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1.

Which football league club have the nickname The Grecians?  The club is renowned as the first side to play a national team from Brazil, after a club tour of South America in 1914 aimed at generating awareness of football in the continent?

2.

In Spain this foodstuff is known as ‘queso de bola’.  What is it called in English?

3.

Which 19th century British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery was known as the ‘Father of modern surgery’?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

4.

Tony Blair reportedly likened David Cameron’s decision to hold an ‘in/out’ EU referendum to the scene in Blazing Saddles where the Sheriff gets out a gun and says “If you don't do what I want, ………..”.  What 5 word phrase comes next?

5.

In her teens, this future pop star worked as a maid for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin.  As a result she ended up being offered the chance to record one of Goffin/King’s best known songs.  The song topped the US charts – as did a later version released by Grand Funk Railroad.  The Kylie Minogue version more recently reached Number Three in the US.  What was the stage name of the original recording artist?

6.

Situated closer to Tunisia than to Sicily which Italian island of just over 6,000 inhabitants has become a primary European entry point for migrants, mainly coming from Africa?

7.

What Irish forename means ‘dream’ or ‘vision’?  It’s the forename of a current Irish stand-up comedian who appeared in the BBC TV thriller drama The Fall as the nurse tending to the killer Paul Spector.

8.

Which Caribbean island has a name derived from its snake-like shape?  It has just over 13,000 inhabitants and its capital is called The Valley?

9.

A large portion of the south west of Azerbaijan, predominantly populated with people of Armenian descent, has seceded and calls itself an independent republic.  What’s the name of this region?

10.

Which is the only current London Mainline Railway terminus that does not have an underground station named after it?

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