WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES I'm a Celeb - 26/05/14 - Questions & Answers |
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26/05/2014 | 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 10 answers. | |
1. |
Which precious stone has a name derived from the Greek for ‘not drunk’? |
Amethyst |
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? |
Reichenbach Falls (where Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fight to the death) |
3. |
Which cocktail drink is made by mixing Drambuie and Scotch whisky? |
Rusty Nail |
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) |
Abraham Moss |
5. |
Whereabouts in England will this year’s Tour de France end its first day? |
Harrogate |
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? |
In Which We Serve |
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? |
Animal Magic |
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? |
Sewing (The Great British Sewing Bee) |
9. |
George Milton and Lennie Small are the main characters in which American novella? |
Of Mice and Men (by John Steinbeck) |
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) |
Federico Fellini (the film was 8½) |
and the celebrity is the actor... Omar Sharif
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