The cultural quiz of the decade

Between the 2010-11 and the current 2019-20 seasons at La Scala in Milan, which composer’s operas have been performed most often?

One of the world’s best-selling albums in 2010 featured its performer admitting to having “had a little bit too much” in a nightclub, resulting in the loss of keys, phone, drink, bearings, memory and romantic partner. Name the miscreant.

Here is a still from the highest-grossing anime film in Japan in 2010. Which children’s story is it based on?

What happened in 2010 to Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished cathedral, the Sagrada Família, 128 years after its construction began in Barcelona?

The action in "My Brilliant Friend", the first of Elena Ferrante’s series of novels, opens with its narrator receiving a disturbing phone call in which Italian city?

The following retired from active service in 2011. Which is the odd one out?

What record was broken in Bulgaria in 2012, as pictured here?

In 2012, a Harvard professor provoked a media storm by announcing the discovery of an ancient papyrus fragment that apparently proved a conspiracy theory that features in Dan Brown’s occult thriller "The Da Vinci Code". Evidence later pointed to the fragment being a forgery involving an alleged pornographer. What did it purport to prove?

Which of these British notables played no role in the Danny Boyle-directed opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics?

The structure pictured here won the world building of the year award at the World Architecture Festival in 2012, the year it opened in Singapore. What is it?

Which book made up entirely of emojis, an adaptation of a literary classic, was added to the US Library of Congress in 2013?

In 2013, Alice Munro became the first Canadian writer to win the Nobel prize for literature. An earlier winner was born in Canada but became a US citizen. Who?

A word entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014 that is thought to have been invented by an Australian man after a drunken night out. What is it?

In 2014, a group of hackers calling themselves the "Guardians of Peace" broke into Sony Pictures’ computer network. The group demanded the shelving of a Sony film featuring the fictionalised assassination of a real leader. Which leader?

Which artist designed this bag for Louis Vuitton as part of a collaboration that ended in 2015?

In 2010, a patent application was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organisation for dust-repellent nanoparticle surfaces; in 2016, Nike’s self-lacing shoes went on sale; in 2019, a prototype flying car was unveiled in Miami. In which sci-fi work’s vision of life in 2015 were all these inventions in common use?

Where and when did the celebrated performance pictured here take place?

The hit musical "Hamilton" opened in New York in 2015. Which of its songs refers to the so-called “dinner table bargain” of 1790, in which Alexander Hamilton brokered a compromise with James Madison and Thomas Jefferson about the payment of state debts?

In 2016, a Chinese state report claimed that China had overtaken the US with 40,917 of something, as against 40,759 in the US. What?

Which cricket hero was the subject of a 2016 biopic?

Here is a surviving artefact from the 2018 fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. What is it?

In 2019, newly elected Brexit Party MEPs turned their backs on the performance of a piece of music in the European Parliament. What was it?

In April 2019, Bob Dylan played the 3000th show of his “Never Ending Tour”, which began in 1988. Which of these objects is NOT among the stage props that have appeared at his concerts?

If you asked a member of the nomadic Dothraki tribe how many seasons of the HBO television series "Game of Thrones" there were in the 2010s, what would the correct answer be?

What is significant about this egg?