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1.

In 1970 BBC employee Maurice Cole was sacked for suggesting on air that Mary Peyton, the British Transport Minister's wife, had bribed her driving test examiner.  How was Maurice Cole better known?  (surname required for spelling the celebrity name)

Kenny Everett

2.

After a match in Kirkcaldy, Scottish football commentator Sam Leitch once made the Colemanballs-type blunder of saying “the fans would be dancing in the streets of ……” where?

Raith

(Raith Rovers is the name of the Scottish football league team that play in Kirkcaldy in Fife but Raith itself is not a place)

3.

Which British pop band of the early 1980s made the hit single John Wayne Is Big Leggy?

Haysi Fantayzee

4.

Which chemical element is named after the German word for goblin?

Cobalt

(the German for ‘goblin’ is ‘kobold’)

5.

Along with Do They Know It’s Christmas? which song is the only song to reach number one in the UK in four different recordings? It includes the lyrics:

“Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
‘Wait for me, wait for me’
I'll be coming home, wait for me”

Unchained Melody

6.

Which is the nearest capital city to Mount Ararat in Turkey?

Yerevan

(capital of Armenia)

7.

Which battle of 1346, with Poitiers in 1356 and Agincourt in 1415, were England’s main victories during the Hundred Years’ War with France?

Crécy

8.

What is the name of the US National Park situated in SW South Dakota?  It is also the title of a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Badlands

9.

The drink Chambord produced in the Loire Valley area of France is made from which fruit?

Raspberries

10.

Which Russian city of over 400,000 inhabitants lies the furthest west of all major Russian cities, belonging to an area that is detached from the rest of the country?

Kaliningrad

and the celebrity is the singer....

Chuck Berry