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1.

Which everyday English word comes from the Latin for ‘sand’ and has derived its usual English meaning from the ability of sand to absorb blood - especially the blood of gladiators killed or injured in a contest?

2.

Over the years since organised football started in England in the 19th century, the most frequently played fixture is between Aston Villa and which other team?

3.

Which Hollywood studios became famed in the 1930s for making a clutch of the early Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films starting with Flying Down to Rio and including Top Hat?

4.

Which company based in Vevey, Switzerland is rated the world’s 9th largest according to the FT Global 500 rating?

5.

Which city is celebrated (?) in song thus:

“And the women tug their hair / Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out / And all the men are gargoyles / Dipped long in Irish stout;
The whole place is pickled / The people are pickles for sure / And no one knows if they've done more here / Than they ever would do in a jar”?

6.

What first on April 23, 2005 was entitled Me at the Zoo?

7.

From which 1978 UK Number 2 hit song do the following lyrics come:

“He could preach the Bible like a preacher / Full of ecstasy and fire / But he also was the kind of teacher / Women would desire.”?

8.

What name, the Slavic equivalent of the English name George, was shared by the Communist Party General Secretary in the Soviet Union between 1982 and 1984, and Manchester’s most celebrated visitor in July 1961?

9.

Which chemical element, atomic number 35 and part of the halogen group of elements, derives its name from the Greek word for ‘stench’. Its chief industrial use is as a fire retardant.

10.

What started operations on 1 November 1979 as Jersey European Airways and is now Europe’s largest regional airline?  Its headquarters are at Exeter Airport.

...and now identify the celebrity whose first name and surname make up an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers