Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Celeb - 26/06/17

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
26/06/2017	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.	Questions without Answers
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1.	Scotch woodcock is a savoury dish consisting of lightly scrambled eggs served on toast spread with a paste made of what?	Anchovies
2.	The ashes of the poet T S Eliot rest in St Michael’s church in a small village 2 miles south of Yeovil. What is the name of this village?	East Coker (the second of the poems in Eliot’s famous Four Quartets)
3.	What’s Barbadian Robyn Fenty’s middle name?	Rihanna
4.	What single name links Hawkes Bay, Hercule Poirot and Malawi?	Hastings (NZ North Island town of Hastings on Hawkes Bay; Captain Arthur Hastings, friend of Hercule Poirot in many of Agatha Christie’s novels; Dr Hastings Banda, Malawi’s first President)
5.	Amanda Spielman replaced Sir Michael Wilshaw earlier this year as the chief of which national body?	Ofsted
6.	At 3.56am on June 5th 1989 Voyager 2 became the first, and so far only, spacecraft to get close to which solar system planet as it swooped just 3,080 miles from the planet’s north pole?	Neptune
7.	What is the title of the 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana?	Nostromo
8.	He Was Beautiful is a song recorded by Cleo Laine in 1973. It used a tune written by Stanley Myers for the classical guitar 3 years earlier. In 1978 the same tune was used as the theme for an Oscar-winning film. What was the original melody called?	*Cavatina* (the Oscar-winning film was The Deer Hunter)
9.	What is the name of the largest city in the Indian state of Goa? It is named after the European explorer who was the first European to land there.	Vasco da Gama
10.	Cuillin and Lejla are the children of which well-known politician, particularly in the news this month? (first name of the answer provides the anagram letter)	Jo Cox MP (who was murdered in June 2016)
and the celebrity is the broadcaster... John Craven