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28/10/2013 I'm a Celebrity....

10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity.  The celebrity's first name and surname is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the surname (or second word in the case of Q7) in each of the 10 answers.

In addition note that each answer shares something in common with the hidden celebrity.

Questions with Answers

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1.

Who wrote the series of novels which featured leading characters from the same family with first names: Soames, Swithin, Fleur and Jolyon (but surprisingly not Bruce)?

2.

Who wrote the trilogy of novels entitled To the Ends of the Earth, of which the first book, Rites of Passage won the Man Booker Prize in 1980?

3.

Who worked with surgeon Patrick Steptoe in pioneering ‘in vitro’ fertilisation techniques which eventually led to the birth of the first test tube baby, Louise Brown?

4.

Which well-known literary figure was Literary Editor of the publishing house Faber and Faber from 1925 until his death in 1965?  His first major work was entitled The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

5.

Which famous playwright lived until his death in 1950 in the small Hertfordshire village of Ayot St Lawrence?  Amongst his many achievements was an Oscar won in 1938 for his adaptation of one of his best loved stage plays for the screen.

6.

Which well-known UK politician succeeded James Molyneaux as leader of one of the UK’s political parties in 1995?  He now sits as a peer in the House of Lords as Baron Linagarvey.

7.

Which organisation was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article The Forgotten Prisoners by the lawyer Peter Benenson in The Observer on 28 May 1961?

8.

Which actor and cricket enthusiast wrote the screenplays for Joseph Losey’s films The Servant, Accident and The Go-Between, but was perhaps most celebrated as a playwright?  His last play, Celebration, was first performed in 2000.

9.

In 2006 the University of Manchester’s Coupland building was renamed after which famous past professor who also enjoyed the honour of having an element named after him (symbol Rf, atomic number 104)?

10.

Who wrote the sonnet called The Shipping Forecast that starts:

“Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea:

Green, swift upsurges, North Atlantic flux,

Conjured by that strong gale-warming voice,

Collapse into a sibilant penumbra."

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and now identify the celebrity whose first name and surname make up an anagram of the first letters of the surname (or second word in the case of Q7) in each of the 10 answers