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1.

What is the proper name for physical exercises that consist of a variety of gross motor movements often rhythmical and generally without equipment or apparatus – such as press-ups or sit-ups?  They are, in essence, body-weight training.

2.

What was first recorded by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde in The Whetstone of Witte in 1557?  The elements involved were said by him to demonstrate the quality concerned.

3.

Which British brewer’s main products are named Beacon, Sunchaser, Original and Tiger?

4.

Which Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of polar exploration in 1888 led the first team to cross Greenland coast to coast?  (surname only required)

5.

Keen listeners to the Saturday afternoon football results will have noticed that this season (2016/17) there is a new club in the bottom tier of Scottish league football.  What is it called and which club dropped out at the end of last season?  (both names start with the same letter)

6.

Who wrote the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

7.

Who is the only US President to serve two non-consecutive terms of office?

8.

What was the name of the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955, and again from 1993 to 2004?  (regal name only required)

9.

Which children’s TV series includes (in the original series) the voices of Toyah Willcox, Eric Sykes and Mark Heenehan, and in the revival series the voices of Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent and Fearne Cotton?

10.

Which French Department in South West France is named after the main river that flows through it and has the town of Cahors as its capital?

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