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30/03/2015 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.

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1.

Which West African country entirely surrounds another country and has a flag composed of 3 vertical stripes coloured green, yellow and red with a green star in the middle of the central yellow stripe?  The majority of its population come from the Wolof ethnic group.

Senegal

(it surrounds Gambia)

2.

The advertising slogan for this product was conceived in 1994.  Although the slogan totally bombed in research it was nevertheless used.  It has now entered the English vernacular and has even been used in Parliament by David Cameron to sum up of the state of the coalition government at its halfway point in January 2013.  What is the product?

Ronseal

(the slogan is ‘Ronseal – it does exactly what it says on the tin’)

3.

What is the fifth smallest prime number?

Eleven

4.

A small group of islands lying south east of New Zealand’s South Island in the Pacific Ocean is named on account of its exact geographical relationship to London.  What is the group called?

Antipodes Islands

(antipodes means ‘opposite the feet of’ and signifies that the islands lie on exactly the opposite side of the globe to London)

5.

Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean are all versions of what?

Android Operating system

(used for smartphones, tablets, etc)

6.

Who reached number one in the charts in 2014 writing and producing the single Uptown Funk?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Mark Ronson

7.

In Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited the owner of Brideshead Castle is entitled ‘Lord…..’ what?

Marchmain

8.

What’s the full name of the American literary heroine who grew up on a Kansas farm but ended up as a princess?  Her surname happens to share the same initial letter as that of the actress who played her on screen.  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Dorothy Gale

(from The Wizard of Oz – played on screen by Judy Garland)

9.

Most commonly associated with a foodstuff, what’s the name of the river that flows into the Atlantic at Georgetown, Guyana?

Demerara

10.

Which football league club played at a stadium known as KitKat Crescent from 2005 to 2010?

York City

 

 

 

and the celebrity is the Irish nationalist...

Gerry Adams