WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES I'm a Celeb - 27/02/17 - Questions & Answers |
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27/02/2017 | 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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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? |
Exeter City |
2. |
In Spain this foodstuff is known as ‘queso de bola’. What is it called in English? |
Edam cheese |
3. |
Which 19th century British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery was known as the ‘Father of modern surgery’? (surname provides the anagram letter) |
Joseph Lister |
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? |
“I’ll blow my brains out” |
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? |
Little Eva (the song was The Loco-Motion) |
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? |
Lampedusa |
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. |
Aisling (Aisling Bea) |
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? |
Anguilla |
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? |
Nagorno-Karabakh |
10. |
Which is the only current London Mainline Railway terminus that does not have an underground station named after it? |
Fenchurch Street |
and the celebrity is the actor... Alfie Allen
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