WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES I'm a Celeb - 25/09/17 - Questions & Answers |
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25/09/2017 | 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. | |
1. |
Which well-known football manager has managed the international teams of England, Mexico and the Ivory Coast as well as Leicester City? (surname provides the anagram letter) |
Sven-Göran Eriksson |
2. |
What annual cultural event, held in Britain every August, has a name that means literally ‘session’? |
Eisteddfod |
3. |
In the Book of Genesis Esau is said to “sell his birth-right for a mess of pottage” – but what is the dish of pottage made from? |
Lentils (mess of pottage is lentil stew or lentil soup) |
4. |
The small town of Alston in Cumbria and the stand-up comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown are linked by which fictional town? |
Royston Vasey (the town in The League of Gentleman is based on Alston and named after Brown’s real name Roy Vasey) |
5. |
Which Asian country came into existence in 1945 and then disappeared in 1976? |
North Vietnam |
6. |
Which widely used app has a logo in which the normal tittle above the second letter of the name has been replaced by a flame? |
Tinder |
7. |
What is the name of the inventor and industrialist, who founded a manufacturing textile-chain making business in 1879 which had its main factory in Burnage? (surname provides the anagram letter) |
(Hans) Renold |
8. |
In 1956 Norman Granz established the Verve record label specifically to release the recordings of which American singer – who incidentally would have been 100 years old this year? (surname provides the anagram letter) |
Ella Fitzgerald |
9. |
Denpasar, with almost a million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Lesser Sunda Islands. On which well-known island is it located? |
Bali |
10. |
In sailing what is the name of the class of boat defined as a cross between a dinghy and a keelboat? It was originally designed in the 1960s by Norwegian Jan Herman Linge for use by his son and is now a regular feature of Olympic sailing competitions. |
Yngling (a shorthand way of saying ‘young linge’) |
and the celebrity is the singer... Bryn Terfel
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