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25/07/2016 I'm a Celebrity.... 10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity.  The celebrity's name (first name and surname) is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.

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1.

The name of which fruit derives from the Aztec word for testicle?

Avocado

2.

To which UK number one single were these the opening lines:
“What about sunrise? / What about rain? / What about all the things that you said / We were to gain? / What about killing fields? / Is there a time? / What about all the things / That you said were yours and mine?”?

Earth Song

(by Michael Jackson)

3.

Jim the teenage son of a Bristol innkeeper is largely responsible for telling us which story?

Treasure Island

(Jim Hawkins the narrator in the book)

4.

Joseph Haydn spent most of his adult life as Kapellmeister to which Hungarian family?

Esterhazy

5.

Who produced all of the Blackadder TV series as well as being the creator of TV’s QI series? (surname gives the anagram letter)

John Lloyd

6.

….and on the same subject who wrote the theme music for both Blackadder and QI as well as presenting the multi-part documentary series The Story of Music on BBC2 in 2013? (surname gives the anagram letter)

Howard Goodall

7.

The ‘Seven Sister’ states of India lie to the north east of the country and are connected to the rest of India by the 22 kilometre strip of land in West Bengal known as the Siliguri Corridor. Which is by some way the most populous, and, because of its main produce, best known of these 7 ‘semi-detached’ states?

Assam

8.

What was the name of the German Foreign Minister between 1938 and 1945? (last word of his name gives the anagram letter)

Joachim von Ribbentrop

9.

What is the name of the town known as the ‘Dutch media city’?  It has been the centre for radio and television broadcasting in The Netherlands since the 1920s and as such famously appears on the tuning dial window of early AM radio sets.

Hilversum

10.

The actress Billie Whitelaw was best known for her collaboration with which playwright? (surname gives the anagram letter)

Samuel Beckett

 

 

 

and the celebrity is (a very early picture of) the footballer....

Gareth Bale