| Clue | Answer | Date or Month |
| Creator of The Nightwatch, the 400th anniversary of this Dutch painter's birth is celebrated | |
| He wins the Tour de France, but subsequently fails a drug test | |
| This man for whom the Earth's radiation belts are named passes away | |
| His painting The Scream is recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway | |
| This writer release the post-apocalyptic novel 'The Road' | |
| This country claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test | |
| Google buys this website for $1.65 billion USD | |
| 30 Rock pilot airs with this character buying $150 worth of hot dogs at a stand | |
| Andrew Fire and Craig Mello win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on this biological molecule with a 3 letter abbreviation | |
| This former president of Iraq is executed in Baghdad | |