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, who was the "skip" of the Great Britain Gold Medal-winning women's curling team?
8. First issued in 2003, what is now used in more than 80% of all journeys run by Transport for London?
9. Since 2008, Switzerland can lay claim to having the coldest place on Earth. What is its name?
10. Who spent most of September and October 2003 in a Plexiglass box, suspended 30 ft above the South Bank of the Thames?

Tie-breaker: The last decade gave rise to a number of new words that have now become part of the language: from "muggle" to "smirting", from "slumdog" to "threequel". So here's your chance to write a new word that, in your view, should be part of the language by the end of the next decade.


The prize will be awarded to the person who answers all 10 questions correctly and, if more than one, the person whose tie breaker answer is judged by the quizmaster to be the most apt and original

twotimes

1. The Rolling Stones appeared in the first in 1964 and the last in 2006. Which British music institution?

Top of the Pops

2. Since 2002, what have featured fictional windows or gateways on the front and fictional bridges on the back?

Euro Banknotes

3. In 2008, what did Blackpool-born Jodie Prenger win the right to play?

Nancy

4. Which technology start-up, founded by three former PayPal employees in 2005, was bought by Google a year later for a reported $1.65 billion?

YouTube

5. Which Houston-based energy company saw its stock plummet from $90 per share in 2000 to less than $1 per share in November 2001?

Enron

6. In November 2006, who left the Piccadilly branch of sushi restaurant Itsu with lethal amounts of polonium-210 in his body?

Alexander Litvinenko

7. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, who was the "skip" of the Great Britain Gold Medal-winning women's curling team?

Rhona Martin

8. First issued in 2003, what is now used in more than 80% of all journeys run by Transport for London?

Oyster Card

9. Since 2008, Switzerland can lay claim to having the coldest place on Earth. What is its name?

Large Hadron Collider

10. Who spent most of September and October 2003 in a Plexiglass box, suspended 30 ft above the South Bank of the Thames?

David Blaine

zoenmya

I THINK THE ANSWER TO NUMBER 2 IS EURO BANKNOTES FROM HERE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes

zenseeker

2. Might be Euro banknotes...but don't take that as an answer yet

zenseeker

One of them may be wrong, got 9/10...dunno how, my answers matched

finatra26

So is the answer ten year old?

Looks good Two times that was incredibly fast & thanks to beX6f for posting

Entered & got 10 out of ten with twotimes answers - there is a tie breaker at the end for best new word of still to come