Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Celeb - 27/07/15

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
27/07/2015	I'm a Celebrity....	10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity. The celebrity's three-word name is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.	Questions without Answers
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1.	In the West Kenyan language spoken by the Luo people what is the word for ‘to lean or to bend’ – a word that has become much better known worldwide since an event in 2009 half the world away from Kenya?	Obama
2.	In the Disney film The Sword in the Stone, what type of creature was Archimedes?	Owl
3.	The Swiss Football Super League (equivalent to the English Premiership) has just 10 teams. In the forthcoming 2015/16 season one of these teams plays its home games outside the Swiss national borders. Where does it play?	Vaduz (FC Vaduz - in Liechtenstein)
4.	Who finished as runner up in the sixth series of The X-Factor in 2009 and is now preparing to appear on the upcoming twelfth series in a double act with Caroline Flack? (first name gives the anagram letter)	Olly Murs (he and Flack will take over the presenting role from Dermott O’Leary in the 12th series)
5.	What specific branded food product is said by some to derive its name from the initials of the name of the generic foodstuff expressed in Roman numerals?	Ninety Nine (99 = IC = Ice Cream)
6.	What is the name of the largest of the Aran islands lying off the west coast of County Galway in Ireland? In the Gaelic language its name means literally ‘largest of the Arans’.	Inishmore
7.	Turnbull & Asser, Hawes & Curtis, Thomas Pink, Harvie & Hudson and TM Lewin are all businesses concentrated on making and selling a particular article of men’s clothing. What is the name of the London street in which they are all based?	Jermyn Street (City of Westminster)
8.	On the first series of The Voice broadcast in 2012 the panel of judges consisted of Tom Jones, will.i.am, Danny O’Donoghue and which other singing star?	Jessie J
9.	During the 1950s a small town in the North of England earned the nickname of ‘the brainiest town in Britain’. The efforts of the men and women who earned this soubriquet came to fruition in 1956 when Britain claimed a world first. First what?	Nuclear Power Station (the town was Seascale, Cumbria, and they were responsible for commissioning the world’s first nuclear power station nearby at Calder Hall)
10.	Which chemical element with atomic number 83 is a pentavalent post-transition metal, chemically resembling arsenic and antimony? Its name is said by some to have derived from the German phrase meaning ‘white mass’.	Bismuth
and the celebrity is the singer... Jon Bon Jovi