-1. In 2002, which Canadian author won the Booker prize for the Life of Pi?
-2. Magyar is the language of which country?
-3. By what name is the order of animals Chiroptera better known?
-4. Yerba Buena was the original name of the settlement that later became which U.S. city?
-5. Sam Phillips founded which record label in 1952?
-6. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland what did the croquet players use instead of mallets?
-7. Which composer wrote Duke Bluebeard's Castle and The Miraculous Mandarin?
-8. How many normal-sized bottles of champagne are there in a Balthazar?
-9. Who, in the 1984 L.A. Olympics, won 4 gold medals, duplicating Jesse Owen's 1936 feat?
-10. Steamboat Willie (1928) was the first cinematic appearance of who?
-11. In a 1976 law suit, George Harrison's My Sweet Lord was judged to have been based on which 1963 hit?
-12. Where is this?

6. I want to say Flamingos ?

11. He's So Fine

Feel free to say flamingoes, oldbroad - it's correct!

Yes, Marian!

3. bats

1. Yann Martel

100% for the ladies so far!

2. Hungary (remembered when collecting stamps as a boy!)

Bernie

10. Mickey Mouse

The gentlemen fight back!

5. Sun Records

... and what a star-studded list of artistes they had !

9. Carl Lewis

That logo from the last Pub Quiz Night is bugging me because it looks sooooo familiar

8. 16
I worked in a wine retailer back in the day and there was always one at the Christmas party

12. St. Peter's Square

4. It's where I left my heart - in San Francisco.

All spot-on!

jb - if it helps, it's connected with rock music

Sounds like my sort of party, flotsam

7. Bela Bartok

They're not leaving you a lot these days, Koala! Maybe I should beef the questions up a bit