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1.

Which precious stone has a name derived from the Greek for ‘not drunk’?

2.

What feature of a small tributary of the River Aar in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland is particular well known to students of English literature?

3.

Which cocktail drink is made by mixing Drambuie and Scotch whisky?

4.

What was the name of Manchester’s Lord Mayor who held office between 1953 and 1954 and after whom a community school in the Crumpsall/Cheetham Hill area of North Manchester is named?  (surname gives the anagram letter)

5.

Whereabouts in England will this year’s Tour de France end its first day?

6.

What was the name of the World War 2 film based on the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten in which Noel Coward and David Lean collaborated for the first time?

7.

The recent BBC2 comedy W1A poking fun at BBC management started with a familiar theme tune taken from a long-running BBC Children’s programme broadcast from Bristol between 1962 and 1983.  Assistant presenters included Gerald Durrell and Tony Soper.  What was the programme called?

8.

Since April 2013 Claudia Winkelman, with judges May Martin and Patrick Grant, have presented a BBC2 TV reality programme concerned with which specific activity?

9.

George Milton and Lennie Small are the main characters in which American novella?

10.

Which film director’s best known film is named after the number of films he’d directed up to that point in his career?  (surname gives the anagram letter)

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