1. Whose ‘Good Life’ was celebrated when it sadly came to an end at the age of 79 in February?

2. Which film won the Best Picture Oscar and Best Director and Best Drama awards at the Golden Globes?

3. What garden accessory did the Chelsea Flower Show permit for the first time at this year’s event?

4. Fans of the board game Monopoly voted to replace which playing piece with a cat-shaped one?

5. Who won the Costa Book Award for her Booker Prize-winning novel, Bring Up The Bodies?

6. Which actor, best known for playing Moriarty in TV’s Sherlock, picked up Best Actor prize at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for his role in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on Radio 4?

7. Which actor was re-elected for another three years as rector of the University of Dundee?

8. Who was named Artist Of The Year at the first ever YouTube awards in New York?

9. Which BBC One show ended The X Factor’s three-year run as best talent show at the National Television Awards?

10. Which trio of Californian sisters came top of the BBC Sound Of 2013 new music list?

11. Where in London did Stephen Fry host the 66th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) …?

12 … And who were named Best Actor and Best Actress at the ceremony?

13 … And which film director received the BAFTA Fellowship Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image?

14. Who won a Best Male Performance In A Comedy Programme BAFTA for his role in Welcome To The Places Of My Life?

15. Who designed the statue handed out at the 2013 Brit Awards?

16. Which two singers were the most successful winners at the Brits, taking home two awards each?

17. Who was the first personality to lose the dance-off and leave this year’s Strictly Come Dancing?

18. In which city was the 29th Turner Prize held as part of the City of Culture programme, the first time it has ever been held outside England?

19. Who won the Turner prize for his entry, an empty room in which the lights turn on and off?

20. Who won Dancing On Ice, beating Matt Lapinskas in the final?

21. Which actress won awards for Villain Of The Year and Best Dramatic Performance for her role as the husband-battering Kirsty Soames in Coronation Street at The British Soap Awards …?

22 … And who picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award?

23. Which rapper star and reality TV star became the proud new parents of a daughter named North?

24. Which English reality television personality who found fame on TV series Geordie Shore won Celebrity Big Brother?

25. Which 28-year-old New Zealand author became the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her 832-page novel The Luminaries, the longest work to win in the prize’s 45-year history?

26. Which Vicar Of Dibley producer was made an OBE?

27. Who did US cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse ban after accusing her of texting during a screening of 12 Years A Slave at the New York Film Festival?

28. Original signed canvasses by which British street artist were sold from a stall set up for one day in October in New York’s Central Park for $60 (£38) each during his month-long residency in the city?

29. Which singer, best known for recording the hit song The Windmills Of Your Mind on The Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack, died at his Devon home?

30. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited which London theatre to mark the 50th year since the first performance was staged there?

31. Who was named Best Solo artist at the Q Awards …?

32 … And which Scottish rockers won the Q Award in the Best Album category?

33. Name the soap that picked up awards for Best Storyline, Outstanding Achievement and Best Bad Boy, and which was named the Best Soap at the Inside Soap Awards for the first time … 34 … And who was the actor that picked up the Best Bad Boy award for his role as killer Cameron Murray?

35. Which supermodel, who launched a campaign with fellow supermodel Imam to stamp out racial discrimination in the fashion industry, made her South East Asian catwalk debut at Digital Fashion Week in Singapore?

36. Which celebrated 68-year-old singer was granted the freedom of his native Belfast, the first recipient of the honour since Dame Mary Peters?

37. Which US singer was asked to leave a famous Abu Dhabi mosque complex after posing outside the building for an unauthorised photo shoot?

38. Which former BBC broadcaster was stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls?

39. Which British filmmaker received the Stockholm Film Festival’s prestigious Visionary award, a bronze horse statuette?

40. Which Hammer horror star accepted the British Institute Fellowship award from his friend Johnny Depp at the London Film Festival?

41. Which clothes designer was crowned 2013’s winner of The Great British Bake Off…?

42 … And which Shakespeare play gave her the inspiration for her impressive three-tier wedding cake?

43. Which cult BBC sci-fi series celebrated its 50th anniversary?

44. Which former X Factor contestant, forced to quit her run on last year’s show due to illness, released her debut album Join The Club?

45. Which game show is to be axed by ITV after 15 years on the air following Chris Tarrant’s announcement that he is to step down as host?

46. Which best-selling author of the Noughts And Crosses series for teenage readers was named as the new Children’s Laureate?

47. Author Jean Yves-Ferri and illustrator Didier Conrad became the first people, other than the original creators, to produce stories about which cartoon character?

48. Who unveiled his new West End show From Here to Eternity, his first totally new musical for 13 years?

49. An Italian supreme court ruling put an end to an epic 39-year legal dispute between which iconic Oscar-winning film star and the Italian tax authorities?

50. Which prominent Australian artist, jailed earlier in the year for robbing a convenience store while high on drugs, was awarded the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for his portrait Uncle Paddy?

  • Answers will be revealed in Freetime online at 11am on January 1.