ANSWERS

1. Atlantis

2. Australia (Kevin Rudd)

3. Fidel Castro - former President of Cuba, succeeded by Raul Castro, his younger brother

4. Northern Rock

5. (Southwestern) English Channel. It is one of the Channel Islands, is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey

6. India.

7. Burma/Myanmar

8. Phoenix

9. Ireland

10. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

11. Kosovo

12. Bobby Fischer

13. Arthur C. Clarke

14. Charlton Heston

15. Physics. 
    Bonus: Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa were awarded for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature and Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

16. To avoid the second day in Holy Week (March 17th 2008) - that was the last one to fall within Holy Week until 2160.

17. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland

18. Singin' in the Rain - (2008 version by Mint Royale after being featured in an advert for the Volkswagen Golf)

19. Bill Gates of Microsoft

20. Joey Barton.

21. Radovan Karadzic

Just for fun: Snow fell.